Michigan Brewing Celis White

On tap on rattle n hum. Pours a slightly hazed yellow gold. Aroma is generous amount of dough, sweet bubblegum, coriander. Taste has abondant flavors and lemon, bubblegum, wheat, orange peel and coriander. Nice wit! 3.75

bottle. pours a coudy dark yellow with little head. has a wheaty, lemon grass aroma with a bit of spice. spicy and bitter in flavor. aftertaste is kind of metallic and plain.

Don’t know how old the bottle was, but my sample seemed a little off. Drinkable enough, but a quickly fading wit. Just some traces of spiciness. Thicker, dull mouthfeel.

Sweet after tones on the back of the palate.. This is a pretty good witbier. The best of the bunch in this mixed case. It held true to all the characteristics that make a wit beer a witbier. Give this beer a try.

Little taste, but somehow bitter. Could have been higher, but I docked it a little for no longer being Texan.

From Norm’s Beer and Wine. I like Belgian Whites, this one had a good appearance and good taste to start but for some reason as I drank more of it, the taste kind of faded.

Pours golden with a slight haze. Well developed carbonation with a creamy white, tightly knit head. The nose suggests coriander, cloves, allspice and citrus. Light-to-medium body with a little spritz on the palate and forward spice notes that make me think of pumpkin pie without the pumpkin. Well developed, broad-stroke lace. Highly refreshing wheat beer. Well balanced. Excellent both as a sipping beer and as an accompaniment to food. I’d return to this.

12oz bottle.
Pours a thick-looking, very cloudy orange-amber. That’s some nifty-looking stuff. Not much head, but what little there is leaves some decent lacing here and there. Aroma is tart, lemony, yeasty and a little earthy. Flavor much the same with tart citrus leading the way. Light earthy grains and hops march in behind the citrus and a touch of banana soon follows. Body is light to medium with a thicker-than-usual palate for this style that grows more cloying with each sip.

I was heartbroken when I heard Celis sold out to Miller because I knew that would be the end of the Celis line of beers (apparently MBC was more interested in the equipment than the recipes). I will always have a soft spot for the original Celis White and Celis Raspberry for helping me turn my ex into a beer connoisseur. I’m sure she appreciates it too even if she no longer appreciates me, but that’s another story. When I heard MBC was reviving some Celis recipes, I was cautiously optimistic. My thanks to MBC for reviving these beers and recreating them, at least by my memory, pretty faithfully to the originals.