Topic Archives: Berliner Weisse
New Belgium Tartastic Sour debuts
New Belgium Tartastic, a new fruited sour is now hitting shelves.
Recently, a new draft-only, kettle soured beer – Fruit Fly, started hitting taps nationally. Additionally, other notables like La Folie and Transatlantique Kriek hit shelves again. You don’t need us to to tell you, New Belgium’s sour and wild ale game is strong.
Related: New Belgium Cherry Almond Ale
New Belgium Tartastic is a sour ale brewed with lemon and ginger (Which sounds both tart, and clean and fresh tasting.)
A refreshing Sour Ale with the lip-tingling sweet and sour flavors of juicy lemon and ginger.
New Belgium Tartastic is a 12 ounce bottle, draft offering.
Style: Berliner Weisse (w/ Lemons, Ginger)
Hops: Nugget
Malts: Pale, White Wheat
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft.
Debut: Late November, 2016
4.5% ABV
Three Taverns Cranberry Sauced will kick off taproom can series
Three Taverns Sour Asylum 2 is back in action for the season, and for the first time – cans. This sour is basically Thanksgiving dinner in your mouth.
The Decatur, Georgia based brewery kicked off the Sour Asylum Series with Sour Asylum 1, a Lactobacillus kettle soured beer fermented with the brewery’s house lager yeast.
The second edition took that beer a step further with the addition of cranberry juice, cinnamon and clove. A perfect Thanksgiving sour beer. They call it “Cranberry Sauced” for a reason.
At this point, Three Taverns is at capacity. This is preventing them from putting another release into full production right now. With what little time they have to spare, the brewery is launching a taproom only series of can releases.
Cranberry Sauced is the second in our new series of lacto-fermented sour ales. Spiced with cranberry juice, cinnamon, and clove in the fermenter, and balanced by a pleasing acidity from the lactobacillus strain added to the kettle, this unique beer is your perfect companion to the Thanksgiving season.
Three Taverns Sour Asylum 2 is on tap the brewery starting today, September 1st. You’ll find it on tap in market in October.
Style: Berliner Weisse (w/ Cranberry Juice, Cinnamon, Clove)
Availability: Draft, 12oz Cans (Taproom)
Latest Return: November, 2016
5% ABV
Westbrook Whiskey Sour Weisse Weisse Baby (start humming)
Westbrook Whiskey Sour Weisse Weisse Baby is now available. A new spin on the brewery’s berliner weisse.
The creation Westbrook Whiskey Sour Weisse Weisse Baby requires lemons. Bourbon barrels. And more lemons (besides the base berliner weisse).
Stop! Commence the sippin’ Westbrook is back with a brand new invention with this not-so-traditional twist on our German-style Berliner Weisse. We take our regular Weisse Weisse Baby base beer and age in in bourbon barrel, then infuse it with fresh lemons before bottling.
Other iterations of Weisse include Lemon Coconut, and upcoming Blueberry. Westbrook Whiskey Sour Weisse Weisse Baby is a 22 ounce bottle release.
Style: Berliner Weisse (w/ Lemons. Barrel Aged. Bourbon.)
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft.
Debut: Late August, 2016
4.5% ABV
New Belgium Fruit Fly, a new passionfruit sour debuts
New Belgium Fruit Fly, a new interpretation of the berliner weisse style, is hitting taps now.
The base beer gets its tartness from Lactobacillus bacteria, aged in stainless steel. The beer is then dry-hopped with Citra hops. During fermentation, New Belgium Fruit Fly is blended with 800 pounds of tropical passion fruit.
Last year, our Pilot Brewers were challenged with creating a few stainless steel sour recipes featuring our proprietary lacto blending process and beautifully tart house lacto strain. While all recipes were great we felt the Passionfruit Citra Sour just killed it.” – Andrew Emerton, New Belgium Specialty Brand Manager
New Belgium Fruit Fly is a draft only, specialty release across the brewery’s national network.
Style: Berliner Weisse (w/ Passionfruit)
Hops: Citra
Availability: Draft Only
Debut: August, 2016
5.7% ABV
Westbrook Blueberry Weisse Weisse Baby
Westbrook Blueberry Weisse Weisse Baby
Breakside Passionfruit Sour Ale back for summer 2016
Breakside Passionfruit Sour, a Great American Beer Festival silver medal winning sour, returns as a summer seasonal this week.
Our award winning sour ale returns as our official “summer seasonal.” Passionfruit Sour is brewed as a traditional German Berliner weisse, and then we add a unique, tropical twist. We use lactic acid producing bacteria to produce a beer that is light in body, extremely refreshing, and mouth puckeringly tart. The addition of passionfruit in our lagering tanks gives this beer an inviting stonefruit aroma.
Breakside Passionfruit Sour is a 22 ounce bottle offering, as well as draft, available from July through September.
Style: Berliner Weisse (w/ Passionfruit)
Hops: German Hersbrucker
Malts: American Two Row, German Wheat, CaraPils, Crystal 20L
Yeast: Lactobacillus
Availability: 22oz Bombers
Distribution: Draft. OR, WA, HI, & BC
5% ABV, 3 IBUs
If you go:
Passionfruit Sour Bottle Release Party
Tuesday, July 19th, 2016 @ Belmont Station
4500 Se Stark Street, Portland, OR 97215
Victory Blackboard Series Berliner Weisse with Elderflower, release #3
Victory Blackboard Series Berliner Weisse with Elderflower is the latest entry in the brewery’s ongoing experimental series.
A blend of Victory’s love of beer and food join forces in a side project of innovation. (The brewery own it’s own beer inspired restaurants making beers like this a no-brainer.) This release features a base beer of berliner weisse, a tart wheat ale, nuanced with the flavor of elderflower.
Herbal and floral aromas emerge from the tart wheat ale as vanilla, wood, and spice impressions compliment a mildly sweet finish, inviting you to Taste Victory!
Victory Blackboard Series Berliner Weisse is the third entry in this new-for-2016 series. Victory Agave IPA with Grapefruit kicked off the line in January, followed by Victory Dry-Hopped Brett Pils. Available in 12 ounce bottles and draft starting in July until December, 2016.
Style: Berliner Weisse (w/ Elderflower)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. One-off release
Debut: July, 2016
5.2% ABV
