Topic Archives: Berliner Weisse
Independence RedBud Berliner Weisse Cans, April 11th
Independence RedBud launches this weekend as the brewery’s new summer seasonal. The beer is a berliner weisse, a sour/tart wheat ale.
Inspired by classically tart and refreshing Berliner Weisse flavor profile, RedBud is light and lemony with a crisp acidity. It is brewed with a lactic culture to create the classic sour-citrusy lemon flavor and finished with high carbonation.
Independence RedBud is available in 12 ounce cans starting April 11th.
Style: Berliner Weisse
Availability: 12oz Cans
Release: 4/11/15
4.2% ABV
Cigar City, Cycle, J Wakefield, & 7th Sun Create Beer Tribute “A Beer Named Sue”
Cigar City Brewing, Cycle Brewing, 7th Sun Brewing, and J. Wakefield Brewing are teaming up to create A Beer Named Sue.
The weisse, aka “Florida Weisse” is loaded with prickly pear, brewed as a tribute to one of Tampa Bay’s biggest craft beer supporters, Sue Muntner. Sadly, Sue lost a hard fought battle with cancer in June of 2014.
This beer is dedicated to Sue Muntner, a wonderful friend and supporter of craft beer in Tampa Bay. We made this beer in a style she championed and loaded it with Prickly Pear. Please enjoy this Florida weisse in a snifter, the only appropriate glassware for toasting Sue.
A Beer Named Sue collaboration has not been officially announced by any of the breweries. Cigar City will handle the 22oz bottle packaging.
Style: Berliner Weisse (w/ Prickly Pear)
Availability: 22oz Bottles
Release: TBA
?? ABV
Bayou Teche Persimmon Sour Celebrates 5 Years
Bayou Teche Biere (Arnauldville, LA) releases the first to three sours on January 31st at their five year anniversary party.
Bayou Teche Persimmon Sour starts as a berliner weisse. The brewery used Lactobacillus to sour French pilsner malt, then added persimmon (an edible fruit) and finally re-fermenting the beer with French ale yeast for a cajun spin.
Brewery founder Karlos Knott jokingly calls it a Bayouliner-weisse.
Limited draft and 22oz bottles of Bayou Teche Persimmon Sour will be available at the party.
Style: Berliner Weisse (w/ Persimmon)
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft
Arrival: 1/31/15
?? ABV
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Creature Comforts Athena
Creature Comforts (Athens, GA) is launching Athena as a part of their initial lineup, a berliner weisse. Athena is a tribute to the Athens, Georgia, the brewery’s home.
A refreshing, gently tart, German-style wheat beer. Our take on the classic Berliner has a blend of citric and fruit notes with nods to cider and sauvignon blanc. We go through two fermentations with this beer to offer an interesting complexity in an amazingly light and drinkable beer.
Creature Comforts Athena is a year round draft only (initially) offering.
Style: Berliner Weisse
Availability: Draft only
4.5% ABV
Saint Arnold Launches New Year Round Offering
Saint Arnold (Houston, TX) has launched a new year round offering this week. Pucker up for Boiler Room Berliner Weisse.
Boiler Room started out of an accident. The brewery had started in on their summer seasonal Lawnmower, to find that half the malt had ended up on the floor instead of in the mill. That resulted in 136 barrels (4,216 gallons) of half strength wort (the sugary beer precursor.) That left the brewery with a decision to make.
Brewer Steven Rawlings poured off 10 gallons of the wort, pitched some funky yeast, and let it sour in the boiler room heat for a few days. Next step was to boil the beer, add hops, and ferment it. Saint Arnold Boiler Room Berliner Weisse was born.
“This is the most complicated beer we have ever made, yet it is very light and delicate,” said Saint Arnold Founder/Brewer Brock Wagner. “The result is an incredibly refreshing beer with the light sweetness of the malt balanced with the tartness from the sour wort. While intended to be enjoyed as is, I can also imagine it mixed with syrups or in a beer cocktail.”
This kind of beer is challenging for brewers. The bacteria that is needed to make Boiler Room Berliner Weisse isn’t bacteria you want accidentally getting into other beers. If you make a misstep, your other beers could “get sick,” to put it lightly. This new tart offering is the first new year rounder since Endeavor launched in February, 2012.
Style: Berliner Weisee
Availability: 22oz Bottles, Draft. Year round
Arrival: March 19, 2014
3.5% ABV
