DC Brau The Citizen
The Citizen can best be summed up as "a trip around the world in a can". We start off with our classic recipe that contains American and British hops, and pair them with a distinctive Belgian yeast for a taste that brings together a little bit of everywhere. The Citizen’s nose is of delicate yet floral hops, becoming more fragrant as it warms. This, along side a sweet malt finish, strikes a wonderfully drinkable balance that will bring you all the way back to our nation’s capital.
Become a Citizen of the world, one sip at a time!
Become a Citizen of the world, one sip at a time!
3.2
186 reviews
Washington DC, United States
Community reviews
Can care of Colin. It pours hazy golden with a tiny white head. The aroma is soft, sweet, spicy, bready, hay, cereal, pear, apple, melon, candy and perfume. The taste is soft, sweet, pear, apple, melon, candy, sugary, spicy, bread, cracker, perfumed with a drying finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Pretty sweet. Okay.
Light florals and some malt. Not a lot else here. Pours golden amber like apricots and has a bit of a tin like finish. Can at El Camino taco joint.
Gold pour, small white head. Floral, fruity aroma, with notes of banana, yeast, dough. Flavor is similarly fruity, but with a metalic/bloody finish. Weak.
Tap at Washington Pour Bar near gate 45 at DCA airport. Clear gold pour with minor head. Pretty ugly actually. Looks like that morning forced pee when you are dehydrated from boostin last night. Belgian yeast, floral, candied sugar, and just the smallest hint of rotten veggies. Not worth $12 a glass at the airport, for sure.
At a tasting, thanks, almost no head, lightly hazy lightish orange color, biscuity, candy, vanila aroma, with just a hint of flowers and yeast, soapy flowery flavor, with fruity maltiness, light sourness, quite smooth. Nice but not that great.
Floral Belgian malt aroma with a crystal mouthfeel in the body. A bit of hops and a satisfying beer.
Can sample at a tasting at Dancing Camel. Thanks Alon. Slightly hazy yellow. Aroma is a bit oxidized, with fruitiness, a bit of cardboard, a bit of spiciness. Sweetish spicy and fruity flavor with cardboard, citrus, bitterish finish.
Golden color with a white head. Strong floral and spiced Belgian yeast aroma and taste. To me a typical American take on Belgian beer.
Somewhat cloudy amber body, modest sized off-white head. Aromas are sweet with quite a few fruits including oranges, bananas, mango and peach. Some spiced cookie scents as well. Sweeter start leading to citrus, light banana, and mild spice. A late return of grains and bread. A touch thin in feel. A light Belgian ale.
can from Total Wine (Gainesville)
Aroma: bread, slight Belgian yeast
Appearance: clear golden with a short-lived white head
Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness,
Palate: medium body, sticky, average carbonation, long finish,
Good
It’s OK. It’s somewhere inbetween a Belgian and a pale ale...it’s a bit thin, though. Has a decent aroma, thin middle, and ends with a touch of the yeast that you’d expect. Overall, better than macro, but not being sought out again.
Draft to pint at Washington DC airport pour hazy avg gold with minimal white head. Nose light Belgian ester, clove, crystal malt. Taste light bitter up front, then some ester, minimal spice, moderate grainy malt. Flavors a little muted. Some banana in the finish.
Can thanks to Eric. Pours a cloudy orange with medium frothy white head leaving spotty lacing. The aroma is yeast, pure sugar, floral. Medium mouth, fruity malt, pepper, spice, light finish, good.
(Can) Clear, orange-gold body with a small, disappearing white head. Pale malt aroma, light banana-and-cloves. Light bodied. Ripe fruit and some bitterness; moderate to strongly sweet; yeast; lightly spiced and toasted.
12 oz can continuously refrigerated, or nearly so, since the May 2015 canning date, as stamped on the bottom of the can.
The light apricot body is hazy and has lots of suspended particles. Medium+ body with medium carbonation. The aroma is bolder and more funky than the flavor; both are yeasty and carry hints of lightly roasted nuts and soft fruits. The flavor turns moderately bitter in the finish and, even more so, in the aftertaste.
O: an Americanized Belgian pale ale.
