Even American breweries are making better wits, such as Victory's Whirlwind, or Avery's White Rascal, or New Belgium's amazing (and sadly discontinued) Fat Tire Belgian White. A lot of people say UFO is a better Blue Moon, and it very well may be, but UFO doesn't hold a candle to witbiers from La Trappe or Unibroue or St. If someone hands me one, I'll gladly drink it, but I won't be buying it again as there are a lot of better options. Mouthfeel is fine, if lacking the effervescence I expect from Belgian witbiers. Taking a sip of UFO, and the flavours just line up and announce themselves like roll call - wheat, here orange, here coriander, here. Taking a sip of Unibroue, the flavours mingle and dance across your toungue. I had it at the same time as I had Unibroue's Witbier, and the Unibroue had a delicacy and complexity to the flavours that UFO didn't. UFO White has many of the flavor hallmarks of a Belgian Witbier: leading notes of citrus and spice contributed by California orange peel and freshly ground coriander, a smooth mouthfeel due to a large presence of wheat in the malt bill, and a hazy appearance from leaving the beer partially unfiltered. It's simple, straightforward, and a little boring. The aroma is primarily orange, but rather than orange peel it comes across more like an orange creamsicle.Ī sip brings forth wheat malt, orange notes, and a hint of coriander. Like lakes.Pours a hazy orange with only the barest traces of head that disappear instantly. If you drink enough of it, you could probably even talk to things that can’t normally talk. This is a great conversation beer, as you can drink it as casually as a glass of orange juice. It’s a particularly noisy beer fizzing aggressively with little bubbles jumping wildly, trying to escape the glass. ![]() It pours with almost no lasting head, but leaves a pretty lacing of white across the top of orange-yellow body. It adds lemon, creating and incredibly potent cirtusy beer that will probably meet or exceed your vitamin C intake for the day. Other popular Belgian whites (namely Blue Moon) rely heavily on orange alone to add a citrus burst to their beer, but UFO White doesn’t. UFO White is a Belgian White style, unfiltered, sour, and thirst quenching. The idea of adding fruit to beer is arguably the single greatest anthropological advance in human history. I tried the Raspberry variety first and I was hooked. While I usually avoid wheat beers in an attempt to avoid yeast-related illness (my uvula tends to get all ornery when exposed to too much yeast) these are the exception. While Harpoon IPA (heart) is the flagship of this Boston-based brewing company, their UFO line (available in White, Raspberry, Pale Ale, and Hefeweizen) is something special. I’m pretty sure it is illegal to date a beer (or brewery) otherwise, I may have tried by now. They are cute a giggly, charming and warm. There is no other way to describe my attraction and relationship to their beers. And I really did think I heard the voice of the lake, but in retrospect, it could have been the fizzy-popping of the Harpoon White Unfiltered Offering (UFO) in my hand. The wind did indeed rip at my exposed flesh I had forgotten my coat and decided wearing two hoodies was just as good. I was in fact standing on the lake shore I nearly fell in twenty different times. I was at peace, and knew zen.Įither that, or I had been drinking. For that brief moment I knew nature, and it knew me. The voice echoed infinitely in my ears, like each individual drop was telling me the story of its journey to the clouds and suicidal plunge back to the Earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() It whispered to me its secrets long untold tales of souls lost to its icy waves, ancient mysteries that lay in the murk and darkness of the lake bed. As I stood staring out at the blue of Deep Creek Lake, cold wind ripping at my exposed flesh, water lapping aggressively against the shore, I heard the voice of the depths.
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