6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Golden kolsh with a nice creamy white head. Lightly sweet malt in aroma with grassy notes. Sweet fruity malt with a hint of pineapples, and some faint hops becoming stronger in mouth as tasting progresses. Quite nice. Bought at Beers of the World (fall 2004).
Tried
on 11 Jun 2005
at 13:57
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
500 ml bottle, at the foreign beer bar of the 32nd Cambridge Beer Festival. (Was also available on draught there, but not when I decided to sample it.) This was my first Kölsch ever, as far as I can remember. Moderate head, yellow colour. Looks like a pilsener or a helles, smells like a decent pilsener: grass, hints of tropical fruits. Flavour nearly like a decent helles or one of the better pale lagers, but a slight yeastiness betrays its origin. Decent, but did not impress me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2005
at 07:04
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Perfectly clear golden color with minimal head and lacing - fresh hop aroma with light touches of grain - very crisp, clean, light and refreshing, but not watery at all - slight grassy, herbal qualities, with a tiny bit of hops - very subtle sweetness and a surprising vinous quality that works for some reason - totally clean finish - quite nice, great for warmer weather.
Tried
on 20 Feb 2005
at 20:06
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
draught, served ice-cold Very pale gold; collapsing yellowish head, very dense. "Herb" nose, bit of hops and little malt, bit of ’sulphur’ - probably very green-yeasty beer. Sweet, soft-grainy taste, again yeasty-fruity-estery. Probably even sweeter when warming up. Sticky-sweet MF, keeps sticky, smacking for a long time. This could do with some lagering. Very green, though not bad.
Tried
on 14 Dec 2004
at 02:33
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Wässriger, getreidig hellmalziger Antrunk. Besser im Abgang, hell süßlich, etwas trocken-herb. Mittelintensiv, süffig, nett. Dann aber wieder langweilig monoton, keine Spur von Hopfen, etwas. Holz. /9/8/8/9/8
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2004
at 16:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Sweet malt aroma with hint of apricot - for some reason initial smelled like bleach. A bit on the drier side than most Koelschs. Seems a bit bland. Not my favorite Koelsch.
Tried
on 15 May 2004
at 05:46
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Paid $2.49 for a 500ml bottle. Very average golden with a small white head. Smells slightly grassy and nutty-- smells more like the stereotypical "dark" beer than a light one. Very average taste... A bit grassy, has hints of nuttiness, but nothing special. Well, there's another beer under my belt, so I guess it was worth it... but it wasn't anything to tell others about.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2004
at 19:18
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
2011-05-28, from barrel at the brauhaus, 5-3-5-2-10=25
It has a darker shade of blond, small head. Very light malt and cereals aroma; the flavor too is simple, just light malt; ordinary bitterness. Boring.
2004-01-23, bottle, 4-2-5-2-9=22
Light blond color. Light carbonic aroma, and very light hop. Watery; poor taste. Quite bitter end, but no real feature.
It has a darker shade of blond, small head. Very light malt and cereals aroma; the flavor too is simple, just light malt; ordinary bitterness. Boring.
2004-01-23, bottle, 4-2-5-2-9=22
Light blond color. Light carbonic aroma, and very light hop. Watery; poor taste. Quite bitter end, but no real feature.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2004
at 06:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
At the Brauerei Ausschank, July 2011. Bright yellow with a lasting and very white head. Aroma of fruit, malt, herbal hops and DMS. Sweet and full bodied, fruity and spicy hoppy flavur, with a good bitter finish.
Tried
on 15 Dec 2003
at 13:36
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
New rating: 2/24/2010: My first rating was #133, back in 2003. Now that I know a little more about Kölsch, time for a re-rate: Sweet malt smell in pour, not much hops to it, just lighter than pilsener. Pale gold color, just a few bubbles twinkle along the glass. Light taste. Kind of saccharine, but that’s what I’ve been finding in my Goose Summertime too. Maybe this summer style just doesn’t age too well. Not much in the way of hops, though there is a slightly fruity ester. This may have gone down better on my back porch in the summer, instead of in my basement after another snowfall. But I just seem to like this less the second time around. Original rating, 11/11/03: 6-3-7-3-13:
Bottled. Malty, with a kind of raw grainy texture to it. A pleasing extra kick of hops.
Bottled. Malty, with a kind of raw grainy texture to it. A pleasing extra kick of hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Nov 2003
at 09:07