7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Very German style beer brewed by a very Irish brewery, thanks to my girlfriend for the can straight from Ireland! Thick and foamy, snow white, stable, lacing head over a clear pure golden blonde beer with lively visible sparkling, turning lightly misty with sediment. Aroma of freshly baked white bread, freshly cut grass, potato starch, pumice, wet sand, minerals, hard green apple, Graham crackers, sweaty touch lagging behind. Crisp, clean onset, some very restrained fruitiness from that limited yeast residue, hinting faintly at unripe banana and green apple; remains very low in sweetness though, with a lively carbonated, smooth mouthfeel, in which minerally carbonation runs through cereally, straightforwardly white-bready maltiness, pure and simple, picking up a soft grassy hop bitter note in the end, which lingers a bit with gently drying effect. Feels natural, clean, to the point and pure, but perhaps a tad too generic to fully qualify as a Kölsch - a style which needs perfection in its tiniest details to be of significant distinction, something which is only very rarely accomplished outside of Cologne. That being said, this Limeburner is technically very well executed and refreshing on a summer day - I would happily drink this all afternoon.
Tried
on 04 Aug 2025
at 17:49