Mishawaka Kolsch

Brewed by Mishawaka Brewing Company
Style: Kölsch
Mishawaka, Indiana USA

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.

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.

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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Tap at brewery: Geez go figure, served way too cold even for a Kölsch, finally after waiting about 20 minutes able to taste. Well it is a bit grainy and has some sweet malt background with almost no bitterness minus a hit of citric twang. Drinakble but hardly to style.

This bottled brew poured a large head of fine to medium sized white colored mostly lasting bubbles that left behind a fair lace. The body was softly carbonated hazy dark yellow colored and had a lot of seemingly suspended buibbles floating in it. The aroma was funky and off with a lot of horse blanket to it. The mouth feel was mildly malted and astringent. The flavor was somewhat fruity and mostly malty. This was not a great beer and it was had to swallow after the other rather good beers we had that night.

Bottle. This beer lacks character and flavor. It poured a small sized white head that was creamy and smooth with fine-medium sized bubbles that quickly diminished. The body was cloudy and uncarbonated with a pale yellow hue. The nose was malty, sweet and some notes of fruit. The flavor was somewhat sour and fruity. It had a smooth mouthfeel and a medium texture. Not recommended.

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.

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.