Guinevere
Night Shift Brewing in Everett, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Berliner Weisse - Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.19
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Chalumeaux (4962) reviewed Guinevere from Night Shift Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Tasted at the source. Pours orange gold with a thin white head. Aromas of apricot and sour. Taste is crisp and refreshing not overly sour.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Guinevere from Night Shift Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Draught at the brewery, 3/31/15
Lightly hazy peachy-gold body is well-carbonated and topped by a frothy white head that shows moderate retention.
Thought I smelled some doughiness at first, but after finishing the glass (and having a second one later), I don’t think that’s what it was. Rather, a blend of malic acid and some very light acetic notes display the apricots and the wild notes, with the soft wheat-like blandness playing ever-so-lightly on the end. Plenty of fruitiness lingers on.
The flavor is even better than the aroma, with chewy apricot-like sugars lending just enough balance to the otherwise quite sour beer. Moderate acetic acids blend with malic acid and some tannic, almost cherryskin-like notes to produce more of a Sour/Wild ale-like experience. There’s more body, more residual sugar and a lot more sourness than a classic berliner, despite the alcohol being very low. Delicious and as always, I think apricots are one of the best fruits to match with sours. Hope they eventually release bottles of this. Not quite as good as the best bottles of Cape Codder I’ve had but close.
Another bottle on 4/12/15. Gotta up the score a little, this is just too good. Great sour balance and delicious apricot flavor. Well attenuated, no syrupiness, etc...Dosent look like they are going to sell bottles to go ever which sucks as I’d love to see how this develops. I think I like this better than Cape Codder fresh, but the aged bottles of the early 2014 batch of Cape Codder have aged so well that I still have to give that one a nod as the best sour I’ve had from them, to-date.