3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours gold. Not much haze, if any. Pours gold. Aroma is mildly bready with a nice grassiness. Tastes pretty much like that. It’s a very good lager.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
My Bottom Line:
This crisp and herbal Kellerbier focuses on its slender pils malts and spicy noble hops to offer a quenching pint.
Further Personal Perceptions:
-A slice of foam tops the cloudy blond.
-This may not be as bright as what the Franconians tend to do, but it is a very quenching and cohesive example of this family of beers.
-This is as effervescent as some bottled examples. The Franconians would have it a tad mellower, mostly due to not using other gases than the beer’s own.
-A touch of sulphur slowly disappears from the aroma.
-The hops are also grassy at times.
On tap at Hopmonk Tavern.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draft at the Tavern. Pale gold, slight turbidity, with tall white head, some lacing. Bergamot and bready notes mostly mask a twinge of funk. Dry,forward bitterness and a pithy middle. Finish is a little tart. This beer favors warmer seasons, but a nice utility beer overall.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
A blonde beer with a thick white head. In aroma, a very wild weed, citrusy and nice. In mouth, nice resinous lager, with very nice pungeant Saaz hops, mineral notes, intense and pleasing. My favorite. On tap at brewpub, August 16 2009.
2.3 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
On tap at the brewpub. Light gold pour. Skunky dishwater aroma. Crisp malt taste with a pronounced hop bitterness. Couldn’t get past the aroma.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap at brewery. Cloudy yellow with a fizzy white head. Sweet malty aroma and and a smooth crisp grainy taste.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Nose of toast, grain, light sweetness and apple. Hazy yellow to light gold in color, medium to light body. Biscuit, light matl, grain, light citrus hops. Medium to dry finish. Lingeringly too sweet.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Draft @ the brewpub. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a malty grainy slightly hoppy aroma. Malty hoppy and slighlty grainy flavor. Has a sweetish malty hoppy finish.
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