Telegraph Reserve Sour Wheat

Brewed by Telegraph Brewing Company
Style: Berliner Weisse
Santa Barbara, California USA

Draft. A hazy light golden beer with a thin lazing white head. The aroma is slightly acidic with notes of brettanomyces and friut. The flavor is sweet with acidic notes of brettanomyces as well as notes of citrus fruit and some wheat, leading to a dry wheaty and slightly tart finish.

(DC Local Gathering, 75cl bottle, thanks CaptainCougar) Large white head that mostly dissipates atop lightly hazed lemon yellow body. Aroma is medium sweet, lemon, funk, light cream. Taste is medium sweet, lemon, some funk, fruitiness. Not as tart as most Berliner Weisses -- pleasant enough, but no pucker.

(750ml, bottled June 12 2009, courtesy of BMan1113VR) Pours a cloudy yellow body with a medium white head. Aroma of wheat, lemon, and florals. Flavor of florals, cereal, lacto, brett, lemon, and wheat.

750ml bottle acquired in trade with WeeHeavySD (thanks!). Bottle labled bottled on 1/12/09. Poured a medium and hazy yellow color with a smaller sized white head. Aromas of wheat, cereal, and lighter citrus. Tastes of citrus, wheatiness, cereal, and lighter spices. Lighter tart finish.

750 ml bottle– pours a white head and pale yellow color. Aroma is yeast, musty, slight tart fruit, wheat. Taste is yeast, musty, tart fruit-lemon, wheat. Dry finish. Ok effervescence.

Considered a berliner weisse here on Ratebeer. Interesting. The cloudy pale yellow pour is topped by an evanescent white foam. Its pale malts+ wheat combine into a dryish biscuitiness while tea-like herbal, and zesty lemon suggest upcoming refreshment skills. Its brett character, while not so subtle, remains soft-edged, drying the palate in which little residual sugars remain despite the tasty, crisp pale malts. Rather detached mouthfeel where the fat, foaming and biting bubbles enhance the thinness perception and perhaps diminishes its a priori immense drinkability. The sourness comprises both citric and lactic components, both of which are shows up get a little peaky in the finish. Perhaps not the most refined nor tight/cohesive, but intriguing, inviting and highly original.

Bottle… mgumby10’s & hopscotch’s WtFFfFDotF Throwdown … Cloudy straw-colored ale with a small, creamy, white head. Good retention. The aroma puts forth modest notes of warm bread, clove, CornNuts and only a rumor of banana. Medium-bodied with lively carbonation. Light pale grain sweetness and mild lemon tartness. Crisp, tangy finish.

Bottle courtesy of BMan1113VR. Pours a hazy amber with a lasting white head. Smells of lactic acid, tarte, wheat, grassy. Tastes tarte and lacti with a refreshing lemony citric finish. I’d drink this all summer if I had access.