White Birch Belgian Style Pale Ale

Brewed by White Birch Brewing
Style: Belgian Ale
Hooksett, New Hampshire USA

Very, very pale beer with a touch of haziness on the pour. Oily nose with lots of acetone and rancid coriander character. Spoiled fruit, rotted malt and a harsh spicey extract. No redeeming qualities to speak of.

Bottle at Pauls. Pours a white gold body with a white head. Smells like curdled milk and lemon grain puke. Regurgitated grain and dank moldy mess. Horrid.

Thanks a ton to JCB for sharing. Pours a cloudy white with a one finger frothy white head. The nose shows mothballs, Belgian yeast esters, corn, wheaty, curacao. Flavor is fruity, peach, estery, thin, yeasty. Palate has an astringent bite to it.

Bottle Thanks to ditmier for sharing Bottle 74 of 94. Pours out a cloudy pair juice topped with a white head. Aroma was of spice, light pepper, and some lemon zest. Taste was more of the light spice, some banana, and light belg yeast. A lot going on here.

Pours a hazy amber with a white head. Smells of coriander, some sweet malt, yeasty. Tastes breaddy and sweet with some citrussy elements.

Bottle at Paul’s place for Kan’s visit courtesy of Adam. Pours a milky yellow with a thin white head. I don’t think this is really a pale ale… seems more like a Berliner Weisse variant. Mustard, acetone, and cheese. Light sourness, medium bodied, Oily. I have no idea what this was supposed to be, but it clearly didn’t become that.

Bomber, batch #5, bottle #189 of 198, bottled on 10/02/2009 and consumed within the month. The pour looks like a Belgian wit, basically a cloudy lemonade color with a small, bubbly, snow white head. The foam settles to a thin film with a pronounced edge, leaving skinny, jagged rings of lacing on the glass. The aroma is a downright atrocity. Seriously, this thing smells like complete ass. Solvents, glue, acetone, and sour lemons, with perhaps a bit of rubber thrown in for good measure. I feel like I’m huffing some sort of dangerous chemical substance in a meth lab in Bithlo (the redneck meth capital of FL, for those who don’t know). I can hardly muster enough courage to sip it, and when I finally do, the experience is as harsh as expected. Pure, unadulterated lemon seed extract is sour as all hell, the the acetone comes through with burning astringency. It tastes like liquid plastic and burnt rubber. Absolutely disgusting. Flashes of Purple Possum Habanero Mead run through my head, save for the fiery hot finish. The palate is un-palatable, reminiscent of Aguardiente more than beer, watery, astringent, and burning with alcohol. This shit is absolutely disgusting, and I’m pissed that I traded away good beer to try it. It’s one of the worst beverages I’ve ever encountered. I’d take any macro pale lager over this any day of the week. I would have drain poured it, but I was afraid it would eat through my pipes, so I elected to burn my grass with it instead. Vile, vile, vile.