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Can you take a guess? Here’s a hint: our house came with a whole-house filtration system. When the filter gets super-gummed up, though, our water can get to look like this in the right conditions.
So, if you guessed “White Ale,” you win the prize: the rest of this blog post. The pictured beer is Bell’s Winter White Ale. I didn’t think that I’d ever had a “Winter White Ale” before, and I gotta say, I was surprised to pour the beer and pretty much see that I was about to drink a Blue Moon. Hell, the label even sort of looks like Blue Moon.
I took a hearty whiff and was met with the smell of… air. This beer pretty much smells like nothing. It’s got an intriguing look, as any cloudy pale beer does, and I was excited to get into the beer.
First drink: resoundingly average. It’s highly drinkable, I suppose, by virtue of the fact that it tastes okay, and has absolutely no finish whatsoever. I’ve been drinking Bell’s stuff a whole lot lately, and pretty much everything I’ve had has been really, really good. Following the Cherry Stout, this is the second so-so or less Bell’s beer I’ve had.
That said, if you’re going to drink six or more beers at any one time, this really isn’t a bad way to go, in much the same way that a Blue Moon or some other Belgian White Ale might be. It’s a light beer, heavy on carbonation, more tasty than, say, Miller Lite, but with pretty much the same aftertaste: absolutely nothing. Like Water.
On the proprietary crap-to-superb scale, Bell’s Winter White Ale is a sturdy very slightly above average. Highly drinkable, looks like rusty pipe water, tastes like a full-bodied macrobrewed light beer. I’d provide it at a party to look snobby and not piss off too many people, but that’s about it.
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