Cambridge Regatta Golden

Brewed by Cambridge Brewing Company
Style: Kölsch
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

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Sample from tap at the brewpub. Pours pale yellow with a white head. Aroma is grainy corn. Flavour is soft malty, very mild almost no bitterness. Dry finish

Date: 02/11/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

clear gold, fine white head, lots of drippy lace, sweet candy aroma with light floral hops, lots of sweet malt flavor, light balancing hops, light lasting bitter finish, simple and surley pleasing to the masses

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 8/20
Rating: 2.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *+/4

(Draught) Pours a clear yellow body with a medium white head. Aroma of lemongrass, florals, and grain. Flavor of toasted grain, honeycomb, Cheerios, and some grass.

on tap- pours a white head and yellow color. Aroma is slightly sweet grain, musty wheat, horse blanket. Taste is slightly sweet grain, musty wheat, horse blanket, light body. Nice Kolsch style. OK carbonation.

A Mes rate. Tap at Cambridge.
Clean pale gold with a thin white rim. Slight tobacco, very cream ale like, delicate corn, faint bitter finish. Very easy drinking. Pleasant if not amazing.

A golden kolsch with a thin white head. In aroma, a nice fresh grain malt with light herbal hops. In mouth, a nice lightly sweet malt with fresh mash, light berries, not bad, refershing. On tap at brewpub, Dec. 28 2009.

Pours mostly clear gold with a white head. Perfumy cereal grains, corn and that “lager-like” fuesal/fruit/urine deal, with a bit of black pepper smelled and tasted as well. Simple, a bit putrid or moldy, and overall a pretty big disappointment, which seems to be quite common with American brewpub-made Kolsch.

UPDATED: MAR 4, 2006 Any first impressions?
-A frail head covers the clear golden/yellow shine.
-Hay protrudes shyly in an otherwise unexciting aroma.
-Creamy straw, clean grain, and wet bready pils malt form a solid base for quenching.
-The very drinkable, lean body gets a little watery at times.

What if you dig deeper?
-The slight lactic quality I often taste in Kölsches is diluted here.
-There are supporting earthy hops under the grain.
-Citrus fruit rest atop the hefty hay.
-A well-made, very drinkable, not too malty Kölsch, with some reminiscence of their Vienna Gold.

On tap at Redbones.

Initially restrained aromatics grow more confident as it warms, offering lemon and floral peaks. The pour is a clear light straw, bright and very lightly carbonated, situation betrayed by the very limited white head. Clean fermented, gently fruity, with soft edges, refreshing mellow tartness. Rather thin and watery, but well lifted up hop flavours in mouth.

Draft. Pours a golden body with a white head. Dry floral hop tones. Pilsner malts, some drying bitter floral tones with a mild bitterness. Yeasty with some earth and lavender tones. A decent kolsh.