Summer Breeze
Wild Weather Ales in Silchester, Berkshire, England 🏴
Berliner Weisse - Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.91
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Old Manor (JDW), Bracknell. A slightly hazy, pale straw pour with a white head; citrusy aroma; sharp lemongrass taste, bitter and citsusy; with a warming, lasting bitterness to finish. Certainly not enjoyed by the majority of punters in this ’spoons, but I thought it was rather good.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Oct 2014
at 07:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Keg at Lyric, Soho. It pours cloudy orange with a small white head. The nose is fresh lemongrass, lemon sherbet, wood, straw, floral, earth, hay and light chalkiness. The taste is bitter, lightly tart, funky, some acidity, lemon sherbet, must, sharp lime, earth, grass, floral, blue cheese aspect and leafiness with a dry finish. Light-medium body and fine, prickly carbonation. Unusual, but interesting stuff. I wasn’t blown away by it, but a nice first sour from these guys. Hopefully more to follow!
Tried
on 10 Oct 2014
at 06:21
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cask at the Alehouse, Reading. Startling hazy yellow colour with a negligible head. From the off there are pungent, aggressive lemon and lime flavours with a strong cut grass flavour following on behind. At first the sheer vibrancy of the flavours is almost offputting, but once I got into it the complex interplay of sweet and sharp, sour and fresh, kept it constantly challenging yet exciting. When I returned to the bar I was astonished to find a large number of people there discussing this beer. The barman confirmed that it was a lemongrass-infused soured wheat beer; rather an unusual style of beer to find on cask in a traditional Berkshire pub! Opinions of the pub’s clientele were divided; it was definitely one of those Marmite love-it-or-hate-it beers. Although sometimes I’m wary of beers with added flavours, for me the lemongrass worked superbly inthis one, I was firmly in the "love it" camp at the bar - I thought this was top-notch.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Oct 2014
at 13:40