Wild River Harbor Lights

Brewed by Wild River Brewing Company
Style: Kölsch
Grants Pass, Oregon USA

Hardly any aroma. This is pretty light but it has a good lift to it. Effervescent tasty light brew.

Draft @ Wild River Brewing and Pizza Company, Medford, OR. Pours a pale yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty and slightly grainy aroma with some weak hints of hops. Sweetish malty grainy flavor. Has a sweetish grainy finish with some weak hints of hops and citrus.

From Craig at City Beer, pours a bright yellow with a thin white head that dissipates quickly. The nose is malt and bready, as is the flavor, that also has a hint of honey and grain. Also some cirtus type fruit on the sweet side. Clean dry finish. Good warm weather session beer.

From a 12 oz bottle purchased from the brewpub. Poured in to a pint glass, this was a dull yellow with almost no head and lacing. Nose is of caramel malts and mild citrus hops. Very watery mouthfeel. Flavor is a little bitter and there was not much finish. I was very unimpressed.

Draft at the Grants Pass, OR location. Small white head that was mostly lasting, virtually no lacing, transparent, no visible carbonation, and a pale yellow hue. The nose was lightly fruity, semi-sweet and mildly hoppy. The flavor was semi-sweet, fruity, mildly hoppy and I detected a hint of spicyness. Smooth mouthfeel and light in body. An easy drinking brew, but not one that left me wanting another one.

This draft brew from the brewery poured a small sized head of foamy white colored bubbles that were long lasting and left behind a transparent softly carbonated light orange colored body and a fair lacing. The mild aroma was malty and sweet. The semi-thick mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start and at the finish. The slightly bitter flavor contained notes of malt and hops. A decent one but not one that I would consider buying again.

Bottle: Yellow with a small head that disapeared in the blink of an eye. Not much in the aroma, other than some sweetness and maybe a hint of earth tones. The taste was a bit sweet with some graininess and a bit of hops in the tail. At least the finish is very clean and easy going.

Dull light gold colour. Light pale malt character. A little bit of apple skin fruitiness and a touch of grassy bitterness. The balance and cleanliness are far more akin to a standard brewpub blonde than to a Kolsch.