Likeweisse
To Øl

Fairly nice beer with some nice refreshing qualities. Pours a slightly hazy orange-yellow color with minimal head or lacing. Smells mainly of yeast, tart fruit, malt and a little grain. Taste follows the nose, and the tartness was pleasant and not overwhelming. Thin mouthfeel and decent carbonation. Not bad and I would try more from this style.

 

Pours cloudy gold with straw highlights and cloud-white head. Aroma is hay, passionfruit, lime, and grape must. Taste is mostly grape must and lime; some grassy flavors. Carbonation is medium to medium-high, body is light, tartness is noticeable, but very well balanced. Great all day drinker.

330 ml bottle into tulip glass, no bottle dating. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy golden orange color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass. Aromas of lightly tart lemon, lime, grapefruit, peach, apricot, pineapple, mango, melon, strawberry, white wine, hay, herbal, grass, light pepper, wheat, cracker, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/tropical hops, fruity yeast, and light pale malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of lightly tart lemon, lime, grapefruit, orange zest, peach, apricot, pineapple, mango, melon, strawberry, white wine, hay, herbal, grass, light pepper, wheat, cracker, and yeast earthiness. Light lactic tartness and grassy/spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of tart lemon, lime, grapefruit, orange zest, peach, apricot, pineapple, mango, melon, strawberry, white wine, hay, herbal, grass, pepper, wheat, cracker, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/tropical hops, fruity yeast, and light pale malt flavors; with a great malt/tart/bitterness balance; and zero puckering/astringent flavors after the finish. Moderate dryness from tart/bitterness, increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and very light body; with a very smooth, crisp, and fairly grainy/sticky/acidic balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 3.8%. Overall this is a very nice hoppy Berliner weisse. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/tropical hops, fruity yeast, and light pale malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, and refreshing to drink with the mild acidity. Not as lactic as I was hoping for the style, even if it was the brewers intent. This is still very flavorful and complex for the really low ABV. A very enjoyable offering.

L:
-pours a hazy golden with a big,frothy,white head
-high carbonation visible
S:
-grassy,citrus,earthy,leather,pomelo,nettle,green apple,apricot
T:
-orange,citrus,grassy,metallic,slightly grainy
-light sourness
F:
-medium carbonation
-light,watery body
O:
Really pleasant smell.
Taste is way too metallic for me.At times like licking on a copperpipe.

330ml bottle - another clever and punny name, I see.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent defrosting windshield pattern lace around the glass as it lazily sinks away.

It smells of biscuity and crackery wheat malt, lemon rind, some wet flintiness, sour muddled tropical fruit, an ephemeral lacto astringency, and some tame earthy, leafy, and dried-hay hoppiness. The taste is grainy and doughy pale and wheat malt, gently tart stone fruit, an increasing spoiled milk thing, more wet stone paths after a thunderstorm, a touch of earthy yeast, and some plain leafy, grassy, and musty hops.

The carbonation is fairly sturdy in its supportive and sometimes tickling frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight for the style, and actually more or less smooth. It finishes generally dry, the biscuity character of the malt aiding and abetting the lingering sour fruit and lactic notes.

Overall, Likeweisse is a very refreshing and easy to drink Berliner-style weissbier, as the souring is of the typically understated lacto (and maybe fruit) inoculation variety. Something to sip at all day on the waning summer patios, were that this was a locally made option (price-wise, that is).

 

Copper with lots of large soda bubbles, and a finger of white head.

Smells like lemon, strawberries, and peach. A slight tart and acidic note, green herbs, and basil.

Lemon juice, sour but like watered down lime juice. Some phenolic notes, slight bitterness from the hops on the end. Herbal green notes, and an almost plastic note found in some hefe weissens.

Very light body, slightly acidic but wet and refreshing, moderate carbonation.

Got on wish beer, drank in Chiang Mai June 25th, 2016. Light, refreshing, and to style. A little boring in my opinion, compared to others in the style. Still well done.

On-draught at Beer Masons on Koh Tao, Thailand for 290 baht/pint.

Refreshing as hell, with a crisp light body and apt smoothness and wetness.

Tart smacky lactic taste. Hints of lactobacillus bacteria. Pils/pale malts and wheat. Well-balanced, though simple compared to the best expressions of the style (e.g. Anderson Valley).

Highly drinkable and we'll worth trying, though those after more sour and/or fruity examples of the style may be underwhelmed. Nice work from To Ol.

B- (3.36) / WORTHY

2016-05-28. 330 ml bottle. Best before 2017-05-26.

A: Hazy yellow. Poured 1 finger high of head and not retained.
S: Tropical fruits, mainly mango. Moderate lemon.
T: Moderate sourness. Dry. Low bitterness. Hints of mango. Not as fruity as it smells.
M: Light bodied. Crispy mouthfeel.
O: Good to drink ice cold in hot days.

 

 

 

 

Fruity crisp and refreshing.