Grand Teton Snarling Badger Berliner Weiss

Brewed by Grand Teton Brewing Co.
Style: Berliner Weisse
Victor, Idaho USA

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Bottle. Personal Rating #2600. I chose this for #2600 because, well...actually, I didn’t really choose this beer for #2600; it just happened to be #2600, because that’s just what happened. It’s probably the 4800th beer I’ve had, but I am so sick of rating beer and saying the same shit over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, that I probably rate every 16th new beer that I try these days. I chose to rate this because I couldn’t figure out anything else to do. I was playing the guitar, but I don’t think today was a good guitar playing day, I wasn’t really into what I was playing today. I think another reason I chose to rate this beer is because it’s...woah now, I almost said it’s a berliner weisse, but what I meant to say that it says it’s a berliner weisse..and I like berliner weisse’s so I figured that because the label says it’s a berliner weisse that it would in fact be..a berliner weisse, and being a berliner weisse, I figured that there was probably a decent chance that I might even like it, and then, because I liked it, I might be able to say some words in a rating that I hadn’t said over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again in other ratings.

In any event. This is a 7.5% "Berliner Weisse" that tastes like an imperial hefeweizen. I’ve probably never said that sentence in a rating before. Pours a cloudy bronze-yellow, spotty white head. Hefeweizen-like nose of wheat, banana, and clove. Flavors follow suit; if there is lactobacillus in this beer, I think it may have been dead when it got thrown in. It basically tastes like a high alcohol hefeweizen. It’s not putrid or anything; it’s not like the dead lactobacillus caused any horrific off flavors; i dont really think it did much of anything, actually. It’s just your average hefeweizen with a few more percentage points of ABV...this is what you call a date rape beer. I guess. I don’t really know; I dont have much experience calling beers date rape beers; in fact, this was my first. I lost my date rape beer name calling virginity to Grant Teton Snarling Badger. Know mother fucking that, and know it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over (typing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again is actually quite fun) and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

750ml bottle. Rating #61. Hazy golden pour with a thin white head. Fruity aroma, banana and apple come to mind and with a little spiciness to add to the overall strangeness of it all. Flavor is similar, more fruitiness, light banana and not much tartness. Nice beer, but it’s not terribly berliner weiss like, tasty stuff though. (2467)

Pours hazy golden with a a fluffy white head. Aroma is sweet and citrusy. Flavor is lightly tart lemons, wheaty malt, and typical hefe flavors.

Head is thick dissipating to dancing lacing in a sanitized glass - yeah, it looks like dancers and no, I’m not drunk. Color is hazy wheat burnished gold. Nose is fresh citrus. Palate is cirtus with the lacto bite with upfront wheat mildness and a refreshing wheat light/medium body. Recalling that Napolean’s troops called this Berlin champagne or something similar, I can understand that in this version which has an ABV of 7.5 % closer to champagne than the standard 3%. As so few beers do, it has a strong nose, which I appreciate. 2012 vintage brew in a 25.4 oz bottle. Enjoy!

pours a hazy straw color with 4 finger head with minimal lacing, but lingers. Spicy clove with hint of banana. Bready malt flavor. mildy sweet up front, but turns very tart with bright citrus flavors. Citrus hops present, but not prominent. Medium body with active carbonation. Long bitter and tart finish. Very good. i like this. I only wish I had a second to save for the cellar.

Supposed to be a Berliner, but lacks any acidic bite. It’s a decent beer with some yeast and spicey notes. But missing some things to make it taste as detailed.

On tap at Kupro’s, Sacramento. Pours cloudy golden with a thin off-white head and a sourish fruity aroma. There is a slightly sour apricot flavor with a dry tart finish. Very refreshing and easy to drink.

8/10/12. 750mL bottle. Lightly hazy golden pour with a nice fluffy off-white head. Light chalky aroma with touches of tropical fruit and tartness. Overly sweet fruity flavor with barely light tartness. Too sweet and not enough tart. Eh.

Brewster’s (Sheraton Four Points LAX), Los angeles, CA. Pours a hazy yellow color with a whit ehead. Has a fruity tart citrus aroma. Fruity malty tart citrus flavor. Has a fruity malty tart sour citrus finish.

I am sorry but this just isn’t a berliner. Just a sweet and overly spiced wheat beer. Not one single iota of tartness or lactic anything. Its would be ok if in the wheat beer category.