COAST 32/50 Kölsch

Brewed by COAST Brewing Company
Style: Kölsch
North Charleston, South Carolina USA

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

Huge thanks to FutureCowboy for bringing this bottle to the Sexual Chocolate 2011 release for me. Bottled January 13, 2011. Served in a COAST glass generously extra’ed by FutureCowboy. Thanks! Pour is gorgeous. Golden-straw body with quite a bit of visible carbonation and a huge white head with great retention. Very creamy head. Loads of lacing. Nose is equally fantastic with some nice front-end notes of grain followed up with some beautiful floral hop notes. The taste mixes light grain and floral hops beautifully with some light fruit notes in the background. Mouthfeel is light with crisp carbonation and a nice finishing bitterness. Insanely drinkable. This is currently the #1 Kolsch and very deservedly so. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 01-29-2011

Pours a clear, pale golden yellow color with a one finger foam white head that quickly settles into a lasting ring. Earthy grassy aroma with nice grassy hops, light crisp fruit, straw and biscuit malt. Hints of faint apple and pear but the earthy grassy hops dominate. Pretty carbonated up front, probably too much so, with a light crisp sweet yet earthy body and dry effervescent finish. Subtle bready yeast with light crisp fruit notes, namely apple and pear along with a nice earthy, grassy hop presence. The honey used adds some additional sweetness but this beer is excellently balanced and complex. One of the best examples of the style. Highly recommended!

Growler shared by BrewEngineer at the 15th Richmond Ratebeer Gathering, 7/16/11. Pours a hazy golden color with a large creamy offwhite head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of grainy malts and a grassy finish. The taste is pale grainy malts, a sweet malty note and a grassy finish. Medium bodied. Fairly bitter. Nicely balanced. World class kolsch.

The aroma was fruity with a light caramel and wheat presence and a bit of sulfur. The aroma also carried a light winey characteristic. The beer arrived lightly hazy pale golden straw with a low white wispy head which laced the glass. The flavor was fruity with a light caramel and wheat presence. The flavor had a bit of light sulfur and a low winey note. A nice crisp wheat presence and a well achieved bittering which kept the sweetness in check were on board to preclude a dry finish which carried some wheat into the aftertaste. The body was just medium with a moderate level of carbonation and a light creamy texture on the palate. Pint at EVO.

Grainy malts on the nose with noble hops. Pours clear blonde with a thin white head. Crisp bitterness with grainy malts with traces of honey. Finishes very dry, awesome session!

bottle pours hazy light yellow with a medium white head. Soft floral nose, pale grassy malts. Wonderful grassy flavor with clean floral and herbal hop finish. Seems I like this more than most.

Courtesy OGC. Clear gold, white carbonation. Biscuity vanilla like sweetness, fresh grains, hints of licorice, lightly bitter, floral, and vinous on the finish. Dry. Very easy to drink. Medium/light body, moderate carbonation. Solid.

I was lucky enough to receive a bottle of this from thagr81us in a trade down in South Carolina. It poured an excellent and vibrant straw yellow with medium cloudiness. The head was white and frothy. It smelled great, slightly yeasty with citrus hints to it. It was just like you’d want a Kolsch to smell. The taste was excellent as well. It featured the citrus like yeasty flavor with a slight sourness to it. It was superb. The beer was very, very light, almost like a pale pale wheat. It was very drinkable and my friend and I both really enjoyed trying it. I greatly recommend this. It was perfect on a humid summer night.