Hawkshead Brewery Solar Sour

Solar Sour

 

Hawkshead Brewery in Staveley, Cumbria, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Berliner Weisse Regular
Score
6.54
ABV: 3.3% IBU: - Ticks: 30
A very pale, effervescent, highly refreshing, low alcohol, kettle-soured, unfiltered, cloudy wheat beer with restrained lemony tartness. The style is Berliner Weisse, one of the most purely refreshing styles of beer. We called it Solar Sour because we first brewed it on the day of a solar eclipse - 20th March 2015.
 

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6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled. Hazy yellow colour with a mediumsized white head. Aroma is floral, wheat, some slight citrus and mild tart wooden tones. Flavour is citrus, some spiciness, mild wood as well as some wheat and mild toffee.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jun 2023 at 16:33


5

Tried from Can on 26 Feb 2020 at 16:43


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can sample courtesy of Grumbo, cheers Graham! Slightly hazy yellow gold colour, white foam head leaving lacing and aroma of citrus rind, sour & salty. Taste is sour, lemon rind, floral with some wheaty, grain, biscuit and salty notes. Slick mouthfeel, light bodied, soft carbonation, dry tart sour finish. Quite drinkable

Tried from Can on 27 Sep 2019 at 17:31


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

16/9/2019. Can from Euston Tap West. Pours slightly hazy pale straw gold with a small white head. Aroma of lemon, citrus, hops, light herbs, flowers and yeast. Moderate sweetness and light bitterness with sour notes. Light body, watery texture, average carbonation. Light, quite refreshing.

Tried from Can on 16 Sep 2019 at 21:31


6.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tap @ In de Wildeman. Pale blonde. Apple, floral notes and lemon in the aroma and flavor. Sour, thinnish, nice.

Tried from Draft on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:04


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can from Appellation Wines. Appearance - hazy yellow with not much head. Nose - yoghurt and citrus. Lanolin. Taste - more generally sour, funky and woody notes. Light funk. Palate - tangy and light to medium bodied. Refreshing. Overall - good.

Tried from Can on 15 Jul 2019 at 20:07


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

On tap at the Made Inn Ashford. Hazy gold orange colour lasting white head. Some white grape some melon not overly sour but still a bit of lactic milkyness. So some light grape melon yoghurt flavour. Which is fine. But not a lambic. OK .

Tried from Draft on 03 Feb 2019 at 15:01


7

Tart and refreshing.

Tried from Draft on 17 Nov 2017 at 15:49


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Keg tap at the Beer Hall, Staveley. Light creamy yellow, hazy, with a tonsure of white head. Milky and slightly plastic sour aroma with touches of lemon. The natural tartness of the style is slightly obscured by a meringue-like sweetness. Medium to long finish with lemon yoghurt in the aftertaste. A delicious basic Berliner.

Tried from Draft on 25 Sep 2017 at 11:43


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

6 3 7 3 13 Draft at In De Wildeman, Carnivale Brettanomyces 2017. Cloudy pale yellow with a white head. Aroma of wheat, floral notes and light citrus. Flavour is light to light moderate sweet and sour. Light to light medium bodied with soft carbonation. [23/06/2017]

Tried from Draft on 02 Jul 2017 at 03:07