Redhook Wise Cracker Wit

Redhook’s twist on the Belgian style is the addition of fresh ginger, which adds a refreshing snappiness to this lighter-bodied wheat beer. Redhook Wit is perfect for warm summer months of outdoor BBQ-ing, sitting by the pool, or just taking a break by hanging inside enjoying the AC and watching old re-runs of Gilligan’s Island.

"Made with ginger but still digs Mary Ann."

Formerly ’Redhook Wit’

2.9

156 reviews

Seattle, United States

Community reviews

2.4 Typical wit with a golden color and a short-lived white head. Smells a bit like a sweet, fruity breakfast cereal. Like an orange flavored breakfast danish, grain, fruit a hint of yeast & spice. Has a light body with fizzy carbonation. Middle of the road Wit.

3.2 Bottle from Walmart, Kissimmee, Florida, USA. A hazy cloudy pale straw coloured beer with lemon, vanilla and ginger flavours, biscuit notes and a sweet creamy finish.

2.7 Meh...a rather boring and bland beer, but not undrinkable. If it would ever get hot this summer it would be a good porch beer. Aroma was OK. Vanilla, coriander and other spices are there, very subtle. Pour was a nice hazy light orange with some sediment and a thin off white film for a head. Taste was pretty weak. The pronounced spiciness of a classic wit isn’t there. The flavors are all distant with just a hint of ginger if you search for it. Ginger in a witbier is an interesting combination, but this beer didn’t nail it. Mild carbonation

3.2 12 oz. bottle. Pours hazy yellow orange with a quick soapy white head that dissipates to a collar and random spot in the middle of the glass. Aroma is yeast spice and lemon/orange peel some random coriander. Taste is bitter citrus bready and yeast with a malty finish and spice. Palate is medium gritty and dry. Kinda dig this one.

2.3 Pours light orange with hardly any visual carbonation and a thin head that quickly disappears. Sweet malt and peach aroma. Watery bland taste with a little noticeable spicy ginger. Clean dry finish. Needs a little more carbonation and more wheat malt for head retention. Not all that bad but a brewery of this size can do better.

4.1 Phenom! I loved the addition of ginger to this Belgian Wit. Get some!!!

3.0 12 oz bottle, cold from the fridge. Cloudy honey brown with a thin white head, disappointing for a wit. Little aroma, and the merest hint of the usual wheat beer cloves bananas and bubble-gum. a trace of ginger though. Not bad, but a bit lacking.

3.3 Nothing special but a basic wit with some wheat and a bit of ginger. Nothing really to note otherwise, just a basic beer

3.4 12 oz bottle from the six type sampler case. Dry as a bone and just about as tasty. I’ll pass on the next one.

3.5 Very little aroma, slight hops, ginger. Taste, smooth- wheat and ginger as advertised. This blend goes together very well, the aroma and appearance of this beer don’t do justice to the well balanced and rewarding flavor that ensues.

3.0 Bottle: pours a golden orange with a small white head. Aromas of orange and ginger. The flavor is bright orange peel and slight gingery sweetness too. It's nice, but nothing spectacular.

2.6 12 ounce bottle. Pours a hazy yolk yellow with a one inch white head that slowly fades. Taste is of ginger, wheat, spice. Similar aroma. Has slick body that coats the mouth. The finish is mostly clean with a touch of spiciness and ginger. Easy to drink and is a good thirst quencher, but a little to subtle for me. I’d like to see a little more ginger and spice.

2.1 Aroma of peach. Very thin, no head. Tastes sweet of peach. Thin refreshing. Beer for a warm summers day, nothing more. Boring

2.9 Camp Bisco, NY tap: Pours a light orange with a white head. Aroma is light citrus and spice. Ginger? Where? Taste is basically normal light witbier. Spicy, a bit sweet. Not extremely light .Not terrible, but yeah...

3.1 Bottle. Pour is lightly hazy straw, thin white head. Aroma is lemon, wheat, orange peel. Taste is crisp wheat, slight yeast, citrus, light.

1.9 Pours a hazy yellow. Has a lemon and wheat aroma. Very light beer with a lemon and wheat flavor. No lingering flavor. Very bland.

2.8 Pours cloudy dark golden color with white head. Aromas of coriander and orange peel with some Belgian yeast. Sweet fruit flavor with coriander. bread dough and oranges. Medium body with average carbonation.

3.2 Bottle. Slightly cloudy, golden color. Really nice foamy head. Very spicy aroma, not much ginger though. Taste was also spicy but again not a lot of the ginger. Really good beer to drink on the beach.

2.4 Bottle. Hazy orange color, white coca-cola head. Aroma of orange bubblegum. Taste is medicinal bubblegum. Not good.

2.9 Pours a hazy orange with a medium white head. Aroma is wheat, fruit, and spices. Flavor is wheaty with hints of apples and other fruit and cloves, ginger, and other spices. Medium body with medium carbonation. Rather mild but decent brew.

2.5 tap at brewpub. slightly hazy pale yellow with a small white cap, some retention. wheat, soap, spices, citrus, phenols, faint maltiness. average carbonation, light body, dry herbal-spicy finish. blah.

3.5 Hazy, tangerine pour with a small white head. The aroma is herbal with some light apple. It has a light, smooth body with average carbonation. The taste is sweet and refreshing with an easy finish.

3.1 Slightly hazy, and pale gold, with a faint outer ring of white head.Aroma is faint, but smells of ginger, apple and wheat. It’s all there in the taste, too, with a mild lemon and an odd semi-vanilla note.

2.9 Not bad. Better than most red hook. Drinkable light and refreshing. Wheat is light. Blondish.

2.7 Faint aroma of orange, spices and cloves. Milky orange color with thin head. First taste is sweet wheat, with orange highlights, and has a good balance of mild bitterness from hops. Finishes cleanly. Refreshing summer beer but fairly simple.

3.6 Slightly cloudy light orange with high carbonation. Wheat, almost soapy ginger aroma. Tastes of citrus, wheat with strong ginger-beer ending and finish. Good, but interesting. Like champagne, ginger beer, wheat.

2.2 Tasted from a 12oz brown bottle into a nonic glass, thanks John. It poured a slightly hazy straw colour with thin white foam, short-lived with no lace. Strong ginger aromas and flavors, hot and harsh, fairly dusty and dirty seeming. Too acidic, too much residual sweetness, too heavy body. Lacked the nice, crisp, grainy aspects of a true Witbier, none of the classic black pepper and clove traits either. A cool idea, which is why I was excited to try it, but a kinda crappy beer unfortunately.

3.4 Bottle shared with matt z. On dek bar.. cloudy orange pour with small white head.. nice clean aroma.refreshing...some orange... Tasty shit man,,

3.0 Pours a slightly hazy golden yellow on tap with fluffy white head that dissipates to leave light lacing. Aroma of wheat up front, slight yeast, but mostly wheat. Taste is slightly more Belgian yeast, but mostly wheat still, no real ginger bite. Meh, nothing crazy, but easy to drink.

3.4 Wise Cracker brings some very nice Wit characteristics. It is very easy to drink, no aftertaste, and a very nice palate for a very easy summer style beer. The beer does not have a very pillowy head or significant body, but the cloudy white beer does sustain the principles of a nice wheat brew that satisfies the thirst.