Beers like harpoon ufo5/26/2023 ![]() Home beers Beer Of The Week - Harpoon UFO White. Blood orange and bergamot are in balance, and I can still tell this is beer. Traditionally served with a lemon to complement the citrus taste yielded from the yeast. It's simple, straightforward, and a little boring. UFO (Un-Filtered Offering) Hefeweizen is an. Harpoon UFO Winter Blonde is an American Blonde Ale, 4.9 ABV, enjoy by date of 5/15/17. I had it at the same time as I had Unibroue's Witbier, and the Unibroue had a delicacy and complexity to the flavours that UFO didn't. This is described as a Vanilla Cold Brew Ale, which is kind of confusing. UFO Winter Blonde does make for a nice break from all of the monstrous beers released at this time of year. Taking a sip of Unibroue, the flavours mingle and dance across your toungue. A beer that had a unique cloudy appearance as a result of not filtering out yeast caused by UFO standing for UnFiltered Offering. Taking a sip of UFO, and the flavours just line up and announce themselves like roll call - wheat, here orange, here coriander, here. Mouthfeel is fine, if lacking the effervescence I expect from Belgian witbiers. If someone hands me one, I'll gladly drink it, but I won't be buying it again as there are a lot of better options. A lot of people say UFO is a better Blue Moon, and it very well may be, but UFO doesn't hold a candle to witbiers from La Trappe or Unibroue or St. Even American breweries are making better wits, such as Victory's Whirlwind, or Avery's White Rascal, or New Belgium's amazing (and sadly discontinued) Fat Tire Belgian White.The culmination of our week of visiting Italian breweries, sipping beers poolside, and toasting sunsets over the rolling hills of Tuscany was a stop at Birricio L’Olmaia in Montepulciano, Italy. There we met renowned Italian brewer and music fanatic Moreno Ercolani. Beers were savored, hard rock echoed off the mountains, and the idea for this collaboration between brewers and vintners ignited.
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