Great White
Lost Coast Brewery in Eureka, California, United States 🇺🇸
Witbier Regular|
Score
5.81
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Great White is the beer that started it all – it’s the original gangsta. And it remains one of our very favorites to this day. Crisp and refreshing, it’s everything you could ever want from a Belgian-style white. It’s full-bodied, unfiltered, and goes down oh-so smooth. The hint of citrus and coriander sets it apart from other Belgian whites.
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5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle: Pours a dirty blonde color with a small white head and no lacing. Nose is musty earth and grain. Tastes like citrus, lemon, wheat, and hints of grain. Very mild flavor. Uninspiring.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2007
at 14:05
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cloudy orange body with a thin off-white head. Sweet fruity aroma. Sweet citrus flavor with a light spiced background.
Tried
on 02 Apr 2007
at 11:38
5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
(On tap) Hazy golden with a white head. Somewhat odd citric aroma. Light-bodied with notes of coriander and a wee whiff of citrus. It takes a little white to find the balance in this, but it ends as a quite reasonable Belgian Wit. 230307
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Apr 2007
at 14:56
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 oz bottle. Pale and lightly cloudy body with small off-white head. A fresh, fruity aroma with some citrus to it. Really refreshing taste with fruits and lemon. Nothing to do at all with a witbier if you ask me. But I really appreciated this refreshing beer anyway. Close to a perfect summer beer with a hint of something extra.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2006
at 04:35
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Malty/citrus nose; hazy gold body with a tiny white head; malty/citrusy/sweet flavor.
Tried
on 14 Jun 2006
at 16:07
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Pour is a cloudy yellow with no head. Aroma is very lemony with some hops in there. Flavor is weak but there is some lemon and orange in there just nothing to really leave you wanting more. Overall pretty weak and bland.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2005
at 21:37
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Draft. Golden-orange with a nice white head. orange, malt, wheat, and spice all combining in the aroma. Fruity flavor (curracao) fades to grassy with some wheat. Easy to drink.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 May 2005
at 13:11
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12 oz. bottle, 7/26/07 Finally got a good sample I can rate from. A yellow pour, slightly hazy with a thin head but rings of bubbles clinging to the glass. Once the head goes, I see a robust gold of Belgian pilsener malt. The taste hits equal proportions of light bready malts and spicy orange. No notable hops, but just enough bitterness to keep the malts in check. Not very complex, but I ascribe that to the limitations of bottling an unfiltered beer. Very little yeast at the bottom, just enough to kick up a little haze. "Hard" carbonation of a Belgian dubbel. Refreshing beer for the end of a hot summer day. Bottled, re-rated 8/27/05. (2.3 of 5.0) I’ve had a small sampler of a better bottle since the taste below, so I can raise my opinion from the previous 1.9. Taste is a bit light and dry for a Belgian, or maybe I can’t get past the surfer boy graphics (your label is part of the presentation, after all. But I keep saying, that won’t stop me from trying it again if I have a chance.
Original rating: 1.9 of 5.0. Sorry, but when I popped the cap, I got a big whiff of vomit. The beer seems to have spoiled, probably because I found it at a bar in Elkhart, IN, where it probably had no business being. As I worked my way further down, thinking "Maybe once it’s breathed, it might get better," it did get a little better. But I found nothing that said this was close to a wit. I am willing to try it if I’m ever out on the coast.
After I posted this review, Falconseye8 beermailed me to assure that the beer is generally better than the one I had. Fair enough. Let me reiterate that in all likelihood this bottle was too old and too far from home.
Original rating: 1.9 of 5.0. Sorry, but when I popped the cap, I got a big whiff of vomit. The beer seems to have spoiled, probably because I found it at a bar in Elkhart, IN, where it probably had no business being. As I worked my way further down, thinking "Maybe once it’s breathed, it might get better," it did get a little better. But I found nothing that said this was close to a wit. I am willing to try it if I’m ever out on the coast.
After I posted this review, Falconseye8 beermailed me to assure that the beer is generally better than the one I had. Fair enough. Let me reiterate that in all likelihood this bottle was too old and too far from home.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2005
at 16:11
4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
2004 bottle from Hop and Leaf. Picked this one up to rescue me from a potential drain pour session. I opened it, in fact, to do just that, as I was pouring beers out left and right. Unfortunately this stuff was about as bad as the rest, which is unfortunate, because I like the style and enjoyed their 8 Ball Stout. Anywho, it pours a light orange-blonde-yellow mix, with a light haze to the body and a wispy white head. Notes of lemon and coriander are very muted in the nose. Body is immensely watery and the flavor features light orange zest, coriander and a touch of herbs on the end. I get almost no malt sweetness. I keep wondering if I got a bunch of bad bottles, but all of them I chose from the cooler, so I dont know, perhaps they went bad in transit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2005
at 16:04
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
This was a fairly unusual witbier. Poured cloudy yellow-orange with plenty of dark "floaties" and milky yeast particles. The flavor was quite yeasty as well, with a spicy phenol dominance that counteracted tart, lemony flavors and tangy wheat. Nicely vinous. I also noted plenty of spices, with a hint of copper (perhaps from the yeasts?).
Tried
on 24 May 2004
at 01:06