beer_name: White Birch Berliner Weisse
text: 500ml bottle. Pours pale, hazy yellow with a one inch head of white, crackling bubbles. The head drops like a bomb, revealing the classic barren surface found with many acid-laced brews. Zero lacing or retention. Aromatics are laced with enticing lemons, lime, husky wheat, and clove-studded apples. White pepper and cut grass follow through. A nice tart, earthy promise. Light bodied with a crisp, almost spritzy mouthfeel. Sharpish and drying. Bright acid with soured fruits start the palate. Lemon pith with a wheaty twang and grapefruit undertones. Zero bitterness with plenty of tart, quenching dryness and lots of lemony pulp. Finishes with a building tartness, lingering lemons, and bright acid. What a great summer quencher. The tartness perhaps steps into sour territory as the jowels lightly salivate throughout the glass. I'd be really interested to see where this one went with some time in a barrel with Brett.