Kykao - Handcrafted

Microbrewery in Patras, Western Greece, Greece 🇬🇷
Associated Venue: Kykao Handcrafted Microbrewery

Established in 2018

Contact
Platani, Patras, 26504, Greece
Description
We are a small, independent, cooperative microbrewery founded in a village near Patras. Our goals are to make top quality craft beer and to create a healthy and truly equal working environment, respecting and protecting nature in every way possible!

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7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle, thanks a lot Fin! Cloudy copper, offwhite lace. Dry wood, light vanilla and apricot, light leaf, medium mellow foamy Chewy body, dry honey, spruce wood, stonefruit, flowery, rose, apricot. Super interesting.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Jun 2021 at 17:38

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle, many thanks Fin! Hazy orange color with white head. Aroma is spruce, spicy yeast, a touch honey, apricots. Taste is honey, peach, apricots, spicy yeast, sweet finish. Oily-viscous mouthfeel with fizzy-ish carbonation. Good one!
Tried from Bottle on 03 Jun 2021 at 17:37

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle from Fin, thanks! Hazy golden blonde, honey (almost like a chestnut hiney I once had) and flowers are apparent, resiny forest, complex! Flavor is a great mixture of honey flavor, but still dry, spruce and hop bitterness on the back end. Acidic tingling on the tongue together with the big carb. Fruity, fantastic!
Tried from Bottle on 03 Jun 2021 at 17:36

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Bottle via Fin, thanks! Medium red, hazy, moderate head. Nose of cherries, raspberry, oak, sour notes. Flavor is amazing, complex and fruity, nice wood tannins, high acidity. If you like strong complex sours, just get it. World class sour!
Tried from Bottle on 09 May 2021 at 15:24

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle courtesy of Kostas, Kykao brewery. Had this Friday 30th April 2021 listening to Iggy Confidential on 6Music and then a series on Netflix called Innocents. Pours dark brown/possibly black in colour with a barely any head, sweet, dried fruit such as dates, figs etc dominate the nose. A little boozy but surprisingly easy to drink. I'm not getting much underlying fruity acidity, in fact this is very soft with oodles of residual sweetness, complex and great version of the original, having said that I possibly prefer the original despite what this brings to the party
Tried from Bottle on 01 May 2021 at 03:29

8.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9
Bottle. Thanks Fin! Hazy green, golden, offwhite foam. Sweet perfumed resinny but also fresh floery nose. medium full dry spicy body, good pleasnat chewiness, nice oil/resin layer. Dry wooden, super broad classic hops, clean, citrus, pomelo, grass, sweet resin, pine. Clean, Not cloying in any sense, amazing taste explosion. very very nice! Absolutely brilliant stuff.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Mar 2021 at 19:35

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle. Clear golden color with small white head. Aroma is piney, resinous, pomelo, marmalade. Taste is super clean dry&bitter West Coast IPA, indeed with a strong bitterness and A LOT of flavour. Oily & chewy mouthfeel. What a treat. This is not strong & bitter, it really feels like a 6.5% IPA with more taste. Incredible balance!
Tried from Bottle on 10 Mar 2021 at 19:33

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle, many thanks to Fin! Rather clear ruby-amber color with off-white head. Aroma is red berries, maraschino cherry, almondy. Taste is vineous strong cocktail cherry again and other red berries, strongly woody finish, a bit tannic. Not too acidic. Lovely and very drinkable!
Tried from Bottle on 10 Mar 2021 at 18:35

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Bottle, thanks for sharing Fin! Hazy golden red, amber foam. Nice dry wooden, berry - mostly cherry aroma, flowers. Medium body, dry to sour, sparkly. Mon Cheri Feeling, chocolate roast, almond, cherry and blackberry, funky tart finish. Fresh, moreish, very nice.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Mar 2021 at 18:34

6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 5.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at troubles' place. Thanks Tom L. Black. Roast, licorice, coffee, soy sauce, sweetish and umami, bitter finish, some alcohol, full-bodied.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Mar 2021 at 18:02