Sauerstrom Ale
Lightning Brewery in Poway, California, United States 🇺🇸
Berliner Weisse Regular|
Score
6.23
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jcwattsrugger (14787) ticked Sauerstrom Ale from Lightning Brewery 12 years ago
yngwie (24278) reviewed Sauerstrom Ale from Lightning Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at the Stone 17th anniversary festival. Unclear yellow-orange body and a white head. There’s a tart touch in the aroma, lemon, pale malts, banana notes and a touch of spices in the aroma. Some bitterness in the flavor, which is mostly lemon, banana and pale malts. Medium body, quite dry, nice carbonation. Very refreshing and tasteful but not so very Berliner Weiss-ish. 130817
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy yellow with a huge, gushing off-white head. Slightly sour, slightly sweet lemon aroma. A little funky, light and sweet fruit and citrus. Not bad.
shrubber (15804) reviewed Sauerstrom Ale from Lightning Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle. Pear, lemon, and malt aroma. Hazy golden yellow with giant head intially. Sweet rock candy, tart apple/lemon and light malt flavor. Not bad - on the sweet side.
queenholly (3622) reviewed Sauerstrom Ale from Lightning Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle courtesy of StefanSD. Tart lactic lemon and bready yeast aroma. Cloudy yellow with a small white head, poured very carefully due to the inch of heavy, chunky yeast sediment in the bottom of the bottle. Sweet lemon and bready yeasty wheat, light spice flavor with just a bare hint of tartness. Light body, moderate carbonation. Overall, not especially Berliner Weisse in style, but still pleasant and refreshing.
obguthr (12465) reviewed Sauerstrom Ale from Lightning Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Whole lemon, coriander underneath. Milky yellow, thin head. Dry, and lightly tart lemon flavor. Less coriander and more tartness, but far from being a berliner weiss. Much more like an unspiced or lightly spiced wit. Carbonation seems artificial. Nice but not very authentic.
_angst_ (8410) reviewed Sauerstrom Ale from Lightning Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bomber courtesy of Pete (non-RB) and to some extent GT2. Pours very hazy pale yellowish golden with a huge frothy white head that slowly dissipates while leaving lots of trace on the glass. Smell is slightly sweet, tiny sour and very phenolic with banana bread, lemon juice, plums, grapes, damp cellar, soda water, sheet metal, cloves, dry soil, white paper and plums. Taste is tiny sweet, slightly sour, fruity and phenolic with banana, lemon juice, mouldy bread, minerals, crackers, dry soil, cloves, green grapes, plums and hints of buttery wood. Mouthfeel is crisp, slightly dry, tiny tart and light bodied. Finish is slightly sour with banana bread, cloves, lemon juice, dry soil, sheet metal, buttery wood and hints of lemon zest and white pepper. Not what I expected and a disappointment considering the few Berliner Weisse I’ve tried so far.
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Sauerstrom Ale from Lightning Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bomber. Pastel yellow with a low head. Weizen-like nose, some lemon, clove, banana. Tangy flavor, lemon, a touch of yogurt, light sourness. Quite weizen like. Lacks much Berliner character—just a bit.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Sauerstrom Ale from Lightning Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bomber from Fred at Beverages 4 Less in Santee, CA. Pours hazy dishwater gold with a very temporary white head. Aroma is only the mildest hint of sweatsox. Otherwise kind of hefe. It’s sour. Tho not very. It’s kind of like a hefe went sour without losing the banana. Still, it is sour, and all the way into the finish. Think it fits the style, and is refreshingly tasty.
BMan1113VR (8090) reviewed Sauerstrom Ale from Lightning Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle. High fill, massive yeast cake at the bottom of the bottle. Surprised this passed on their packaging line. Pours with a murky, near milky, yeasty yellow hued body. White head, good retention. Aromas immediate of isoamyl acetate, mild 4vg (clove), phenolic, bready/grainy/wheat malt, smells strongly like a poorly made hefe. Lots of apple esters, minimal lactic character. Strongly yeasty nose. Flavors are grainy, straw, chalky (strong), yeasty, greek yogurt, not much tartness beyond yogurt levels (next to none). Watery. Extremely yeast. Sharp ester character. Abrupt finish.Amateurish. Fuller carbonation, thin, watery, sharp.