Berlina Blue
Liquid Art
- From:
- Liquid Art
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Berliner Weisse
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.71 | pDev: 6.47%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 02, 2023
- Added:
- Feb 02, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
3.38/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.38/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
16oz can from brewery. Cloudy pink, flat pour. Fruity, mixed berries in the aroma. Taste is tart, fruity, mixed berries, and faint milky notes. Almost a smoothie sour.
Jan 02, 2023
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
3.99/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.99/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
I always enjoy a visit to the Friendly Greek Bottle Shop (FGBS) as the owner, Teddy, has beers set aside for me in CANticipation of my arrival. I get a specially-curated box that I am allowed to pick through & generally, I take it all. This was a recent addition.
From the CAN: "Berlina Blue Berry Berliner Weisse"; "Liquid Art"; "Passionately Brewed & CANned in Chambersburg, PA".
As to its being "Liquid Art", it is either Roy or Jesse's (co-owners) brother who does all of their label art. They tend to be very stark, striking oils straight out of the "Night Gallery" & when I told him so, he laughed & said that I have a very discerning eye for a non-art critic. They are designed to have a jarring effect, ala Edward Hopper, without being off-putting.
I did some in-CAN agitation before Crack!ing open the vent, but I am unsure that such was necessary. The Crack! of the vent revealed it to be a brimful craft CAN & so I CANtinued with a heavy-handed C-Line Glug that resulted in the formation of two-plus fingers of fizzy, foamy, soapy, rocky pink head with very limited retention, quickly falling away to wisps. Color was a turbid, murky Magenta (!) (SRM = N/A). Nose smelled like the time that I forgot my blueberry bucket on the porch in favor of a neighbor's swim call! Fortunately, my maternal grandfather liked to make his own grape wine & scooped up my fermenting blueberries to make what many remember as a kick-ass batch of blueberry wine. This was full-on, no-playin' around blueberry! I have had red Berlinerweisse before, but that it done with raspberry syrup, NOT actual blueberries. This was tart on top of tart & my lips were pursed shut as a result. Mouthfeel was thin, par for the style, but still kinda meh. The taste was like the blueberry syrup that they used to put out for me at The Best Breakfast (5141 S. Saviers Rd. Oxnard, CA 93033)! That syrup on buckwheat pancakes was as tart & perfect as you CAN imagine. I like tart where sour is tougher. Unsweetened, tart blueberries are the best during the Summer & this beer was so evocative of them that it hurt. Or was that acid reflux? Hmm. Unadorned Berlinerweisse is not for the faint of heart, hence the syrups, but this was tart on top of tart! Phew. Finish was super-dry & left me reaching for both my asthma inhaler as well as my GIRD medicine. 8=O YMMV.
Jul 27, 2020From the CAN: "Berlina Blue Berry Berliner Weisse"; "Liquid Art"; "Passionately Brewed & CANned in Chambersburg, PA".
As to its being "Liquid Art", it is either Roy or Jesse's (co-owners) brother who does all of their label art. They tend to be very stark, striking oils straight out of the "Night Gallery" & when I told him so, he laughed & said that I have a very discerning eye for a non-art critic. They are designed to have a jarring effect, ala Edward Hopper, without being off-putting.
I did some in-CAN agitation before Crack!ing open the vent, but I am unsure that such was necessary. The Crack! of the vent revealed it to be a brimful craft CAN & so I CANtinued with a heavy-handed C-Line Glug that resulted in the formation of two-plus fingers of fizzy, foamy, soapy, rocky pink head with very limited retention, quickly falling away to wisps. Color was a turbid, murky Magenta (!) (SRM = N/A). Nose smelled like the time that I forgot my blueberry bucket on the porch in favor of a neighbor's swim call! Fortunately, my maternal grandfather liked to make his own grape wine & scooped up my fermenting blueberries to make what many remember as a kick-ass batch of blueberry wine. This was full-on, no-playin' around blueberry! I have had red Berlinerweisse before, but that it done with raspberry syrup, NOT actual blueberries. This was tart on top of tart & my lips were pursed shut as a result. Mouthfeel was thin, par for the style, but still kinda meh. The taste was like the blueberry syrup that they used to put out for me at The Best Breakfast (5141 S. Saviers Rd. Oxnard, CA 93033)! That syrup on buckwheat pancakes was as tart & perfect as you CAN imagine. I like tart where sour is tougher. Unsweetened, tart blueberries are the best during the Summer & this beer was so evocative of them that it hurt. Or was that acid reflux? Hmm. Unadorned Berlinerweisse is not for the faint of heart, hence the syrups, but this was tart on top of tart! Phew. Finish was super-dry & left me reaching for both my asthma inhaler as well as my GIRD medicine. 8=O YMMV.
Reviewed by Dodo2step from Pennsylvania
3.52/5 rDev -5.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -5.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A- quite red with minimal head and opaque
S- tart raspberries and sour malt.
F- taste mimics nose. tartness comes through strong
M- tart and malty. watered down to an extent as well.
O- not bad for a berry weiss but not something i would buy again.
Nov 21, 2019S- tart raspberries and sour malt.
F- taste mimics nose. tartness comes through strong
M- tart and malty. watered down to an extent as well.
O- not bad for a berry weiss but not something i would buy again.
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