Southampton Double White

This is a 6.6% ABV Belgian-style white ale brewed with orange peel, coriander, and lemon peel. It is from Southampton Publick House, whose original location is in Long Island, New York, but whose bottled beers are brewed by Pabst (who has all their portfolio contract brewed, they don't own any breweries themselves anymore).  This one was brewed and bottled in Saratoga Springs, New York.

The beer pours a light honey golden in color. There is a short and short-lived head of white foam. The aroma is full of toasted wheat and lots of orange and coriander. The lemon peel is not distinctive to me in the aroma. The taste follows right in the tracks of the aromas. There is so much orange it becomes sweet. There is a better balance in the aromas than in the taste. It is medium bodied with a tingling carbonation. They seemed to think the best way to make this white ale was to get heavy with their spices, but it lost all the subtlety and balance that make Belgian whites pleasurable.