Kirkland Signature German Style Lager
Kirkland Signature / Costco Wholesale Corporation in Issaquah, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: F.X. Matt Brewing Company (Saranac)Lager - Amber / Vienna Regular Out of Production
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Score
5.38
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An authentic German style lager brewed with pilsner, dark-roasted Munich, and dark caramel malts. The result is a deep, golden-colored beer with smooth body. The best ingredients create the best beer. We use a bottom-fermenting yeast strain from the Weihenstephan yeast bank from Freising, Germany, and aroma hops from the renowned Hallertau region in Southern Germany. ABV 5.5% Bitterness 22 IBU. Contract brewed for Costco by the Gordon Biersch Brewing Company under the brewer name Hopfen Und Malz (for the west coast market) and since mid 2009 by Matt Brewing as "New Yorker Brewing Co." (for the east coast market).
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4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bouteille @ OTH. Troisième d’une série qui ne laisse rien de mémorable. Arôme de malt grillé, grains, en bouche, savonneux et sec, malt et grillé avec ce qui parait sembler être du malt Munich et malt noir donnant ce petit goût grillé et métallique. Au fini on note une fine amertume.
Tried
on 24 Dec 2010
at 11:05
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Poured a clear copper color, small head. Aroma was grassy, hops, malts. Flavor was, uninspiring, but drinkable. Absolutely nothing wrong with this beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2010
at 22:58
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 oz bottle from Costco, Bakersfield. Nose of grassy hops, light bubblegum, and caramel. Clear orange with a medium off white head. Flavor is lightly bitter, with a smattering of caramel and white pepperiness. Nice Vienna.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2010
at 15:34
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours clear copper with weak white head. The aroma is lager-y , sugary, a bit earthy and with sweet apples and prunes in the background. The taste goes from mildly estery to sweet lager-y, sugary, fruity to faintly spicy. It ends a touch on the dry side.
Tried
on 29 May 2010
at 20:09
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
12 oz bottle into lager glass. Aroma of caramel, cheap grain (at first--it seems to disappear quickly). Pours golden with a medium dissipating head; leaves a nice collar of foam and sticky lacing. Taste is a little sour, sweet, and then bitter. And then sour again. I’m no vienna expert, but this tastes an awful lot like an amber ale--one of my least favorite styles. Too malty for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2010
at 17:17
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle from Costco on 12/16/2009. Clear amber body with a medium creamy white head. Sweet toasty malt aroma with a bit of diacetyl. Sweet toasty malt flavor with a bit of diacetyl and a faint hop background. Medium body with moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2010
at 17:03
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream colored head. malt and light grass aroma with light mineral notes. Malt and light grass flavor with light earthiness. Medium bodied. malt, light eatrh, and light caramel lingers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Oct 2009
at 13:20
1.1/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 1
Flavor 1
Texture 2
Overall 0.5
Bottle: This was one depressing brew... I can’t beleive the effort it must have taken to trap the true aroma of skunk lager in a bottle. Smells bad and tasted slightly less bad. I just didn’t find a single thing in this beer to warrant rating it above the minimum. If it had been me that bought this I would have returned it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2009
at 10:57
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Costco. Orange gold color with a decent white head. Aromas of grain and fruit. Near medium body with mild carbonation. Flavor is a bit weird. There’s fruit and hop spice, and malt, but there’s something extra. Linoleum paste came to mind. Quality product, but hard to pin down the extra flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2008
at 02:33