Blanche - Wit
Gansbeek Brewing Co in Ganshoren, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: De MeesterWitbier Regular
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Score
6.75
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Blanche - Wit from Gansbeek Brewing Co 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
One of several beers in this series, developed by a Brussels 'bierfirma' (Gansbeek Brewing Co.) and brewed at De Meester. Thick, eggshell-white, quite large- and uneven-bubbled but very stable, irregularly but tightly lacing head sustained by fierce sparkling rushing upwards through a lightly hazed, deep and pure golden blonde beer with 'metallic' ochre-ish tinge. Quite strong aroma of coriander seed, dried out white bread, old lemon zest, honey, a touch of ripe melon, damp straw, dried lemongrass or even kumquat, dust, earth, dried grapefruit peel, dried bitter weeds, jute bags, whiff of white soap and a late but unexpected sweaty note. Fruity, spritzy onset, very minerally, stinging carbonation, notes of green apple, unripe peach and vague banana, smooth body with clear wheat soapiness and sourishness, bready core with a nice bread-crumb-like effect in its tail. Ends spicy, with the eternal coriander seed adding more soapiness but also something 'dusty', while dried citrus peel - that other obligatory witbier flavouring - is also clearly shown, seemingly even adding to the bitterness that lingers on the root of the tongue, as in grapefruit peel bitterness - but also an earthy, peppery hop bitterness, very unusual in a Belgian wheat ale (or at least the traditionally designed ones). Maybe the Brussels' nouvelle vague of craft brewers, pioneered by Senne and BBP, has influenced this one and made it more hop-forward - but it's just this surprising hop bitterness that kind of turned things in a whole other direction here, making it quite original when compared with the legions of 'standardized' witbieren that have been made in the wake of old Hoegaarden. Now that I come to think of it, most of the Belgian witbieren (or, more generally put, 'tarwebieren') I had so far, were hoppier ones, and this one certainly belongs in that department. Better than expected, to be honest.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Blanche - Wit from Gansbeek Brewing Co 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Glass of off-white foam, reluctantly releasing clear golden beer, well-carbonated. Coriander & solvent immediately upon opening. Then strange, but not disagreable whiffs of lambic-like horseblanket, straw, lemonpeel and finally again coriander. Bitter, grapefruit- or lemonpeel; spicy bitterness, rootspices, Blue Curaçoa, hints of mould. Warming up, some faintly fruity and definitely sweeter flavours come drifting up. Creamy MF from the omnipresent head, well-carbonated; dry but spritzy MF, light. Utterly unconventional wit - and seen the dreary rut this "style" represents - all the better for it > extra marks!