Shoreline Dim Wit

Brewed by Shoreline Brewery
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Michigan City, Indiana USA

@Indiana Beerfest-on tap-pours a thin white head and yellow color. Aroma is sweet, tropical fruit esters, light malt. Taste is sweet, tropical fruit esters/spicy/lemon (saaz?)-hops, light malt. Mild carbonation.

Draught at the brewery. Looks like crap. Looks like a loaf of bread dissolved in a glass of milk. It’s that cloudy. It’s even gritty between my teeth... dude, unfiltered is one thing, but this is like drinking the yeast slurry. Smells of CO2 from the fermentor, smells heavily of homebrew yeast. Tastes weird, muddy and creamy, gritty soggy bread, some oatmeal, cream of wheat cereal and bananas. Nasty.

Pretty odd look for a wit. The body is clear gold in color and the smallish head fades rather rapidly. It has an aroma of wheat, coriander, and a trace of oranges. Pretty much the same for the flavor, although the cirtus tastes play a more prominent role. It’s not bad and refreshing for the warm weather, but it doesn’t seem to fit the proclaimed style.

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Draft sample at brewery. Clear amber color with an average fizzy white head that mostly diminished with fair lacing. Moderate banana sour citrus aroma. Medium body with a slick texture. Medium sweet citrus flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration. Drinkable refreshing beer.

Draught sample at the brewpub, June 19 2007. Pale, fairly clear yellow-gold with no real head; no head and precious little haze, not good in this style....faint spicy aroma, a fair amount of wheat malt, ginger and coriander, nothing bad here but just not strong enough....the body by contrast is quite sweet, very light on the spices, quite yeasty in the middle....dries out quite a bit at the finish; strong carbonation....thoroughly unexceptional.

Tap at brewery: Golden hue with little head and some lace. The aroma has notes of coriander, orange zest, biscuity malt, and dusty yeast esters. The taste is citric and shaprp with a moderate spice and floral hop finish. Aggressive carbonation leads to a refreshing brew. An okay version of the style.

This draft brew from the Mad Anthony Oktobeer Fest poured a head of foamy finely sized white colored bubbles that were mostly diminishing and left behind a transparent uncarbonated yellow colored body and an excellent lacing. The mild aroma was malt hop. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The strange un-wit like flavor contained notes of malt and hops. Not one that I would likely buy again.

Draft at the brew pub. Clear gold color with thin white head that laced the glass. Light grainy aroma with a whiff of clove. Flavor was malty cereal grain accented by orange zest. A nice try, but not a great wit.