Celis Wit

Celis Wit Clone (recipe from Modern Brewer)

5 gallons extract

June 19, 2010

1 lb flaked oats (15 min @ 155F)

3.3lb wheat LME

3 lb wheat DME

1.5 oz Kent Goldings @ 4.5% AA (60 min.)

1 oz bitter orange peel (15 min.)

1 tsp ground coriander (5 min.)

Whitelabs WLP400 Belgian Wit Ale Yeast

60 min boil

Pitched: 1.044 OG on June 19, 2010

Secondary: 1.013 on July 2, 2010

Kegged: 1.012 on July 28, 2010

Imperial Wit

Imperial Wit
(5 gallons)
9/27/2009

7.0 lbs weyerman pale wheat
7.0 lbs dingermans pilsner
1.0 lbs flaked oats
1.0 lbs honey

0.5 oz summit (60 min)
1.0 oz coriander (10 min)
2 grams paradise seeds (10 min)
1 oz saaz (1 min)

yeast:
WLP400 Belgain Wit

Infusion mash at 155 for 60 min
60 min boil

1.065 OG on 9/27
1.026 secondary on 10/7
1.015 keg on 10/29

Dogfish Head Red and White

Rating: 2

Dogfish Head Brewery
Milton, Delaware
Style: Belgian Wit
ABV: 10.0%
750 ml

Pours a lovely strawberry amber color; the head isn't huge, and dissipates quickly (it was quite lightly carbonated, with tiny bubbles). Given what we read on the label about the production process, there was a surprisingly faint nose (the beer is fermented with pinot noir juice, coriander, and orange peel, and is part-aged in pinot noir barrels). The taste, however, is more assertive, with plenty of fruitiness, and hints of raisin and sherry. There's a very light spiciness, but the fruit notes are very much at the forefront, even in a beer of this complexity. One drinker also found it to have a surprising malty quality. It doesn't have the heavy alcohol taste of many 10% beers: they've done a good job of achieving a balanced, drinkable final product. The label is a piece of art in itself, a departure from the usual simple style of Dogfish Head packaging.

Zinnebir Crianza

Rating: 3

Brasserie de la Senne
Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium
Style: Lambic
ABV: 7.0%
750 ml bottle

Imported straight from Belgium in my suitcase. Uncorked the bottle and had foam on my floor within seconds. Surprisingly the beer settled down and didn't maintain a lot of that carbonation. Light straw color. I'm used to the strong, very carboned gueze beers in the 750 bottles. This is somewhere in between that and kegged lambic.

Blanche de Namur

Rating: 2

Brasserie du Bocq
Purnode, Belgian
Style: Wit
ABV: 4.5%

750 ml corked bottle

This has to be one of the lightest beers I've ever poured, hazy straw color. Has the traditional wit coriander, lemon, orange smells. Light dry slightly acidic taste with a ton of tiny bubbles in my mouth. Very drinkable wit beer.