Southampton Double White Ale

Bottle. Poured a hazy yellow with a thin white head. Slight sour aroma with citrus and clove. The flavor finds spices (mainly clove), fruits, and citrus (orange and lemon). Tangy feeling, slightly sour. Medium body (Rating from June ’07)

Southampton Double White Ale ABV: 6.8% Calories: estimated at 150 C Volume: 12 fl oz Glass: weizen Purchased at: Circle Liquors Super Saver Price: $2.00 Consumed at: home note: this tasting was brewed by Saratoga, which is apparently a crap version. Impression: Hazy wheaty banana infused fruitbeer. Belgian style aroma. Bumpy, rocky head with good haze and mystic golden color. After a series of IPAs tonight, there’s little chance of a rich flavor to this beer, but regardless it seems a bit watery. I’d pass on this next time, as a hoegaarden is more readily available and just as good. Texture is limp. Somewhat weak. Aroma: 7 out of 10 Visuals: 3 out of 5 Taste: 6 out of 10 Palate: 3 out of 5 Overall: 12 out of 20

Wow, this was a disappointment. Very hazy yellow body, little head, and no lacing forms. Yesty, bubblegum aroma with banana, fruit, and light citrus. Bubblegum, weak malt flavor, a spicy finish, but incredibly lacking in anything noteworthy. Full body, lively carbonation on the tongue, but lacking, and becoming less and less enjoyable the more I suffer through.

12 oz bottle, courtesy of my sis and bro-in-law - pours a cloudy creamed honey colour with lots and lots of protein haze under a rocky white head. Orange dominates in the aroma and underneath that is a surprising amount of hops. The coriander is very faint under these two layers, and it mingles nicely with the spiciness of the hops. Good quality grain in the nose as well. Lemony and orange flavours are the main ones that are present, and there is also a candy sweetness from the yeast. Sort of like red licorice. Nice fresh, lively finish. Alcohol well-integrated. Wonderful wit.

Bottle.

Pours a cloudy light-straw color, a bit of floating matter, with an attractive fluffy white head. Interesting aroma: slightly sour, lemon; grassy, some alcohol, lots of orange peel and coriander. The flavor kicks in hard: it’s got a powerful puckering dryness that comes on with a syrup-like intensity, big orange-peel flavor, much more bitter than other examples of the style, again that alcohol making itself known, lemon, coriander notable mostly late, with banana juice coming on strong at the same time.

Certainly an interesting beer and one that I’m very pleased to have tried. But for me it just doesn’t quite come together; it’s not light and refreshing enough for a Wit, the syrupy start and the strong banana close interfere with the powerful bitterness. Interesting...

12 fl. oz. bottle, shared with neighbour Kjetil. Hazy yellow color, nice white head. Aroma is orange, yeast and wheat. Flavor is the same, with sourness and fruit. Complex and splendid wit-beer.

Draft. Before me sat a a perfectly poured pint of witbier, orangish in color with a perfectly white head to cap it off. The aroma is so pungent of orange and spice that it wafted up for me to smell with out picking the glass up. The body on this beer is decieving. It is very light, yet delivers a hefty punch. There is a strong hit of orange and spice to the flavor, yet balanced nicely with a malty sweetness to cover the higher ABV. Quite good.

Bottle@Home. Sweet wheat aroma with some citrus and lots of spices but mainly coriander. Cloudy, yellow color, small white head, good lace. Sweet, citric, very bitter, citrus, wheat and of course spiced well. Full and milky mouthfeel but dry in the finish. Flavorful but too much bitterness IMO. So technically ok but not my kind of white. Thanks Yngwie!