Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) GLB Berliner

GLB Berliner

 

Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

  Berliner Weisse Regular
Score
6.69
ABV: 3.8% IBU: - Ticks: 2
Some brewers take shortcuts. They kettle sour, toss in some fruit purée, and call it a Berliner Weisse. But not us. Oh no. We do it the old-school way, the right way, the classically-crafted way.

Ours is a slow, patient labor of love, fermented with brewer’s yeast, lactobacillus, and brettanomyces - three microscopic maestros conducting a delicate, funky symphony. And just when you think the show is over, we hit it with a lively can conditioning that gives it the effervescence worthy of its legendary nickname: The Champagne of the North!
 

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6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at GLB, pours a clear blonde with a tiny white head. Aroma has lacto, gentle sugars, and a touch of citrus. Flavour is very dry, with light lacto, seltzery notes, and straw. Very dry, seltzery palate. Good but not particularly authentic.

Tried from Draft at GLB Brewpub - Great Lakes Brewery East Bayfront on 07 Nov 2025 at 16:31


7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Looking forward to this one! Can from the brewery. Pour is a light blonde with thick white head that disappears. Nose is a light funk. This being only a 3.8%, it did feel a little thin, but that's almost to be expected. Really nice, fresh light crispness with some funkiness. Flavors of apricots some dirty socks over a very light straw malt. For a session beer, it's really quite nice, don't expect a meaty, aserbic Berliner, you'll be disappointed. I appreciate the lack of fruit.

Tried from Can on 06 Jul 2025 at 23:58