Mainer Weisse
Night Shift Brewing


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- From:
- Night Shift Brewing
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Berliner Weisse
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.01 | pDev: 9.23%
- Reviews:
- 41
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 07, 2020
- Added:
- Dec 23, 2012
- Wants:
- 51
- Gots:
- 53
SCORE
90
Outstanding
90
Outstanding


Notes:
Berliner weisse style beer aged on wild Maine blueberries and cinnamon sticks.
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Reviewed by Tony210 from New Jersey
4.19/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.19/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours a cloudy raspberry red color with minimal fizzy head. Aroma is muted blueberry with faint cinnamon. Flavor is blueberry, raspberry, cinnamon is faint and works well in the background. Light bodied and crisp, has a touch of sour funk that blends in nicely. Overall a fun beer, not my favorite but pretty drinkable.
4/8/19
16 oz can dated 11/20/18 - thanks Adam!
4.25 rating
Apr 09, 20194/8/19
16 oz can dated 11/20/18 - thanks Adam!
4.25 rating
Reviewed by digboy from New Hampshire
4.1/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a hazy cranberry juice color with a half finger fizzy head. Nose is mild funk with wet blueberry juice and maybe some raspberry. The cinnamon is lost on me in the aroma. Taste is similar. The fruit flavor is a bit muddled - hard to tell exactly what is in it - I suppose blueberry. However the cinnamon comes out better here and it is well balanced - actually really well done IMO. I was skeptical at first but am a believer now :) The fruit flavor is actually appealing, just a little muddled to the point I am unsure what it should be if I hadn't read the label. Feel is a little soft and lightly carbonated. Very little bitterness.
This is a good entry. The cinnamon is tempered well. The fruit takes a back seat for profile but it is pleasant. The funk is light, which I prefer.
Feb 13, 2019This is a good entry. The cinnamon is tempered well. The fruit takes a back seat for profile but it is pleasant. The funk is light, which I prefer.
Reviewed by metter98 from New York
4/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A: The beer is hazy reddish purple in color. It poured with a collar of white bubbles around the edge of the glass.
S: Moderately strong aromas of blueberries are present in the nose.
T: The taste follows the smell and is a little sour with lots of flavors of blueberries along with faint bits of cinnamon spices.
M: It feels light- to medium-bodied and tart on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer isn't nearly as sour compared to other beers in the style but really exemplifies.
Serving type: can
Feb 03, 2019S: Moderately strong aromas of blueberries are present in the nose.
T: The taste follows the smell and is a little sour with lots of flavors of blueberries along with faint bits of cinnamon spices.
M: It feels light- to medium-bodied and tart on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer isn't nearly as sour compared to other beers in the style but really exemplifies.
Serving type: can
Reviewed by Ronl12 from Massachusetts
3.75/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
16 oz can into pint glass. Dated 10/25/18.
look is blue-ish red cranberry. Nose is sour fruit and blueberry. Taste is same as nose with little cinnamon on top. Feel is light and fizzy. Overall, good for what it is is. Just not my cup of beer.
Jan 24, 2019look is blue-ish red cranberry. Nose is sour fruit and blueberry. Taste is same as nose with little cinnamon on top. Feel is light and fizzy. Overall, good for what it is is. Just not my cup of beer.
Reviewed by SebastianOwl from Massachusetts
4.12/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.12/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Canned on 9/20/18; drank on 10/28/18; I tried this several years ago when NS was bottling and corking their beers but remember it being cloying with cinnamon and not my thing; this recent canned version is nothing like my memory, fairly light and refreshing with a nice touch of cinnamon
Oct 29, 2018Rated by StoutElk_92 from Massachusetts
4.55/5 rDev +13.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.55/5 rDev +13.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Nice fruit with a touch of sweet cinnamon
Oct 04, 2018Reviewed by Gatch from Massachusetts
3.62/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Part of a flight of the four Weisse's on-tap at the brewery.
Thought it would be more red or bluish red, but it's a light pink! You get the blueberry and a hint of cinnamon but it's all subtle and tastes of extract. Not even that refreshing. Meh.
Feb 13, 2017Thought it would be more red or bluish red, but it's a light pink! You get the blueberry and a hint of cinnamon but it's all subtle and tastes of extract. Not even that refreshing. Meh.
Mainer Weisse from Night Shift Brewing
Beer rating:
90 out of
100 with
348 ratings
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