5.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle from a local supermarket. Aroma is spicy yeast, wheat, coriander, orange peel. Flavour is fairly sweet with low bitterness. Body is medium. Drinkable but dull sweetish Wit.

6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled 250ml. -from Spar La Plagne Bellecote as Affligem Blanche. Hazy yellow coloured, medium sized white head, wheaty coriander nose. Wheaty, coriander, light lemony and bitterish finish. Not bad.

6.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle 0,3 ltr: Hazy yellow coloured brew with thirstquenching abilities, hints mostly of lemon, some oranges and coriander is almost not there.

6.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Hazy yellow straw. Wheat, coriander, orange zest, CO2, doughy. Medium sweet, light sour. Just medium bodied. Quite watery and dull, but not offensive in any way.

6

Smooth, sweet, citrus

5.9

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

The old Affligem brand, brewed by third parties since 1956 (the dubbel at least - the tripel was added a year later), was taken over from De Smedt by Heineken in 2000 already but remained stable for a long time, until, in 2013, Heineken turned it into a 'global brand' and basically destroyed its original quality, which I remember as being considerably better than that of other mass-marketed abbey beer brands. This witbier version was added only in 2020 so I am holding my breath opening the bottle, purchased from a local Albert Heijn supermarket. Thick and frothy, regular, fluffy, egg-white, audibly crackling head on a fully hazy yellow blonde beer with pale apricot tinge. Perfumey aroma of banana mush, coriander seed, bergamot, lavender-scented bath foam, white hand soap, wheat flour, sugared lemon juice from a bottle, honey, candy apple, plastic. Sweet onset, some unfermented honeyish sugars over a thick layer of banana ester mingled with aspects of sweet ripe pineapple and ripe pear, lively carbonated without being too sharp or numbing, with rounded, soft, fluffy and indeed soapy body, the latter aspect mostly generated by the wheat, which also manages to add an underlying, straightforward but effectively refreshing sourishness, almost lime-like in a way. Lots of 'industrial' perfumey aromas, however, stand in the way of the natural development of this beer, with pumped up coriander, lavender, 'fake' citrus from a flask and bath foam soapiness all combined; the sourish aspect does persist, becoming again a bit lime-like in the end, but everything feels industrially processed and 'added'. Some very vague grassy hop notes are noticeable deep in the background but there is hardly any actual bitterness - not uncommon in witbier, though. Ends sourish and still banana-laden, with this 'perfume' dominating way too much, becoming a bit plastic-like in the end. Closer to one of those awfully sweet industrial Weissbiere from Holland (Grolsch, Brand and others) than to traditional Belgian witbier, but I was not expecting a whole lot here, as described above: indeed, this 'Belgisch wit' is exactly what I was imagining a 'new generation' Affligem in witbier form to be like. Perhaps if served ice cold?

6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

0,5l on tap @ Campanile Roissy Le Mesnil Amenot. Pours hazy yellow with a medium head. Aroma is sweet malts with wheat and citrus. Flavor is sweet malts, wheat, citrus, coriander. Decent.

4.2

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Flesje thuis gedronken. Bleek geel, troebel bier matig schuim dat snel weg trekt. Weinig aroma. Smaak is moutig met iets van banaan. De nasmaak is zoetig en hoppig.

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

0.3 l bottle from 'AH XL' (Maastricht), best before December 2022. Hazy, golden with a thin, frothy, almost stable, white head. Sweetish, quite spicy, gently yeasty and a bit fruity-floral aroma of coriander, vanilla, banana, honey and some orange peel. Slightly sweet, moderately bitter, gently yeasty, quite spicy and just a little fruity-floral taste of grains, vanilla, banana, coriander and some orange peel, followed by a short, moderately bitter, quite dry, a little chalky finish. Thin to medium body, gently effervescent, average carbonation. Solid Wit.