Summit Scandia Ale

Brewed by Summit Brewing Company
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
St. Paul, Minnesota USA

Sample from tap at the brewery. Pours golden yellow with a white head. Aroma of cardemmo, strictly slight soapy. Flavour is cardemom, soft sweetness going into a cardemom bitterness blend. Slight soapy finish. I guess this could work for Christmas, but I guess that the 2nd/3rd etc generation scandinavians in Minnesota have taste buds for this I don’t have as a Dane.

12 oz bottle-pours a foamy white head and hazy yellow color…swirled the last few ounces in the bottle, now cloudy yellow. Aroma is coriander, grain/wheat. Taste is coriander, grain/wheat with some sweetness, yeast, some hops to balance. Thanks to Joe-jwc215 for picking this out.

Nice looking pour, a hazy straw body, a continual stream of bubbles, and a tall & sustained pillowy head. The aroma seems a tad strong on the spices, the coriander dominating. It all balances out well in the flavor, a lightly tart wheat, some orange zest, a drop or two of lemon, and solid spicing. Nice refresher.

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Hazy to cloudy straw color, with a taller cream colored head. Reef of lacing. Huge herbal aromas, with rosemary and thyme, but a touch of sulfur as well, so I’m getting a deviled egg scent as well. Light lemon, agave and touch of scone nose as well. The bouquet is a touch to odd for me to go higher. Spice flavors mingle with pale malt and wheat. Cardamom is all over the place in this one. This one has the trappings on a fresh ginger brew in that the spices are overpowering and distract. This will likely mellow in a short time frame and be a little less "hot". Right now it is a little spice bomb. A thai food coupling would be good.

On tap at the brewery. A rather curious (marketing?) concept. I understand that the addition of cardamom is what provides the "Scandinavian interpretation". Not that any of that really matters. Pale gold colour and rather clearer than I would expect from the style. Lots of spices in evidence, with coriander to the fore. However, I can’t say I specifically picked up the cardamom. There’s a light lemony bite in the flavour but there’s also a slightly sweet overall impression. Pleasant enough

Draft at Beer Sellar, KY. Poured hazy orange with an average frothy white head that mostly lasted with fair lacing. Moderate yeasty orange citrus aroma. Light to medium body with a light sticky texture. Medium citrus sweet flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration. My expectations where met.

Slightly hazy golden beer with a lasting white head. Strong spice aroma, coriander, cardemum, spruce and a touch of citrus. Dry and way over-spiced flavour.

Draft at the DRE. Hazy golden pour, with 1-finger white head. Aroma was very citric, with some orange zest, coriander, and hop notes. Citric flavor, with an initial tart citric blast of orange zest, then the floral spices and some fresh ground black pepper register. Medium palate with a nice witty finish.