Best Blonde Ale
Liquid Art
- From:
- Liquid Art
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Kölsch
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- 81
- Avg:
- 3.51 | pDev: 12.82%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 20
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 16, 2025
- Added:
- Feb 22, 2009
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 11
SCORE
81
Good
81
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by MikeWard from Pennsylvania
3.71/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.71/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
12oz can into a glass. Canned 6/25/20 so 2 1/2 months old.
Nice glassy golden yellow body, spoiled a little by a bunch of white particulates. White head shrinks to a solid covering and thick ring. A little lacing.
Nice aroma, quite floral.
On tasting, slightly sweet, grassy, light floral hop touch.
Mouth around medium. The finish is a bit off, an unpleasant bitterness.
Overall, a fair enough thirst quencher, but the finish does spoil the experience.
Sep 05, 2020Nice glassy golden yellow body, spoiled a little by a bunch of white particulates. White head shrinks to a solid covering and thick ring. A little lacing.
Nice aroma, quite floral.
On tasting, slightly sweet, grassy, light floral hop touch.
Mouth around medium. The finish is a bit off, an unpleasant bitterness.
Overall, a fair enough thirst quencher, but the finish does spoil the experience.
Reviewed by Lagerlivesmatter from West Virginia
3.03/5 rDev -13.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.03/5 rDev -13.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
This is now a " German style golden lager" as opposed to "Ale brewed with lemon zest". Never had the Ale. Sits somewhere between a Helle's and Pilsner. Perhaps a Dortmunder but not really hoppy enough, yet too bold for a Helles. An interesting beer. My only complaint is that the finish is really off. Leaves a lingering malty sweetness but not in a good way. In my opinion a bit more hops would have really evened the finish out and thats what holds this back from being a truly great beer. Still worth a try, but there is better out there and its cheaper (i.e. Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold, or Turntable Pils)
Apr 13, 2016
Reviewed by Crockettr
3.6/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.6/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
kinda average. Look was a little cloudy, mouthfeel was very high in carbon, crisp.
Had a refreshing lemon grass taste, that would make this beer a thirst quendefinitelycher. Not what I expected for a traditional kolsch style but pretty fair.
Roy Pitz has much better beers on hand.
May 28, 2015Had a refreshing lemon grass taste, that would make this beer a thirst quendefinitelycher. Not what I expected for a traditional kolsch style but pretty fair.
Roy Pitz has much better beers on hand.
Reviewed by ThisWangsChung from Maryland
2.33/5 rDev -33.6%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.25
2.33/5 rDev -33.6%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.25
12 oz bottle into a teku.
Appearance: Pours a cloudy golden color with plenty of sediment floating around - definitely inappropriate for the style (and rather unappealing). The head is a finger high and white in shade. The texture is quite creamy, but the retention is lousy and there isn't any lacing left on the glass. (2.25)
Smell: There's a decent amount of stuff going on - I get some stone fruit esters, along with grass, crackery malt, and a touch of butter. Unfortunately, I'm also picking up some cardboard. No, make that quite a bit of cardboard. Clearly it's not at its freshest, but I doubt it's that old (maybe two, two and a half months), so it shouldn't smell this stale. Something's off... (2.25)
Taste: It opens up with cardboardy notes, though they do (somewhat) disappear in favor of some grass and kolsch esters. I get some crackery maltiness, but mainly cardboard. Aw, dammit! (2.25)
Mouthfeel: Fairly heavy-feeling for 4% - this would almost be triumphant if this didn't taste like wet cardboard. It's also creamy, dry-finishing, yet without that back end dinkiness so endemic of low gravity brews. Carbonation is fairly powerful. (3)
Overall: A total cardboard bomb. I figured it still might be good when I saw this was a cloudy brew, but it isn't. I hope this was a bad bottle, because cardboard is the last thing I want from a kolsch. (2.25)
2.33/5: Best at what? Being cardboard-like?
Apr 15, 2015Appearance: Pours a cloudy golden color with plenty of sediment floating around - definitely inappropriate for the style (and rather unappealing). The head is a finger high and white in shade. The texture is quite creamy, but the retention is lousy and there isn't any lacing left on the glass. (2.25)
Smell: There's a decent amount of stuff going on - I get some stone fruit esters, along with grass, crackery malt, and a touch of butter. Unfortunately, I'm also picking up some cardboard. No, make that quite a bit of cardboard. Clearly it's not at its freshest, but I doubt it's that old (maybe two, two and a half months), so it shouldn't smell this stale. Something's off... (2.25)
Taste: It opens up with cardboardy notes, though they do (somewhat) disappear in favor of some grass and kolsch esters. I get some crackery maltiness, but mainly cardboard. Aw, dammit! (2.25)
Mouthfeel: Fairly heavy-feeling for 4% - this would almost be triumphant if this didn't taste like wet cardboard. It's also creamy, dry-finishing, yet without that back end dinkiness so endemic of low gravity brews. Carbonation is fairly powerful. (3)
Overall: A total cardboard bomb. I figured it still might be good when I saw this was a cloudy brew, but it isn't. I hope this was a bad bottle, because cardboard is the last thing I want from a kolsch. (2.25)
2.33/5: Best at what? Being cardboard-like?
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