Berliner Weiss with fruit- not a fruit beer?

Originally posted by flabeer
What is the argument against a new style particular to Florida?

Originally posted by gunhaver
i’m all for more power of the tagging system/overhaul of the current style system. the berliners coming out of Florida right now can fit several categories, as can numerous other beers that have been produced over the years. and the controversy with cramming a beer into a specific category isn’t going to go away anytime soon as more and more breweries do interesting/silly/stupid/cool/innovative/awful things to the beers they produce

Peg’s will happily reclassify the fruit/herb versions as a new style. The evolution is pretty simple to go from BW with syrup (tradition) to skipping the syrup and adding fruit which is how Peg’s started out. I think it is fair to say that the style has evolved beyond anything resembling Berliner Weisse; PFDF, Bloody Berliner, stuff like that is hard to reconcile with the traditional style. The technique for brewing is in some ways irrelevant, and as a sole means for determining the style is a bit silly considering IPA and porter are brewed using the same technique.



How do we get a name and who writes the guidelines?

I would say its something like:

Low gravity lactic sour ales with mild to extreme fruit character, traditionally brewer in Florida.

"Berliner" Weiss... "Lipziger" gose..."Belgian" anything... "American" pale ale
Why not have Florida in the name?

Florida Weisse: Low gravity lactic sour ales with mild to extreme fruit character (a salute to the addition of syrups in Berliner Weisse beers), traditionally brewed in Florida.

let’s call it Cascadian Weisse

Originally posted by gkost
Florida Weisse: Low gravity lactic sour ales with mild to extreme fruit character (a salute to the addition of syrups in Berliner Weisse beers), traditionally brewed in Florida.

Originally posted by flabeer
"Berliner" Weiss... "Lipziger" gose..."Belgian" anything... "American" pale ale
Why not have Florida in the name?

OK... Now we’re on to something. Probably the best place to start would be
Here and the "other" site with beer in it’s name. Get the admin on board
Or submit for reclassification. BJCP will follow. There are more than a handfull
of extremely influntial Master judges in Florida that would be on board
with getting "X" into the BJCP guidelines...and yes, this does matter.
GABF and World Cup medals are given via BJCP guidelines.

Originally posted by TheAlum
I was trying to drive the FlorlinerFlorida Weisse name..