Piwo Grodziskie - Grätzer Ale
Professor Fritz Briem in Freising, Bavaria, Germany 🇩🇪
Brewed at/by: Schlossbrauerei Au-HallertauTraditional Beer - Grätzer / Grodziskie Regular
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Score
6.63
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Grodziskie or Grätzer is a Sour Smoked Wheat Ale that was brewed in the 1900s in East Prussia and dates back to as early as the 15th century. It was named after the Polish town of Grodzisk Wielkopolski or Grätz in German. Our historic version is brewed according to the German Purity Law with air-dried barley malt and beech smoked wheat malt and hopped with Perle and Saaz. A sour mash is created using the old and forgotten technique called “Digerieren.” Finally a three month aging and maturation process creates a complex sour, smoky and heavily hopped wheat ale.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Draught from Diamond. Pours a smoky golden color. Aroma is smoky taste is sour - some citrus. Interesting as hell.
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 01:19
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. This was a weird beer. Cloudy gold in color. Weird polluted kind of head. Aroma was a light smoky, almost funky kind of smell. Taste was light smoky with a almost sour finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2025
at 04:36
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Early rating from Beer Buddy app
Tried
on 10 Apr 2022
at 03:40
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sampled from a bottle this beer poured a dark golden color with a large foamy orange-white head that lingered and left a bit of lacing. The aroma was sweet and tangy with honey, bread and a hint of beech. The flavor was sweet and tangy with tart orange, beech and yeast. Long finish with lingering beech. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2018
at 01:06
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours a clear amber (with some sediment with a white head that dissipates quickly to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of wheat with a touch of smoke and alight tartness underlying. Flavor has a combination of light wheat, light tart fruits and a hint of smoke.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2017
at 21:34
6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
This is OK, but definitely unique, and fairly primitive, though I’m not sure on the freshness of my bottle. Low carbonation, no head. Hazy tea color. Stale seeming malts, lightly smoked, lightly soured, little apparent hopping. A bit grainy, a little vinous in the nose.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2017
at 12:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours hazy orange, medium kinda fizzy off-white head with good retention and lacing. Aroma is paper smoke, wheat, dust. Flavor is extremly lightly tart, light sweet, minimal bitterness, hints of smoke, lemon, wheat. Medium body. Not too exciting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2015
at 21:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Part of a 10 euro, 6 beer blind tasting set at Trois 8’s biergarten event in Paris. 100% smoked wheat used by this German gypsy brewer. It pours golden with an off-white head. The aroma is of honeyed smoked wheat, it’s got a lovely soft body with flavors of tangy wheat, smoke & honey. Elegant.
Tried
on 29 Aug 2015
at 03:24
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Prost! Boise. Pours out a hazy golden with small creamy head. Aroma is slightly funky, musty, yeasty, taste brings some of the salt, without being too puckering. Quenching, tasty, crisp, clean. Nice hot day drinker.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2015
at 18:44
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
24k gold liquid sitting under a small head of foam.
Big fruity tartness with a bit of smoke in the smell.
Taste wise, again, delightful fruity tartness backed by a very mild amount of smoke. Fairly subtle flavours which makes this a very easy drinker.
Light bodied.
Nice historical brew!
Big fruity tartness with a bit of smoke in the smell.
Taste wise, again, delightful fruity tartness backed by a very mild amount of smoke. Fairly subtle flavours which makes this a very easy drinker.
Light bodied.
Nice historical brew!
Tried
on 17 Apr 2015
at 17:25