Top of the Hill Old Well White

Brewed by Top of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina USA

On tap at the brewpub. Thought this was pretty good, actually. Sweet, fruity, and refreshing.

Date: 12/19/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

hazy yellow, fine white head, nice coriander aroma with only a hint of sweet orange, nice spiced sweet orange flavor, all sweet orange but very nice,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **+/4

on tap-pours a disappearing white head and hazy yellow color. Aroma is medicinal/antiseptic (dentist office) coriander-floral, spicy, mint, citrus, yeast. Taste is perfumy/citrus/coriander/spicy, wheat. OK effervescence.

Cloudy gold, nice big white head. Very fruity aroma - blueverry and cherry. Really spicy flavor, traditon witbier flavors through to the end. Sampled at 2007 Hickory Hops.

Look, if I ask for a "fruit-free" serving, please respect my request and leave the rim free of citrus, wouldya? An orange slice is tossed to the side with this one. Pours a boring "fizzy yellow lager" color with a scant white head. Clear and utterly lacking in appearance. Sad. Shy aromas here. Is there really a fragrance here? Some graininess. No spicing. No fruitiness...outside of the orange slice I discard. Coriander and orange are rumored to be involved in the flavor, but the coriander was absent and the only orange I detect is due to the slice on the lip of my glass. Thin and watery. Lacking in character. Drinkable? Possibly. But why would you want to? Boring.

Draught at the WBF in Raleigh. There were problems with the taps, but this beer was pretty nasty. Lots of foam, but very little flavor, other than a rotten one. At WBF in Raleigh 2008. Big white head, cloudy, pale golden appearance. Yeasty, fruit, coriander in aroma. Flavor is similar, quite spicy.

This is a really refreshing beer. It’s fresher than the bottles of Blue Moon White which are pretty widely available, and the flavor, I’d say is more well-developed in the Old Well White. Pale orange-gold color, served with an orange wedge, which accentuated the spice and the citrus character of the ale. Some yeastiness, although this beer wasn’t that cloudy at all. It had a slight sourness to it, which I thought pleasant, though perhaps a little out of character for a Witbier.

On tap. Hazy yellow with little head. Unbalanced toward citrus flavors; could’ve used more grassiness/wheat taste. Thin mouthfeel and unusually flat for a wheat. *Mine was served with a lemon wedge, which didn’t help its case.