Oregon White Beer

Slender necked bottle from a Coop in Firenze. Got a bit excited and didn’t read the small print, thinking this was a US import. Oh bollocks. Luckily, it’s decent. Moderate haze without the foaming column of froth you might expect, but it is it a plastic cup. Brazen peppered sherbet lemon aroma like a less heady Tripel Karmeliet.You either love it or you don’t. Very heavily perfumed coriander and orange peel pot pourri, patachouli incense, Mo’s floral Indian sweets aroma. Burning flowers, fragrant and slightly ashy. Milk thickness but fizz on the palate; bright orange zest, lemon meringue (filling and crust), pepper, parsley green citrus, possibly oats. Sweet and perfumed witbier, obvious but tasty and very refreshing in the heat.

Bottled. A lightly hazy pale goden beer with an initially big, but quickly collapsing white head. The aroma is really not much powerful, but not totally bad. Notes of wheat and a decent hoppiness. A llittle bit soapy. The flavour is again a bit soapy and not exciting, but not overly sweet, and with a reasonable refreshing acidity. Light fruitiness. Light to medium body, lively carbonation, light bitterness in a not so long aftertaste. Nothing special, but drinkanble.

For some reason they ship this stuff to Italy. Thin, watery, uniteresting wheat beer. Retired? It is still in the shops, and the expiry date is in September 2008. 5,5 % alcohol.

Bottled 0,33L. Dense and adherent foam, optimal persistence. Yellow pale color, lightly veiled and much bubbly. Delicate and acidulous wheat’s scent. Fresh and prickly taste, much fizzy and pleasant. Modest bitter and with a light note of lemon and alcohol in the finish.