Lil’ Red Sour Cherry Berliner Weisse
Parallel 49 Brewing Company
- From:
- Parallel 49 Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Berliner Weisse
- ABV:
- 4.4%
- Score:
- 69
- Avg:
- 2.75 | pDev: 35.27%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 10
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 24, 2016
- Added:
- Aug 08, 2013
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
69
Poor
69
Poor
Day 7 Seasons Greetings
Sometimes you get terrible Christmas presents but our sour cherry Berliner Weisse isn't one that you'll have to regift to your bratty sibling.
Sometimes you get terrible Christmas presents but our sour cherry Berliner Weisse isn't one that you'll have to regift to your bratty sibling.
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Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.74/5 rDev +36%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev +36%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Parallel 49 Brewing 'Lil Red' @ 4.0% , served from a 341 ml bottle Day 7 Seasons Greetings
A-pour is pink from the bottle to a clear pink in the glass with a little white head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-wheat
T-cherry flavoured/sour wheat beer
MF-ok/mild carbonation , light bodied
Ov-just barely an ok beer
prost LampertLand
Dec 24, 2016A-pour is pink from the bottle to a clear pink in the glass with a little white head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-wheat
T-cherry flavoured/sour wheat beer
MF-ok/mild carbonation , light bodied
Ov-just barely an ok beer
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.53/5 rDev +28.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.53/5 rDev +28.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
341ml bottle, day 7 of the 2016 Seasons Greetings holiday mixer from Parallel 49 and Central City - I like her mistletoe earrings.
This beer pours a clear, pale salmon amber colour, with one finger of puffy, very loosely foamy, and fizzy pink-tinged head, which leaves very little in the way of lace anywhere near the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of musty and slightly sour cherries, grainy and crackery pale malt, the wheat crackers that my toddler ate his weight in last night as a 'snack', a softly funky yeastiness, stale lemons, and an indeterminate earthy bitterness. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, some edgy wheatiness, a much lessened tart cherry essence, some growing lemon acerbity, consistent yeasty funk, and more rather weak leafy, earthy, and floral green hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite understated in its merely supportive frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and smooth enough, I suppose, at least for this sort of thing. It finishes off-dry, the malt and mixed fruity esters not really leaning that heavily towards the sour/tart end of the spectrum.
Overall, this is a serviceable version of a fruit or Berliner Weisse beer, but together there seems to be something lacking - let's just call it character. Halfway through a small offering and I'm getting bored watching myself type, so that should tell you all you need to know here.
Dec 07, 2016This beer pours a clear, pale salmon amber colour, with one finger of puffy, very loosely foamy, and fizzy pink-tinged head, which leaves very little in the way of lace anywhere near the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of musty and slightly sour cherries, grainy and crackery pale malt, the wheat crackers that my toddler ate his weight in last night as a 'snack', a softly funky yeastiness, stale lemons, and an indeterminate earthy bitterness. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, some edgy wheatiness, a much lessened tart cherry essence, some growing lemon acerbity, consistent yeasty funk, and more rather weak leafy, earthy, and floral green hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite understated in its merely supportive frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and smooth enough, I suppose, at least for this sort of thing. It finishes off-dry, the malt and mixed fruity esters not really leaning that heavily towards the sour/tart end of the spectrum.
Overall, this is a serviceable version of a fruit or Berliner Weisse beer, but together there seems to be something lacking - let's just call it character. Halfway through a small offering and I'm getting bored watching myself type, so that should tell you all you need to know here.
Reviewed by tbadiuk from Canada (MB)
1.28/5 rDev -53.5%
look: 4 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1
1.28/5 rDev -53.5%
look: 4 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1
Mmmm....burned plastic. Need I say more? I normally don't bother reviewing stuff, but this one made me make an exception, mainly to warn others. This is the 2013 batch, not sure if there are/will-be others so YMMV. Not sure what exactly went wrong here, I do remember that this tasted like one of the 'off' flavours from the sensory course I took a while back.
Mar 18, 2014
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