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Grand Teton Snarling Badger Berliner Weisse

Grand Teton Snarling Badger Berliner Weisse

Rated 3.217 by BeerPals
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Brewed by Grand Teton Brewing Company

Victor, ID, United States

Style:  Berliner Weisse

7.5% Alcohol by Volume

15 International Bittering Units

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Grand Teton Brewing Company has been brewing bold, flavorful beers and serving them from large, beautiful bottles as part of its Cellar Reserve Series since March 2004. We’ve always intended these beers to be wonderful fresh but also to be “cellarable”--to improve with months or even years of proper storage. Over the years we’ve been happiest cellaring our strong malty beers. That’s made selecting styles for our summer Cellar Reserve releases a challenge, since the best beers for cellaring are not always the best beers to enjoy on a hot summer’s day. In Berliner Weisse we think we’ve found the perfect style for our summer Cellar Reserve. This north German wheat beer is traditionally brewed and released very fresh. It has a light body from the wheat and refreshingly tart acidity that make it a perfect summer thirst-quencher. Its lemony tartness is provided by a secondary fermentation with lactobacillus, the same microorganism that’s responsible for yogurt’s tang. That tartness increases and improves with age, so the people of Berlin are known to buy extra bottles to bury in their gardens for two years or more. As usual with our Cellar Reserves, we’ve taken a traditional style and added our own twist. In this case we’ve tripled the strength over the traditional beer, which should only increase its aging potential. For the primary fermentation we used a traditional Bavarian hefeweizen yeast that produces soft notes of banana and clove. We followed that with lactobacillus and six months in conditioning to create a complex fruity acidity that compliments the soft sweet malt tones and a unique ale that is both fulfilling and refreshing. ABV: 7.5% IBUs: 15 Color: 5.9 Lov.

ID: 47942 Last updated 2 weeks ago Added to database 12 years ago

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Overall Rank19591
Overall Percentile64.7
Style Rank71 of 401
Style Percentile82.3
Lowest Score3.1
Highest Score3.7
Average Score3.433
Weighted Score3.217
Standard Deviation0.000

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  • CYBERCAT 13018 reviews
    rated 3.7 12 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    SNARLING BADGER Pours a somewhat hazy amber with a thick and fine-bubbled white head that leaves some generous lacing. Wheaty aroma has a strong yeasty overtone and hints of lemon and banana. Be careful when drinking it - this stuff foams like a mad dog - er, make that mad badger! Wheaty flavor has a firm yeasty note plus subtle fruity hints. Texture has firm body and plenty of fizz.

  • SLOWRUNNER77 5682 reviews
    rated 3.5 12 years ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    I pretty much agree with the Beav on this one. A beer I enjoyed, though it had it's faults. 7.5% is just too much for this style, replacing delicate flavor profile with a little too much sweetness and a little too much body. I dug the slightly tart/wheat/fruit aroma and flavor, but this could have been better. For the coin, not one I'll try again.

  • BEAV 1788 reviews
    rated 3.1 12 years ago

    Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

    750ml bottle. Pours a hazy golden yellow with a small fine white head that goes to a thin film and leaves a little lacing.

    The aroma is wheaty malts and sour almost rotten tropical fruits and bananas with a little stinkiness.

    The flavor is sweet sugary fruity malts and bananas with a little acidic tartness. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with smooth carbonation.

    Overall, too sweet with not much sourness. Crabtree's version is much better.

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