Southampton Berliner Weisse

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

Slightly hazed yellow with a thin white head...smell is sweet with loads of vanilla at first, then tart grassy and grainy with notes of berry, apples, pears...funk...taste is embracingly sour...dirty funk almost, but "dirty funk" in this case would actually mean orgasmic...straw, grass, berries...tart crisp finish that is quick, but not so quick you don’t know that you have just tasted nectar of the gods...wow...maybe whole rating should have just been the word "wow" written over and over again...

Dull pale pear cast; almost white. Dwindling white foam. Zesty aroma. Flashes of iron, honeydew, perfume, soft vanilla, hay, rose petals, white grape, phenol, honey, and clove. Abundant earthy, sour notes. Rich dried pineapple notes emerge as it warms. Brisk carbonation. Less creamy than fizzy. Bracingly sour jumpstart followed by a complex layer of pale malts, abundant earthiness, white grape skin, royal gala apple, and perfume. Vague yeasty, chalky backdrop. Slightly vinous, woody, and musty as well. The yeast softens the flavors and lessens the sharpness. Dry, tart finish matched with rose petals and strawish pale malt whispers. A stunningly complex, imaginative example.

Thank you Slander. This is by far my favorite BW maybe my favorite beer overall. So amazingly, rediculously good. Sour and fruity. Peach along with the skin, apples and citrus. Sweet, sour and dry finish. I want more of this now.

12oz Bottle from my main man Wetherel, thanks John for another top 50, he got this via trade with EDA and shared at my 2000th rating tasting with Kmweaver and his wife, my girlfriend Cyn, dalekliz, fordest, toncatcher, and wetherel. Pours yellow with a bubbly head. Nose is amazing, super duper tart and very appley. Taste is puckeringly tart very nice beer extreme in a lot of ways and overall awesome!

Thanks to Slander. I loved this beer. Really intense sourness. I’m a huge fan.

Bottle, at WeeHeavySDs 2000th rating party, thanks to wetherel! Pours a clear light gold with a small white ring. Huge funky aroma, with notes of malt, herbs, and grass. Taste is intensely sour, herbal, and grassy, with a hint of smoke, wood, and lemon. Lingering clean grassy sourness. Really different and excellent.

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.

12 oz bottle shared at WeeHeavySD’s 2000th rate tasting. I liked Berliner Weisses when I first had them. Then I had a REAL sour ale. After that, I couldn’t find another good Berliner Weisse. But now I have. Wow, this is an amazing beer. lots of sour aromas and flavor. Still some wheat twang on the finish which brings you back to reality that yes, this IS a berliner Weisse. Very Very good.