Organic Wheat Beer
Black Isle Brewery in Munlochy, Highland, Scotland 🏴
Witbier Regular|
Score
5.90
|
|
A semi-cloudy Belgian style wheat beer brewed with orange and coriander. Either pour carefully to leave the yeast in the bottom of the bottle, or swirl the last drop around the base and pour onto the head of the beer.
Sign up to add a tick or review
6.1/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared at the 2015 edition of the chriso Pre-GBBF tasting - London. Vintage c. 2004, sourced from the chriso rotbox. Cheers! Pours hazy yellow-gold with a creamy, white head. The nose has some lightly tangy lemon, pale bread and hay. Light sweet flavour with big lemony tang no, faint peat, dry pale bread. Light bodied with average carbonation. Dry and tangy on the finish, with more impressions of peat, wheat flakes. OK overall, especially given its age.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2016
at 15:52
5.9/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Pre-GBBF Shindig 2015. Dug out from ChrisO’s dusty cellar. It pours cloudy golden - orange with a small white head. The nose is soft, grainy, orange, peach, tinned nectarine, wet leaves and light spice. The taste is crisp, tart fruits, sweet peach, apricot, nectarine, earth, sherbet, light floral and dough. Medium body and fine carbonation. Past its prime, but I still kind of enjoyed it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2015
at 14:46
5.2/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
8th August 2015
Pre GBBF tasting at Chris and Ruth’s. Dusty bottle from the Chris O archives. Hazy gold beer, small white head. Palate is smooth, light and dry. Modest fine carbonation. Tangy dried fruits. Floralness that is a little bit soapy. Light dry finish. Much like me at this point in proceedings, this beer is knackered.
Pre GBBF tasting at Chris and Ruth’s. Dusty bottle from the Chris O archives. Hazy gold beer, small white head. Palate is smooth, light and dry. Modest fine carbonation. Tangy dried fruits. Floralness that is a little bit soapy. Light dry finish. Much like me at this point in proceedings, this beer is knackered.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2015
at 10:51
6.1/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at home. Pours hazy yellow, nose is yeasty, citrus, taste is fizzy, wheaty, not bad. --- Beer merged from original tick of Wheat Beer on 15 Oct 2014 at 08:15 - Score: 6. Original review text: Bottle at home. Pours hazy yellow, nose is yeasty, citrus, taste is fizzy, wheaty, not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Oct 2014
at 00:15
8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Feb 2008: A Scottish Wheat Beer, whatever next? This is a bottle conditioned beer, so I decided to pour it into two glasses. The plan being to see half the beer without sediment and the other with. I have two thistle shaped Gordon glasses and as this is a Scottish beer, choose those to use. What I got was two completely different looking beers from the one bottle, both had wonderfully full white heads which hung around for a good while. The second glass was obviously very cloudy because of the sediment. The first glass having a golden clear hue to it, no mistiness or cloudiness to be seen. The aroma was more pronounced in the second glass, the wheat clearly wiff-able compared to the aroma from the first pour. Spicey and citrus flavours abound in the nose too. Yeast aromas were also present in both glasses. This was like reviewing two beers at the same time and was getting to be really fun, the cloudy half was more tastey but not so good on the eyes, and my taste buds are connected to my eyes some how. Everything a good Witbier should be, tart, refreshing and interesting. According to the label, coriander and oranges are used in the brewing process, which will account for the flavours and aromas I found. I have had many Witbiers when visiting Belgium and have already reviewed a few on this site. This was as good as any I’ve had on my travels. My mother always has whatever Witbier is on tap when she is in Belgium and I would have no hesitation in giving one of these to her and knowing she would enjoy it and never guess it came fron Scotland not Belgium.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2012
at 09:01
6.2/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
50cl bottle. Cloudy, golden and with some head. The nose has wheat, tomato stocks and green peppers. The taste is of banana, peach and fudge. The palate has a solid structure, the mid-palate is sweet and textured and it is fairly clean on the end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2011
at 12:45
3.6/10
—
Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Muddy pale yellow with a small white head. Grainy malt aroma with sulphur and grassy hops. Sweet with sulphur and grass flavour
Tried
on 30 Jul 2009
at 03:55
7/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
50cl Bottle brought from Scotland, thanks mom&Henk! ABV 5%. Cloudy pale yellow with a green hue, white head. Aroma is a bit tart, lots of citrus and a bit wheat. Flavour is citrus, wheat, a bit tart, nice ligth bitter finish. Very refreshing witbier. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2009
at 13:06
4.8/10
—
Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.Unclear hazy yellow color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate malty, white bread dough, banana - citris notes. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (060808)
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Oct 2008
at 04:06
5.2/10
—
Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask@GBBF2008. Hazy yellow colour, small white head. Aroma is wheat, spices and some yeast. Flavour is wheat, coriander, wood and some slight notes of citrusfruits.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Aug 2008
at 12:37