Deschutes Conflux No. 2

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Immediately I was able to pull apart the Witbier traits from the IPA, and together they blended wonderfully. Light golden copper body with a slight haze and a huge white head followed by blanketing lacing. Citrus with some very mild evergreen along with coriander and bread dough. Medium to light bodied with a great crisp dryness. Bitterness is mild as well, the balance was a great touch.

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

Pours a lazy blond with hazy clarity. Medium head of longer duration. Lots of orange aroma, mellow flavor that tends towards the wheat world rather than an IPA.

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

bottle .. pours a very light gold .. medium foam .. . light spice, resin, squashed flowers, and a touch of yeast .. good solid mouthfeel. . pretty good stuff but not anything that will blow you .. . . away...

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Sampled recently alongside the Boulevard version in a glorious parallel tasting made possible by slowrunner! Pours like a beautiful wit with small, lasting head. By contrast, Boulevard's beer appears much darker gold with greater clarity and grander head. Interesting that you would never mistake one for the other by looks, yet they smell and taste like sisters. Aroma is lemony with strong herbal hopping. As the beer warms, both versions' aromas intensify wildly, this one gaining a strong evergreen character around cellar temperature. The flavor is clean and crisp, citrusy and spicy. The Deschutes spice profile comes across more complex than in the Boulevard. I note strong coriander here playing against black pepper, but did not notice coriander in the Boulevard. Medium bodied with light carbonation. Delicious overall. A successful collaboration by two terrific breweries!

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

22oz bottle, best by 11/10/11. Pours a slightly hazy yellow with a big creamy white head that retains well and laces the glass.

The aroma is wheaty malts, a little soapy lemoney citrus and some wit spices - pepper, corriander.

The flavor is the same as the nose - sweet wheaty malts and lemon with the wit spices - pepper and corriander. There's some bitterness in the finish. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with low carbonation.

Overall, tastes like a decent wit to me. I don't pick up much IPA characteristics. It has been a while, but I think the Boulevard seemed more hoppy to me.

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

It pours a hazy and thick bright yellow-gold with a thin white head and some surrounding lacing. An aroma of lemon peel, coriander, wheat malts?, lemons and citrus fruits, bitterness, honey, hops, and spiciness. The mouthfeel is smooth, but thin. Flavors of wheat malts?, hops, lemon and citrus, lemon peel, coriander, honey, and coriander and other spices. Very good, but this is an IPA?

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

marked as a white ipa. i expected the deschutes version to be a spiced ipa and the boulevard version (collab #2) to be a hoppy wit, but the spice (orange, coriander) and dryness of this one was strong enough to overshadow the hoppiness a bit. the hops came out more as it warmed and struck a beatiful balance with a nice new summer style. citrusy hops and a wit married well. everything i expected by the end. glad i got a couple more. RB has it as a belgian ale, but it's either an ipa or a wit, i picked ipa... 2nd time started warmer...pretty close to 50 50 wit/ipa...loved it...was craving a 2nd bottle the day after the first.