Berliner Kindl Weisse

Brewed by Berliner Kindl Brauerei (Oetker Group)
Style: Berliner Weisse
Berlin, Germany

Bottle... No syrup... Hazy, straw-colored lager with a mid-sized whispy, white head. The nose is woodsy with huge notes of lemon and raspberry. Sour flavor. Nicely balanced. Lemon and faint raspberry. Light-bodied and astringent with fizzy carbonation. Finishes sour and then dry. Wow, a very pleasant surprise. Excellent refresher.

Raspberry version at Winking Lizard. Light yellow/golden color with a thin and bubbly white head. Thin, spotty lacing. Tart fruit and raspberry aroma. Light body with a sour character and citrus/raspberry flavor. Very little wheat to be found. The finish is dry, fruity and astringent. Below average all around.

Blonde with a collapsable white head. Cardboardy malt aroma (ho-ho!). Sour oxidized malt with grainy notes. But as I progress, I actually am getting more of the sourness and fresh grainy bread, similar to low alcohol beers. This aint too bad and is refreshing. Bought at party source, with the warning it was really sour (and that it is normal for this beer)....

Another beer that I can’t quite place the smell. Smells kinda sweet, but not really. Not hoppy or malty either. The best I can describe it is a mix of nutrasweet and honey. Pale gold color. No head. Ohh that is sour! Man that is really strange. it is light and crisp, but with that sour puckering. This is growing on me. The aftertaste is nice once you get used to it. Wouldn’t be the everyday beer, but I bet it would go awesome with spicy foods especially Thai dishes.

oooooooooouch! this is fricken sour, aroma is malty smelling, they flavor hurts sour like a geen apple on steroids, body is thin, not my cup of tea.

Pale yellow, with a white head. Aromas of spice, bready, and a little sour. Flavor is very sour and fruity. Not really to my liking....

Im not sure how many of this style Ive had, so I may be wingin’ it here. This stuff pours gol with hardly any head. Aroma has a decent floral hoppiness to it. Taste is nothing like that though with flavors of tangy orange and something else I really cant put my finger on, but it ain’t good. Wat over priced at $2.56 for a 33 cl.

Pretty aged sample - the real McCoy ! Good snowwhite head, dispersed in secs; copper-golden, clear beer with big bubbles. First much oxydated malt, than lactic - and a whiff of Islay malt. Again first the oxydated malts, immediately relieved by the typical sourishness - in the taste more citric than lactic. Really lemony. This builds up more and more to become truly thirst-quenching - really, not as in the ads. Phenomenal dry-out effect, dry, dry finish. Very light bodied, of course. Excellent. The ultimate summerheat beer.