Shallow Back Mixed Culture Berliner Weisse was brewed with undermodified barley and wheat and fermented in neutral oak with our house ale yeast and lactobacillus plantarum before being bottle conditioned for three months. Light in color with lemon zest and sage building up to ripe stone fruit, water cracker and white pepper, it has direct but quickly dissipating acid and on overall relaxed presence.
A 13,000-square-foot building that was being used as a warehouse, office and makeshift dwelling became Half acre's Lincoln brewery in 2008. With equipment purchased secondhand and driven home from Colorado, they built one of the first production breweries Chicago had seen in a long time.