Kölsch
Waterloo Brewing
- From:
- Waterloo Brewing
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Kölsch
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.53 | pDev: 10.76%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 13, 2015
- Added:
- May 18, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.48/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.48/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
473 mL can from a sampler pack picked up at the LCBO; packaged April 3 2014 if I am deciphering the code properly. Served well-chilled.
Pours a deep, clear golden hue, topped with one finger of soapy white froth that soon wilts. A modest ring of lace remains behind, in addition to a thin film on the surface. The aroma consists primarily of grainy pale barley malts along with some doughy sweetness, orchard fruit and grassy/spicy hop notes.
The flavour is dominated by a range of malty flavours - particularly grainy cereal sweetness, bready dough and some biscuity notes. A light caramel sweetness also comes through, with the beer finishing on a grassy, somewhat herbal, vaguely noble hop bitterness - although it is a malty sweetness that lingers somewhat longer into the aftertaste. Lighter than medium-bodied, but only slightly, with assertive carbonation levels that work well here. A little heavier than I prefer from this style, but an enjoyable lager/ale hybrid nonetheless.
Final Grade: 3.48, a B-. I was a little sceptical of this beer at first, but to my surprise Waterloo Kölsch is indeed a fairly decent example of this style. Like most Waterloo beers, this is an unremarkable, approachable brew with no particularly stand-out features. A well-brewed beer, though I wouldn't say that it's worth picking up the sampler for. Brick seems to have been putting a bit more effort into their seasonal offerings - which makes the fact that it's impossible to find them as stand-alone cans (at least locally) all the more frustrating. I'd buy this again as a single, but not when it's being saddled down with two other, rather mediocre lagers.
Aug 08, 2014Pours a deep, clear golden hue, topped with one finger of soapy white froth that soon wilts. A modest ring of lace remains behind, in addition to a thin film on the surface. The aroma consists primarily of grainy pale barley malts along with some doughy sweetness, orchard fruit and grassy/spicy hop notes.
The flavour is dominated by a range of malty flavours - particularly grainy cereal sweetness, bready dough and some biscuity notes. A light caramel sweetness also comes through, with the beer finishing on a grassy, somewhat herbal, vaguely noble hop bitterness - although it is a malty sweetness that lingers somewhat longer into the aftertaste. Lighter than medium-bodied, but only slightly, with assertive carbonation levels that work well here. A little heavier than I prefer from this style, but an enjoyable lager/ale hybrid nonetheless.
Final Grade: 3.48, a B-. I was a little sceptical of this beer at first, but to my surprise Waterloo Kölsch is indeed a fairly decent example of this style. Like most Waterloo beers, this is an unremarkable, approachable brew with no particularly stand-out features. A well-brewed beer, though I wouldn't say that it's worth picking up the sampler for. Brick seems to have been putting a bit more effort into their seasonal offerings - which makes the fact that it's impossible to find them as stand-alone cans (at least locally) all the more frustrating. I'd buy this again as a single, but not when it's being saddled down with two other, rather mediocre lagers.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.61/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.61/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
473ml can. Brick is just pumping out these various traditional Euro styles, now, eh?
This beer pours a clear, pale copper amber hue, with three fat fingers of puffy, tightly foamy, and slightly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some widely scattered and splattered sudsy lace around the glass as it slowly ebbs away.
It smells of bready, doughy, and somewhat biscuity pale malt, a touch of warm caramel, an agreeably muddled drupe fruitiness, and soft earthy, leafy, and floral hops. The taste is more doughy white bread pale malt, a twinge of white pepper, toffee candy, gritty applesauce, mildly stale white wine must, and steady earthy, leafy hops.
The bubbles are pretty even and well-behaved, manifesting in a tight at times frothiness, the body on the lee side of medium weight, and more or less smooth, none of the usual interloping suspects present at this time. It finishes off-dry, the doughy, yeast-tinged malt generally large and in charge.
I suppose I must give credit where credit is due - gone are the days of skunky, fusel-redolent amber ales, replaced by introduction-worthy examples of the given style of the month. My intent is better than that may have sounded, as this is indeed a decent rendering of the venerable easy-drinking German hybrid, and exhibits many, if not damned near all of the hallmarks. Keep it up, Brick, you seem to be moving in the right direction.
May 18, 2014This beer pours a clear, pale copper amber hue, with three fat fingers of puffy, tightly foamy, and slightly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some widely scattered and splattered sudsy lace around the glass as it slowly ebbs away.
It smells of bready, doughy, and somewhat biscuity pale malt, a touch of warm caramel, an agreeably muddled drupe fruitiness, and soft earthy, leafy, and floral hops. The taste is more doughy white bread pale malt, a twinge of white pepper, toffee candy, gritty applesauce, mildly stale white wine must, and steady earthy, leafy hops.
The bubbles are pretty even and well-behaved, manifesting in a tight at times frothiness, the body on the lee side of medium weight, and more or less smooth, none of the usual interloping suspects present at this time. It finishes off-dry, the doughy, yeast-tinged malt generally large and in charge.
I suppose I must give credit where credit is due - gone are the days of skunky, fusel-redolent amber ales, replaced by introduction-worthy examples of the given style of the month. My intent is better than that may have sounded, as this is indeed a decent rendering of the venerable easy-drinking German hybrid, and exhibits many, if not damned near all of the hallmarks. Keep it up, Brick, you seem to be moving in the right direction.
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