An old can, DOB 07/03/2014, but still screams freshness. Nose grainy and Pils-like, floral with some fruity rind (which is strangely more like malt liquor fruitiness than Belgian yeast). Pours deep orange leaning toward dark golden, with a medium beige head. Crisp full body with some creamy smoothness, alcohol is a bit rough and fumy, and even at this date the phenols are out of freaking control (this is the main character of the beer), so beware if you’re sensitive. Faint ginger-like brightness, much nearer and potent spruce-like florality. Banana, light grass, pine wood. Vanilla blending with lemon, some meringue, medium bitterness and lingering yeastiness that clash. I think that’s the overall takeaway, many bold flavors that just don’t work well together. [2015.12.07: 2.9]
Pours a very hazy, dark golden orange with banana yellow edges and a half finger, frothy white head that slowly settles into a thin, lasting ring. Decent retention with sporadic spotty lacing left behind.
Floral, slightly earthy aroma with subtle grassy hops, bready yeast, pale malt and faint light fruit notes. Pretty bland with some piney hops, bread, biscuit, peppery spice, apple and pear.
On the fuller end of medium body with tight carbonation, earthy hops and a prominent peppery spice presence that lingers over the bready yeast, pale malt and light fruit notes into a dry finish. Thankfully this beer tastes more interesting than it smells but the yeast presence is a bit too strong for my preference and it feels more like a wheat/witbier than anything else. Some zesty coriander and grassy, piney hops followed by sourdough bread, bubblegum and lemon zest. Slightly tart and somewhat refreshing but a bit watered down and pedestrian. As it warms, the ester-y light fruit notes start to show with hints of apple, pear and raisin. Still, this beer isn’t very complex or interesting. Not bad by any means, but it just doesn’t stand out. I’m glad that I only bought a single can.
On tap at ATR Bethesda. Hazy yellow body with slightest head. Nose quite hoppy and a tad sweet. Taste hoppy agai, with some bitterness.
Pours clear golden color with a thin white head. Aromas and flavors are light, featuring notes of citrus and bread, and hints of sweetness on the finish.
On tap at the brewery. Pours a clear gold amber with a thin white head. Sweet yeast with a bit of hops on the nose. Medium bodied, a bit of yeast. Lingering musk on the finish.
Can - from sampler pack. Medium golden, slightly cloudy. Malty aroma with a slight sour note. Very sweet malty - definite Belgian flavors.
Can. Hazy tangerine with a foamy head of white that recedes quickly. Aroma is a little grainy, with sharp pepper, dried orange peel and very faint Belgian esters. The flavor’s petty similar, though there’s a little more Belgian banana and pear offset by pepper and dried hop bitterness. Dry, crackery finish. The body’s a bit heavy and viscous, but balance between hop bitterness and malt sweetness keeps things drinkable.
Presentation: It was poured from a 12 oz can into a tulip glass.
Appearance: The body has a light hazy body with a small white head. The head quickly fades out completely.
Smell: It’s aroma is light with notes of honey covered cereal and fresh white bread.
Taste / Palate: The flavor is sweet and bready with hints of orange peel. It also has just the slightest hint of grassy/floral hops in the background. The palate feels smooth and very lightly carbonated. Overall I don’t get much in the way of a Belgian style ale.
This was poured into a chalice.
The appearance was a hazy bronzed orange color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within about less than forty seconds. Concave lacing rings around the glass in a mess sort of way.
The smell had a spritzy sort of spiced orange juice and orange peel. Slight floral and grassy qualities roam about but mostly in a separated sort of weird way.
The taste was moderately sweet with an ample spice and a slight sweet grassy to semi-sweet bubblegum here and there. A semi-dry sweet finish ends the taste.
On the palate, this one sat about a light on the body with a good sessionability about it. The carbonation seemed good for the style and for me. Dry fruity notes roll over my tongue.
Overall, I say this was a good Belgian pale ale.
Poured from a 12OZ can into a pint glass.
Aroma- slight hop aroma with a sweet finish.
Appearance- a murky golden yellow with a very small white head.
Taste- clean and slightly hoppy, very little bitterness.
Palate- a medium bodied brew eith light carbonation.
Overall- not a bad beer, my first from this brewery.
Pours clear blonde , small white head . Smell is sweet , bit malty . Taste is bitter , fruity , yeasty back , as well as some malts . Nice
Can poured into a pint glass. The color was a cloudy golden orange. The aroma was both floral and hay. The taste is a light malty sweetness.
Flavors were very muted. Some Belgian yeast in the nose and taste, but not much else going on for me. Basically, a big let down.
Can at Craig’s. Pours hazy orange, nose is yeasty, zesty citrus, taste is fizzy, fruity.
Canned. Cloudy orange yellow pour. Floral some spice. Bit of bananas. Cloves etc hops