If the hazy IPA is the loud one at the table, the Belgian wit is the easy one - the beer you hand to someone who says they do not like beer, and then watch them order a second.
Wit means "white" in Flemish. The style is a wheat beer from Belgium, and it is old - brewed in villages east of Brussels for centuries, nearly extinct by the 1950s, and famously revived in 1966 by a milkman named Pierre Celis in the town of Hoegaarden. What he brought back is the template every wit follows today: a big share of wheat alongside barley malt, a soft cloudy body, and two signature seasonings that sound wrong until you taste them - dried orange peel and coriander seed.
That is the first thing to know: the citrus in a wit is not a gimmick and not juice. Orange peel and coriander go in during the brew, the way hops do. Coriander seed reads as gentle spice and lemon, not curry; orange peel reads as brightness, not sweetness. The result tastes complete without being heavy.
The second thing: the cloud is the style. A wit is meant to pour a milky, warm pale straw with a pillowy white head. The haze is wheat proteins and yeast in suspension - the same softness trick the hazy IPA borrowed decades later. A crystal-clear wit is a wit that has been filtered out of its own personality.
SOMA Sunday Wit is our version: wheat, orange peel, and coriander, brewed full-strength in Bangalore and then dealcoholized by vacuum distillation to under 0.5% ABV. The gentle process matters double here, because a wit's charm is delicate - cook it and you lose the orange before you ever pour it. It lands at 77 calories per 500ml can, cloudy pale straw, exactly as the style demands.
Why lead with a wit in India? Because the style was built for exactly how we eat and drink here. It is soft enough for an 11am table, bright enough for biryani, and forgiving enough for the friend who is three sips into their first craft beer ever. Sunday is in the name because that is its natural habitat: the long, unhurried meal where nobody is counting time.
The wit is the friendliest door into craft beer ever brewed. We just took the alcohol out of the doorway.
Brewed bold. No hangovers.
Our first batch of non-alcoholic craft beer lands in September 2026, Bangalore first. Fifty people taste it before the city does — joining that list is free, and there is nothing to pay today.
18+ · Under 0.5% ABV, lab-tested every batch
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