Koźlak
Minibrowar MajEr in Gliwice, Silesian, Poland 🇵🇱
Bock - Dunkler Bock Regular|
Score
5.94
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Koźlak from Minibrowar MajEr 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
Dark lager by this - to me - unknown Polish microbrewery, thanks Jonathan. Mousy, yellowish pale beige, bubbly and irregular, medium sized, breaking head on a hazy chocolate brown beer, quite dark but still translucent with wine-red hue. Aroma of moldy acorn shells, tea gone bad, soap, dried figs, halfripe blackberries, dust, detergent, dead tree leaves. Fruity onset with sweetish fig and raisin notes but also an initially blackberry-like, but eventually very 'dirty' sourness clearly hinting at infection, like in the other two beers I had from this brewer; medium carb, brown-bready and caramelly, soft malt sweet core marred by this sour milk- and spoiled vegetable-like sourness, dirty and powdery, even a tad astringent; earthy finish with a leafy hop bitterish note, but then this weird brown soap- and detergent-like chemical effect appears. The sourness lingers, combining with the dark malts to an effect not unlike 'oud bruin', but in the worst way possible. Clearly unintentionally sour, very weird and heavily infected like the two other beers I tasted from them - if this represents their brewing skills, I think they urgently need to find another job. Still the least undrinkable one of the three, though that is cold comfort in this case, I'm afraid.
Bamsen78 (8674) reviewed Koźlak from Minibrowar MajEr 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottle. Pours clear copper brown with small, airy off-white head. Clear, roasty aroma with malty and hoppy notes and touches of butter. Sweetish, malty and buttery flavour, with unpleasant, metallic, bitter notes, perhaps some traces of hops too. Bitter aftertaste. Not a very positive experience but an endurable one. Past BBD. Needs re-rating.