Minerva Colonial
Cervecería Minerva

 

 

 

 

Bottle purchased and drank at the Mercado Roma rooftop beer garden in Colonia Roma Norte in Mexico City, Mexico.

This one pours a golden yellow color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells slightly doughy, with a crisp and clean lemony hop character.

This is definitely kolschy, in the vague sense of that word. It’s very crisp, clean, slightly lemony, and nicely bready and doughy.

This is light bodied, and really drinkable.

This is essentially the dictionary definition of a Kolsch, it’s well done.

 

 

 

Pours a just slightly less than clear pale yellow gold with a finger of fine bubbly head.
Aroma is grainy and a little fruity - a bit floral, hint of citrus - yeasty esters and some herbal hops.
Tastes of soft grainy malt, again a bit of yeasty fruitiness, notable mineral flavour with hit of sulphur and a soft herbal hop bitterness.
Light end of medium mouthfeel with bright carbonation and a crisp clean finish.

Poured from a 12oz bottle into a pint glass at Salon Rios in Mexico City.

Appearance: medium golden with no haze but a nice head of white foam.

Smell: grainy and yeasty with a light malt character. Decently kölschy.

Taste: good malt flavor with a bit of a yeasty character. Again, a perfectly reasonable example of a kölsch, if not exactly an outstanding one.

Mouthfeel: medium body with a reasonable carbonation and creaminess.

Overall: a decently drinkable kölsch. I’m on board!

Light golden, very clear, with high carbonation, white head, small combined with medieum bubbles.
Bready smell, with soft fruitness characteristoc of this style. Citric aromas. Taste: slight sweetbess and hoppiness. Good carbonation in tongue, with a short end, a crispy end characteristic of this style. Maybe not a DOC KÖlsch, but it has good qualities of this style, you can distinguish this from a pils

 

 

 

 

 

355ml bottle - I remember this one being available around here a long time ago, and me missing out on it. Ah well, patience (and forgetfulness) are a virtue.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with one finger of puffy, weakly foamy, and somewhat bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some decent defrosting windshield pattern lace around the glass as it quickly dissolves.

It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy pale malt, buttered white toast, further mixed cereal notes, a hint of lemon juice, and some very tame earthy, musty, and dead floral noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, more buttered white bread, a muddled light fruitiness, mild earthy yeast notes, and a still very hard to identify weedy and floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its low-key frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess arising once things warm up a tad. It finishes on the sweet side, lots of grain, and just a pat of butter remaining.

Overall, this is not a particularly winsome version of the style, as that crisp hop tap on the shoulder one might be expecting never materializes. Kind of pithy, and not really all that difficult to drink, but man, what's the point?

 

 

Pours very pale, clear and whit a very wide white foam head. Smell is malty, sweet and grainy from pilsner malt., no hop aroma. Taste is malty, grainy like cracker bran, almost no hops and low bitterness. Body is very low and carbonation is extremely high, like champagne. Overall a very carbonated lager I would occasionaly drink.