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The aroma delivered more than the flavor, with all the herbal and perfumy spice, the melon, nuttiness, and the hit of cocoa. Overall: “The orange character is likeable-could use a bit more of the creamy body to go with it.

The carbonation is a bit low, and the body drops off very quickly. A great blend of citrus and coriander with the spice ascendant-it’s piney, flowery, and woody. A hint of nuttiness, with a whiff of cocoa, and a honey floral character.”įlavor: “The orange dominates on the flavor, along with some raw, grainy wheat, which supports an estery blend of orange, lemon, and vanillin. Enjoyable notes of melon and cantaloupe, with ripe orange, tangerine, grapefruit, and a touch of lemon. Like all UFO beers, we leave UFO White UnFiltered.” What our panel thoughtĪroma: “A blend of fruity, herbal, floral, and vanilla. Like lakes.“Brewed with orange peel and coriander, UFO White is the perfect choice for a summer’s barbecue, a night out with friends, or any time you’re thirsting for something a little different. 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. Cool down at a beachside bonanza with this brew.

I’m pretty sure it is illegal to date a beer (or brewery) otherwise, I may have tried by now. Light, crisp, refreshing and brewed with orange peel and coriander, UFO White follows in the tradition of spiced white beers that have been brewed in Belgium for well over 100 years. 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.