Key West Southernmost Wheat

Brewed by Florida Beer Company
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Melbourne, Florida USA

Date: 09/13/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Trade

Appearance: cloudy yellow, wispy white head, bits of lace,
Aroma: sweet malt aroma with a strong lime character and a touch of spicyness,
Flavor: sweet malt flavor balanced with a lime tartness, light spicy character adds depth, just a hint of orange behind the lime citrus, light bitterness rounds it out,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4

Opaque dull blonde. Footy-limey yeast nose. Fresh, fruity taste. Limey and wheaty with enough malt for balance. Actually quite refreshing.

(12oz bottle, courtesy of Bman1113vr) Pours clear yellow body with a small white head. Aroma of lime, wheat, grass, grain, and coriander. Flavor of wheat, light lime, and cereal.

12oz bottle acquired in trade with daknole (thanks!). Poured a lighter to medium and cloudy yellow color with a smaller sized white head. Aromas of lemon pledge, some spices, and sugary. Tastes of wheat, lemons, and some spices. Tastes were weak (not strong like the lemon pledge in the aromas). Thin and watery.

on tap-pours a thin white head that laces and very cloudy yellow color. Aroma is clove, banana, wheat. Taste is plenty of clove, coriander, banana/orange, wheat. OK effervescence.

Bottle… Hazy, straw-colored ale with a small, fizzy, white head. Decent retention. Grainy, citrusy aroma with faint notes of coriander and key lime. Medium-bodied with a 2%-milk mouthfeel and dancing carbonation. Spicy, coriander flavor. Nicely bittered; lightly acidic. Finishes spicy, minerally and sweet.

Bottle courtesy of daknole. Pours amber with a nice white head. Smells of bananas, citrus, coriander, spicy. Tastes of coriander, wheat, some citrus, touches of bananas. Nice summer sipper.

Bottle. Filtered green apple/peaked yellow colored body with a white head, fizzy and quickly diminishing. Sharp acetone, acetylhyde and ginger-scented jolly rancher candy in the nose. Beer should not smell like this. Fizzy and watery. Sharp and striking artificial ginger, lime and lemon flavoring. The sweetness tries to hide the underlying bland wheat flavor. Weak body. Sugary. Bad.