Summer Ale
Mendocino Brewing Company in Ukiah, California, United States 🇺🇸
Witbier Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.27
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This Select Special Edition Summer Ale is an unfiltered and refreshingly smooth white ale. It is brewed with malted barley and unmalted wheat. This wheat ale features a blend of spices. A hint of orange peel and a twist of lemon makes this ale a thirst quenching experience you will savor!
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 oz bottle purchased as part of a beers of summer 10 pack at World Market. Pour is yellow golden, fully hazy with some protein particulates floating about. The pure white one inch head falls fast. Aroma is noticeably floral with a bright lemon citrus. General yeast spiciness, clove is present below the floral and fruit. Taste is lemon citrus fruit and the floral yeastiness. Nothing really is sharp or out of balance, nice and integrated. As it warms ginger and coriander ome out. Palate is full bodied, yet light and refreshing with a lingering floral finish. Nice enough wit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Sep 2009
at 21:03
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Pours hazy pale gold into a tumbler. Bright white head with excellent retention. Wheat and coriander aromas. Flat with sour wheat and stale spices.
Tried
on 24 Jul 2009
at 17:24
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 oz bottle as "Summer Seasonal White Ale." Pours a cloudy golden color, medium sized white head. Aroma contained spices, yeast, orange peel. Flavor was yeast, orange. A decent Belgian white ale for warm summer days.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2009
at 00:44
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Hazy golden coloured body with a very thin white head. Aroma of lemon, wheat, yeast and strong coriander seed. Light-bodied; Nice mild wheat/yeast flavour with plenty of citrus and curacao. Aftertaste is very mellow-amazingly fresh. Overall, a good summer wheat - odd for me to say - especially from Mendocino, but its a good beer! Definitely one to try this summer! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Norm’s in Vienna, Virginia on 02-June-2005 at Jon(R888710)’s.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jan 2009
at 23:24
5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pale straw color with a white head. Wheat aroma with some orange and spice. Wheat and spice flavor with a bit of citrus. LIghter bodied. Refreshing and easy to drink. LIngering orange and wheat.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2008
at 20:12
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
I don’t know, I just keeping drinking this this summer and I am always surprised by the low ratings. So finally I will add my 2 cents. Pours as it should, pale yellow but the hazy enough that one cannot see through it. A very radiating yellow color is accompanied by a small but resilient head. Aroma is very coriander and light lemon. I could see that the coriander may be a bit strong. Taste is faint banana esters, light lemon and a bit of sweetness and a lot of coriander again. Basically exactly what I want from a standard Wit. Very thirst quenching without being thin or light. A small strong carbonation fades rather quickly. Long zingy coriander aftertaste. I like this stuff a lot, I need another six pack.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Jul 2008
at 00:55
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz bottle. New "White Ale" label. Slightly unpleasant artificial wheat aroma. Excellent thick, yeasty appearance. Wheat, mild citrus and vanilla flavors collide. Not a perfect example of the style, but I think it has more character than your typical American Wit. Lemony watery smooth finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jul 2008
at 19:25
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Godlen with good finger thick white head. Nose is of spices and orange peel. Fizzy, arome has notes of coriander, wheat and orange peel, with the sourness of citrus and yeast. Had many sediments floating in the bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2008
at 15:03
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Very milky pale yellow with a 1cm thick bleached head. The aroma is somewhat fecal...bad pedio infection on this one...with light citrus and abundant marshmallow malts. The palate is spritzy with lots of coriander spiciness atop fluffy marshmallow. Fecal presence remains, albeit more subdued.
Tried
on 02 Jul 2008
at 17:17
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Summer Seasonal White Ale 12oz bottle that pours up hazy white-ish straw with thin white head. The aroma is lemon, un-ripe orange peel, hay, wheat, bubble gum, spices and some green and red apples. The taste is bold and yet refreshing. Nice summer product. I get lemon that combines with sweetness from malts and a bit of wheat. The sweetness quickly fades leaving lemon tartness, orange peel tartness and tangelo tart hard candy tartness. Tart but refreshing. It then smooths out with faint bubble gum, some hay, spice, a bit of sweetness and receding levels of tartness into the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2008
at 21:13