2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Golden colour with a large white head. Sweet grain aroma. Sweet and lightly malty flavour. Not much else going on. Light bodied and pretty highly carbonated. OK.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. Less impressive than most kolsch beers that I've tried. This was very fizzy, with small bubbles popping on your tongue throughout the tasting. This has a tinge of sweetness, and a slight malty flavour on the back of your tongue; but otherwise there is little flavour and this is noether light nor smooth. Good lacing, but that aside, it's average.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
(bottle, with thanks to DerDoppelbock) Clear, golden colour with a creamy white foam. Rather dense, light-sweet grainy aroma. Light-sweet flavour, light to medium bodied, malty taste with a restrained fruitiness, fizzy palate; quite slim and short, slightly bitter finish. Mediocre Kölsch.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. Light hoppy and light malty. Normal sized white foamy head, rather fast disappearing. Light orange body. Light sweet and light acidic taste, rather short duration. Dry and watery texture, light body with a soft carbonation. Nice Kölsch.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Generous effervescence feeds the lasting white foam that covers the pale yellow beer.. A rather grassy nose makes this kölsch feel less clean and successful at malt extracting than the majority. Its malts come across sweeter than most with vanilla ice cream suggestions on top of the classic graininess. The intense carbonation does not quite cut this impression. Under average.
1.5 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 6/20
Das Garde Kölsch besitzt noch eine annehmbare Farbe, während sich der Schaum schnell in Nichts auflöst.
Hopfig und ziemlich herb der erste Eindruck. Dann wirds aber sehr arg metallisch und bitter-seifig bis in Abgang hinein. Das leise Aufleuchten von etwas Fruchtigkeit vermag daran auch nichts zu ändern.
Das war n i c h t gut! Test vom 5.3.2007, Gebinde: GlasflascheDer Nachgeschmack ist nur schwer zu vertreiben. Alles in Allem eine schlechte Leistung.
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