Regular Berliner Weisse
Garage Project
- From:
- Garage Project
- New Zealand
- Style:
- Berliner Weisse
- ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.72 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 10, 2023
- Added:
- Mar 10, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.72/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.72/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
On-draught @ 16-Tun, Auckland, New Zealand.
$15 NZD for a 250ml pour (fuck me, the Garage Project hype is stupid in New Zealand!).
Conditioned on German prunes and aged in oak barrels. Garage Project wild workshop effort.
Tart and lactic as can be, with obvious sourness. Depleted stonefruit (which I'd sooner guess was plum than prune) marries pale wheat malt to decent effect, but make no mistake the lactobacillus dominates here.
Oak shows up on the back end, helping to dry it out going into the finish.
Far from one of the best fruited Berliner Weisse beers I've tried, but then it's more of a barrel aged sour ale masquerading as a Berliner Weisse (right down to the ABV).
The dry white oak on the finish really works well for me, accentuating the depleted stonefruit to good effect and bringing the perceived sourness up towards "puckering" level intensity.
Tastes a bit like a Warheads candy Berliner Weisse to me (but don't go and get any ideas, Garage Project) in terms of its approach to the style, which is to say it disregards German tradition in favour of nuking the style with barrel, lactic acid, and to a far lesser extent, fruit.
Palate stripping acidity helps amplify its bacterial emphasis.
Won't dazzle style traditionalists, and even as a fan of it I doubt I could justify getting it again given its wallet-raping price point, but it's rather enjoyable, bringing wild ale redolent bacterial intensity to bear on a Berliner Weisse conceit.
High B / GOOD
Mar 10, 2023$15 NZD for a 250ml pour (fuck me, the Garage Project hype is stupid in New Zealand!).
Conditioned on German prunes and aged in oak barrels. Garage Project wild workshop effort.
Tart and lactic as can be, with obvious sourness. Depleted stonefruit (which I'd sooner guess was plum than prune) marries pale wheat malt to decent effect, but make no mistake the lactobacillus dominates here.
Oak shows up on the back end, helping to dry it out going into the finish.
Far from one of the best fruited Berliner Weisse beers I've tried, but then it's more of a barrel aged sour ale masquerading as a Berliner Weisse (right down to the ABV).
The dry white oak on the finish really works well for me, accentuating the depleted stonefruit to good effect and bringing the perceived sourness up towards "puckering" level intensity.
Tastes a bit like a Warheads candy Berliner Weisse to me (but don't go and get any ideas, Garage Project) in terms of its approach to the style, which is to say it disregards German tradition in favour of nuking the style with barrel, lactic acid, and to a far lesser extent, fruit.
Palate stripping acidity helps amplify its bacterial emphasis.
Won't dazzle style traditionalists, and even as a fan of it I doubt I could justify getting it again given its wallet-raping price point, but it's rather enjoyable, bringing wild ale redolent bacterial intensity to bear on a Berliner Weisse conceit.
High B / GOOD
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