Bottle. A- Pinto beans, plastic. A- Yellow color, cloudy liquid, white head. T- Ham and bean soup, subtle lemongrass, mild white pepper. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, balanced finish. O- Really good but really odd. Don’t get hardly any of the ingredients listed like peppercorns, coriander, lemongrass, or orange. It reminds me a ton of pinto bean and ham soup I ate growing up. So odd but tasty.

Pours a clear, light golden-yellow, with minimal head. Sort of an odd aroma--some grass, some fruit, and a weird, sour chemical touch. Flavor is marked by lemon and coriander and a touch of sourness.

American take on the old Belgian witbier style, with lemongrass and peppercorns added to the usual mix of curaçao and coriander seed; apparently developed in collaboration with Birra del Borgo in honor of 3 Fonteinen when the latter suffered great losses due to a technical malfunction. Moussy, regularly shaped, egg-white, dense and creamy head, only slowly opening in the middle; hazy straw blonde colour with greenish hue and vivid sparkling, turning more deeply hazy and less greenish (more ochre-ish) with sediment added. Aroma of a lot of soapy wheat and soggy white bread, clear coriander seed, crushed peppercorns subtly but decidely cutting through this soft soapiness of wheat and coriander, additional hints of dry lemon zest (maybe the lemongrass, applied fresh, but escaping me a bit as such), baked banana, orange peel (which must represent the dried orange peel), old cloves, dried sage, pear, courgette meat, baker’s yeast, old cumin cheese, dust. Crisp, spritzy onset, minerally carbonation holding fruity hints of pear, dried banana and apricot in place, sweetish mixed with sourish but both soft and subdued and the first stronger than the latter; refreshing citrus peel touch as well. Smooth middle phase coarsened a bit by the fizziness, soft soapy wheatiness with some sweetish, lightly honeyish barley, sharper grainy edge as well, undeniable coriander seed soapiness retronasally, lemongrass fragrance remains (too) understated but the initial citrus peel effect remains, peppercorns add a subtle spiciness to the end along with some yeasty phenols (cloves), the yeast itself delivering more breadiness and a slightly powdery feel, and a late touch of earthy hop bitterishness for structural balance, as it ought to be in this style. This hop bitter accent blends perfectly with the peppercorn spiciness, both working together to provide some dryness to the finish. Apart from the fresh lemongrass, a delicate feature which has probably faded by now and should be more apparent when fresh and / or from tap, all the mentioned ingredients are noticeable and cleverly complement each other. The soapy spiciness of coriander is, however, stronger than the rest, and even though this ingredient is crucial for the style in the traditional sense, I wonder if omitting it altogether would not have made this more refreshing, and would have allowed the lemongrass to shine through more. The citrus, however, challenges this coriander effect to a large extent, more so than in Hoegaarden and its many epigones, coming across as more vivid and more fresh; this aspect - along with the somewhat more outspoken ’end bitterness’ - makes this a refreshing, crisp and interesting quencher, surely among the better witbiers I had so far (even if witbier in general is not my most favorite style).

Shared 12 oz. bottle. Clear straw with a white head. Moderate carbonation. Nose is wheat, spice and yeast. Taste is wheat, spice, yeast, coriander, orange zest. Refreshing.

Bottle at Wildhorse Saloon, Nashville, 11th July 2016. Clear. Aroma is fresh, spice, citrus. Taste is refreshing, some citrus, spice. Not bad

Pour is a hazy blonde with a large white head. Aroma is wheat malt, an orange bitterness and yeast phenols. Flavor is a little less stellar than I thought it would be. Starts with you typical wit creamy wheat malt but none of the additions really stand out. Is this an ok wit? Sure but I was hoping for more of a wow moment with the orange and coriander.

Bottle (from beergium). Pours pale yellow with white head. Aroma is sour, citrus, wheat. Flavor is sweet, sour, wheat, citrus, spices, some sourness. Body is watery. Overall: okish.

Bottle. Hazy amber beer with a cream head. Spice aroma. Spice and light yeast flavor with light citrus. Medium bodied. Spice and light yeast lingers wtih light citrus.

4 8 15 16 23 42, refreshing!