Not Just Another Wit
A bottle of Mikkeller Not Just Another Wit at Olympen in Oslo.
As the name of the beer suggests, this is not just another wit beer from Danish brewers Mikkeller, this is a 7,6% abv Imperial Wit! It's another guest brew the Mikkeller lads have made at De Proef Brouwerij in Belgium.
Though it had much of the witbier character, the use of American hops (Cascade and Amarillo) made it more hoppier than your typical Belgian wit. But it had a nice freshness to it and is one of the more balanced Mikkeller brews I've tasted.
Witbier, or white beer, is a barley/wheat, top-fermented beer brewed mainly in Belgium. It gets its name due to suspended yeast and wheat proteins which cause the beer to look hazy, or white, when cold. It is a descendant from those Medieval beers which were not brewed with hops, but instead flavoured and preserved with a blend of spices and other plants referred to as "gruit". It therefore still uses gruit, although nowadays the gruit consists mainly of coriander, orange, bitter orange, and hops. The taste is therefore only slightly hoppish, and is very refreshing in summer.