Floydinizer: Are any of you guys very keen on beer?
I just poured myself a pint of Schneider Weisse Hopfenweisse.
It poured beautifully, didn't froth too much and had a wonderful golden colour, but at the end I let it trickle straight down into the glass, and as the last drops hit, they coagulated in the beer!
I could see a reaction going all through the rest of the glass, becoming murky and even tiny white specks forming.
Anyone know what the hell happened? I've never seen this before.
Sure, there's some residue at the bottom of the bottle sometimes, but it never makes the whole pint slowly become murky.
Anyway, it smells and tastes fine, so I'm sure as hell gonna drink it :p
Wheat has proteins in it that cloud a beer (most wheat beers have a haze to them, ranging from slight to a full on cloud of flecks!) and a bottle conditioned beer will have a yeast "sludge" build-up at the bottom of it, particularly if it's a bit older. If I want a perfectly clear beer (or at least as clear as the wit, weisse or hefe can be), I'll leave the last inch or so of beer in the glass. Because that really yeasty last inch can impart different flavors, I'll actually pour it into my glass when I'm near the end of the beer just to get a sense of how much character the yeast can contribute. And, they're laden with B vitamens which are 1) good for you and 2) can keep you from feeling the effects of *ahem* overimbibing (when I'm home I do admit to occasionally being curious what my favorite IPA of the moment tastes like after having a big bold beer - the next morning I'm always glad when one or both were bottle conditioned!).
The other alternative is that sometimes the bugs in a soured weisse or any soured beer (I've not had this beer - so I don't know if it is or isn't a Berliner weisse) don't get along or it hasn't aged properly / long enough - so the beer will be "sick" - it'll have long mucus like strands in it - but it doesn't sound like this is what's going on with yours.