This beer was first brewed as a collaboration between Alvinne and Laugar Brewery from Spain. Alvinne has retained the recipe as a regular in their lineup.
‘Ich Bin Ein Berliner’ – famous words spoken by President John F Kennedy to convey America’s support of West Germany against the Communists states. It translates to something like ‘I am a Berliner (in spirit)’.
The meaning when related to this beer is much simpler. It is a Berliner – that is a Berliner Weisse. The further play on words is that this beer is brewed using 20% wheat, 30% rye and the remaining 50% barley. And it of course it contains Alvinne’s famous house yeast Morpheus.
It is a delightfully simple sour beer. Without being too sour, it can still draw an eye scrunch at the bottom of the glass.
The wheat adds a little something texturally, while the rye imparts and extra peppery prickle. The beer is crisp and tart, very refreshing with a dry finish.
A Berliner Weisse with 20% rye and 30% wheat malt, aged in oak for 8 months before the addition of raspberries for a further 4 months
A Berliner weisse with hibiscus flowers and fresh blueberries
A light and refreshing summer style Berliner Weisse, dry-hopped with Simcoe, Mosaic and Citra hops
De Molen's summer Berliner Weisse for 2019 is fruited with cranberries
A lightly soured blonde beer with the additional of passionfruit and lemon
A Berliner-Weisse with a subtle tartness and gentle citrus finish
An intriguing dark ale, brewed with spices (ginger, coriander & cardamom)
A Berliner Weisse with 20% rye and 30% wheat malt, aged in oak for 8 months before the addition of raspberries for a further 4 months
A refreshing Grisette style beer, a collaborative brew with Cervesa Guineu from Spain
A big Belgian Quad aged in red wine barrels, then transferred to Sauternes white wine barrels for a further year
Cuvee D'Erpigny is back in 2016 with the Pays D'Erpigny aged in French Sauternes barrels
Cuvee Freddy is Alvinne's take on a Belgian Our Bruin, the Framboos has 20kg fresh raspberries added per 100 litres of beer, than aged in red wine barrels for several months
An interesting beer from Alvinne, and one of Belgium's most bitter beers at 115 IBU
A second version of this beer, with a dominant display from the Morpheus yeast supported by Cascade and Chinook hops
A big Imperial Stout, dark fruit, chocolate and a hint of sourness
A Farmhouse Tripel is one of the new offerings from Alvinne, but it isn't exactly traditional
Alvinne's saison is light, crisp, quite funky with a hint of sour thanks to blending a little of the Omega blond sour beer
A little sweet, a little sour, lots of body and complexity
A blonde Sour/American Wild Ale - a great balance of bitter, sweet and sour
A cross between a barley wine and an ABT, with the added complexity of Alvinne's Morpheus yeast
This amber sour is one of the base beers Alvinne use to create many of their barrel-aged creations
A dark sour beer of 10.0%. Part of the renowned Alvinne Morpheus Sour Collection
A old style brown ale aged in an oak Foeder where it gains the lactic acidity
A rich and boozy quadrupel, featuring Alvinne's Morpheus house yeast
