Point Three Kings Ale

Brewed by Stevens Point Brewery
Style: Kölsch
Stevens Point, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

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Pour is a clear golden with a large white head. Aroma is a pale malt and not much else. Flavor is a decent dry malt with some grassy hop toward the end. Nothing spectacular but a decent kolsch.

Typical kolsch aroma of wheat and dirty socks, though more wheat and less dirty socks, to its credit. Taste is where it gets weird. It’s almost sour. It gets more bitter and interesting toward the end, but before that...not very good. Watery, sour, and a little off-putting. Drinkable, but only because of the more pleasant finish and aftertaste. Uneven.

Pours a golden straw yellow color with a thin white head. Aroma of lemon, grass, and grain. Lemon, grain flavor with grain background. Well-balanced. Very nice.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a head of foamy with a frothy top fine to large sized white colored bubbles that were mostly diminishing and left behind a very softly carbonated transparent golden orange colored body and a poor lacing. The aroma was cardboard and dough. The crisp mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The deep flavor contained notes of cardboard and dough. Not one that I would buy again.

On tap at WF. Pours gold with thin soapy white head. Lightly sweet and bitter. Aromas of straw and citrus. Medium body with light crispness.

Twelve ounce bottle from Hattings Supermarket, tasted on July 28, 2012. Slighty hazy yellow hue, small white head, slightly fruity aroma with a pale lager-like undercurrent, moderate bittersweet flavor with some fruitiness, sweetness predominates.

Bottled. Poured clear, bright golden with a short-lived white head. The aroma picked up lemon rind over sweeter bready malts, toasted grains, and a pinch of honey.. smelled like it was going to be refreshing. The flavor found grains and pale malts at the core, with peppery bitterness and lemon around.. finished crisp with nice balance. Light-bodied with prickly carbonation on the edges.. smooth through the middle of the palate.. well-balanced and refreshing.

Bottle from Drjohnrock. Poured clear pale color with an average frothy white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate fruit balanced aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium balanced flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration. Soft drinkable beer.

This stuff is by no means extraordinary, but I don’t agree with its putrid ratings. There’s a pale yellow color and a fruit smell at first, but no foam. It has a flat mouthfeel. It has a tame kolsch flavor that’s sweet and light. Bananas? It’s a little like High Life, except not as bubbly, because there’s only one Champaign of Beers. I would give this a "C" grade because it’s drinkable but not something I’d choose to get again, given other more exciting options.

Bottle poured a clear gold with a small lingering white head. Aromas of straw, earthiness and light citrus. Palate was light bodied and crisp with a dry finish. Flavors of straw, earthiness and a hint of citrus with a crisp dry finish.