Tasting Day: Peeterman Wit

Very poor attempt at photographing this beer.
Pours with a nice head and has good lacing but
overall the carbonation is just not high enough
for the style of beer.  Great flavor though!

I tasted this about 2.5 weeks ago.  I let it go a bit more since the carbonation was not that great.  I'm not sure if its going to carb up too much more so here are the notes on the beer:

Appearance:  It's a more golden than white.  It's cloudy, but not in the traditional sense where the beer looks white.

Smell:  It has a great nose on it.  Funky basement smells with a bit of lacto or brett.  Tiny tiny bit of oak but not much. It has a big funky citrus smell.  It was very reminiscent of the Jolly Pumpkin Calabaza Blanca that served as our inspiration for this batch.  The dregs from two 750 mL bottles probably helped that out.

Taste:  Surprisingly the taste is not too funky or sour as the nose might suggest. Again, this is similar to the Jolly Pumpkin we were inspired by.  The Jolly Pumpkin is has more funk in the nose and in the taste though.  Ours is a mini version of it.  Stronger smell and stronger taste.  The biggest taste in our beer is the huge citrus hits we got from the coriander. It was brewed with a modest amount that you see in typical witbier recipes.  We added the same amount from the boil to a "dry hop" in the secondary.  The extra coriander and orange peel really shine in this beer.

Mouthfeel:  This was the most disappointing thing in the beer.  It seems me and carbonation are just not getting along these days.  I'm hoping its because it got pretty cold early this fall (down into the teens in early November) and that my beers just need to move up to the main floor of the house.  I have put the rest up by the heater on the first floor hoping to get more of that bursting carbonation mouthfeel.  This beer has the mouth feel of a very light stout.  Think of it like a Bodingtons.

Overall:  Overall I think its a pretty darn good beer.  If the carbonation was higher I would be raving about it.  Let's see where it ends up in a few weeks up in the warmer rooms in my house.  I kind of like that it ended up very sessionable while having a funky nose.  It was a pleasant surprise.  I am also going to age two of them until the spring to see if the 5 year old yeast we used wakes up even more in the bottle.