7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle pours crystal clear deep gold with thin near white head. The aroma offers up a nice sweet breadiness, clean fresh malt graininess and gently flowing into thin streams of floral to sort of spicy hops. The taste is both lively with carbonation and hops as well as grounded by pleasing malts, grainy malts and a bready note or two. The hops are modest in strength and seem to be nearly equal in bitterness and flavor hoppiness with notes of spicy and floral hops. Darn nice Helles.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2012
at 07:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at the Sudwerk Dock Store. Pours amber with a creamy beige head. Definite lavender aroma - but not overdone. Med minus body. Falvor seems fairly lavender with some roast malt and hop bitter. Hop mostly in a floral way, but actually bitter. Might be a touch of citrus hop. Refreshing on a warm evening.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Jul 2012
at 06:51
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap at the "brewpub" as Sudwerk Kolsch (4%). Brewer at The Dock Store indicated this was the first kolsch produced in years, and it proceeded to the "brewpub". So Cologne in the back and and Kolsch up front. Damn complicated arrangement in a way. Pours gold with a white head. Aroma is mildly floral and grassy. Flavor is lightly grassy, very lightly bready, but there’s a lot of flavor for a kolsch. Tasty, refreshing, went well with salad and sausage.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Jul 2012
at 06:45
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Location: 12 oz bottle from Colonial Wine and Spirits, 3/27/12
Aroma: A rather sweet nose, malts, some apple, bread, and some sort candied sugary sweetness
Appearance: It pours a mostly clear golden color with a small white head and some spotty lacing
Flavor: Taste is heavy sweet, the components are the same as the nose, with a grain/bread finish
Palate: The body is medium, it has a slightly cloying, smooth feel, and just a hint of heat on the finish
Overall Impression: I didn't love this one. They were a little heavy handed with the sweetness for my taste, and there was something fake sugary about the feel that also took away from it for me. Overall, this wasn't terrible, but it certainly wasn't for me.
Aroma: A rather sweet nose, malts, some apple, bread, and some sort candied sugary sweetness
Appearance: It pours a mostly clear golden color with a small white head and some spotty lacing
Flavor: Taste is heavy sweet, the components are the same as the nose, with a grain/bread finish
Palate: The body is medium, it has a slightly cloying, smooth feel, and just a hint of heat on the finish
Overall Impression: I didn't love this one. They were a little heavy handed with the sweetness for my taste, and there was something fake sugary about the feel that also took away from it for me. Overall, this wasn't terrible, but it certainly wasn't for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2012
at 17:54
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 12fl.oz.Clear medium amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, bread, toasted - caramel. Flavour is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, malty, riped fruit notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20111211]
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2012
at 03:09
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Pigs Ear 2011. sudwerk hefe weizen 4.5%. hazy pale gold. Thin lasting white head. Quite fruity for a hefe. Cereal kicks in in mouth. Way too cold. Some yeast some esters but mostly cereal. Light in mouth. 3.2
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2012
at 00:14
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Crisp, golden coloured body with a light copper glow with some orange highlights and a nice, one centimetre tall slightly off-white head. Aroma of pale malt, light caster sugars, a touch of citrus and some very light low a.a. german hops. Medium-bodied; Nice complex grassy and herbal flavoured hops up front with a good but pungent malt presence, some alcohol flavours soon afterwards and a touch of citrus. Aftertaste is relatively complex, for the style it shows some good citrus twangs, a touch of earthiness and some subdued alcohol flavours on the end. Overall, a nice helles with some good flavours and a nice crisp finish. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in Tustin, California on 03-February-2012 for US$1.99 sampled at home in Washington on 19-February-2012.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2012
at 22:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at the brewpub. Pours very dark hazy amber with a small white head. Aroma seems citrus/resin. Med body. Nice malt backbone - which is fairly matched by citrus/floral/resin. Bitter finish. Good drink.
Earlier Rating: 1/12/2008 Total Score: 3
Draft at the brewpub. Strong floral? hop aroma. It was served way too cold. Darkish amber color with a fine beige head. Near medium body with very light carbonation. The flavor is a bit watery. Light malt and light floral hop. It has substance, but it has less impact than many IPAs. Based on the ratings, I wonder whether there is indeed more than one recipe.
Earlier Rating: 1/12/2008 Total Score: 3
Draft at the brewpub. Strong floral? hop aroma. It was served way too cold. Darkish amber color with a fine beige head. Near medium body with very light carbonation. The flavor is a bit watery. Light malt and light floral hop. It has substance, but it has less impact than many IPAs. Based on the ratings, I wonder whether there is indeed more than one recipe.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Feb 2012
at 15:06
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap at the brewpub. Pours dark gold with a creamy white head. Light bready aroma (they serve it really cold). Med body. Flavor is bready with a nice amount of noble hop. Drinks easy; probably good with most food.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Feb 2012
at 15:02
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
More like a bock to me than a marzen. +++ Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a red-caramel color with a medium sized foamy tan head that lingered and left a bit of lacing. The aroma was bock like sour caramel and vegetal malts. The flavor was tangy sour caramel with vegetal malts and a vague fruity presence. Medium length tangy caramel and vegetal finish. Medium body and smooth. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2012
at 19:31