Avery White Rascal

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

Pours a very light fizzy yellow (looks like fresca) with a thick white head. Aroma is very yeasty with some lemon and orange peel nose. Flavor mostly consist of yeast, also notes of fruit, citrus and mandarin. Not too bad.

Sampled from 12 oz bottle on 10/25/2006 at the Junedale Beer Klub meeting... Pale gold color. No head. Light wheat and citrus flavor. Some spiciness as well. Fizzy and a bit thin. Need to revisit in the future...

Back to back with the Unibroue example, this is a bit better in my book. The aroma was much fruitier and very yeasty. Flavor of coriander and orange is well blended with the yeast character.

12oz bottle: Pours a golden yellow color, slightly cloudy. Smallish head, white, lasting. Citrusy hoppy aroma. Medium-strongish aroma. Fizzy strong citrus taste, hops. Clean aftertaste-fresh tasting. Watery light taste.

I am a big fan of witbier’s, and this is certainly an excellent choice for a midrange witbear. It smells of citrus herb and tastes like many witbiers, with a hint of fruit. Nothing spectacular though.

Pours a cloudy amber with a white head. Smells of coriander, oranges, some cloves. Tastes of light coriander. Some banana notes on the finish. Easy drinking wheat beer. Nothing special.

12oz bottle, no date. Pours a cloudy very light yellowish white with a quickly fading fizzy white head. Aroma of oranges, peppery spices, some sweet malts, and a tinge of yeast. Smells better than it tastes--the orange is subdued and there is slight pepper and yeast, though all tastes are blunted. There was a little bit of plastic as well. The aftertaste was kinda nasty--bitter with no other flavor, and not hoppy bitter. Medium bodied, light-medium carbonation. I was expecting from the taste for it to be more watery. This beer is kinda crappy.

This is just not my style of beer. I can’t stand the heavy corlander and orange peel flavor. I will keep trying until I find a Whitbier that I can like.