Garde Kölsch

The bottle looks simple, almost like a cheap beer. Starts dry, prickly-zippy with a mild fruityness. A bit moldy in the background. Not bad!

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.

Bottle, 4.8%. Weak aroma, slightly citric. Clear golden colour, small stable white head. Weak malty flavour, slightly citric, quite refreshing. Low bitterness.

bottle, traded with Koelschtrinker. Clear golden yellow, large, very creamy and extremely persistent and stable white head. Malty and slightly hoppy with a fruity touhc. Well-balanced Kölsch.

50 cL bottle, trade with Koelschtrinker. Pours pale and clear yellow with a little and dense white head. Mild hoppy aroma. Flavour is mild hoppy, delicate dryness and a light bitterness. Light hoppy and bitter finish.

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.

Good, irregularily build yellowish head over well-carbonated straw-golden beer. Grain, CO², mown grass and young hard cheese as jonge Gouda. Sharpish grassy taste, followed by sweet, lightly toasted malts. Fairly dry finish. Light to medium bodied, grist slickness. Decent if nothing more Kölsch, seemingly slightly sturdier than most. Sweet but not too sweet. Txs, SebS.

6 ratings what the hell. Had this a Delirium Tremens Cafe in Brussels and i didn’t see it in Cologne when I was there a couple years earlier. Mediocre klosh pretty much sums it up. Page 183 of Michael Jackson’s Great Beer Guide only 397 out 500 Classic Brews to go.