Southampton Double White Ale

Brewed by Southampton Publick House
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Southampton, New York USA

Heavy yeast aroma when first poured producing a thick white pillow of foam on top. Standard witbier flavor and easy drinking.

strong wheat scent with hints of of citrus. flavor follows. Actually, while beer is drinkable, it’s kind of uninspiring.

Cloudy golden with huge white head. Sweet wheaty and fruity aroma with yeast and coriander notes. Sweet wheaty flavor with yeast, orange peel and coriander notes. Ends sweet.

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...