Red Racer Berliner Weiss
Central City Brewers + Distillers
- From:
- Central City Brewers + Distillers
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Berliner Weisse
- ABV:
- 3.5%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.68 | pDev: 3.53%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 24, 2016
- Added:
- Nov 17, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
85
Very Good
85
Very Good
Red Racer has cruised through Germany and brewed a traditional styled Berliner Weiss , this mildy sour wheat beer has notes of citrus and a big effervescence , light in alcohol and big in flavour , this is a classic German style brewed the traditional way.
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Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.74/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Central City Brewers 'RR Berliner Weiss' @ 3.5% , served from a 330 ml bottle Day 4 Seasons Greetings
A-pour is a white wine from the bottle to a clear light gold in the glass with a small off-white head leaving a streaky lace along the pint
S-wheat , some citrus
T-traditional sour wheat beer
MF-ok carbonation , light bodied
Ov-still not a fan of this style of beer
prost LampertLand
Dec 24, 2016A-pour is a white wine from the bottle to a clear light gold in the glass with a small off-white head leaving a streaky lace along the pint
S-wheat , some citrus
T-traditional sour wheat beer
MF-ok carbonation , light bodied
Ov-still not a fan of this style of beer
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.75/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.75/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
330ml bottle, day 4 of the 2016 Seasons Greetings holiday mixer from Parallel 49 and Central City, and the second sour brew for today's 'advent' calendars - yay, me.
This beer pours a mostly clear, pale golden straw colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat creamy off-white head, which leaves pretty much nothing in the way of lace near the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of zingy white saltine crackers, musty yeast, muddled, if still crisp green apple and generic citrus rind, a bit of under the basement stairs mustiness, some grainy wheatiness, and a simple earthy, weedy, and leafy green hop bitterness. The taste is tart lemon, apple, and citrus peel, mixed and matched pale and wheaten cereal malts, a hint of saline, some fairly sour milkiness, and very faint earthy and straw-like hop bitters.
The carbonation is rather active in its probing and swirling frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and generally smooth, I suppose, nothing really sticking its neck out to mess with things here. It finishes trending dry, the fruitiness doing its utmost to render it otherwise.
Overall, this is a decent enough iteration of the style, but it's just kind of weird to be encountering it today, when snow has so recently covered the whole of my neighbourhood. Isn't this a summery thing, to be enjoyed on a patio with some sort of syrup adjunct/flavour cover-up?
Dec 05, 2016This beer pours a mostly clear, pale golden straw colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat creamy off-white head, which leaves pretty much nothing in the way of lace near the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of zingy white saltine crackers, musty yeast, muddled, if still crisp green apple and generic citrus rind, a bit of under the basement stairs mustiness, some grainy wheatiness, and a simple earthy, weedy, and leafy green hop bitterness. The taste is tart lemon, apple, and citrus peel, mixed and matched pale and wheaten cereal malts, a hint of saline, some fairly sour milkiness, and very faint earthy and straw-like hop bitters.
The carbonation is rather active in its probing and swirling frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and generally smooth, I suppose, nothing really sticking its neck out to mess with things here. It finishes trending dry, the fruitiness doing its utmost to render it otherwise.
Overall, this is a decent enough iteration of the style, but it's just kind of weird to be encountering it today, when snow has so recently covered the whole of my neighbourhood. Isn't this a summery thing, to be enjoyed on a patio with some sort of syrup adjunct/flavour cover-up?
Reviewed by Derek from Canada (BC)
3.85/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Crystal clear, faint yellow, thin ring of head shows a little lace.
Aroma of a crisp green apple, with a hint of straw and even a bit of leather.
Not as sour as expected, lots of crisp, tart apple, a little biscuity malt. Leaning towards a Kolsch.
Surprisingly good body for its weight.
Dec 05, 2016Aroma of a crisp green apple, with a hint of straw and even a bit of leather.
Not as sour as expected, lots of crisp, tart apple, a little biscuity malt. Leaning towards a Kolsch.
Surprisingly good body for its weight.
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