Berliner Weissbier

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Berliner Weissbier

Description

Berliner Weisse is a top-fermented, bottle conditioned wheat beer made with both traditional warm-fermenting yeasts and lactobacillus culture. They have a rapidly vanishing head and a clear, pale golden straw-coloured appearance. The taste is refreshing, tart, sour and acidic, with a lemony-citric fruit sharpness and almost no hop bitterness.

Served in wide bulbous stemmed glasses, tourists in Berlin will often order on as a "Berliner Weisse mit Schuss: Himbeere" or "Berliner Weisse mit Schuss: Waldmeister". These are syrups that are added to make the sourness more palatable. Himbeere is raspberry (red) and Waldmeister is woodruff (green).

Typical average alcohol by volume (abv) range: 2.0-5.0%

General Best Practices

  • Limit CO2 and do not aerate before pitching
  • Pitch Lactobacillus between 90F and 120F depending on your Lactobacillus strain or blend for ~ 5-7 days
  • Create Lacto starter 1-2 weeks in advance of brew day.
  • Pitch Brettanomyces after cooling down after Lactobacillus fermentation phase

Methods and Recipes

Devin Bell's

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Basic Recipe

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Sour Mash

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