Berliner Weisse - Plum
Shades Brewing
- From:
- Shades Brewing
- Utah, United States
- Style:
- Berliner Weisse
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.9 | pDev: 6.92%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 20, 2024
- Added:
- Feb 07, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Berliner Weisse is a regional variation on the white beer style from Northern Germany. Sour and tart, it’s usually served with syrup for more flavor and color. We break tradition and don’t add syrup. Instead, we add a considerable amount of Plum fruit and use a kettle sour technique to produce this delicious concoction.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3.75/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Here goes the second beer I had during my week in Utah/SLC. This was better than the first.
Pours kind of a dark orange color, like the influence of a normal, yellow/gold beer, but with purple plum influence to get the burnt orange going on. Decent 2/5" white head with good retention behind a solid appearance score. The aroma is pretty straight forward: plum + stainless kettle sour. Does the trick.
The taste is completely reliably predictable like the nose. Plum + kettle sour. Hits in that 5 range on the 10 pt sourness and acidity scale. It has a good dry mouthfeel, plum good like that, nothing excessive or the feeling of sugar added. Body supportive without being heavy or gimmicky. Its clean, nothing like wood or bugs going on. I could easily see this being totally worth having 12 oz in the cooler year round. Break up the monotony.
We need more beer geeks on derp my guy, run it X and Truth Social.
Aug 20, 2024Pours kind of a dark orange color, like the influence of a normal, yellow/gold beer, but with purple plum influence to get the burnt orange going on. Decent 2/5" white head with good retention behind a solid appearance score. The aroma is pretty straight forward: plum + stainless kettle sour. Does the trick.
The taste is completely reliably predictable like the nose. Plum + kettle sour. Hits in that 5 range on the 10 pt sourness and acidity scale. It has a good dry mouthfeel, plum good like that, nothing excessive or the feeling of sugar added. Body supportive without being heavy or gimmicky. Its clean, nothing like wood or bugs going on. I could easily see this being totally worth having 12 oz in the cooler year round. Break up the monotony.
We need more beer geeks on derp my guy, run it X and Truth Social.
Reviewed by Scotchboy from Idaho
3.55/5 rDev -9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.55/5 rDev -9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
On-tap at Brewers Haven Boise - served in a pint glass.
A: Soft, hazy, pink lemonade pour with minimal head and lacing.
S: Plum, cherry - general tart fruitiness, lemon, hint of salt.
T: Follows the nose, tastes almost cider-ish - tartness is moderate. There is a bigger impression of watermelon here; all of the fruit notes (plum, lemon, etc.) blend nicely.
MF: Thinner body with a tart finish.
O: This is a decent Berliner for sure, easy to drink and low abv, not much to knock.
Mar 11, 2020A: Soft, hazy, pink lemonade pour with minimal head and lacing.
S: Plum, cherry - general tart fruitiness, lemon, hint of salt.
T: Follows the nose, tastes almost cider-ish - tartness is moderate. There is a bigger impression of watermelon here; all of the fruit notes (plum, lemon, etc.) blend nicely.
MF: Thinner body with a tart finish.
O: This is a decent Berliner for sure, easy to drink and low abv, not much to knock.
Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
4.25/5 rDev +9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
approaching world class here, this a monumentally delicious berliner, even without the fruit i would suspect, and my favorite of the beers i had while i was in. my friend said try all the sours, but i didnt, just this one, but now i wish i had, this was really exceptional. its gorgeous pale rose pink in the glass with a fizzy and popping but also lasting airy white head on it an inch high from the tap. the aroma is tart but amazingly clean, fully lemony, acidic like that but mellow, very professionally done souring on this, more citric than lactic interestingly, at least as it presents itself, summery and wheat too underneath, lots of minerals, and honestly seems more german to me than these ever do, maybe something from the grain doing that. the plum is ripe and real, more tangy like the skins than sweet like the flesh, but really honest and sunny and full of life, identifiable as plum for sure which can be tricky to achieve, dry though in the finish, equally impressive. great carbonation, it almost has the texture of a la croix sparkling water, so light and active and clean, i love it. the plum and this lemon character go super well together, and its not too sour for volume drinking. i liked everything about this, would buy regularly if it were available in boise...
edit: looks and tastes just as good from the can, this really has become their sort of signature beer, way better than what else is out there like it, and a step or two more dialed in than most of their other sours. really first rate stuff here!
Feb 11, 2020edit: looks and tastes just as good from the can, this really has become their sort of signature beer, way better than what else is out there like it, and a step or two more dialed in than most of their other sours. really first rate stuff here!
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