Berliner Mango Weisse
Brasserie Dunham

 

On tap at Vices and Versa in Montreal, QC.

This one pours a very hazy golden orange color - like mango juice - with a small head and lots of lacing.

This smells quite like juicy mango puree, with a touch of salinity, grassiness, and lemon tartness.

This is really quite tasty - there's loads of juicy and drippy mango in there, with an interesting briney/saline funkiness that works quite well - almost like a gose flavor, even though that's not the style. There's some herbal grassiness, and a solid but not overwhelming tartness on the back end.

This is light bodied, and super juicy and drinkable, with a nice crisp spritziness.

This is a quite excellent use of mango - you don't see mango used this well very often.

Serving Type: 750 mL Bottle

L- Pours a slightly hazy, pale Yellow topped with a white, thin wispy cap that quickly fades away. Nothing at all in the way of lacing.

S- Sweet mango and pale malt with a nice tart lemon undertone.

T- The taste follows the same progression as the smell - mango up front followed by a wave of tart lemon.

F- Light body with a nice, light effervescence

O- A solid fruity Berliner Weisse. Nothing mind blowing, just simple goodness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

750ml bottle - I'm submitting here, because, A - it's spelled properly, and B - it's not papat(whatever the fuck) who submitted it.

This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with one finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and mostly fizzy dirty white head, which leaves absolutely nothing in the way of lace anywhere near the glass as things quickly blow off.

It smells of musty mango flesh, gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser wheaten astringency, lemon juice, white saltine crackers, and very gentle leafy, weedy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is tart lemon peel and white wine vinegar, some earthy yeastiness, more salty wheat and generic pale maltiness, a rather difficult to discern mango fruitiness, watery table-top peppery spice, and more understated earthy, weedy, and piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is rather active in its probing and tingling frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and sort of smooth, I suppose, as the acetic acid quality here more or less precludes such a perception on the common tongue. It finishes trending dry, with some underripe apple, mango, and lemon essences tromping over the very concept of a real beer.

Overall, this is yet another overwrought example of a brewer trying to pander to the fringes of beer appreciation, while leaving the rest of us wanting oh so much more. Yeah - fuck this resurgence of sour-spotting, or whatever it is you want to call it - I solely wish that someone would simply just 'call it'.

 

 

 

 

Really really cloudy, yellow color with a very thin white head.

Nice nose, tartness, mangoes and lemon.

Very nice taste, you really taste the mangoes and it's so sour and acid. Lots of tartness and fruity flavors. It might be one of the most sour beer I've tasted. (and it's definitely a good point!)

Really nice mouth feel, lots of carbonation like a Berliner Weisse should be.