Johns Grocery Generations White Ale

Brewed by Millstream Brewing Company
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Amana, Iowa USA

355ml brown bottle, from heemer77. Poured golden, light haze. Thin layer of white head. Lots of orange in the nose. Familar wit flavours of citrus (agian oranges). Not very spicy. Very wheaty brew. Somewhat dry, a well done wit.

Easily distinguishable witbier aroma with spice, citrus, yeast--poured hazy gold with flavor mirroring aroma, sharp tingly spice with orange peel, assertive, go Iowa!

Hazy yellow with a thin white head. Very nice aroma ofyeast, corriander, citrus and light caramel. Sharp and spicy in flavor backed by a compliment of malt and sweetness. Excellent finishing citrus zing. Not as soft as others but good none the less.

Shiny yellow with a hint of orange and running-away white head. Nice corriander aroma ... flavor true to the style, hoppy and fruity with a spicy edge. Very good.

Thanks to JCapriotti for this. Pours turbid light yellow with big white head. Aroma of hopcit, yeast, apricot. Tastes citrusy, with hops, yeast, and some dry lemon zest at the finish. Fairly complex.

Heemah! Clear straw yellow body, tons of carbonation. Buttery wheat malt aroma with coriander and light herb spice/hopping. Slight roasty element to the aroma. The orange citrus come through in the flavor followed by coriander and husky wheat malt. Dry finish. An OK wit.

2004 bottle compliments of Heemer77. Thanks for this bottle, it’s very cool to try a belgian beer from Iowa. Served in a tulip at about 50 degrees. Pours from the bottle a glowing yellow mess of beer, bubbles and sparse white head. A light-test proves this to be just ever so slightly hazed, but this is still the first half of the bottle. The last half would prove to contain a touch more yeast sediment, creating a mildly hazy honey-yellow with some tinges of light gold. Taking in the aroma, there is a touch of white pepper, lightly bitter hops and just a shade of bubblegum. Diving in, the beer opens up fairly dry, with touches of clove and coriander, a very relaxed (perhaps too relaxed) malt profile. Lightly bitter hops are evident from the start. As the beer progresses and finishes, there is more bubblegum, extra-light touches of pils malt and light spice. Finishes, unfortunately, on a bitter and mildly metallic note. Medium body does not disappoint, this isn’t any lighter than some classic belgian styles. But the malt could use a kick and add some much needed strength. Bitter hops detract, I don’t particularly enjoy tasting hops bitterness in a wit. I can appreciate the lack of any syrupy sugariness and yet the simultaneous lack of any major astringency problems. Spicy, hoppy and dry, with less yeast and malt apparency, much less, than I would ask from a witbier. I think this is a difficult and underappreciated syle which has been somewhat lost in the cheap mass-market imitations and the many poor attempts by (American) microbreweries to reproduce them, with some exception. This however, seems to cut a middle path. Neither too poorly made, nor anything elaborate. There, you got my two cents free of charge.

(Bottle) Pours a cloudy maize body with a small, quickly diminishing, white head. Aroma of caramel, corriander, clove, orange peel, and banana. Spicy, yeasty flavor with a somewhat acidic palate.