Brewery – Lemke
House – Das Lemke – Brauhaus Lemke am Hackeschen Markt
Address – Dircksenstraße, S-Bahnbogen 143, 10178 Berlin
Date of first visit – May 26th, 2007
Most recent visit – October 12th, 2022
Ruhetag – opens daily at 12.00
URL – https://en.lemke.berlin/hackscher_markt/
Located under the railway arches adjacent to Hackesher Markt S-Bahn station, Lemke is hard to miss. The premises are spacious with a garden to the rear. The venue can feel a bit dingy at times.
Brauerei Lemke was established in 1999, the first of the new wave of Hausbrauerei which sprung up across Berlin. Lemke now call themselves the first of the Craft Breweries in Berlin, if so, this passed me by for many a year. In the October 2022 trip to Berlin Brian, Mein Host at Bräugier, suggested we meet up there to survey the scene.
India Pale Ale 6.5%
IPA
Amber, clear
Amarillo, Simcoe, and Cascade hops
There is a decent sense of the hops being present, alas there remains an amateurish aftertaste.
030 Pale Ale 5.0%
APA Cascade, Centennial hops.
Berliner Perle 4.9%
Helles – Lager
Gold with a chill haze. a decent body for this abv
Malty, alas the homebrewed taste remains.
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Hopfen Weisse 7.0%
Cascade hops meets Bayerische Weizenbock
Festbier 5.9%
Yellow, clear, a good body.
A shock tasting the Deutsche hops after the IPA.
Once the palate calmed down, this was found ot be OK, no better.
The worrying aftertaste was not found here.
Wiener Lagerbier 5.4%
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Bohemian Pilsner 5.0%
