Avery White Rascal

I’m not sure if Avery is having bottling issues or what, but the last couple offerings I’ve had from them have been far from satisfactory. This smelled pretty good but the taste was just awful. It almost tasted as if it sat out in the sun for a while and then was refridgerated again. Oh well..

Draft @ BBF - Pours tanish with a large white head...aroma is spicy and yeasty...flavour was also, light grain, clove, pear and coriander...finish was thin and watery...the folks working the taps did not favors for this brew as it was next to flat, but I’m not going to hold that against the brewer...should probably try again some other time...

Quite often the flagship beer of a craft brewery is not their crazy-extreme tastebud blazing beer, but a quality session beer of a more "normal" variety which manages to still be heads and tails above anything the commercialized macro promoters could ever hope to put out. Why? Because for as well and as many crazy beers they brew, they are quite often limited releases which, once they bring in their total revenue, retire to the recipe book until next year or longer. That doesn’t pay the bills and keep the electricity turned on so that the brewery can continue to brew their fabulous beers. For Avery Brewing out of Boulder, Colorado, the White Rascal is their flagship beer. A Belgian-style Wit Beer of refreshing divinity, I challenge anyone who doesn’t like Wit or Wheat beers to wrap their lips around her velvet body and declare anything other than inspired devotion. I dare ya.

Like an angel descended, she exuded a gentle light of hazy orange and white while a soft halo garners my admiring gaze. Eyes closed, I am equally descended upon fields of bountiful fields of grain, resplendent and feather soft, just like her nose which soothes worries I didn’t even know I had. Fresh oranges squeezed right before me, the orange peel tingling and teasing with just the right amount of citric acidity. Coriander peppers the air while freshly baked white bread bends to my caress. Not wildly aromatic or zippy and zesty with any particular aspect, White Rascal instead seeks to ease one’s tired being. As our lips meet in what could almost be a sinful embrace if it wasn’t so heavenly, I am again reminded of my temporal mortality. Soft and frothy with orange cream notes mingling above my tastebuds while coriander whispers in the background. Joining their fruity brethren are mango and cantaloupe while the bakery next door opens its windows to the aroma of freshly baked artisanal white bread. Her coriander lingers in my breath as a familiar memory while a faint tart tingle threatens to bring me back to reality. Nothing good lasts forever, especially when it borders on existentialism, and much like the passing wind, my White Rascal ascends to whence she came from.

Ok, a bit on the romantic poetic side, but I was highly impressed by Avery’s flagship beer. Not as pungent or spicy or fruity or clovey as some Belgian Wits and Belgian-style Wit beers can be which hit me in the exact right spot at that exact moment in my beer journey. She may fair a bit less lackluster in a future session, but I highly doubt it. A great Belgian-style Wit which proves less can be more.

white rascal pours a hazy creamy yellow with a white head. notes of clove, a little sweet bananas. ok not great

Bottle: First impression is concerning.... pale white with a thin white head. It reminds me of one of those mass brewed beers. But then taste is malty sweet, bready and fruity. Food Pairing: Ceviche.

Nice light pour with fluffy white head. Good carbonation and nice yeasty wheat flavor.

On tap at Nashville’s Music City Brew Festival. Not really into this style but this one was alright. Light hazy yellowish body with a creamy head. Faint clove and wheat aroma.

pours a hazy yellow with a thin white head, some sediment, and some lacing. smell is faint, yeast, and some banana. taste is smooth, wheat, banana, and a little bit of citrus, end is on the dry side.