Southampton Berliner Weisse

Formerly brewed at Southampton Publick House
Style: Berliner Weisse
Southampton, New York USA

Big thanks for Eric for brining this one (and thanks to Mike for giving this one to Eric!). 12oz bottle. Poured a medium and hazy yellow color with a small sized white head. Aromas of funk, sweaty, lemons, and an all around tartness. Tastes of lemons, green apples, wheat, and some bready doughiness. Nice puckering tartness. Damn this was a good beer. I wish I could get this as my everyday beer!

Draft... GABF ’06... This beer rocks!... sample after sample after sample... Mostly clear, off-yellow beer with a small, fizzy, white head. Sour, funky aroma with notes of lemon, underripe berries, spent grain and pineapple. The flavor is also very sour and grainy with no semblance of balance. Pungent, fruity esters abound. Light to medium-bodied with lively carbonation. Sour, dry finish. I would drink this brew five nights per week if it were more available and less expensive. At 2% ABV, a real gem of an "almost n/a" brew!

GABF 2006: Lightly hazed very pale yellow. The aroma was sweet yet oh so tart. Notes of wheat and some fruit. The flavor was very tart but had a sweet component that tried to back it up. It was like the Sweet Tart candies I steal from my kids on Halloween. The picture to the left shows a bottle...oh I hope so.

Thanks to Eric for bringing this gem! Poured clear, paler golden with a short cap of white head. The aroma picked up sour pineapple and a touch of passion fruit upfront with tart wheat and pale fruit skins behind.. jam-packed with character, especially when you consider the beer’s small stature. The flavor was tart and powerful with dry wheat and fresh apricot skin sourness throughout.. dry wheat on the edges.. apple vinegar came through toward the back.. tasty! Moderate-to-high tartness on the palate and entirely engaging throughout.. the acidity dropped a little on the back-end and left a bone-dry, clean, refreshing finish. Excellent stuff!

Bottle thanks for sharing this with everyone steve! The best Berliner Weisse i’ve had to date. Pours Hazy golden orange in appearance. Nose is zesty filled with green apples, lemon, orange peal, vinous, and wood. Flavor is mouth puckering like tart apples and this beer is so crisp and alive in your mouth. Really fantastic!

Poured a hazy, pale golden color with a small white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of hay, barnyard funk, toasted dough, lemon peel, and toffee. Taste of toffee, and fresh baked bread, wheat, and a lengthy tart, lemon finish that encapsulated the entire mouth. Really unique Berliner Weisse here, thanks to Mike and the guys at SH for this one!

Big thanks to Slander for sharing at the gathering last weekend. Pours a bright shining gold wiht a copper tinge to it, thin diminsihing head. Aroma is instantly sharp and tart with not only lactic acid but a slight acetic character as well, with green apple skin and malic acid tartness - hay, and grass as well. Extremely clean refreshing tartness in the flavor- lemon, some light metallic hints, more acetaldehyde- but somehow it works well- more we hay, some light cracker, and just an insane sourness in the end that I didnt expect from this or any berlinner weisse. Easily the most sour and intense berlinner weisse I have ever had- not sure if it is traditional that way- but it sure is damn good.

Re-rated 11/17/05 from Blind Tiger VSK Night. Lively and tart with some Cantillon tartness but even more so. Full sourness with farmhouse funkiness. The best beer of the night by far.