Middle Ages Swallow Wit

Brewed by Middle Ages Brewing
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Syracuse, New York USA

(12oz bottle) Fizzy pour but the off-white head quickly vanishes entirely, revealing a clear apple juice body. Aroma is medium sweet, orange, lemon pledge. Taste is medium sweet, orange, light lemon, coriander. Watery light body, undercarbonated.

Any first impressions?
-A thin film of foam stands atop the inappropriate filtered golden (this is a witbier!)
-Honey-glazed coriander and orange zest offer simple, efficient spicing.
-Citrusy wheat evolves into a dry finish, as the spices aren’t as expressive as they were in the nose.
-Carbonation’s not fluffy enough for a witbier, its prickliness definitely reminiscent of American takes on the style.

What if you dig deeper?
-The aromatic coriander develops milkiness.
-The curtain call recalls leafy spiciness, but withered and stale.
-The alcohol level doesn’t show in the flavor department; I admit to being surprised at its high gravity.
-Not a proper Belgian witbier, but a decent spicy quaffer nonetheless.

Bottle; no date.

Draft at the Drafting Room. Pours deep gold with decent sized white head. Aroma of pale malt, urethan, hops, and a hint if the same cat piss aroma I took away from Wailing Wench. The taste is pale malty, with some nutmeg, coriander, and finishing hopcit. Not terribly complex.

Hazy gold ale with a foamy white head. Fresh malt aroma, lightly fruity. Nice bodied, with lots of apple and sweetness, with a lactic final.

12 oz bottle from Table and Vine, Northampton MA (September 2006) sampled from a Duvel glass at cellar temperature. Faintly hazy, yeast dark gold-amber with a thin decaying head and little in the way of lacing, jeez this doesn’t really look right....and on the nose, not much better with a very sweet, syrupy, sort of lemon cake drenched in in vanilla liqueur....with a little warmth, faint touches of coriander and grains of paradise appear but don’t help the sogginess much....on the tongue surprisingly it’s fairly dry though some sweetness appears midpalate.....starts out fairly full but carbonation quickly thins out the body and gives it a soda-like finish....nice biscuity-caramelly malts help keep this from utter disaster but the finish is a wreck and I certainly can’t recommend this as a wit (or anything).

head.Lemon aroma. Creamy with sourish finish. Above average carbonation. Just An average wit, picked up in Syracuse. I am not a big corriander nor cloves fan,

Bottle (12oz). Bright clear gold, bubbly, average foamy white head. Bready aroma, tangy ripe apple, light sugary malt, hint of white wine, dry wheaty grain. Taste is pretty grainy, sugary malt and yeast, not much hop character - dry, sweet, sticky, not very carbonated; the alcohol wasn’t noticeable in the taste but my ears warmed quite soon after sipping this. A little too grainy, but not bad - nice yeast/malt balance.

Bottle 355 ml
Appearance :Slightly hazed golden ale with small cast of white top.
Nose : Funky , slightly sour with light shade of wheat at wall. 5-
Flavour/Palate :Very thin bodied, off buttery character, Chemical like sourness. Hint of citric orange touch.