Kölschella

11th May 2016, 22oz bottle shared with my wife while on holiday in California. Poured into Corsendonk badged stemmed tulip glasses. Cloudy body, dirty orange in colour with a full white head. Half Kolsch, half Wheat beer is where my thoughts went as we sniffed and sipped this beer in the warm afternoon sun. Refreshing and different, not sure I could have had the whole 22oz’s though.

Love the name of this. OK, my bar is set pretty high for Kolsch. Hmm. Here we go. The 22oz bomber pours with a slightly hazy deep gold body that supports a dirty white head of foam. The aroma offers up a bit of fruity esters, malts, vague mineral to earthy spicy hoppiness and then a mild breadiness in there somewhere too. The taste turns this in the right direction. It has fairly crisp punchy hops that come across as bitter noble hops that have a floral to an earthy spicy to a thin lime like sensation to them. Behind the hops lurk mild malts that have a slight cracker sensation. This is tasting pretty Kolsch-y. I like the light non sweet body and crisp hops. Solid.

Poured from a bottle it is a clear golden with a big white head. The aroma is pineapple and the taste is a slight bitter taste of malt

From a 22 oz bottle shared at home on New Years day. Pours a clear gold with a white head. Bready nose. Flavors of biscuit. Crisp finish.

Bottle. Golden beer with a big cream head. Light lemony citrus aroma with light hay. Malt and light grain flavor with lemony citrus. Medium bodied. Malt and light grain lingers with light lemony citrus.

Bomber from Capitol Beer in Sacramento, CA. Pours light gold with a slight white head. Smells sort of bready and mildly white berry. Med body or nearly. Flavor is rather spicy, and floral/white berry. Followed by some bread. It is crisp and clean. But it’s a bit like someone poured a little Fume Blanc into the beer. If this was a blind taste, I’d probably think it was a pretty good pale lager.