The Long Haul ? Berliner-Weisse

Well, it’s time for my first sour beer. In true training wheels mode, I’m doing a not very sour sour beer; but a crisp, light, refreshing Berliner-weisse.Berliner-weisse is a style of lactic acid soured, low alcohol wheat beer from Berlin. It’s even an “appellation d’origine contrlle” – it can only be called a Berliner-weisse if it’s brewed in Berlin. So we’ll call it.. a… stuff it. ?It’s a Berliner-weisse.All that aside, Berliner-weisse beers tend to be low alcohol, around the 2.5-3%, very low hopped and often not even boiled! ?Though that may make for a nice short brew day, I’ll be boiling for a short while, just to make sure there’s nothing that isn’t invited to the fermenation rearing it’s potentially ugly head.The recipe for fairly typical ?Berliner-weisse is quite simple. I’m going 66/33% Weyermann Pilsner malt and wheat malt. Double decoctions and no boil is more traditional, but I’ll ...

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