Warsteiner Grapefruit
Warsteiner Brauerei

 

 

Disappointing. Pours a soapy, active head, but the beer is utterly flat and drinks like syrup. Very basic grapefruit nose and flavour. Just full on meh. Maybe an old can? Will try again and see what's what, but my initial impression is not good.

16oz can bb 3/11/18 consumed from the can. Rated to average as it was 3 months past best by date. More of a mix of beer and soda, which I didn't care for.

 

Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 500 ml can into pint glass, no can dating. Pours moderately hazy/cloudy pale golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with great retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big lightly tart ruby red grapefruit, citrus peel/zest, cracker, white bread dough, and light herbal/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance of grapefruit soda, pale malt, and light earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big lightly tart ruby red grapefruit, citrus peel/zest, cracker, white bread dough, and light herbal/grassy earthiness. Mild herbal/grassy/citrus peel bitterness and fruit tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of tart ruby red grapefruit, citrus peel/zest, cracker, white bread dough, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great robustness and balance of grapefruit soda, pale malt, and light earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitter/tartness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Moderately crisp/clean finishing. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes present. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitter/tartness and carbonation. Medium-high carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, and lightly sticky/acidic balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 2.5%. Overall this is an excellent radler. All around great robustness and balance of grapefruit soda, pale malt, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink. Very flavorful and never watery for the ABV. Great balance of the base pilsner and grapefruit soda. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.

500ml can - strange to be having this one when there's about a foot of snow to be shoveled outside. More import agent inanity, I suppose.

This beer pours a clear, pale golden orange colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and mostly just fizzy bone-white head, which leaves a few instances of coral atoll lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of fresh-squeezed white grapefruit juice, simple syrup, and maybe some ethereal leafy, weedy, and grassy noble hop bitters. The taste is candied grapefruit rind, thin cereal malt, and more understated earthy, musty, and floral old-school hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite active in its swirling and twirling frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and generally smooth, with the sugary nature of the citrus muzzling itself at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the grapefruit soda essence lingering like the boss that it wants to be.

Overall - this is a serviceable enough version of the style, with the fruit side of the equation definitely not too sweet, as it comes across more like European lemonade. Refreshing, if a bit plain-seeming in its Teutonic earnestness, and obviously lacking in the preparatory warming that I need right about now.

 

This is like a Zima, a light beer and a glass of orange juice mixed together. Not bad, and actually quite refreshing, but just so un-beer like that it's almost like drinking a spiked seltzer. Surprising from a German brewing institution, it's basically like a 2.5% training beer. Way too sweet for me.

This pours a very light orange color, almost white. The head was white and frothy. Dissipated quickly.
The nose is mellow with the grapefruit. Very light nose.
The taste is light. Crisp. Grapefruit.
Feel is quite watery.
Overall refreshing. Light. Delicious.

 

Poured from a 1 pint 0.9 ounce can into a Shaker pint glass, "best by" date 6-9-17.

APPEARANCE: pours a cloudy, light golden color with less than one-finger white head that quickly dissipated until just a ring of small bubbles remained around the rim of glass, a small amount of lacing on the glass, medium carbonation.

SMELL: sugar and faint grapefruit.

TASTE: sweet sugar and grapefruit.

PALATE: medium body and carbonation.

OVERALL: I really like Radler's and this one was just fine, the 2.5% ABV makes this a good choice after a workout, it could have had more carbonation and maybe the grapefruit was too dominant, I would have preferred more of a presence from the pilsner, it's not bad for the price but there might be better options available in my area.

 

Pours the color of Rose Gold and develops a head of 2 fingers which gradually recedes to a thin layer but not without leaving spirals of lace behind. 20% opaque.

Smells firstly of grapefruit candy, followed by some slight citrus pith and faint base grain.

This is actually damn delicious. Grapefruit candy and earthy grapefruit/pith, clean Pilsen malt, slight sweetener, and surprisingly - dragon fruit.

Light bodied yet still leaves a little creaminess on the palate. Crisp finish. Not watery in the slightest.

Overall, I know this may not be up every beer drinker's alley, but for a Radler-type bier, with 2.5% alcohol, this makes a perfect poolside summer quencher. We will be buying more this coming season. It's not an Imperial Stout or a DIPA, but it is a damn tasty beer. I'll be buying tons more.

Looks like a strawberry blonde. Smells like a grapefruit soda and tastes like one too. That's ok if your in the mood for something sweet. Very low alcohol, no beer taste.