Go Fly A Kuyt
Hopworks Brewery

AUG 29, 2014
On tap at Hopworks last night. A clear golden yellow with a thin, white head that falls off leaving little lacing. The nose is rather blah, with a blend of stale malt, dull hops, cidery and powdery apples, a little bit of a chalky, b-vitamin character. The palate is similar with the bend of powdery apples and vitamin b chalkiness dominating. Light in body with moderate carbonation, there’s a blend of stale malt and cider on the finish. Meh.

12oz chalice at the HUB tap takeover at the Underground. This strange offering is a Kuyt - a traditional Dutch beer, made with a relatively large amount of oats in the mash bill, and hopped quite low.

This beer appears a hazy, medium golden amber colour, with one skinny finger of thinly foamy, and kind of wispy off-white head, which leaves some dense pockmarked shale wall lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.

It smells of sugary orchard fruit, bready, doughy pale malt, further breakfast cereals, a bit of candy sugar, and rather tame earthy, leafy hops. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy pale and caramel malt, sour stone fruit, bubblegum, a bit of white chalk, and a bitterness more attributable to yeast than hop.

The carbonation is fairly light on its feet, just a low-level, but tight frothiness presiding, the body medium-light in weight, and so-so smooth (even with all those oats, hmmmm). It finishes off-dry, the fruity tartness straining to combat the lingering multipronged sweetness.

An interesting historical style, with a mixed lot of cereal goodness, propped up by some Belgian-esque bittering agents. Refreshing and drinkable, especially I would think, if I were outside today, on a 20+ degree day in late October.