On tap at Ambulance, boundary-defying smoked sour Berliner Weiss (collaboration with Against The Grain) renders peat-smoked Band-Aid-like astringency to tart Jamaican pimento-wooded peach and plum adjuncts, picking up salty lemon-limed pucker at the mildly acidic wood-dried sour fruited finish. Dry plum wine fanatics take note.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, delicate citric hop profile gains salty white-peppered carbolic spritz for summery light-bodied Berliner Weiss. Subtle lemon-limed souring absorbs lactic acidity.
On tap at Ambulance, “rustic” grain parch and salt-watered coriander brining retain dry Cascade-Citra hop bittering. Yogurt-like lactobacillus souring and vinous lemon-seeded squint nearly overwhelm tertiary peach, apricot, green grape and green apple tartness.
On tap at Amazing Grapes, tart pink-hued Berliner Weisse retains limey red cherry and raspberry pucker alongside heightened pink grapefruit-sweetened orange and tangerine juiciness plus nifty passionfruit-pineapple-guava-pomegranate daub, recalling citric-candied lollipop. A slick salt-licked summertime sucker shandy and radler fans need to embrace post-haste.
Soured passionfruit theme pillages tart lemon-limed briny salting and light lactic acidity of easygoing mouth puckering refreshment. Wispy pineapple, mango, white grape and crab apple tones nearly lost among salty lemon-juiced passionfruit bittering at finish.
On tap at Ambulance, simply refreshing Berliner weisse stays light and breezy as briny sea-salted lemon acidity picks up effervescent mandarin orange spritz, tart yogurt tang and light woodruff syruping over wheat-husked barnyard leathering.
Serene summertime moderation with lighter-than-usual lactobacillus souring brings stylishly salted lemon-juiced tartness and subtle woodruff syruping to delicate white wheat spine, retaining wispy acidity. Sessionably reserved ale gains slight champagne spritz at bone-dry citrus finish.
Intricately refreshing Berliner Weisse brings musty lactobacillus acidity to affluent lemon-rotted orange zest, sour yogurt spurt and dry saltine crisping. Funky farmhouse soiling adds musky leathering to tannic green grape, crabapple, passionfruit, raspberry, plantain and banana subsidies as well as white wheat base. Ratebeer’s Guerde rightly picked up dijon mustard illusion.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, tart coriander-salted “olive and strawberry” combo evaporates beneath lactobacillus-cultured yeast souring. Leathery green grape musk and orange rot dryness heightened by wheat-strawed barnyard acridity.
On tap at Broadway Dive, quaintly pleasing and delicately soured Berliner Weisse lifts soft white peach tartness above musty barnyard leathering, lemon-limed coriander salting and sour-milked yogurt respite. Beneath the surface, green grape esters contrasts ephemeral nectarine tang guarding lovely peach regalia.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, dried apricot puree souring increased by tart lemon acidity, salty alkaline minerality and acrid barnyard desiccation. Streamlined Berliner Weiss will appeal the newly converted and may be suitable as crossover fodder.
‘Exquisitely peculiar’ hybridized Berliner weiss (a.k.a. Uberlin) really tastes like Lucky Charms cereal with its sugary fruiting riding above tart raspberry woodruff syruping while hiding stylishly sour lactobacillus acidity. Marshmallow-tweaked tropicalia ensues mid-palate as lemony orange, peach, mango, guava and papaya illusions gain prominence. A helluva good gimmick.
