From tap at the brewpub, 5.2% as Apollo Kölsch. Pours hazy yellow with a little dense white head. Thick malty and dry diacetyl aroma. Thin watery texture, mild caramel malt flavour. Rather dry and with a light butterish note before the finish. Solid bitterness into the finish.

(On tap) Slightly hazy pilsener golden with a decent head. Vaguely floral hop aroma. Medium body, pilsener malty with the usual raw and brutal Apollo finish. Fuck, I really hope that one day all their stock of bittering hops will burn, burn, burn.... 090806

This is a top fermented Kölsch!?! A hazy almost unclear dark yellow beer with a huge slightly off-white head. The aroma is sweet yeasty combined with notes of brewmash - not clean and citrusy as it is supposed to be. The flavor is very powerfully hoppy to start off, which turns grainy and strawy, combined with a slight floral hoppyness - like You find from British hops, and towards the end a hint of metal comes along (also from the hops?). The end is dry and very bitter. This is very far from the style guidelines, and thus far from what I expected - glad I only had a 25 cl serving.