Nico
Orbit Beers in Walworth, Greater London, England 🏴
Kölsch Regular|
Score
6.30
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cagarvie (40076) reviewed Nico from Orbit Beers 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Keg at fyne fest... Golden amber.. Big white head.. Soft dry hay fruit.. Soft grassy fruit
Rasmus40 (37007) reviewed Nico from Orbit Beers 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tap @ Euston Tap. Light hazy yellow with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and light hoppy - grass. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 250316
jamestulloch (9642) reviewed Nico from Orbit Beers 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from BottleDog, Edinburgh. Hazy golden body with a thin white head. Aroma of grass, apricot and bready malts. Flavour of herbs, grass and orange pith. Thin body with an oily texture. Soft fizz. A bit flat flavour-wise.
Koelschtrinker (42542) reviewed Nico from Orbit Beers 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Sehr milder, etwas hopfiger Antrunk. Deutliche Fruchtnoten, trocken herb, weich. 10/9/9/9//9
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Nico from Orbit Beers 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
English take on the old Kölsch style, older bottle from Malt Attacks. The fact that the label says ’Köln style lager’ does not elicit a lot of trust in me: though Kölsch may well be the ale style which comes the closest to a pale lager, it is technically still an ale, at least if one considers the type of yeast to be defining for the distinction between top fermentation and bottom fermentation. Anyway: very lightly hazy ’old gold’ colour with low sparkling, growing ever more misty and peachy as the bottle progresses, ending even a bit ’soupy’, under a medium thick, finely lacing, off-white head consisting of minuscule bubbles. Weakish aroma of dried apricot, white wine, white bread dough, red apple peel, dry hay, after which increasingly less appetizing odours appear: lots of phenols reminiscent of things varying from pleasant cloves to less pleasant band aid, clear DMS (cooked Brussels sprouts) proving that this nasty odour will not go away with age, rotting nettles, pond water. Taste starts with a certain fruity crispness but a bit too estery for a Kölsch, with flavours of green kiwi, unripe plum and green apple, in all a bit more sourish than sweetish; soft carbo contributing to a soft, rather thin body, paired with an oily mouthfeel, a minerally ’basic’ flavour and a simple pale malt sweetishness with a light bready touch. Finish remains pale malts, but some earthy, floral, even somewhat spicy hop bitterness shows up and provides enough structure and drought, even clinging a bit to the back of the mouth; retronasally, I also get a lot of the aforementioned spicy, even herbal phenols. Not too impressed by this: it has too many off-flavours, though the aroma as a whole stays subtle enough for this to remain tolerable; what bothers me more, is that this remains far removed from the classic Kölsch beers from Cologne, in spite of its ambitions. It seems it got lost on the way east and got stuck somewhere in Belgium: if I’d have to taste this blind, I’d associate it much more with an estery, ’dirty’ Belgian blonde rather than with Kölsch. English Kölsch is still a rather strange concept to me, but then we have Thornbridge’s Tzara as the pioneer in this context, which seemed a bit more accomplished. I think this Nico proves that the subtleties of some old European beer traditions often get lost in translation when craft breweries from other countries try to tackle them - Kölsch is far less an ’easy’ or ’simple’ style than it may seem to many. Still, interesting to see an English craft brewery make an attempt at it.
allmyvinyl (21071) reviewed Nico from Orbit Beers 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
330ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours clear gold with a short-lived white head. Aromas of malt, brown bread. Taste is more brown bread, faint herbal hop note at the back. Clean finish.
wheresthepath (3674) reviewed Nico from Orbit Beers 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle from London Beer Lab. Golden amber with a lasting white head and a light fizz. Yeasty and fruity with definite tinned strawberry and some blackcurrant. Bread and honey and minerals. Dry finish with a mild bitterness. Quite flavoursome but ultimately a little too minerally for my liking.
TBone (30139) reviewed Nico from Orbit Beers 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle 330ml (AbM)
Slightly hazy yellow color, small white head. Sweetish malty aroma. Light to medium-bodied. Some citrus, wort and sweetish maltyness. Fruity notes too. Yeah quite Kölsch-like, quite malty with fruity notes, but that’s about it.
Anders37 (30296) reviewed Nico from Orbit Beers 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Pours a golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty grainy aroma. Fruity malty grainy weak grassy flavor. Has a fruity malty grainy weak grassy finish.
Idiosynkrasie (17851) reviewed Nico from Orbit Beers 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
330ml bottle. Minimally cloudy, deep golden colour with small to average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Minimally grassy aroma, somehow fruity, biscuity, pale malty background, hints of gooseberry. Taste is pale malty, mildly strawy-grainy, grassy hoppy overtones, a touch of gooseberry. Kölsch with kind of Kentish hopping.