Mishawaka Kolsch

Formerly brewed at Mishawaka Brewing Company
Style: Kölsch
Elkhart, Indiana USA

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

Hazy gold pour with thin white head. Acidic malty aroma. Citrus , sweet malts, and a small hop presence

bottle - Poured lightly hazy gold with almost no head. It had a light citrus and malt aroma. The flavor had a considerable citrus character with some sweet malt. I don’t know what happened to the carbonation though at least, despite the unusually high amount of fruit flavor for this style, I don’t think it’s infected. However, this beer makes the third or fourth bottle that I’ve had quality problems with of the eight beers I’ve tried from this brewer. That’s not a good record.

Bottle courtesy of stfun. Pours gold and hazy with a huge white head. Smells soapy with touches of light citrus and perfumy. Tastes of citrus and slightly watery (as is fit for this style). A little too lemony for a kolsch, but a nice light drinker.

Bottle straight from the brewery: Pours a clear pale golden with a small, stringy-lacing wispy white head. Aroma of semi-sweet, grainy pale malts and the slightest hint of fruity esters. Body starts about average for the style with a very mild flavor and grain husk notes before a slightly more bitter and drier crisp finish. Pretty drinkable and close to style, but that’s about it.

fizzy, simply overpowering effervescence, or maybe the lack of flavor is the worst part of this beer. The beer wasn’t awful, but for the price of a pint, i could have bought several pints of any random light macro brew without losing out on quality. Summed up: reminiscent of bud light at twice the price and twice the fizz.

Poured from a 12oz bottle into a shaker. This beer poured a very pale golden color with very lively carbonation bubbles floating around and a huge white head that would not go away. It took about five minutes to get the whole bottle into the glass due to the overwhelming amount of foam. The aroma was made up of sweet pale malts and some light citrus and lemon. The flavor was very light and crisp with a slightly sour lemon note. The mouthfeel was expectedly thin with good deal of carbonation. Average at best.

From the bottle this pours a pale yellow body with a thick fizzy head. The aroma is pale sweet malt and lemon grass. The latter turns into lemon juice in the flavor and dominates the drink. Nothing I’d care to repeat.

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Bottle. Sweet and slightly grainy aroma, not really appealing. Clear golden body is heavily carbonated with a soapy white head. Crisp medium body, slightly oily. Taste is biscuity, bready, and slightly grainy, sweet and malty with a touch of citrus but no hops or bitterness. Can’t call this a Kölsch, but can certainly drink it.