Pale yellow with light haze and lasting fluffy head. Aroma and flavour are strong with sweet banana esters. Just a light pepperyness. Decent body.

33cl can achetée dans un Jumbo de Maastricht.
BB 12/01/2026, canned 12/10/2023.
Dorée, léger voile, col épais crémeux blanc bien tenace.
Arôme

Palais sur un banche classique mais franchement bien foutue. Effet ester banane/levure, pointe d'épice - coriandre, 'bready' avec un rétro-nasla rappelant le poivre blanc.
Palais est plaisant, léger et frais - légers esters de banane évident, pointe épicée, rondeur de bouche avec l'apport de froment e tun léger fruité d'écorce d'orange qui rehausse le côté fraicheur. Amertume fine en fin de bouche.

Keg at If It Ain't Dutch, 03/07/24. Almost clear golden blonde with an off white cap that settles to a swirl. Nose is wheaten bread, herb, lemon rind, light clove. Taste comprises airy malts, grass, light white peppery spice, stale bread, trace of yeast. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Okay easy refresher.

A hazy golden yellow beer with a white head. Aroma of banana, belgian yeast, sweet and mild herbal wheat malt. Taste of sweet wheat malt, banana, some herbs and yeast.

Can drunk on the eve of the May 1st public holiday, looking at our freshly completed cobblestone driveway. What a milestone! The beer, yellow-orange hazy with a moderate, fine head, balances poignantly against the bold earth-red and gray of the cobbles. Bready, yeasty, banana nose. I get a hint of citrus but honestly no coriander or orange peel notes. Nevertheless it's a huge wheat bomb with big Bayrisch Weißbier banana notes and tasty balanced hoppiness, all of which is quite impressive!

Draught@Skaal, Turku. Yellow colour with a small white foamy head, which leaves some lace. Aroma is citrus, some coriander and mild herbal tones with mild cooked vegetables as well as some grains to it. Flavour is floral, citrusy, some coriander and mild herbal and earthy tones with mild vegetably elements to it as well.

Witbier (including the classic 'Pierre Celis spicing' of citrus peel and coriander seed) by Uiltje, can from the Albert Heijn supermarket in Lokeren. Thick, foamy, frothy, egg-white, dense and pillowy, wheat-enhanced head over an initially crystal clear (!) pure yellow-golden beer with 'old gold' tinge and vivid sparkling, turning misty with sediment. Weird aroma of overcooked broccoli (DMS?), cooked 'haricots verts', lemon zest, soggy white bread, cold vegetable soup (probably DMS again but in a very 'convincing' green vegetable way), carrot soup even, coriander seed indeed, banana, pear blossoms, ripe peach, honey, hint of freshly fermented farmland in the background, zucchini, something vaguely vanilla-like, cold pasta. Spritzy onset, lots of prickling to even numbing (over)carbonation pushing away estery flavours of banana, peach and apricot, very minerally with wheat-slick and grainy pale malty core, smooth and rounded; on top of this lie a honeyish layer of unfermented sugars next to a refreshing orangey element (the orange peel, but feeling less bitter and spicy than it ought to) and some soapy coriander seed, which fills the nasal cavity retronasally. Mild floral hop bitterish note in the end, but the sweetness of the banana ester and residual sugars proves stronger and lingers a bit, even slightly sticking to the teeth. Odd interpretation of a witbier: given that Uiltje was taken over by the old Swinkels family and is selling 'standard' beers on supermarket shelves now, I was expecting the umpteenth Hoegaarden clone, but this is altogether different, not even looking like a classic wit, with much more sweetness, much less (wheat) sourness and a weird green vegetable aspect to the nose. Far from undrinkable, but also far from what I expect from a typical Belgian 'blanche', feeling industrial and additionally sweetened for the masses. How I miss the glory of innovative Dutch craft brewing Uiltje once was...

33cl can from Jumbo supermarket in Stein, Netherlands. F: medium, white, average retention. C: gold, hazy. A: malt, wheat, citrus, coriander, banana, clove. T: medium malty wheat base, banana, clove, citrus, decent bitterness, medium carbonation, classic for the style, enjoyable.