Witch's Wit
The Lost Abbey in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸
Witbier Regular|
Score
6.63
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Most definitely, this first and foremost a wheat ale. You can taste the wheat from start to finish. A faint toasted note from the addition of flaked oats is present in the beer as well. This is a light bodied beer that finishes with a spicy layer in the end. The overall impression should be an easy-to-drink refreshing ale.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours nearly clear gold with white head. The aroma has a nice load of wheat and milder notes of yeasty spice and even milder esters and banana. Yum smelling. The taste is smooth but doesn’t get all the way to being crisp – refreshing. Starts with big wheat and a mild level of acidic tartness. It moves along to midway and the finish getting even smoother and more blended. Nice stuff. Seems to have the smoothness of age without the aid of aging.
Tried
on 26 Oct 2008
at 14:39
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
750 ml bottle courtesy of bvc. Pour is cloudy yellow golden with a smallish white head. Aroma of earthy hay, wheat, and some light coriander spiciness. Herbal, menthol, some clove. Taste is herbal, sweet honey and the wheat grassiness. All the flavors are nicely integrated, though the overall effect is a bit subdued. Really didn’t get any of the grapefruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2008
at 10:13
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Courtesy of ibrew2or3. Pours golden, white head. Aroma is yeasty, fruity and sugary. Taste, some spices, sweet honey and hoppy. Fruity (lime/orange peel). A decent wit, very drinkable and of quality.
Tried
on 05 Oct 2008
at 23:56
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from San Diego Drug. Hazy light gold color with a creamy white head. Aromas of spice, coriander and citrus. Near medium body with mild carbonation. Flavor has some banana!, some wood, some citrus zest, or coriander. Finish is pretty dull - which is not a bad thing. A little astringent. A subdued superb wit. There’s a spritely sweet note that threads throughout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2008
at 21:18
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours gold into a tumbler. White head recedes to nothing. Clove aromas. Sweet malts, wheat and marshmallows upfront with a dry, clovey corriander and grapefruit finish.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2008
at 18:56
6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Lost Abbey before RBSG on 08/02/2008. Hazy light orange body with a medium frothy white head. Light spice and faint banana aroma. Spice and light bronze flavor. Medium light body with medium high carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Aug 2008
at 19:44
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Light amber beer with a whitish head. Light orange, spice, and light wheat aroma. Orange, spice, malt flavor. Medium body. Lingering spice, wheat, orange, and malt.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Aug 2008
at 13:32
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sampled both a bottle and a tap at Lost Abbey.Pours a clear yellow with a small white head. Aroma of corriander, some wheat, honey, and a bit of grapefruit. Taste is dry, fruity and spicey. Dry mouthfeel and lively bubbles. Great "summer beer".
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2008
at 21:56
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
From tap at the brewery. Pours clear and golden yellow, slight cloudy and with a small white head. Mild estery wheaty aroma with a light banana fruity note. Mild wheaty and light fruity flavour. Light and a bit watery. Ends with a mild fruity/estery flavour. Wellmade but too wheaty/yeasty/estery for my liking.6-3-6-3-11=2.9
From bottle, Papsoes blindtasting #32. Pours clear yellow with note head. Light grassy aroma. Vague citrusy. Mild metallic, grassy and mild malt flavoured. Light bitter to vague citric flavoured finish.5-3-5-2-10=2.5
From bottle, Papsoes blindtasting #32. Pours clear yellow with note head. Light grassy aroma. Vague citrusy. Mild metallic, grassy and mild malt flavoured. Light bitter to vague citric flavoured finish.5-3-5-2-10=2.5
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Aug 2008
at 06:10