Karl Strauss Brewing Company Follow the Sun

Follow the Sun

 

Karl Strauss Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Kölsch Regular
Score
6.30
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 15 Ticks: 14
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6.5/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Poured up on tap at tipsy where it exhibits a clear gold colored body that supports a near white head of foam. The aroma offers up a fruity bouquet of apples, figs and limes. Interesting. The taste delivers a blend of bready malts, juicy to tangy to bitter lime like hoppiness. To midway the carbonation grows revealing more fruity esters and an edge of yeasty esters. How is it Karl Strauss can't churn out a proper Kölsch? This is muddled and estery and lacks a clean hop profile and crispness of proper Köln Kölsch.
Tried from Draft on 20 Nov 2024 at 04:54

4.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
On a flight at Eureka! Irvine on 30th December 2021. Bog standard Kolsch, meaning it was a light, bright golden colour with a white head and had no real nose or taste. It's subtle in every way, or boring if you are unkind, it just doesn't have an aroma worthy of the name or a flavour you could get your tongue around.
Tried on 31 Dec 2021 at 13:22

6.2/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
The Aromas are wet grain pale malt yeast and dust. Flavors are sweet up front followed with some bitter enhanced by the carbonation. Not a beer with a lot of depth, but drinkable
Tried on 25 Dec 2018 at 02:12

7/10
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Tried on 03 Sep 2018 at 11:56

7.2/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
Drucken på fat på Bishop Gustaf, Malmö. Liknar inte någon kölschå. Brettbg och lite funkig, syrlig, med fat och frisk citrus och ganska stram. Piggt, krispigt och gott.
Tried on 29 Dec 2017 at 11:02

6.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
From tap. Pours cloudy yellw. Small white head. Aroma is bretty and grapefruity. Leathery and herbal. Bretty. Bitter and dry. Lingering fruity finish.
Tried from Draft on 27 Dec 2017 at 08:25

6.9/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Tap@Bishops Arms Gustav, Malmo - Golden clear pour with white head. Fruity and hoppy with a slight tart fruity note, some straw, light tart fruity finish.
Tried from Draft on 27 Dec 2017 at 08:22

6.2/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Golden with a white head - Malt aroma - Malt body with some hops to balance with hints of bitterness - Malt finish with some hints of hop bitterness - This was nice and refreshing
Tried on 18 Aug 2017 at 12:35

6.1/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
(Tap) clear, bright pale yellow colour with a small white head; faint aroma of honey, lemon; balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish
Tried from Draft on 26 Jul 2017 at 15:41

5/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 6 Overall 6
Can from Corti Bros. Pours light gold with a white head. Aroma is lightly bready with a little non-citrus fruit. Med body, nearly. Flavor is bready with some mild grassiness. Not sure where the fruit aroma came from. It is decently bitter, but the flavors aren’t enticing.
Tried from Can on 27 May 2017 at 18:34