Vuuve

Brewed by Brouwerij De Regenboog
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Assebroek-Brugge, Belgium

(Bottled, no BBE date) Opaque orange-golden color with almost no head. Very spicy (coriander, ginseng, orange, honey) aroma. Slightly tart and quite acidic, lemon-orange-grapefruit-spicy flavor with an intrusive ginseng(?) taste. Light to medium-bodied, acidic and fizzy-carbonated palate. Something like a mix of 50% Ukrainian witbier, 25% Swaf! and 25% Berliner Weisse. Definitely interesting, but overdone in a way it’s not that pleasant to drink anymore. Not your average refreshing-terrace-wit, for sure.

Surprising, unique, and pretty good. Coriander aroma is restrained. Cloudy amber color, foamy head. The flavor was the real surprise here, with a nicely refreshing tartness that mad this very pleasant while I was outside grilling on a hot August evening. There’s a fair amount of orange citrus flavor throughout this, reminiscent of the Hitachino Nest White but more balanced and less offensive. This reminds me of a hybrid between traditional witbier, the Nest White and a Berliner Weisse.

Cloudy early autumn leaves in color with a large and long lasting white colored foam. Fresh coriander, but predominantly orange peel spicing in the aroma, which when put together smells like bitter tang. Enjoyable yeast character, which I have come to expect from this brewery, but the orange peel addition was too much for me and what makes it worse is that it’s bitter orange peel, not sweet orange peel. So it makes for an overwhelming bitter tang flavor, without much to balance it out.

Smells like orange peel and zestiness. Also, the orange peel flavoring is very evident, more than any spice. I might like this beer even more if I was a big orange juice fan.

This orange-colored ale poured with no head whatsoever, eliciting a sour aroma. At first, I thought the beer had gone bad, since the flavor was flat with a bitter finish. After a few sips I started noticing citrus and spice flavors that were actually rather pleasant. This is a very unique brew that is probably not for everyone, but was interesting to me.

Prety unimpressive looking at first, just a soft yellow with a slight haze. The aroma however really picks up the tempo. Real spicy and notes of tangerine, lemon and cinnamon. Flavor is rather similar, but with a noticable bitterness. It really comes off as a lightly spice, citrus sweet and decently malty offering. One really nice find.

A hazy orange beer with a small white head. The aroma is very light and primarily of wheat. The flavor is sweet wheaty and somewhat acidic.

Yellow color. Hazy, no head. Flavor is: orange! Very unique. I’ve never tasted anything like this. (And isn’t that what this is all about?) Very fresh. Very weird.