Ketzer
Dutchess Ales in Wassaic, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Great South Bay BreweryLager - Keller / Zwickel / Landbier Regular
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Score
6.84
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Ketzer Lager is a Franconian inspired Helles, a style that has long been close to our hearts. Striving to reflect the pure balance, nuance, and quality found in this traditional style, Ketzer is brewed with German Pilsner malt, just a kiss of Vienna and Light Munich and hopped with selected Perle, Hallertau Mittelfrüh, and Saphir hops. A gentle biscuit malt character and a noble floral, spicy hop aroma prevails with notes of wildflower honey, citrus zest, alpine herbs and a hint of peppercorn. To ensure that classic mouthfeel and expressive mineralty, Ketzer is unfiltered and naturally carbonated, leaving nothing but joy.
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6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft: Poured a golden with a white fluffy head. Aroma is sweet grainy, light citrus and grassy. Taste is nice fresh grain, light hops.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Mar 2026
at 19:37
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Reviewed from notes.
Can to mug.
Appearance: cloudy rustic yellow to orange color with a finger and a half's worth of white foamy head which slid off nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: floral to grassy spicy hoppiness up front with a light biscuity malt backbone
Flavor: meshes the prior noted aromas together fairly malty sweet with a light aftertaste of biscuits and grassy spicy hops
Texture: light to medium bodied, sessionable; fairly smooth along the tongue; finishes crisp and semi-floral with some grassy spicy hops
Overall: to me a nicely done lager I would return to.
Can to mug.
Appearance: cloudy rustic yellow to orange color with a finger and a half's worth of white foamy head which slid off nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: floral to grassy spicy hoppiness up front with a light biscuity malt backbone
Flavor: meshes the prior noted aromas together fairly malty sweet with a light aftertaste of biscuits and grassy spicy hops
Texture: light to medium bodied, sessionable; fairly smooth along the tongue; finishes crisp and semi-floral with some grassy spicy hops
Overall: to me a nicely done lager I would return to.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Feb 2026
at 20:25
7/10
Canned from DBW+ poured yellow gold white head all the standard notes, sweet cracker biscuit etc pretty good
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2025
at 02:08
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can thanks to Yu. Pours a hazy yellow gold with small white head that lasts. The aroma is dough, cracker, biscuit. Slick body, dough, biscuit, light finish, very good.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Sep 2023
at 22:39
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Light sweet malt here. Pours golden with decent head. Crisp finish with a little mercury malt like aroma. Tap at Snally.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Oct 2022
at 14:54
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Crowler from 64oz in Hood River. Clear golden, small lacy head. Sweet grainy aroma. Taste is fruity, sweet, apple, sticky. A bit dry.
Tried
from Crowler
on 26 Sep 2022
at 02:03
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Crowler pours out golden topped with a white head. Nose is light grain bread and some grass. Taste is more of the grain corn husk notes and some grass.
Tried
from Crowler
on 26 Sep 2022
at 01:28
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
'N baie goed Frankenbier. Lightly clouded body with a thick white head. Light leafy aroma. Quenching malt taste with good hoppiness.
Tried
on 25 Jun 2022
at 21:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
16 oz. can. Pours a clear, straw color, with a medium, frothy, off-white head. The aroma is cane sugar, quinine, light sage, green tea, and white pepper. Sweet and sugary, with a light, lovely bitterness. Light, crisp, and bright. Quality lager, with a lovely, spicy, yeasty character.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Mar 2022
at 16:49
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pour is a chill haze gold with a large white head. Aroma is biscuit and bready malt. Flavor is a very clean bready lager malt with a minor sulfur yeast residual. Pretty nice helles. Clean and flavorful.
Tried
on 30 Oct 2021
at 22:57