High Water Brewing Cucumber Kölsch

Cucumber Kölsch

 

High Water Brewing in Lodi, California, United States 🇺🇸

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Score
6.56
ABV: 5.4% IBU: - Ticks: 8
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Ya, it's very cucumber-y.

Tried on 13 Dec 2024 at 18:38


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Slightly hazy golden and copper coloured body with a thinnish, very fast-dying pure white head. Aroma of fake sugars, light malt, wheat, grass, hay and a heavy dose of cucumbers and fairly light alcohol. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong cucumber and wheat flavours dominate at first with a lot of grass and herbal notes with some floral aspects and very little of just about everything else, including sugars, depth, grain and anything complex. Aftertaste shows some wheatie and herbal notes with a ton of grasses and hay notes with a light hop bitterness showing some subdued complexity with almost no sweetness or depth, but a crisp, easy-drinking beer with a lot of cucumber notes. Overall, a fairly nice beer that shows the crisp malts (I taste wheats) and the cucumber, but I feel that this tastes more like an ale than a lager, but crisp throughout. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Corner Store, Bait & Tackle in West Palm Beach, Florida on 14-February-2021 for US$4,19 sampled at my house here in Washington on 20-June-2021 - Father's Day 2021, after celebrating with my wife and three kids.

Tried from Can on 21 Jun 2021 at 07:24


2.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5

Canned from Premier Gourmet. Copper coloured. Cucumber, bit of spearmint, some caramel malts. Not very well done.

Tried from Can on 12 Jan 2018 at 15:25


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Draft. Straw beer with an off-white head. Cucumber aroma. Cucumber and light malt flavor. Medium bodied. Cucumber and light malt lingers.

Tried from Draft on 13 Aug 2017 at 21:39


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

16oz can pours with a crystal clear pale gold body that supports a thin white head of foam. The aroma offers up plenty of cucumber and it seems the cucumber skin is noticeable as well. Well behind that note is a sense of malts and vague to spicy hops. The taste delivers a pleasing degree of cucumber flavor that seems refreshing until the overly sweet and less crisp and clean maltiness comes forward to side track the Kolsch experience I’m trying to have. Into the finish the cucumber notes persist and allow a sneak peek at some faint floral to spicy hoppiness. The level of cucumber and cucumber flavor are really nice but the beer behind it is just too sweet and sluggish for a Kolsch. Darn.

Tried from Can on 18 Feb 2017 at 17:09


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

On tap at Hop Devine. It pours a clear light golden color with a white head. The aroma has nice pale malitness, hints of corn, mint and cucumber. The flavor is very strong with the cucumber and lighter notes of pale malt and a little hop spice in the finish. Light bodied. The cucumber was a bit overdone... in fact a LOT overdone on this one. Not offensive though. Decent drinking.

Tried from Draft on 19 Aug 2016 at 15:09


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

16 oz can, purchased at Special Brews. So intrigued by this beer. It’s like there was no way this beer wuldnt be refreshing, even though it’s a High Water beer, in a 16 oz can that looks like a homebrew label, and it’s a beer that sounds like a homebrew idea. Who cares. It’s good. I didn’t pour this. Instead, I enjoyed it from the can, while pretending to know how to work on my car. If the gas gauge says empty, I know how to fix it, but the line sorta gets drawn there. Fruity aroma. Flavor is exremedy refreshing, though a bit of a watered down feel. The kind of beer I would want to take with me on a hiking trip through the illustration on the can. Tasty stuff here. Another positive cucumber beer story.

Tried from Can on 05 Aug 2016 at 17:21


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can shared by Marcus. Pours gold with a transient white head. Aroma of cucumber and something spicy. Med body almost. Flavor is cucumber, spicy hop, and maybe a coconut hint maybe not.

Tried from Can on 20 Jun 2016 at 14:46