Leinenkugels Berry Weiss

Brewed by Leinenkugel Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Fruit Beer
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin USA

Pale pinkish-orange with large quickly diminishing pink head. Aroma of berries and honey, mostly berries, pretty much the same in the taste. Overly carbonated, a little syrupy, a little tart and sour and a slightly funky aftertaste. Does a decent job at what it’s trying to do. A few years ago this use to be one of my favorite beers, now nothing more than average to me.

Pink alco-pop. Plain and simple. So sweet and cloying anyone over the age of 13 probably will not like it.

I got to experience this beer today after finding it in a special 12 bottle Explorer pack in my local Bevmo store. Very good beer. I’m not one for foo foo beers but this one is great for a hot summer night.

bottle. not a fan. smelled very fruity and promising, but it was not very sweet to the taste. i got a hit of some sort of berry mixture, but it was too conflicted with the hops and malt to stand out.

So yeah...not really a fan of this style, but I was given the bottle so...pours a pinkish amber with miniscule head. Nose is of blackberries and a very faint leafy hop character; more tart berrieson the thin palate, slightly acerbic, although it ends quite sweet and fruity, with nary a bittering hop in sight. Wheat shows up just barely in the finish. Well, you get what you (don’t) pay for.

Bottle. Aroma of mixed berries. Hazy reddish amber color with a flat white head. Thin to medium body with creamy carbonation. Flavor is mostly berry, and it’s lightly sweet. Wheat is hidden and there’s not a trace of hop. Sort of near crisp. Refreshing in its way.

Bottle. Pours a reddish (I guess berry) color. Aroma of sweet fruit, cherry cooladeish. Flavors of a black cherry pop... but not as sweet. Hmm... It’s actually not bad.

Very interesting. I have never really found a "berry" beer that I thought was good. They seem more like a wine cooler (not that I’m going to admit I know what that’s like). Pouring this from the bottle into a glass, it was actually a pink color. Once poured it settles down to more like a copper color some haze and a pinkish tint to it. Thick white, pinkish tinted head and quite a bit of lace. The aroma is.... you guessed it. Berries. The taste is very carbonated and berry-like. Again, a wine cooler? It seemed like it was flavored seltzer. Definitely unlike anything I’ve had before.