Bethlehem Brew Works Berliner Weisse

Brewed by Fegley’s Brew Works
Style: Berliner Weisse
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania USA

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This wasn’t a strong beer, but it tasted pleasant. It could steal Miller High Life’s position as the champagne of beers, it tastes alot like champagne. Very enjoyable. Almost no head, bright yellow color. Good stuff.

Dated 08-14-09. Poured a hazy yellow, aroma was sour. Flavor was light sour citrus and tart. Palate was light and clean finishing.

I did not like this one bit. It looked interesting, but had a weird sweetness and goopy palate with strange carbonation.

Tap (part of sampler). Pours a cloudy straw yellow color with an active white head. Citrus, dough and wheat in the aroma. Crisp and tart. Very refreshing. I could drink a bunch of this. No syrups.

on tap-pours a thin foamy white head and hazy yellow color. Aroma is mild wheat. Taste is mild, musty wheat, secondary light flat (continental) hops, hint of lemon. Light body. OK/mild effervescence.

On tap. Cloudy yellow color with no head. Poor lacing. Wheat and lemony aroma with a thin body. Unusually tart for a weiss. Nice touch. Wheat up front with a tart back end.

Draft @ Bethlehem Brew Works, pre-BCTC beerventure. Pours a cloudy, yellowish-white color; fluffy white head with fine-bubbled lacing. Lots of wheat in the aroma, with the slightest tart lemon character. Very minimal sourness / tartness throughout. Medium mouthfeel: pleasant wheaty and lemony core; crisp tartness keeping things very drinkable, but there’s just not a lot of flavor in here otherwise; tasty wheat and lemon, basically. Pretty quick finish.

Draft at the Bethlehem brewery. Cloudy soft milky ytellow colored body, medium sized bubbles in a white head, stacked a half-inch tall. Husky wheat, corn and lemon zest in the nose, with doughy yeast scents all over this thing. I could smell it from two feet away. Fizzy, watery texture but not exactly thin bodied, only a little bit pale and palid on the tongue. The sourness is not very well defined, it’s unpronounced, more of a lemonade juice sourness than a true lactic yeast sourness. It’s semi-tart, overall a bit mild, and it resembles a lemon soda at times, but it also has a moderately heavy wheat quality. Probably comparable to some of the more sour hefeweizens. Still, though, it’s pretty tasty.

Hazy pale golden pour, with off-white head. Aroma of orange zest, clove, hopcitrus. Tastes citrusy and floral on the palate, with the coriander kicking in late. Pretty smooth finish.

Pours a cloudy light yellow. Aroma is a very well balanced berry sweetness and sourness. Flavor is a milder wheat, berry, with a mild sour. Great aroma but the flavor is a slight let down. With woodruff: the flavor fills out and is excellent.