Poker Face

330ml bottle. Hazy, orangey, bright golden colour with average to huge, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Slightly weak, wheaty, citrusy fruity and minimally spicy aroma, hints of banana, orange, a peppery touch of coriander. Taste is sweet-ish, citrusy fruity, wheaty and spicy, notes of orange, orange zest, some banana, a peppery spicy touch of coriander with minimally soapy overtones; minimally watery passages. Nicely balanced, refreshing, absolutely style-concordant.

Flesje gedeeld door Roelzie86 en gedronken met Tomhendriksen. Bleek gelig troebel bier met weinig schuim. Aroma is fruitig. Smaak is zoet, hoppig, fruitig. Nasmaak is iets bitter.

Fles gedeelt door Roelzie1986, geprobeerd met Inoven. Het is een helder geel bier met een wit schuim. Het heeft een moutige wat er gistachtige geur. De smaak is zacht, moutig en wat citrus.

Bottle from Belgoklubben. Pours golden with a white head. Aroma of herbs, wheat and citrus. Drinkable, hay, zest.

Bottle. Pours a hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity wheat malty spicy coriander aroma. Fruity wheat malty spicy coriander flavor. Has a fruity wheat malty spicy coriander finish.

Bottle 330ml. @ home. [ As Het Nest Poker Face ].Hazy - murky medium yellow colour with a average to small, frothy to fizzy, good to fair lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, fruity malt, citrus, moderate yeasty, fruity yeast, wit bier yeast, bubble gum, fruity, light coriander. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter, bitter with a average duration, fruity yeast, wheat, coriander, wit bier yeast, light citrus. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180224] 6-3-6-3-11

"Traditional" Belgian wit, bottle from Fontana in Sint-Niklaas. Thick, bit irregular, creamy, egg-white, lightly lacing, stable head over a misty straw blonde beer with olive greenish tinge, perturbed by narrow strings of visible fizz. Aroma of soapy coriander seed and doughy soapy white bread-like wheat, dried lemon zest (probably just plain old curaçao but smelling more fresh), unripe melon, green bananas, freshly cut apple, yellow plums, dried field flowers, papier maché, glue even to a certain extent, pear, fresh camomile, cucumber. Fruity onset, lots of green pear and Granny Smith apple, unripe melon, some banana, bit chewing gum but nothing too sweet, balanced by a soft underlying sourishness, sparkly carbonation fit for this particular style, slick and soapy mouthfeel. Soapy 'wheatiness' dominates the middle, cereally barley aspect too, but the soapiness becomes more pronounced when the coriander seed kicks in, leading to a medium long, soapy, mildly spicy finish in which the dried citrus peel factor offers a refreshing, almost perfumey note; ends with considerable spicy, floral hop bitterness, more expressively so than usual in this style, with a long-lingering basic leafy bitterness ensuing. Clearly hoppier and more bitter than your average Hoegaarden epigone, though the spicing remains more or less the same - albeit more expressively and convincingly so than in industrial examples of this style. Less classic in being hoppier - seems like the global hop forward-movement has reached old school Belgian wit, and frankly, I personally feel that this is a slight improvement to the old witbier template - though admittedly it also puts this beer a bit further away from what is commonly regarded as a typical witbier. Quite a nice, updated example of a very traditional, conservative Belgian ale style - exactly the thing Het Nest excells at. Within the range of classically conceived 'blanchekes', this is more recommendable than many others - but then those 'others' date from another time so comparison is probably not completely fair.