Copper Hill Kolsch
The Cambridge House in Granby, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
Kölsch Regular|
Score
6.75
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nimbleprop (16838) reviewed Copper Hill Kolsch from The Cambridge House 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Sampled at the brewpub, pours a clear gold with some lacing, ringing white head. Nose has malt, mild perfume, a little grass, some mild melon. Flavor has lemon, straw, some melon again, a little metallic. Watery finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewpub. Comes to the table a lightly hazy gold with a smallish white head that persists. Nice sweet bready pilsner malt nose with a hint of honey and floral spicy hops. The flavor is a touch on the sweet side with an almost under attenuated quality to it. Sweet honey caramel and pilsner malt with a touch of spicy hop and a hint of diacytyl. Light to medium body with a moderate level of carbonation and a sweet bubbly mouthfeel. Its a touch sweet, but I could get behind a few of these.
Dogbrick (24322) reviewed Copper Hill Kolsch from The Cambridge House 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Sample at the brewpub. Pours a clear straw color with a thin and fizzy white head that evaporates quickly to a film. Spotty lacing on the glass. Aroma of grassy hops and malt. Light body with flavors of mildly bitter hops, biscuit malt and a solvent-like taste in the background. The finish is lightly bitter with a metallic hops aftertaste. Something off about this one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours pale yellow into a shaker. Bright white head with good retention recedes leaving spider lacing. Caramel and resin aromas. Dry with sweet caramel and sourdough upfront turning to grapefruit in the lasting pith finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
really surprised i havent rated this before, and even more surprising is the flavor behind this beer. honestly, pours like a macro american adjunct lager, but the taste is nothing like it at all. extremely full bodied for a kolsch, hints of floral and hop notes with a fresh bread-like maltiness that both satisfies and keeps you wanting more. delicious on a hot summer night in Granby.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
on tap-pours a retaining thin white head that laces and yellow color. Aroma is grain, grassy, lemon. Taste is sweet grain, grassy, lemon/light crisp hops. Light body. OK effervescence.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Copper Hill Kolsch from The Cambridge House 19 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Growler samples from DYCSoccer at BCTC ’06.
Medium clarity, nice to see some slight haziness, enough to signify low filtration. Warm honey-toned is the brassy-gold body. Plastered atop is a small but very stable white head that seems immovable. Wispy lacing is quite apparent.
The nose explodes with a perfect combination of Cologne yeast, lightly papery, hints of chalk and light sulfates with a touch of apple skin. Pear skin is overlaid on top and you get an almost extremely-dry-chardonnay-effect. So immensely crisp I can barely remember any more snappy an aroma than this. Hops are dry, grassy and herbal. Well done to style and just dripping with aromatics. Only the slightest bit of honey seeps through, but it is just enough to suggest balance. Dry biscuits progress as it warms, lightly grainy and further adding dryness. It never gets too dry though, as the light sweetness on the end and the dry green and yellow fruit-notes are well-balanced. No alcohol whatsoever, and just a study in Cologne yeast.
The light pils malt in the aroma translates a bit more in to the flavor. As I take a sip, the tongue is lightly washed in honey, but nearly immediately, the hops add a subtle herbal note as the yeast crackles with snappy, flavorful dryness. More pear skin and fresh white grape-notes slowly transition in to a hint of slight caramel and a touch of chewy, moist biscuits. Tight, low carbonation completes the picture. I’m on the fence with the palate score. It seems there is a slight bit of vapidity on the end and the yeast crispness seems to falter slightly, whereas I would envision a finish and aftertaste with heavy crisp dryness. I could see a touch of lactic-like notes adding a bit more depth, but this is extreme criticism and would be extremely difficult to replicate. Anyways, one hell of an authentic Kolsch. Not thin in the least.
For me personally, it’s satisfying to see the brewer from the first brewpub I started drinking beer at make a top- notch beer like this. Not that I ever doubted he could. He’s come a long way from Skaneateles Light. Thanks again for bringing this, Casey.