Berliner Weiss
New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Berliner Weisse Series|
Score
7.26
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Napoleon hailed this tart beer style "the Champagne of the North." A lively and elegant masterpiece this Berliner Weisse is a kaleidoscope of fresh flavor. Barrel fermentation, Riesling grapes and Wisconsin White Wheat are bottle fermented with five proprietary yeast strains. A connoisseur's rare jewel both spirited and subtle, enjoy your sparkling toast under summer stars.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
cloudy yellow pour, aroma of sour apples, lemon, and sour wheat. Flavour is very tart, and loaded with sour apples, and lemons. There is a nice tart wheat finish. This is really tart, a little more than i expected. interesting beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
I got this bottle in a trade with joe1510. Thanks Joe!
It pours a hazy light yellow gold, almost lemonade-like, with a huge and growing head of foam.
The smell is hay there, with some lemon zest, sour apples, actually...lots of tartness. Inviting to say the least.
The taste is..the...yum! Whoa baby, there's an awesome sourness here like in huge sour apples but once I got over the intial shock(read very pleasant), I'm picking up lemons, Saison like funk, light notes of pepper, some sweet malt, maybe honey, drifting in and out of each sip...lots going on here and I can't seem to stop sipping. This puppy is way drinkable!!
Light bodied with light carbonation, it finishes on the sour side with some light spiciness. And the head retention and lacing? Superb! New Glarus brews always seem to have that trait, at least in the brews of theirs that *I* tried. Another winner here....
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Berliner Weiss from New Glarus Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Sample from 2015 bottle at Kurtkeller 028: Wisconsin-tastic 01 on 06/10/2018. The beer is a slightly cloudy yellow-gold color with a medium thin white head that evaporates quickly to an outer ring. Stringy lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of tart citrus, mildly funky yeast and malt. Light-bodied with flavors of tart orange and lemon, wheat and biscuit malt. The finish is tart with a citrusy aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Leighton (34941) reviewed Berliner Weiss from New Glarus Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle shared at CBC Clerks - London. Cheers! Pours hazy yellow with a creamy, white head. Sugary, doughy malt nose, white bread, some oxidation. Sweet and simple, more pale bread, faint metallic notes, tangy citrus, white grape. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly tangy finish with more metal, white bread, minimal sour edge.
superspak (10160) reviewed Berliner Weiss from New Glarus Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, best before 10/8/2017. Pours moderately hazy/cloudy pale golden yellow color with a 1 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin lace cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of lightly tart lemon, lime, peach, pear, melon, red/green apple, white grape, fruit skin, hay, straw, grass, wheat, cracker, corn, and white bread; with light oak, pepper, Lacto/Brett funk, and yeast earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, grapes, and light-moderate pale/wheat malt notes; with good strength. Taste of lightly tart lemon, lime, peach, pear, melon, red/green apple, white grape, fruit skin, hay, straw, grass, wheat, cracker, corn, and white bread; with light oak, pepper, Lacto/Brett funk, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate fruity/lactic tartness, fruit tang, and yeast spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of tart lemon, lime, peach, pear, melon, red/green apple, white grape, fruit skin, hay, straw, grass, wheat, cracker, corn, white bread, pepper, light funk, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, grapes, and light-moderate pale/wheat malt flavors; with a great malt/tart/spiciness balance, and zero puckering/astringent flavors after the finish. Moderately crisp/clean finishing. Moderate increasing dryness from tart/spiciness and carbonation. Medium-high carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth and moderately bready/grainy/acidic/tangy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 3%. Overall this a very nice fruited Berliner weisse. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, grapes, and light-moderate pale/wheat malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink with the modestly acidic/spicy/drying finish, never overly lactic. Very flavorful and never watery for the ABV. Kind of unique with the added Riesling grapes, but it doesn't overpower the Lacto profile. Solid pale/wheat malt backbone. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle, courtesy of Koelschtrinker, many thanks! Pours almost clear yellow. Aroma is slight coriander, hay, grapes, hints of a barrel. Body is medium, strongly carbonated, some sourness, grapes, also barrel, but a bit too thin. Good, and very drinkable, also refreshing. Would drink again.
SinH4 (15499) reviewed Berliner Weiss from New Glarus Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle, thanks Koelschtrinker! Unclear golden color with white head. Aroma is yoghurt, white wine, dough. Taste is doughy, white wine, yoghurt, a touch of the unfermented wort flavours alcohol-free beers have in the back. Not too convincing.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Cloudy, dirty yellow body, thick, puffy off-white head. Nose of sour mash and dust. Biting tart, sour body with hints of clove and grass.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz bottle from a liquor store in Superior, WI. 2017 bottle. Smells of lacto, floral, Riesling grapes. Pours nearly clear pale yellow with a good sized white head that reduces somewhat quick. Taste is very lightly tart (5/10) and a tad sweet. From the grapes, I imagine. Mouthfeel is bordering on overly foamy, but that's what they're going for, so...Very understated beer overall, but it tastes good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bottle into a snifter showing well filtered whitish yellow with sparse white foam. The nose shows moderately tart notes of bread and biscuit with light notes of banana and citrus. The palate is full bodied and well carbonated. Lightly tart with flavors of light banana and lemon. Simple and easy berliner weisse.