Wild Sour Series: Counter ClockWeisse
Destihl Brewery in Normal, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Berliner Weisse Regular|
Score
7.15
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This reverse engineered, wild Berliner-Style Weisse is a German-style sour that is very pale in color and is the lightest of all the German wheat beers. The unique combination of wild yeast and lactic fermentation yields a beer that is acidic, lemony-tart, highly attenuated and very light bodied. The carbonation of this Berliner Weisse is high, and hop rates are very low.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. A- Lemon, vinegar, sour, subtle wheat. A- Pale Yellow color, hazy liquid, fizzy white head. T- Vinegar, lemon, tart, sour, acidic. P- Light body, average texture, medium carbonation, tart finish. O- Really refreshing, but also really tart and sour. Quite acidic too. Great after mowing a lawn but I couldn’t down several.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Oct 2016
at 18:46
7.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Very clear golden coloured body with some peach and honey glow and a very thin, super fast-dying white head. Aroma of yeast, wheat, lemons, sour funk and a lot of acidic, sour candy - very nice. Super light-bodied; Strong lemon, funk, yeast, grass, bread and sour candy flavours with a lot of biting sour elements with a nice sweet candy-ish flavour and more sourness than you’d expect from this style, but shows very nicely. Aftertaste shows the lemon and funk at first with some residual breadiness and more sour and lemony funk notes at the end, that are all nice and smooth and make this great to drink, especially on a hot day - like it is today! I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Spec’s in Dallas, Texas on 11-November-2015 for US$2,83 sampled at home in Washington on 10-September-2016. This can exploded upon opening and immediately fizzed out a lot of the head. However, after that, there was not much head at all on the beer.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Sep 2016
at 15:12
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at the hotel in NOLA - sourced from Stein’s. Pours clear, pale yellowy pink with a slim, creamy white head. Nice salty sweat aroma with inklings of lemon juice. Light sweet flavour with sturdy lemony acidity, some wheat, hay, more salty sweat. Light in body with spritzy carbonation. Super clean and refreshing in the finish, with more lemon juice, salty bite, sweaty acidity. Great b-weisse overall. Immensely drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 23 May 2016
at 18:05
7.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 oz. can. Pours a fizzy yellow, with a small, bubbly, off-white head that disappears completely. The nose is lemon and blood orange, with some salt, rose, and a touch of ginger. Low sweetness, with a nice, clean, tart zing. Light body, very acidic, a little creamy, and well carbonated. This is an assertive and very sour beer, but well done, crisp and clean. Just the right amount of sourness makes this a very refreshing and delicious beer.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Nov 2015
at 22:40
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can. Pours a slightly hazy straw color with a decent head that dies to lace and a thin film fairly quickly. Aromas have an odd citrus sourness to them... kind of like bitter orange and nectarine pit meat or something (in contrast with straight lemon that I get from many sours.) Flavor is light and sour with a hint of sweetness that balances things in a way in which I am not accustomed to finding in a Berliner Weisse. Decent and different take on the style.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Nov 2015
at 14:55
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
Purchased at Bottles and Cans in Chicago, IL; enjoyed at home on a fall evening. Appearance is a cloudy gold with a bubbly head that quickly dissipates. Aroma of sour cherries, some honey as well, relatively faint. Taste packs a huge sour punch, extremely lemony, not too sweet, the finish is extremely crisp. I’m not too much of a fan with the initial kick, the finish is fantastic though. Very interesting beverage. Not sure if I’d have again though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2015
at 19:31
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Single can from Trader Joe’s. Local sour beers in a can. What a wonderful modern age! Pours a big, fizzy head over a slightly hazy lemony yellow body. Smell is a very light note of lemon juice, just a bit of tart in the nose. Taste is zesty and sour, even approaching Warhead candy territory. Trying a dash of Maraschino syrup toward the end, which does a cloying sweetness that does not improve on a punch of this sour beer. I’d keep it neat.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Sep 2015
at 23:14