August Schell Noble Star Collection No. #3: North Country
Brunette, Ale Aged in Wood. Berlin-style Marzen Wheat Ale. August Schell Brewing Company, New Ulm, MN. bottled March 14.
Hazy, copper-y coloring, slim white head, soon gone.
Aroma: tartness at the top, cherry-ish, wild and funky.
Taste: Crisp and tart right at the fore, snappy, alert and lively. refreshingly sour. Medium bodied. Clean, smooth, and fruity. Dries right out in the mouth, quits with efficiency. Fierce sour flavor blasts the palate with each new entry. Terrifically intense, complex and satisfying. Love it.
hey, what's it say on the little label around the neck? "The Noble Star Collection is an ongoing exploration into the many different variations of traditional Berliner Weisse beers by the August Schell Brewing Company. North Country Brunette is the third release in the Noble Star Collection and is our interpretation of a Berliner Marzen Weisse. This beer was brewed in the traditional manner, with the addition of wheat, Munich and Vienna malts to provide a rich malt backbone to the beer. It was fermented with an authentic mixed culture of yeast, lactobacillus and brettanomyces, and then aged for nearly a year in our original 1936 cypress wood layering tank. The result is a very tart, dry and complex beer that offers a taste of what a Marzen Weisse would have been like in the past. This beer is unfiltered, hand-filled and bottle-conditioned to allow the flavors to continue to develop and evolve in the bottle. Enjoy this unique interpretation of a Berliner Marzen Weisse chilled in a pokal glass."
Ooops, I used a shaker pint. Oh, well, life goes on.
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