Orange Avenue Wit - Coronado Brewing Company

PolarBear3

Australia

1.9/5  rDev -44.3%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

A - Pours a golden almost amber colour with a one fingered fizzy head that disappears rather quickly.

S - Burnt orange peel, a little metallic with a faint hint of banana and clove. But not much there really.

T - Orange, some apricots and spice but pretty ordinary nonetheless which leaves a horrible bitter and dry taste in your mouth on the finish.

M - light bodied and very little carbonation

O - A very disappointing effort for a wheat beer and pretty much tasteless. Never again.

Serving type: bottle

08-18-2012 09:38:44 | More by PolarBear3

jdhowe

California

3.5/5  rDev +2.6%

06-19-2013 08:25:49 | More by jdhowe

Circleo12

South Carolina

3.5/5  rDev +2.6%

06-12-2013 21:55:13 | More by Circleo12

bh123

California

3.5/5  rDev +2.6%

06-04-2013 04:50:51 | More by bh123

kingmaker

Louisiana

3.5/5  rDev +2.6%

06-02-2013 02:30:33 | More by kingmaker

RobertColianni

Pennsylvania

4/5  rDev +17.3%

06-01-2013 05:53:30 | More by RobertColianni

Liondiscs

California

2.25/5  rDev -34%

05-29-2013 22:33:37 | More by Liondiscs

Geno206

Washington

2.75/5  rDev -19.4%

05-28-2013 05:21:38 | More by Geno206

WesM63

Ohio

3.5/5  rDev +2.6%

05-28-2013 03:49:01 | More by WesM63

lemniscate

California

4.5/5  rDev +32%

05-27-2013 01:38:35 | More by lemniscate

GoodFellaBeau

California

3.25/5  rDev -4.7%

05-23-2013 03:05:49 | More by GoodFellaBeau

gshak

Texas

4.25/5  rDev +24.6%

05-22-2013 17:34:40 | More by gshak

Kreko7

California

3.25/5  rDev -4.7%

05-20-2013 21:23:00 | More by Kreko7

AlkaholTester

Nevada

3/5  rDev -12%

05-20-2013 21:04:55 | More by AlkaholTester

leftstagebrew

North Carolina

2.5/5  rDev -26.7%

05-16-2013 15:00:31 | More by leftstagebrew

TheBadger0289

New Zealand (Aotearoa)

4/5  rDev +17.3%

05-11-2013 01:43:18 | More by TheBadger0289

ste5venla

California

3.75/5  rDev +10%

05-08-2013 20:00:42 | More by ste5venla

sgregory

Connecticut

3.25/5  rDev -4.7%

04-25-2013 22:30:44 | More by sgregory

EagleTalon

Arkansas

4.25/5  rDev +24.6%

04-25-2013 04:21:24 | More by EagleTalon

Vigilante

Nevada

2.75/5  rDev -19.4%

04-05-2013 07:33:05 | More by Vigilante

olfolxholme

California

3/5  rDev -12%

04-01-2013 05:32:44 | More by olfolxholme

biboergosum

Alberta (Canada)

3.73/5  rDev +9.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75

650ml bottle. Sexy mermaiden schooner-purveyor depicted on the typically well-rendered label for this brewer.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden straw hue, with two fingers of moderately puffy, bubbly dirty white heady, which leaves a somewhat low berm of pockmarked landfall lace around the glass as rather quickly abates.

It smells of semi-sweet fruity orange, savoury coriander, grainy wheat and pale malt, very mild lemon, yeast, and traditional banana wit notes. The taste is sweet mandarin orange and lemon citrus zest, middling earthy yeast, grainy, mostly dry wheat malt, banana chips, a touch of neutered clove spiciness, and an earthy, somewhat weedy drying hoppiness. Nothing really honey-like presents itself at any point in this whole affair.

The carbonation is a tad frothy, but generally just a supportive understatement, the body actually a sturdy medium weight for the style, but lacking anything resembling a serious smoothness quotient. It finishes off-dry, the fruity citrus really the star, as the yeast, wheat, and spice blend into a generic swirl of umami which does well by its innocuousness.

A sort of middle-range witbier, one tempered by a straight-up citrus fruit and sweetness, but lacking the edgy yeast and grain characters necessary to provide the expected balance. Of course, this offering somehow finds its way around that particular dichotomy, one which I'm still trying to figure out. So, if you take one thing from all of this, it should be: orange, and all the things that rhyme with it (man, I just can't get away from the 90's alt-rock references tonight. Oh well).

Serving type: bottle

03-30-2013 09:13:03 | More by biboergosum

aszatk01

Pennsylvania

3.75/5  rDev +10%

03-24-2013 19:32:13 | More by aszatk01

grittybrews

Washington

3.75/5  rDev +10%

03-24-2013 03:48:24 | More by grittybrews

MoistPope

California

3.5/5  rDev +2.6%

03-22-2013 03:49:53 | More by MoistPope