Full Kount Kolsch
Tool Shed Brewing

 

355ml can - a brew made in ode to Softball Calgary, and conceived over pints at 'craft beer market'. Gah.

This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and chunky off-white head, which leaves some decent sudsy garden bush lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of bready and somewhat doughy pale malt, white wine grapes, some testy earthy yeastiness, further muddled citrus and pome fruity notes, and some very tame leafy, earthy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, red apple skins, muted white table grapes, some extant yeasty notes, and more understated weedy, herbal, and wet grassy hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly average in its sort of testy frothiness, the body a decent enough middleweight, and generally smooth, with perhaps a touch of wayward son yeastiness singing out of tune here. It finishes off-dry, but not by all that much, as the malt kind of falters, and the meek fruitiness lolls about, in a kind of lingering stupor.

Overall, this is a generally well-made version of the style, but nothing really out of the ordinary around here, as every single nascent brewery in Alberta seems to be making one of these. That's not a knock, per se, just a comment on how something that only a few short years ago was very difficult to find around here, but now it's everywhere. Your mileage may vary.