Avery White Rascal

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Boulder, Colorado USA

Very estery belgian style wit, big coriander and orange peel perfuminess. I really enjoy this style, good for a warm day quencher. Spicy and refreshing. This one lacked a bit of carbonation though, made it feel to thick, probably the lack of bottle conditioning hurts a bit since the carbonation is that of typical bottled beers instead of the higher carbonated belgians. The lack of strong carbonation left this beer heavy on the palate and slightly muted in the flavors.

Hazy bright yellow with fuffy white head. Very faint spice and orange aroma. Bright palate and tastes of bread, cloves, and banana.

355ml bottle (Pikkulintu, Helsinki , American Week 2007). They’ve done somthing horribly wrong. This is an attempt to ruin wheat beer. Do not let someone unfamiliar with wit drink this, as it will not just put them off and also tell them nothing about the style. Unpleasant sticky slop.

12 oz brown bottle. The pour is extremely unfiltered cloudy, so cloudy you can’t see the particles floating around in there. There is sludge on the bottom of the bottle. Very nice spiced wheat aroma. Good initial wheat taste, more like a hefeweizen than a wit beer. More in-depth spicy flavors. Good clean tingly carbonation. A little stronger tham wit bier. No obtuse bitterness on the back of the throat, no hoppyness. Thin lacing. Pretty good wheat beer but not worth the $3.50 I spent for it at the Beer Store. Decent entry in the wheat beer arena. Finish is odd top of the palate attack that lasts for a few moments after the last swig. Overall, not as good as a real wit but better than a few american hefeweizens. Definitely not as mannered as a real Belgian wit. Better than sammy addams white but can’t hold a candle east end wit or hogaarden.

Not quite Hoegaarden, but about the closest thing I’ve found lately. It sure looks the part, though: cloudy and very pale with a decent white head that sticks around for a while. Lots of citrus both in the nose and the flavor. Goes down pretty easy with a pleasant aftertaste. Goes great with pizza.

Bottle. Pours hazy yellow/white with a white head. Aroma is spicy, full of corriander, banana, orange peel, and wheat. Flavor is the same, with a slightly lemony note as well.

Bottle. Some lemon & lime hop aroma, grass, a little coriander as well. This stuff looks like an unfiltered lemonade. Small creamy off white head with good lacing. Milky yellow in appearance. Acidic, tart / bitter flavor. Light in body, watery, fizzy carbo. Unremarkable.

Courtesy of After4ever/Tom! Light straw, hazy and an OK head. The aroma is sweetish with notes of sweet citrus and coriander. The flavour has a full body, is smooth and nice with the same notes as the aroma. The finish is long with notes of sweet citrus - it’s nice! 2008