2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Tap at House of Brews (NYC). Light yellow with a small head. I think someone forgot to tell the brewer to add flavor to the beer. I was lost. I have had kolsch beer before with a lot more flavor.
1.8 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
Very crappy Kolsch, if that’s what it is. Far too high on the hops, far too flat, far too cloudy even for the style. Not even sessionable.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap. Pours with a crystal clear blond-yellow hued body with a lasting white head. Aromas are bready, malty, honey, floral and toasty. Flavors are sweet (malty sweet), up front with mild salinity and minerality. Floral, honey, bready. Good. Lively bubbles, dry and light bodied. Really solid as a Blonde Ale (not so as a Kolsch).
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Crisp dry light body, clean tasting with a hoppy overlay. More like a pils than a kolsch. Overall, OK but a bit dull.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Tap. Clear gold. Light aroma with some hints of wheat and grass, faint hops. Grainy, hint of hops, not bad.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
From tap at the brewpub. Pours pale yellow with a small white head. Aroma is fruity and slight grassy hoppy. Bitter and dry. Grassy and dry finish. Ends dry.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap. Poured a hazy yellowish gold with a white head that dissipated quickly to the edges but laced slightly. Aroma had a good amount of sweet grains with a light grassy hop note with a bit light citrus. Flavor began with sweet grains and bread with light grassy hops, pine and citrus.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Dry wheat aroma on this yellow pour. Wheat and fruit notes in the taste with a dry finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Union Hall, Brooklyn tap ($5): Pours a pale gold with a white head. Aroma of malts, grain, and bread. Rather smooth brew, not particularly complex, but the flavors are in right proportions. There is some hop bitterness in there, along with a solid amount of malt. In other words, does not taste at all watery. Can’t really taste the wheat and don’t understand why some people saw corn in here.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: NOV 2, 2010 Tap, House of Brews, NYC. Wet air pale with a retreating white halo. Lemon and lime wine gum aroma with botanical dabs. Crisp and lemony with honey-dabbed crackery malt and malted milk biscuit afters. Good clean malt character, corn maybe? Lemon curd on Jacobs cream crackers. Bit watery, but a refreshing session beer.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draught, 5.0% at the brewpub. Good fruity and flowery hop aroma. Seemingly clear yellow colour. Small white head. The flavour is fruity with a good spicy hop note. Has a little earthy hop note as well. The finish is a bit watery. Not as clean as a real Kölsch, but a good attempt at the style.
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