Daft Funk
Mikerphone Brewing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

24oz can, undated, poured into a Hill Farmstead oversized wine glass.

The beer pours a hazy and cloudy straw color, golden hues with a foamy but fizzy white head, about 2 fingers high with low retention and little in the way of lace. The aroma is nice, citrus, tart wheat, light yogurt, sourdough bread and a bit of saltiness. The flavors really bring out the pucker, acidic citrus, tart wheat, sourdough bread, a bit of chardonnay like flavor, but oddly, some red wine influence as well, not sure which variety of wine barrels were used for fermentation but the finish is laden with mineral water and a bit of salt. The mouthfeel is nice, plenty of carbonation, zip, crispness, prickliness with a puckery and dry bite.

Verdict: A really nice Berliner Weissbier from Mikerphone Brewing, my first, and certainly not last experience with this brewery. Zippy, crisp, bright and delicate, perhaps a bit too sour and with a bit too much body for a Berliner, but boy is this refreshing on a warm night, nice stuff.

 

 

Looks to style; pours a somewhat hazy golden-yellow with several fingers of white, quick-dissipating head. Smells of dinner rolls, lemon and light butyric acid notes. Quite sour, this one packs a pucker. On the tongue, there is granny smith tartness, Roussanne, and a bit of oakiness. The 24 oz can was made for sharing.

Shared a can recently with a few people.
Poured into a tulip glass it was a bright straw gold, pale in color, with a sharp clarity. Racing champagne streams of carbonation. Dense meringue textured foam on the surface, spotty lacing around the edges.

Aromas of sourdough yeast, yogurt, lactobacillus and lemon.
Taste is moderately sour with a clean sharp lacto bite and dry finish.
Acidic and puckering, gets the salivary glands going. Light bodied with crisp carbonation.
Would be nice to get more of the advertised wine barrel used for aging, but it was still solid.
Lookin forward to trying the blueberry version I've heard about.

 

 

 

Pours a very slightly hazy straw yellow with very active carbonation and a finger of porcelain white foam.

Light lemon/citrus fruit, must, and a yeasty subtle funk.

Musty funk, lemon zest, acidic tartness, salt, and subtle wine-like undertones in the background.

Light-bodied, high carbonation, dry, tart, subtle funk, salty, and refreshing.

Overall, this was my first shot at Mikerphone and this did not disappoint.