Gaffel Kölsch

Brewed by Privatbrauerei Gaffel Becker & Co.
Style: Kölsch
Cologne, Germany

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

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Bright, clear, golden... huge billowy white head like ice cream. Floral aromas of pilsner malt and Saaz hops. Light, soft mouthfeel. Fruity with a slight hop finish. Pleasant, light apertif.

11.2 oz bottle. Pours pale straw with a long lasting, white head and soda like carbonation. Aroma is mostly of grassy, herbal hops and some pale malt. Body is medium and crisp. Herbal, earthy, spicy, hops, pale malt and light fruit combine on the palate. Finish is bitter with hints of lemon fruit. Light, easy drinking, flavorful brew.

330ml bottle. Clear pale golden colour with average frothy white head. Grainy aroma, some hay. Fresh grainy taste, a touch of citrus, nice carbonation, mild dry finish.

33cl brown bottle, best before mid June 2008, drank on a wet and cold, windy Jan (2008) evening in Shropshire. Poured into a Frankenheim Alt glass, just to annoy it (I don’t own any Kolsch glasses). I think I have trouble finding the subtle differences and good points of Kolsch beers. I do however try and be objective in my reviews. Very light golden yellow with a bubbley head, which soon fades away to leave nowt. The sort of colour a weak pilsner can give, but without the white head that often stays a while. A straw, newly cut grass mix of smells, some yeast too, but you have to hunt for any aroma. Dry and boring with a hint of cooking apples just to throw your tastebuds. The dryness hangs around, but it isn’t a plesaent mouthfeel. Watery and yet a metalic feel lingers to make you think it has some body, which it clearly hasn’t, not even a nasty one. This is a throwing beer, get it down as quickly as possible and get something else. I have drank it on tap in Berlin and it was better than the bottle I’ve just had. This is not a great Kolsch, I have in fact failed to find one that is yet.

First taste skunky. Skunky taste through out. Never had a skunky kolsch before. Had a light body and a fantastic color, very clear (a+in my book) the aroma is like any othe kolsch. Overall not impressed not a rebuy.

330ml Bottle: Aroma of malt, grain, corn, and lager yeast. Poured yellow in color with a huge, foamy, creamy, white head that greatly diminished but lasted throughout. Clear. Very sparkling. Very good lacing. Flavor is slightly sweet and slightly bitter. Tastes of lager yeast, malt, corn, and grain. Light body. Thin, dry texture. Average carbonation. Slightly sweet, slightly bitter, malt, corn, grain, lager yeast finish is dry.

Very nice, clear lager with mild citrous hops, having one this summer. Aroma 6, taste 7, palate 4

11.2 oz bottle. Clear yellow color. Bubbles on the side of the glass. Minimal white head. Moderate carbonation, smooth texture. Dry. Easy to drink. Mild hazy and bread aroma. Very light hops. Crisp flavor, pretty refreshing and quaffable. Mild bitter, light sweet taste. Kind of savory. Good kolsch.

Gaffel is pale, faintly fruity with a crisp, hop finish. Nice light everyday drinking beer.

Clear yellow color with a thin white head. Grainy malt nose with a nice grassy character. Light-medium body. Finishes clean. Very nice.

(Flasche) Farblich sehr, sehr hell, sonnengelb, klarfiltriert mit einer weißen Schaumkrone. Das Aroma ist stark karamellig-süßlich,(und ein bisschen wie, wenn man am Morgen nach einer Party sein Zimmer betritt und überall halbgetrunkene Biere rumstehen) und ein bisschen schal. Der Geschmack ist wie das Aroma. Es ist relativ bitter und die Karbonisierung ist zu schwach. Zusammengefasst sollte man erwähnen, dass die Flasche zu Karnevalls-Zeit gekauft wurde.