6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12 ounce bottle from pepsican. Thanks! 100th witbier rating! Pours a hazy orange color with a thin fizzy white head. Decent head retention. Aroma of citrus, pineapple, wheat. Some toastiness and very faint spice. The taste is toasted wheat, caramel, citrus, faint spice finish. Medium bodied. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Aug 2012
at 18:15
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 ounce bottle from pepsican. Thanks! Pours a murky orange color with a medium sized fizzy off-white head that fades fairly quickly. Aroma of wheat, banana, dust, clay and spice. The taste is fairly strong clove with wheat, banana, pineapple. Medium bodied. Decent hefe.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Aug 2012
at 23:26
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Draft. Amber body. Off-white, short head, quickly diminishing. Aroma of grain, caramel, bread. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body, chalky texture, lively carbonation. Raw grain taste with secondary flavors of caramel and nuts. Some floral hop flavors, but not much.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Aug 2012
at 18:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft at the Millstream tap room. The sign at the tap shows this is 8% abv, not 9.5%. But there may be widely different batches. A bubbly amber colored beer, with the bubbles ebbing to a thin layer of foam. I can’t smell much, for some reason, and my nose ISN’T stuffy at this time. Just get some malt in the nose. Malt is thick; I spilled some on my hand and it’s very sticky. The blend of tripel and raspberry hits it pretty right. Fuity sweetness is not overly done, and the result may be drier than the usual tripel. Taste of unfiltered yeast may be keeping the fruit taste down, too. Thick mouthfeel. A slight grainy smell once I get to the bottom.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Aug 2012
at 12:04
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft taster. I did not want a second strong beer before hitting the road, and although the sign for this beer said "No Samples," the server did shoot a tiny sample into a glass (for which I tipped in a dollar). This is not a knee-breaking DIPA by any means. But there is a stinging bitterness in the first sip and a suggestion of those Pacific Northwest hops. The hops are held back by a malty backbone. plus a taste of yeast, presuming this beer is unfiltered at premises.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Aug 2012
at 11:57
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours a clear pale gold with a white head that dissipates quickly and nearly completely. Aroma has a good amount of sweet grains with a bit of grassy hops with a hint of cookie. Flavor is more balanced with sweet grains and crisp grassy hops with a bit of a sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2012
at 17:49
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours a clear deep amber with a tan head that dissipates to the edges and laces nicely. Aroma has a good amount of an earthy bread note backed by a light pine note with a hint of backing grass. Flavor has more of a citrus note with a good amount of backing grain with a hint of underlying bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2012
at 19:28
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at SPSBF. Pours a hazy gold with a white head that dissiptes slowly to the edges. Aroma has some nice raspberries backed by some sweet grains and belgian yeast. Flavor has a lot of sweet raspberries with a grain backing and a nice underlying yeast note.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Jun 2012
at 19:08
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at Millstream. $3.25 for 12 oz. Plastic cup is okay, since it lets me sit at their little biergarten in front of the brewery on a warm March day. Brown with a little cherry juice type red, and a nice layer of foam. My allergic nose might not be getting all of the smell, but at least it’s nice and malty, a hearty malt sweetness with no obvious hops in the way.Notes of banana muffin, molasses, spice cake from the wheat malt. Chewy texture with slight graininess. Clove note at the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 May 2012
at 13:15
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft at Millstream. $3.25 for pint. I had a taster of this at first while trying their doppelbock, but decided to chase it down with this. Very pale in a glass taster, but there’s a little more color to be seen in the larger cup, even if it is white plastic. A thin layer of fizz instead of the bubbly head of a canned lager. Toasty malt smell with a side of peppery Noble hops. Taste: well, I still have some of the doppel stuck to my tongue, but this is darn hearty. Clearly a full grain beer with a light pils toast. Interesting that the ingredient list above shows no real surprises in specialty grains. It’s hard to find a pils with any great complexity by definition, but then again, I can appreciate a beer with everything a light lager should have and no shortcuts or off tastes. On the unseasonably warm March day that I tasted this, the cup warmed up enough to let a bit of ester off the beer. Happy little burp at the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 May 2012
at 13:01