Some Like It Haskap!
Yukon Brewing
- From:
- Yukon Brewing
- Yukon, Canada
- Style:
- Kölsch
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.51 | pDev: 17.66%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 10, 2018
- Added:
- Mar 26, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.79/5 rDev +8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev +8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Appearance - Pours a red grapefruit with three fingers of bubbly blush head.
Smell - grainy toasty malts, berry aromas, hint of lemon, and mild yeast aromas.
Taste - Toasty malts and grain, along with mild sweetness and tartness of haskap berry (sort of like a raspberry/blackberry combination). Yeast comes through a little more in the flavour.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate-high carbonation. Finishes crisp and dry.
Overall - A nice use of the local haskap berry in this kolsch. I wish I could taste more of it - I certainly can see it (it's not hard to miss with the colour of this brew!). Very refreshing summer beer.
May 02, 2016Smell - grainy toasty malts, berry aromas, hint of lemon, and mild yeast aromas.
Taste - Toasty malts and grain, along with mild sweetness and tartness of haskap berry (sort of like a raspberry/blackberry combination). Yeast comes through a little more in the flavour.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate-high carbonation. Finishes crisp and dry.
Overall - A nice use of the local haskap berry in this kolsch. I wish I could taste more of it - I certainly can see it (it's not hard to miss with the colour of this brew!). Very refreshing summer beer.
Reviewed by feariegreen from Canada (AB)
3.31/5 rDev -5.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
3.31/5 rDev -5.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
Light brown with a pink hue. Very tiny bubbles. Head doesn't stay around to hang out. No lacing. Not a lot to smell. Tangy flavour. Light berry. Overall, enjoyable. Love the movie reference.
Apr 21, 2016
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.99/5 rDev +13.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev +13.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - Yukon has procured some Russian-originated Haskap berries (look it up, I had to) for their latest fruited-up Kolsch. Not too sure about the weak Marilyn Monroe movie pun theme, however.
This beer pours a mostly clear, medium salmon-tinged amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and fizzy off-white head, which leaves a single weird instance of arching killer whale profile lace on the glass as it quickly sinks out of sight.
It smells of rather heady blueberry, black raspberry, and huckleberry fruit, grainy and doughy caramel malt, and some middling earthy, leafy and floral hop bitters. The taste is more well-rounded dark berry notes (the same from the nose, so Imma just gonna go ahead and use 'haskap' from here onward), bready and gently crackery caramel malt, a further unheralded citrus fruitiness, and more plain weedy, leafy, and floral hoppiness.
The bubbles are adequate in their supportive and not often gay frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, that guest fruity thing really slapping hands and kissing babies 'round here. It finishes off-dry, the haskap berry sweetness lingering well alongside some generic bready malt.
Overall, one of the better, if not the best iteration of this fruit-forward line (is it, now?) from Yukon. Fruity, in a just left of center (or wherever you line up your worldview) manner, and otherwise simply easy to drink in its unassuming Kolsch stylings.
Mar 27, 2016This beer pours a mostly clear, medium salmon-tinged amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and fizzy off-white head, which leaves a single weird instance of arching killer whale profile lace on the glass as it quickly sinks out of sight.
It smells of rather heady blueberry, black raspberry, and huckleberry fruit, grainy and doughy caramel malt, and some middling earthy, leafy and floral hop bitters. The taste is more well-rounded dark berry notes (the same from the nose, so Imma just gonna go ahead and use 'haskap' from here onward), bready and gently crackery caramel malt, a further unheralded citrus fruitiness, and more plain weedy, leafy, and floral hoppiness.
The bubbles are adequate in their supportive and not often gay frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, that guest fruity thing really slapping hands and kissing babies 'round here. It finishes off-dry, the haskap berry sweetness lingering well alongside some generic bready malt.
Overall, one of the better, if not the best iteration of this fruit-forward line (is it, now?) from Yukon. Fruity, in a just left of center (or wherever you line up your worldview) manner, and otherwise simply easy to drink in its unassuming Kolsch stylings.
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