Shiner Kölsch (Summer Stock)

Brewed by Spoetzl Brewery (Gambrinus Company)
Style: Kölsch
Shiner, Texas USA

Name: Shiner Kolsch
Date: 04/21/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, 50 More Beers on the Wall

clear pale yellow, wispy white head, sweet corn aroma with light floral hops, light sweet malt flavor, touch of corn, very light hops with an equally light bitter finish,

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 4/10; Flavor: 3/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 6/20
Rating: 1.8/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *+/4

Light, touch of hoppy crispness, but not the Kolsch is claims to be.

(12oz bottle) Sparkling clear apple juice body with small white head. Aroma is medium sweet, herbal/grassy, some cereal. Taste is medium sweet, cereal, some herbal/grassy, light honey. Light body, some crispness.

Bottle... Clear, yellow ale with a small, fizzy, white head. Spicy, earthy nose with a faint note of sweat. The flavor is perfectly balanced, but thin with very little malt or hop character. Light to medium-bodied and very lightly creamy with fizzy carbonation. Short, crisp, clean finish with just a sprinkle of sea salt.

Pours yellowish gold with an inch of foam that quickly dissipates. Smells of oranges, yogurt, and chewable vitamins. Taste is initially bitter. I can pick up a hint of ogange and some off pine like tastes. Finishes with a nice tingle from the bubbles as I like kolsch. Not the best example of the style, but drinkable.

Grainy and musty, and that’s from a newly released bottled. An oily wheat mouthfeel, grains and wheat and light lemons throughout. Not very exciting, kind of bland and bad tasting.

Dark straw color with a white quickly diminished head. Best desciption off the top of my head is smells like a weak malt liquor. Light sweet pale malt folowed by a strong grassy weed bitterness. Switches from one to the other, without mixing. Must find something else to clear the palate.

Bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a frothy white head that diminished quickly. Moderate hoppy grainy aroma. Light body with a thin texrure and soft carbonation. Light bitter sweet flavor witha short crisp finish. Worth drinking once.