Likable light-bodied (3.5% ABV) sour wheat ale brings tart lemon limed pucker to the fore as gose-like coriander salting takes a backseat. Lightly acidic green apple mildness and vinous grape tannins provide soft pungency. At the finish, fresh-squeezed lemonade niche and plain yogurt milking reinforce lactic wort-soured citrus continuance.
Impressive Berliner Weisse spreads soured wild yeast and leathery brettanomyces bacteria across puckering lemon-candied tartness. Granny Smith apple sharpness, lemon-juiced white wining and ester-y white grape tannins pick up light balsamic vinegaring at the ultra-dry finish.
Redonkulous ultra-dry Berliner weiss grabs immediate attention flogging purple-labeled Teen Beat mag design while devising tartly acidic blueberry scour. Hooking up with gypsy Dane beer designer, Evil Twin, South Carolina’s finest brewery, Westbrook, bottles and kegs this mightily lactic magenta-pinked sour ale. Puckering lemon-juiced blueberry vinaigrette souring receives vinous green grape, oaken cherry and green apple pungency over crisp-watered minerality. Syrupy woodruff illusions waver beneath bubbly champagne sparkle. Here’s another interesting lactobacillus-injected competitor.
On tap at Orlando’s House Of Beer, exotic light body never lives up to zesty citric-soured expectations. Delicate mandarin ‘yuzu’ fruiting fails at providing sufficient lemony grapefruit-like tartness for highly acidic lactobacillus influence of German-styled Berliner weiss. Stylistic salty coriander adjunct fades to oblivion against pale wheat malt setting, overtaken by lightly sulfuric brettanomyces souring.
Easygoing salted coriander expectancy softens lemon-candied tartness, unripened green apple souring and vinous green grape pucker, narrowly avoiding acidic lactose overload. Delicate white wheat spine and wavered herbal nip lost in the shuffle.
Likable potato-starched Berliner wheat ale will please sour ale lovers. Scarce potato influence creates lactic alkaloid acidity for soured lemon juicing, vinous green grape tartness and salty lime pucker. Dry straw grass leathering brings further acridity to ancillary Granny Smith apple, gooseberry and oaken cherry illusions.
On tap at Jimmy’s No. 43, unconventional stronger version of lactic-soured Abraxas brings tart Gose-related lime salting and spiced lemon zest to Band-Aid-wafted smoked beechwood. Lightly creamed cotton-candied white wheat sweetness contrasts yellow-peppered green apple, white peach, guava and plantain fruiting beneath carbolic citric spritz.
Awesome mulberry-soured Berliner Weiss brings lemon-limed champagne vinegaring to hop-prickled barnyard musk as eye-squinting citric tartness gains strength over white-breaded spine. Lemony green apple ‘accentuation’ tingles its wispy mulberry essence. Serve to nurtured sour ale lovers.
Profusely mouth-puckered beige-hazed yellow-glazed ‘tart wheat ale’ creates vinous Sauvignon Blanc or Belgian Gueuze feel (when not sweetened by raspberry and woodruff syrup). Sour green grape, Granny Smith apple, and unripe lemon fruiting reinforces wild yeast herbage and leathery barnyard funk. Grassy-bottomed horsehide, hay, and maize illusions breach tertiary tannic cherry tartness at tail end of light-bodied carbolic spritzer. Despite heightened brettanomyces level, acidic tendencies are kept in check.
