White Ale
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Witbier Winter Out of Production|
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Spicy yet smooth. Brewed with 10 exotic spices.
This beer's roots are in Belgium, and the classic Wit biers produced by Belgium's brewers. The style gets its name from the white, milky appearance of this unfiltered wheat ale. The brewers of Samuel Adams® beer, taking inspiration from the Belgians, have created a classic of their own. On the malt side, we use malted two row Pale barley, malted wheat, and Munich malt to give this beer a crisp, malty, cereal finish and smooth mouth feel. The hops used are Noble Tettnang Tettnanger hops. At the end of the kettle boil, we add a proprietary spice blend to give Samuel Adams® White Ale a unique and complex flavor, without being overpowering or cloying. The spice blend includes orange and lemon peel, dried plum, grains of paradise, coriander, anise, hibiscus, rose hips, tamarind, and vanilla. It is this special blend of spices that gives Samuel Adams® White Ale its unique character, complexity and refreshing drinkability. The beer is coarse filtered, leaving a white haze from the malt proteins. Our proprietary top fermenting ale yeast ferments the beer, imparting its signature character - bright and slightly fruity.
This beer's roots are in Belgium, and the classic Wit biers produced by Belgium's brewers. The style gets its name from the white, milky appearance of this unfiltered wheat ale. The brewers of Samuel Adams® beer, taking inspiration from the Belgians, have created a classic of their own. On the malt side, we use malted two row Pale barley, malted wheat, and Munich malt to give this beer a crisp, malty, cereal finish and smooth mouth feel. The hops used are Noble Tettnang Tettnanger hops. At the end of the kettle boil, we add a proprietary spice blend to give Samuel Adams® White Ale a unique and complex flavor, without being overpowering or cloying. The spice blend includes orange and lemon peel, dried plum, grains of paradise, coriander, anise, hibiscus, rose hips, tamarind, and vanilla. It is this special blend of spices that gives Samuel Adams® White Ale its unique character, complexity and refreshing drinkability. The beer is coarse filtered, leaving a white haze from the malt proteins. Our proprietary top fermenting ale yeast ferments the beer, imparting its signature character - bright and slightly fruity.
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4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Just when you think you’ve tasted most SA there is always another coming down the pike. Overall a little more bitter than I expected for a white wit ale or beer. 12 oz brown bottle. Beautiful swirling yeast appearance that I have come to expect with a wheat beer. The color is a little towards off white if a shade of brown, hazy. White beer yeastiness in the aroma along with some plastic background. A little strongish for a wit bier. Has decent carbonation that I can appreciate. Probably should be in the american wheat style. For an amereican wheat, OK. But for a wit, too many unkept manners, needs to be more refined.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2007
at 15:38
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours a hazy straw color with a small white head. Aroma is wheat, lemon citrus, corriander, and other spices. Medium mouth with nice carbonation. The spices and wheat stand out most in the flavor. Lemon and some soap in it as well. Finishes with a little bite on the back on the tongue. Not bad, but nothing great.
Tried
on 18 Apr 2007
at 07:51
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Thickish head that lasts for a little while. Sort of cloudy colour, doesn’t really look all that unfiltered as it promises. The taste itself is a little spicy, but doesn’t have that whole witbier taste to it. However, when I drank it out of the bottle yesterday, it seemed to have a more standard ale taste to it. THe taste also has some sourness in it, but the two beers I drank gave me very different experiences. I don’t quite know why.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2007
at 12:04
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Draft. Hazy amber beer with a whitish head. Wheat, orange, corriander aroma. Big corriander flavor with lager-like characteristics. Lingering tinny corriander. Medium body. Skip it.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Mar 2007
at 19:09
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Marvelous head, light, refreshing, and high quality. It’s not heavy at all, and I could drink large amounts of it. Light hops and a bit sour. It had a fruity taste that I just couldn’t place, but after reading the other comments, it is definitely apricot. Not one of my favorites from Samuel Adams, but still better than most other beers.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2007
at 20:53
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Hazy orange body with a large rocky off-white head. Sweet fruity aroma with some lemon in the background. Sweet lemon and orange flavor. Not much spice for a wit.
Tried
on 08 Mar 2007
at 08:25
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Tap. Initial aroma is slight malt overpowered by dirty soap. Initial taste is not good, again the dirty soap. As this went along, a more traditional white beer flavor came through. A very average example of the style. Not sure if I got a good pour of this one, perhaps dirty lines?
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Feb 2007
at 08:04
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Great belgian white ale, especially for a macro, but on par with other Boston Beer company beers. Spicy, and cloudy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2006
at 21:19
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pours a hazy golden/amber color with a small white head. Aroma hoppy with some floral tones. Taste is crisp with fruity tones, malts, and a wheaty feel. More carbonation than I like in my beers, but the taste itself is still decent.
Tried
on 15 May 2006
at 14:54
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Slightly hazy, dark amber with a creamy, off-white head. Spicy, citrusy nose. Medium-bodied with spicy - almost herbal - accents. Dry, slightly sulphurous finish without any acidity or bitterness. Unusual, but interesting interpretation of a Belgian Wit. 070406
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2006
at 11:25