Berliner Weisse - Strawberry
Stoneface Brewing Company in Newington, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
Berliner Weisse - Flavoured Series|
Score
7.18
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught at Ginger Man Boston, 5/3/17.
Cloudy, slight rose-tinted, peach-golden body with a small, off-white head showing moderate retention.
Very real, authentic and well-developed fruit notes in the nose mix nicely with the lactic acid and neither dominate as a result. Strawberries aren’t used too often in brewing as they’re very light and not terribly assertive/distinctive, requiring quite a bit to achieve a healthy aroma/flavor, which then runs the risk of over-sweetening the beer. Here it’s both balanced and aromatic without any excess sugar or obnoxious kettle-sour-like qualities (like sniffing a glass of lactic acid).
Wonderful texture is the first thing I notice. Chewy, rich, wheat adds a very firm suppleness and the beer is very nicely attenuated, quite dry and even a touch salty with tart berry acids adding brightness in concert with the light lactic character. They’ve achieved a ton of expression from whatever strawberry method they’ve used (almost seems like it must be puree, but who knows). Moderate amounts of engaging carbonation, no alcohol or flaw and a crisp, wheat and berry-laden finish make this one perfectly quenching as a good berliner should be.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Whole Foods Bedford. Hazy light golden/ deep yellow with a small but fleeting bubbly white head. Tart lemony nose with sweet berry and just a hint of sulfur. Tart puckering lemony berry flavor. Pretty nice use of strawberry in a sour ale.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from growler thanks Willrunforbeer light strawberry lemon color with a nice thin white head. Aromas of lemon lactose and berry. Taste is nice crisp. --- Beer merged from original tick of Berliner Weisse with Strawberry on 20 Apr 2017 at 20:57 - Score: 7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
32 oz. growler shared by Willrunforbeer! Hazy golden color with thin bubbles of head in a snifter. Aroma is sour wheat, mild hay, mild lacto.
The flavor is a very subtle strawberry seeds, mild sour wheat. The finish displays a very mild tartness. Pretty well balanced. Light bodied with a seedy lingering character.