On tap at Seven Lakes Station, moderately sour Berliner Weiss adds key lime tartness to bitter lemon-bruised salting, light brettanomyces bacteria and lactic yogurt whim. Mild green grape vinegaring ups the overall sourness.
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BRONX DAS BRONX BERLINER WEISSE
On tap at Beef Trust, “refreshingly sour and cloudy ale” brings cucumber-watered basil adjunct, light white peppering and lactobacillus bacteria to usual Berliner-styled lemon-soured orange rot tartness. Mild pilsner and Vienna malts caress dry straw wheat base and salty citric-herbed finish.
J. WAKEFIELD / AGAINST THE GRAIN JAMAICAN ME SWAYZE
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.
21ST AMENDMENT / CIGAR CITY GOLDEN SUNSHINE BERLINER WEISS
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.
RIGHT PROPER KICK.KICK.SNARE DRY-HOPPED BERLINER WEISS
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.
BOLERO SNORT BULLPOP
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.
4 HANDS PASSION FRUIT PRUSSIA
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.
OEC EXILIS BERLINER WEISSE
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.
FLYING DOG BREWHOUSE RARITIES BERLINER WEISSE
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.
FAIR STATE CROMULENCE
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.
EVIL TWIN JAMES BEER BERLINER WEISS
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.
SLOOP THE SAUER PEACH
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.
