Nodding Head Ich Bin Ein Berliner Weisse

Brewed by Nodding Head Brewery
Style: Berliner Weisse
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA

I really like this, tap at the brewpub with the woodruff syrup, but only a touch, and so I don’t think its a big deal, not as much as Any at least but yeah I understand though. Always psyched to try a new berliner weisse. Pours golden with a bright white ring. Nose is full of the woodruff. Taste is great, very tart, acidic refreshing. Yum.

Tap at the brewpub. When she poured this originally, I saw her squirt the woodruff syrup in without asking me first, which wasn’t cool at all. I had to have her pour me another. Bleh. Why would they do that?

Anyway, the beer had a very dull, spoony (?), mashed corn aroma. Small head. Crisp, clean and refreshing flavor, with a lot of wheat and wood, with a warhead-like lemon sourness flavor, though not nearly that tart. Easy drinking. I dug it. Certainly not the best BW by any means, I guess I just love the style.

Very, very pale golden beer. No head at all. The aroma is very wheaty and lemony. Softly spicy nose with a bit of citric tartness as well. The flavour is also just a little bit on the sour side. Light lactic tartness with a lot of lemon and wheaty spiciness. A little bit grainy. There is a light sweetness that might come from the syrup (I didn’t see her put it in, but puzzl said she probably did). A fairly full body that is kind of unusual in a berliner weisse. It’s simple but fairly enjoyable.

Draft at the brewpub. Pours clear gold with a thin white head. Light aroma with a hint of tartness. Very nice crisp, light body with a tart citrusy lemony flavor, followed by a light and dry finish. Thirst quenching and easy to drink. Very tasty.

Nose is orange with a slight sour taste. Flavour keeps this up adding a real lemonade quality to it. Large dose of DMS on the finish, but is not undesirable.

draft. Light yellow color. Mild sour aroma. Mild sour taste. Mild sweetness. Very easy to drink. Delicious.

This is a beer I have been wanting to try for a long time, luckily I finally got the chance to try this multiple times at GABF 2008. The beer is a very pale, gold color and it is topped by a fizzy, fairly quickly disappearing, pale-white colored head. The aroma is noticeably tart with a light funkiness to it that lurks just beneath. This has lots of wheat character that reminds me of freshly crushed wheat berries; it really does have a hearty, whole grain character to it that is a mix of freshly threshed grain and expressive wheat aromatics.

The taste is exquisitely refreshing and this is so light on the Palate. It has a light, not aggressive, but noticeable / dominant tartness to it that cuts through most of the other flavor components. This is perhaps not nearly as funky as I might prefer, that the tartness makes this fantastically drinkable. After my palate adjusts to the tartness I start to pick up a solid wheat note in the flavor that adds a nice, expressive, grassy-grain and cracker-like notes to the finish.

This is one of those beers I just kept coming back to, a great example of the style and its light, refreshing qualities (yet with lots of flavor) kept me coming back for a Palate refresher.

GABF 2008. Extremely pale, transparent, brassy gold color with a thin head of fizzy white. A pleasantly refreshing, tart, lactic wheatiness greets the nose. Hints of lemon. Very light bodied, crisply carbonated mouthfeel with a moderate acidity. Flavors of wheat and lemon with a moderate lactic tartness. Extremely light and quaffable, with exceptionally clean flavors. Refreshing. Closely resembles Berliner Kindl Weisse, but the flavors seem cleaner and fresher.