Berghoff Solstice Wit

Brewed by Minhas Craft Brewery
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Monroe, Wisconsin USA

Herbal lemon aroma, watery body and bland taste. I can hardly believe this could be a Wit - if it is, it’s been seriously dumbed down for mass consumption. I hope I remember to stay away from it in the future. At least the label is a little different from the other Berghoff brews to help me remember it!

bottle - Pours clear yellow with a thin head and smells of oranges. The light, sweet flavor has a fair amount of citrus. It’s a little too watery, even for what is typically a light style. Overall it’s alright but quite unimpressive.

Poured with a light head and a little lace. Color is a hazy yellow gold. Aroma is a spicy weizen. A bit more spice and citrus in the flavor, but countered by being somewhat thin. So so finish. You could do worse but also a helluva lot better. Had this on draft at Bodega Brew Pub downtown La Crosse, Wis.

I found this beer to be a not-bad-yet-fairly-unimpressive wit bier with a bit of a bad odor and a lot of lemon&coriander flavor. This beer pours a pale cloudy yellow with virtually no head. It is Bud Light colored, but cloudy. Aroma is a bit corny and a bit unpleasant. Flavor is lemon and coriander with some wheat flavor at the finish. Mouthfeel is slightly sticky. Not bad, but not a favorite. I think there have been many other better wit introductions recently (Hoegaarden, Leinie’s Sunset Wheat, etc).

I smell lemon-lime first and foremost. An herbal hop, a touch of coriander, and doughy yeast/malts. Lightly hazed, golden, thin head. More lemon-lime flavor, tart, short. Hint of lemon rind finish. Very wheaty.

Bottle: Hazy, straw color with orange tint. Lots of white head. Lots of carbonation. Citrus and banana aroma. Very boring so far... Lots of banana, citrus in flavor that ends up just being too crisp, tart, and sour for my tastes. Spicy hops don’t quite compensate... For the amount of flavor, there is almost no finish, just a small amount of lingering citrus snap. Too much of the same old flavors do not make up for a lack of quality...

12 oz bottle. Clear yellow gold color. A wit needs to be a little hazy in my estimation to be attractive. I like blue eyes better than brown and when it comes to wits, I like hazy better than clear. Just a preference. The head dissipated quick snap and didn’t leave any lace. If I were a driving instructor that would be two red check marks out of two. Lets move on to aroma. Where to begin...let’s see...it smells nothing like a wit. I detected whiffs of grape candy, apple, and light malty caramel. It’s remarkably similar to the Berghoff hefeweizen I tried side by side with it. No citrus zest, no coriander. Flavor wassimilar and equally disappointing. Mouth feel was thin and watery. the red check marks are really adding up.

Hazy, light orange color, with a quickly-disappearing head. Extremely mild aroma; what I was able to capture, though, smelled somewhat like Graham crackers. Light, wheat and orange flavors. I’m not a big fan of this style, but I did find it to be rather refreshing.