Anchorage Brewing Whiteout Wit

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Appearance is - doesn’t do a whole lot for me, being a washed out yellow with an effervescent white head. Looks too much like an industrial lager. However, one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. At least it has little bubbles rising in it, sort of like champagne. Strong aroma is fruity and rather sweet, more like a cider than a beer. Maybe the Chardonnay barrels imparted this. Flavor is - oh yeah, it keeps getting better! A malty core with firm fruity and yeasty notes, rather sweet but not cloying, just a hint of grapes and a subtle sour tone. Lively texture has plenty of fizz, though body seems to be a bit lacking. Overall, pretty good.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

retains well and leaves a little lacing.

The aroma is slightly sweet bready malts and some wit spices with some stinky musty yeast and a little brett.

The flavor is sweet tropical fruits and lemon with some dry champagne notes and some vinous alcohol. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with kind of sharp carbonation.

Overall, a nice wit. I like what the barrel did to it. An earlier sample had more predominant brett.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Had in NOLA and SA .. . Pours amber, white medium head, good lacing .. . good notes of light funk, tangerine, and light oak .. . great spritzy mouth, refreshing and full .. . shows the brewers quality, a good beer .. . . sorry i ruined your new years eve party, she tastes like cigarettes..

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Sampled on 10/15/2011. This witbier pours a slightly hazy light yellow color from a 22oz corked and caged bottle. Medium to large sized white foamy head, with nice lacing and good retention. The aroma is cereal, spicy, fruity, yeasty and sweet. A medium bodied wit. The malts are cereal, fruity and sweet. The hops are herbal and floral. Lively carbonation. A touch of yeast and nice spicy throughout. A touch of brett and some funk as well. Finish is extremely dry after starting out on the sweet side. Excellent wit. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean, crisp and dry. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

a standout in the style, if only because it no longer really fits the style. the wit base makes itself known only in color and feel. the smell is mostly wild diaper, and the flavor brett and oak, with very light chardonnay aspects. good beer, but too steep in price. i'll be curious about future releases from this new brewery, though. brewer spent 13 years at midnight sun...