{"id":3380,"date":"2022-06-16T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2022-06-16T14:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T21:27:54","slug":"beyond-the-bottle-sipping-berliner-weisse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-the-bottle-sipping-berliner-weisse\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Bottle: Sipping Berliner Weisse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/august-schell-lunar-interference-bottle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3382 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/august-schell-lunar-interference-bottle-105x300.jpg\" alt=\"august schell lunar interference bottle\" width=\"105\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/august-schell-lunar-interference-bottle-105x300.jpg 105w, https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/august-schell-lunar-interference-bottle.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 105px) 100vw, 105px\" \/><\/a>The origins of Berliner Weisse, like so many beer styles, is pretty fraught, but this tart, rather low-ABV style was once the most popular alcoholic beverage in Berlin\u2014with around 700 breweries making it during its peak in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century (per Fritz Briem\u2019s piece in The Oxford Companion to Beer). Made with wheat in addition to barley, fermented at least partially with lactic acid bacteria, these refreshing beers were often around 3% ABV and were traditionally served with a choice of raspberry or woodruff syrups\u2014though those are a bit challenging to find in the U.S. these days. The majority of current-day examples here are consumed on their own, though many breweries lean heavier on acidity, ABV, or employ fruit in the beer itself.<\/p>\n<p>The Rare Beer Club\u2019s highlighted a number of German-style Berliner Weisse versions over the years (in addition to this month\u2019s Lunar Interference from August Schell), including at least a couple other releases from Schell\u2019s Noble Star Collection, such as Basin of Attraction (a dry-hopped take) and Solar Evolution (a mashup of the Berliner Weisse style and Flanders red ale). 1809 Berliner Style Weisse (created by Dr. Fritz Briem, who also wrote the Oxford Companion\u2019s \u201cBerliner Weisse\u201d entry) and The Bruery\u2019s Hottenroth are two of the examples you\u2019re more likely to find out in the wild, and both capture the style profile pretty well. Bear Republic\u2019s Tartare has been solid (but heavy-handed on the acidity), and Oregon\u2019s de Garde Brewing has spent a good bit of time here\u00ad\u00ad\u2014creating a variety of intriguing fruited examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origins of Berliner Weisse, like so many beer styles, is pretty fraught, but this tart, rather low-ABV style was once the most popular alcoholic beverage in Berlin\u2014with around 700 breweries making it during its peak in the 19th century (per Fritz Briem\u2019s piece in The Oxford Companion to Beer). Made with wheat in addition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[2,4,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Beyond the Bottle: Sipping Berliner Weisse - Craft Beer Blog from The Beer of the Month Club<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The origins of Berliner Weisse, like so many beer styles, is pretty fraught, but this tart, rather low-ABV style was once the most popular alcoholic beverage in Berlin.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-the-bottle-sipping-berliner-weisse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beyond the Bottle: Sipping Berliner Weisse - 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