It hasn't been that long since I bottled it, but I've been pretty impatient so I decided to crack open one of the second batch during Andy/Kitty/Emily's birthday and give it a try. Jevon and Cecilia shared the bottle with me.
Shanks' Belgian White Tasting
This batch was more my batch than anything else I've brewed so far. I took a general guideline but improvised a lot more whereas the other batches I pretty much followed a recipe kit. Because of that I was really anctious to see how everything turned out.
Date: April 5th, 2008
Time Since Bottling: ~1 week
Color: Golden with a hint of orange.
Clarity: Slightly cloudy.
Aroma: Not much of an aroma, but a kind of wheaty smell.
Head: I poured a 12oz bottle into 3 small glasses for tasting, so it is hard to build up head, but there wasn't much there. There was some, just not a lot.
Tasting Notes: This was a pretty early time to taste it, but I am pretty impatient. KNowing that, I didn't expect a whole lot going into it and I also knew that it would probably change a bit over time. To start off, it had a sort of watery taste. That is, when you first took a sip, nothing initially hit you about it. It wasn't bad or good, it just was sort of absent. Shortly after though, you start to taste it. It had a very wheaty taste to it. You could get a hint of the coriander and sweet orange peel, but not very much. It will be interesting to see in a few weeks where the taste sort of settles, but if everything were to stay the same right now I would use a little less wheat (I would throw in some other grain that is lighter in color) and quite a bit more coriander and orange peel. I didn't really taste anything that I could quite identify as the orange blossom honey, so hopefully I will be able too in a few weeks.
All in all, I think the beer tasted a lot better than my first two batches at this point in their lifespan. I don't know if that is saying much for the recipe, but I think my technique is getting better. It is definitely identifiable as a wheat beer when it hits you, but I hope that the coriander and orange peel become more evident so that it will be more distinctively a Belgian White.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Batch #3 Tasting #1
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