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1809 Berliner Style Weisse

Percentile
93
overall
Brewed by Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan
Style: Berliner Weisse

Freising, Oberbayern, Germany

bottled
common

on tap
available

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4273.64/5.03.63/5.05%87.5Bowl
Commercial Description:
Created by Dr. Fritz Briem of Doemens Institute, brewed by Weihenstephan & Doemens, “1809” is a very traditional interpretation of the “Berliner Style” Weisse with an intense blend of lactic tartness and complex fruitiness. It is bottle-conditioned, unfiltered and unpasteurized. "1809" will age beautifully in a dark and cool location. Its complex fruitiness and tartness will most likely develop in quite astonishing ways. “1809” is fermented in traditional open fermenters and horizontal lager tanks. The applied mashing regime is a single step decoction mash with 50 % wheat malt.The total amount of hops is added to the mash so that isomerisation takes place in the decocotion part of the mash. The wort is not boiled but only heated up to boiling temperature and then transferred to the open fermenters and pitched with yeast and lactic acid bacteria (isolated from malt) at 18 °C (64°F).
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 bleeng (597), Spring near Beersel, Texas, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/102/57/103/513/20
Dec 14, 2007  
22 oz bottle. Pours very carbonated with a huge fluffy white head. Only got 1/2 bottle on the first pour. Nose of lemon, tartness, highly acidic and very sharp. Unique. Color is generic yellow. Taste of lemon, pucker, tartness, wheat is not evident. Better nose than taste so ultimately dissapointing. Great beer for a hot humid Houston summer. Wish that I could find it here.


 Magicdave6 (5490), London, Greater London, England
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Dec 13, 2007  
Bottle thanks to Sectret Santa. Looks great though very cloudy in an oerbier glass. Aroma seems minimal, but clear sweet wheat, lemon and an acid woody note, hints of spice also, peachy as it warms. Taste is initally sour, lemon and acid, all good, once swallowe a sweet biscuity honey note comes up, the finish is peachy honey with a pluckering from the carbonation an dry lemon. An intresting experiance that iv very glad iv had, though not what i expect from a berliner wieisse.


 RagallachMC (631), Cleveland, Ohio, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Dec 10, 2007  
500ml bottle. Aroma: Wheat malt, lemon, peach, and some lightly dusty funk. Appearance: Lemony yellow in color and quite hazy. Bright white head was full and foamy with great retention. Good lacing. Flavor: Bready wheatiness is cut short by the lactic sourness. Sourness is just right. Some lemon and apple notes through the sour. Some very light dusty funk in the background. Finishes very dry. Palate: Light body. Medium-high carbonation. Overall: Very nice. Drinkable and refreshing with just enough bite.


 Angeloregon (2025), Portland, Oregon, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/59/105/518/20
Dec 8, 2007  
Poured a bright, hazy, turbid golden-yellow body with a fat, fluffy white head. Lively bubbles evident for some time after pour. Nose of a faint sour lemon tartness with some wheat. Flavor was palatial and labyrinthine. Sour yet well balanced and unattenuated. Strong for a Berliner Weiss at 5% ABV. Finished crisp and quenching. One of the finest bottled beers I have had the pleasure of tasting.


 brewblackhole (1370), Muskego, Wisconsin, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Dec 4, 2007  
Aroma is tart lemony wheat, just the aroma makes my jowls pucker,a wonderful dry citrus lemony wheat taste and tartness contols your palate. Tartness seems like its going to sourness,when suddenly magicly it smoothes out nicely ,by far the best Berliner Weiss I’ve ever had, an absolute perfect summer quencher that tastes great even in winter. I believe this is an extra from biggcb.


 dmac (1442), Toms River, New Jersey, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/516/20
Dec 3, 2007  
500 ml bottle. Pours a super hazy yellow with an average size fizzy bright white head. Aroma of wheat, fresh cut grass, and tart fruitiness. Light bodied that is highly quaffable with lively carbonation trough out. Flavor starts out very tart of spolied fruit then mellows to wheat notes that fades out nicely. Damn fine stuff.


 WISEGUY572 (1245), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/515/20
Dec 2, 2007  
Hazy lemon gold with a huge white head ... classic lemon meringue wheat beer appearance. Nose of citrus and slight funk. Taste almost lambic in its sourness, lightly funked as well. Easy to drink, very refreshing, and I can see where the habit of adding fruit syrup to a Berliner came from.


 after4ever (2711), Brier, Washington, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/105/514/20
Dec 1, 2007  
500. Thanks, HogFodder! Tasty stuff. Nice to see it’s available in town (for) now. Cloudy lemony amber with a towering, fluffy platinum blonde head that quickly falls away to a little ring of white foam. Minimal lacing. Dusty, lemony nose. Medium-thick and quite tingly body. Plenty of carb, enough that it’s surprising that hardly any really shows in the glass. Tart lemony acidulence on the mid-palate; this flavor profile could use a bit of help. There’s grass there, maybe a bit of hay, but not much else to keep the lemony sourness company. But at least the sourness does have that lemony overtone. Light, refreshing, and clingy tart finish. Good stuff.



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