On tap at Ridgewood, pours a hazy bright yellow with a small white head. Nose has notes of straw, subtle floral dry-hopping, and minerality. Flavour is quite bitter, with bitter floral dry-hopping, straw, and crisp biscuity malt. Extremely bitter for a kolsch, but just not very interesting flavour-wise. Okay.

473ml can. Slightly cloudy, dark yellow-ish, golden colour with average, fluffy, moderately lasting and lacing, white head. Minimally bready, pale malty and slightly yeasty fruity aroma, hints of white bread crust, a touch of apricot, protein. Taste is mildly bitter, minimally fruity hoppy and slightly yeasty fruity, minimally bready, pale malty basis, hints of apricot, white bread crust, a touch of protein, minimally metallic overtones. Minimally mushy, watery texture, rather dry palate, medium to fine, dense, foamy, prickly carbonation. Relatively meaty for the style, nice Wiess aspects - not bad.

First dh k�lsch I ever had was G�ffels Sonnenhopfen, which is second only to regular G�ffels on my k�lsch list. Here we have a bit of gloppy pale malt nose, light grassy hop. Moderate bitterness. That malt is not to Holy Mountain standards. My top eight k�lsch are all still from K�ln and even Holy Mountain can't change that.