Berlin

Why it matters to beer

Berliner Weisse was Berlin’s everyday beer into the twentieth century, produced by hundreds of breweries. It uses a mixed fermentation of Saccharomyces and Lactobacillus, and was nearly extinct by the 1990s before being revived largely outside Germany.

Styles from here

• Berliner Weisse

  A very low-strength sour wheat beer: sharply lactic, bone dry, lightly sparkling and enormously refreshing.

Beers brewed here

• Berliner Kindl Weisse

  The most widely distributed survivor of Berlin’s own beer, and the version most drinkers outside Germany have actually met.

Breweries

Berliner Kindl