Beer Academy Kölsch

Brewed by Beer Academy
Style: Kölsch
Toronto, Canada

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

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Bottle, caramel orange pour. Sweet caramel malts in aroma with vanilla notes. Sweet flavor, touch of orange caramel toffee. Sweeter than most kolsch. Still flavorful

[4771-20120914] Tap. Light petrol grass hints in the aroma. Hazy, light orange brown body with quick foamy white head. Light sweet cracked wheat flavour has a soft base. Medium body. Interesting. (6/3/6/3/14) 3.2
(TBW @ brewery, Toronto, ON)

Wow. I feel like this is the first real kolsch ive tasted. Excellent beer, and something totally unique in my experience. Aroma of super crisp malt, almost spicy, orange zest hops and barley. Pours cloudy orange with good head and medium lacing. Taste is grainy and a little bitter with some spice. Palate is all over the place in a good way. Awesome beer. On tap at brewpub.

Draught at the brewpub
Cloudy deep blond color, small head. Light breadish aroma. The flavor is breadish too, with some light wheat. Too simple.

625 ml bottle from the brewpub (Recipe 3, Batch 1). Pours a cloudy golden yellow with modest-sized, lasting white head. Aroma is honeyed grains, some tropical fruit and herbal character. Flavour is sweet, chewy, honeyish grains, some lemon/other tropical fruit, and a light herbal/minerally bitterness. Enjoyable.

2012-09-14. Moderately hazy, small off-white head. 3+ Flavour is interesting, hoppier than expected, lightly bitter, sort of grassy and lightly floral, very mild pale malt. 6+ Aroma is similar, bit yeasty, mild pale malt. 6+ Average plus bodied palate. Quaffable but does not particularly interest me. On tap at Beer Academy, Toronto

September 14, 2012 - at The Beer Academy - draught sample. This is a re-rate, I dumped my opening night rating of this beer, I gave it about 2.6 and I understand this is the 3rd or 4th tweak of the recipe since then - it’s MUCH better now. Pours hazy light gold with a smallish but lasting creamy/foamy off-white head (4-). The aroma is simple, but refreshing - light grain, dry, ever so slightly herbal and even less honey sweetness (7-). The taste is very nice, yeasty, a little sweet, but surprisingly dryly, almost grittily bitter (8-). Average body, a bit chewy, mid-level carbonation, medium-long minerally dry bitter finish, very crisp and clean, what I like in this style.

625ml bottle
5.2% ABV
Six Pints Brewing/Beer Academy (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Bottled on August 2, 2012
September 6, 2012
The beer pours a hazed dark gold colour with a 1" bubbly golden brown head. The aroma was yeast, funk, herbal hops and grass. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavour is very earthy with graininess, tropical fruit notes, and some yeast notes. Very different from any Kölsch I’ve had in the past.

On tap at brewpub Batch 2 (unfiltered)
Aroma soft grainy front, slight wheat hints. Mild hop profile. Slightly grainy earthy notes on side. 7-
Appearance fine haze on amber-gold with medium fine white top.
Flavor and Palate : Soft , clean with mellow approach. One of few naturtrub Kolsch beers sold outside Cologne. This gives soft smooth character. Very organic , natural feel to it. Very clean with out any off flavours. Carbonation for style was bit low. I would also prefer tad higher dry like hop notes top balance softness of body. Hop side more pronounced at finish. Solid effort. 14-/20

Draught at the brewery, June 20. Pours a murky yellow-gold with an average size semi-lasting white head. Mild but pleasant aroma, slightly sugary sweet, yeasty and a touch buttery. Flavour of wheat, sugary sweetness, some buttery notes and yeast. Average bodied. An O.K. Kolsch.
Note: Rated on opening week and some of these beers may be tweaked in the following weeks, if that’s the case I will re-rate in the future.