Bayerischer Bahnhof Berliner Style Weisse

Brewed by Gasthaus & Gosebrauerei Bayerischer Bahnhof
Style: Berliner Weisse
Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

Super pale (clear) straw. Lightly wheaty, but strongly lactic aroma. Rather lactic flavor, with a light wheatiness. Quite dry. Light-moderate mouthfeel. This would be more refreshing if it were less lactic, as it really dominates and is all I really taste after just a few sips.

My Bottom Line:
A soft effervescence carries shy lemons, apple must fruitiness and simple cereals into a timid finish where vague tartness barely rises. This is either a tired bottle or an absurdly quiet Berliner Weisse.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A veil of foam disappears into the cloudy pale yellow.
-This is not too thin for its gravity, which is nice. The flavor profile is quite watery, but it doesn’t seem to affect the body.
-Bubblegum phenols move about behind the fruitiness.
-The tartness barely surfaces and evaporates well before the finish is reached.
-I appreciate the craftsmanship, but if this is how it is supposed to taste...I shall deem it an awfully boring example of the style.

Bottle; no date.

11.2 Oz Bottle. Fantastic tangy sourdough aroma. Bready, rich, and full of enticing, perplexing yeast tones. So primal and of the earth. An incredibly distinct fresh bread dough note, alive and warm. Pours a translucent mid-day sunshine and straw. Rimmed in a rocky, opalescent white soap. Flavor is wonderful and as expected. A gentle sour tang lays on the tongue and then slides gracefully through some rich, grainy sugars to a light lemon snap on the back end. It’s just great, with the soft wheat sugars and bread flowing throughout and making a great accent counterpoint to the faintest hop crisp back end. Not sweet, not distractingly thin. Perfectly drinkable. I wish I was quaffing this in a biergarden in Berlin in July. Delightful little dapplings of lemon zest and pith mingle with the sugars and the tang. I could have used maybe a nip more sourness and carbonation but other wise this great stuff. Thanks so much Andy!

Small bottle into St. Bernardus glass (are you really supposed to serve this in a bowl? I need to get some berliner weisse’s at a bar some day). Pours like a slightly more golden champagne with less head, more foamy. Nice yeasty wheaty smells emerge right from the bottle, but die off quickly, to be replaced by some soft grape and pilsener grains. Somewhat fizzy at first, which is a nice complement to the surging citrus and melon acidity that attacks the sides of your mouth below the tongue and linger there far into the finish. Pretty soft and uninteresting besides that. The acidity is lemony on the front of the tongue as well, blending into the melon on the sides. Stays nice and juicy, doesn’t dry out at all (which I actually think would be a nice counterpoint). Corny sweetness in the finish detracts a bit (you can start to smell it as the beer warms, too). I see how this could be a kick-ass style if there were more going on in the middle, and if the yeast added some character to the finish. I will have to seek more of these out.

Pours hazy light straw with a small white head. Delicate little wheat and citrus aroma. Thin flavor, with a lemony tartness and a tangy wheatiness. A touch of funk on the end adds character. Refreshing and inoffensive, but nothing to get excited about.

From an 11.2 oz. bottle--Light and soapy lemon yellow-white body with a bushy two or three-fingered head of white. Light watery and mildly sour lactic flavor. Tart, rich, quenching finish. Blends well with fruit syrups.

Very light citrus aroma. Slightly hazy very light pale gold color with a fizzy white head that left quickly. Medium body with fizzy carbonation. The flavor is sourish lemon. Passes to remnants of sourish lemon. No strong flavors. It’s tart; it’s refreshing. Some cardboard notes at the finish. Overall it’s ok, and it does make a break.

Bottle. Pours very yellow, very hazy with white head that died rapidly. There were crudnicks floating therein (hazy I can deal wit. Crudnicks bug me a bit). Sour citrus aromas. Very sour, very lemonade-like, just a little grain flavor, no bitterness to speak of. Watery, light on the mouth. Probably would be much better with a shot of raspberry syrup:) Like nothing else, though.