Blanc Evolution
Moa Brewing Company in Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Witbier Regular|
Score
6.87
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Moa Blanc Evolution is a Belgian style Witbier, with a small amount of coriander added during its extended maturation period giving it a unique spiciness. Rich and mouth-filling, it really is a true wheat lover’s beer.
Tasting Notes
Moa Blanc Evolution has a slight fruity aroma and a crisp, refreshing finish. Stone fruit and hazelnut flavours compliment the
distinctive dominant spicy and phenolic characters. With a subtle hop aroma and bitterness, Moa Blanc Evolution is well paired with lightly aged cheeses, smoked and savoury meals, or on its own for a satisfying pint. Moa Blanc Evolution is best served at approximately 4˚C in a pilsner glass.
Tasting Notes
Moa Blanc Evolution has a slight fruity aroma and a crisp, refreshing finish. Stone fruit and hazelnut flavours compliment the
distinctive dominant spicy and phenolic characters. With a subtle hop aroma and bitterness, Moa Blanc Evolution is well paired with lightly aged cheeses, smoked and savoury meals, or on its own for a satisfying pint. Moa Blanc Evolution is best served at approximately 4˚C in a pilsner glass.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
375 ml bottle into tulip glass, best before 3/16/2014. Pours moderately hazy golden amber color with a nice 2 finger dense and fluffy white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass. Aromas of big lemon, pear, orange peel, coriander, floral, wheat, bread, light pepper, herbal, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with good balance and complexity. Taste of lemon, orange peel, pear, wheat, coriander, floral, bread, pepper, clove, herbal, and yeast earthiness. Lingering notes of citrus peel, light fruits, wheat, coriander, pepper, floral, clove, bread, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a short bit. Nice flavor balance with good complexity; though it is a bit watery; with zero cloying flavors present after the finish. Quite dry on the finish as well. Medium-high carbonation and medium bodied; with a smooth and fairly crisp mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a slight warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a very good witbier style. Nice flavor balance and complexity; and extremely smooth to drink. A nicely enjoyable and refreshing offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2013
at 19:29
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Slightly hazy golden coloured body with a nice, one centimetre tall white head. Aroma of metal, wheat, corn, a bit of alcohol, some grain, coriander seed and bunches of yeast. Medium-bodied; Pungent wheat and coriander seed freshness with some curacao, grassy and herbal light hoppiness, a bit of corn and a good yeast flavour with a lot of body for the style. Aftertaste showing some light spiciness, a bit of grassy hops, a good wheat backbone and the quite pungent yeast and coriander seed flavour - but the big surprise here is the excellent and very full-body. Overall, a nice and slightly typical wit, but the body is a nice note, but the corn and slight metallic note rubs the wrong way. Still, a nice beer to try, if you can find it! I sampled this 37,5 cL ’split’ bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Miami (South Beach), Florida on 18-September-2012 for US$5.99 sampled at home in Washington on 04-January-2013.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jan 2013
at 22:03
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ home. Hazy yellow appearance with a well carbonated white head. Spicy coriander, quite carbonated, orange citrusy, light Chardonnay aroma. Spritzy, lemon citrusy, yeasty, zesty carbonated flavor. Pretty tasty shit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2012
at 20:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
333 C&C from Belmont Station. Pours a sort of coppered gold with very little head. Aroma is somewhat mucky - like lots of herb. But it’s a good odor. Med body at least. Flavor is almost honey with demonstrative spice and herb. It arguably is a wit, well of course it is, but it’s so pleasing to my palate that I think it is one of the best I’ve ever tasted. Truly. It, like so many other MOAs is a great beer.
Tried
on 31 Jul 2012
at 19:14
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Amber beer with an off-white head. Spice and light wheat aroma. Wheat and light orange flavor with light spice. Medium bodied. Refreshing. Wheat and light orange lingers with light spice and light malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2012
at 11:12
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pours amber with a large, lasting head.Nose shows citrus peel, coriander, sweet malt and doughy wheat. Very floral and sweet.Flavours are less impressive; some coriander and doughy wheat along with citrus peel, but a bit too much booze shows through.Carbonation is nicely high.
Tried
on 01 May 2012
at 20:32
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle. Just hazy orange with a white head. Aroma of wheat, lemon sherbet, coriander, vanilla, banana. A little sweet with orange, tangy wheat and lemon, punchy coriander. Not sure that the higher alcohol does much beyond get rid of the welcoming soft mouthfeel of wits.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2011
at 03:17