Flying Dog Woody Creek White

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Frederick, Maryland USA

bottle. one of the best American wits I ve encountered. Cloudy yellow. medium to almost full body. medium wit spice. citrus, orange, lemon. enjoyable

Pours cloudy, yellow, with a fine head. Spicy aroma. Moderate mouth feel. Spicy flavor with citrus and banana qualities. Mild nutty aftertaste.

Bottle sampled. Pours a cloudy pale yellow with a small white head. Aroma of wheat, yeast, spicy citrus, and light malts. Nice crisp flavor of wheat, light citrus, and coriander with a nice smooth finish

01-Oct-07 (12-oz bottle: Purchased 12-Sep-07 for $1.59 at the Pizza Port Bottle Shop in Carlsbad, CA) The beer is golden-yellow in color and fairly hazy, and is capped by a thin, white, fizzy head that rapidly subsides to a thin ring. Not a very impressive beer to look at. Coriander and lemon dominate the nose, though faint wheatiness emerges with a quick swirl of the glass. The flavor also shows a lot of coriander and citrusy, lemon peel bitterness, which tends to overwhelm the delicate wheaty base. However, while a bit more balance is desirable, the spices aren’t recklessly aggressive and the wheat isn’t bready. Appropriately, there isn’t even a hint of sweetness and the light-medium bodied beer is wonderfully dry and a bit dusty on the palate. Medium-strong carbonation and zesty spices make for an initially lively mouthfeel, but this trails off quickly for an uneventful though still refreshing finish. Overall, a clean, easy drinking Belgian-style white, and while not a remarkable example of the style, compared to many American-made wits which tend to be heavy or overspiced, this is above average.

This was a good beer. You can slightly taste the orange peel and the corriander comes through at the end. Very mild, a lot of yeast cake at the bottom.

Bottle from Windy City Liquor. Slightly hazy light golden color upon pouring. Nice yeasty aroma. A bit of spiciness. One of the yeastier wits that I’ve tried, which is a plus in my book. Pretty nice wit. Mildly spiced, but not as much as some.

Pale yellow color with small white head and little lacing. Fruity, sour, citric aroma. Flavor is dominantly citric, orange and coriander. Sweet and easy to drink.Good overall.

Pours a pale gold color with very thin white head. Aroma has coriander and orange peel abound with a bit of yeasty esters. Taste is rich with coriander, orange, and some yeasty spiciness. Carbonation is above average, right where it should be in this style. This was a pretty good witbier (hell, I like a Blue Moon every now and then) but it’s a bit too sweet to be well balanced.