Pontoon Afternoon
Utepils Brewing Co.
- From:
- Utepils Brewing Co.
- Minnesota, United States
- Style:
- Kölsch
- ABV:
- 4.9%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.65 | pDev: 10.41%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 23, 2024
- Added:
- May 30, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Drop anchor and relish a sunny afternoon floating on the water. Nothing makes you forget your troubles more than an afternoon in the sun sippin’ Utepils. Pontoon afternoon is a refreshing raspberry infused golden colored ale that puts your mind at ease. Allow life’s interruptions to drift away and savor these moments of natural bliss.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by deleted_user_1239096
4.34/5 rDev +18.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.34/5 rDev +18.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Poured from can. Pours a hazy gold colour with a thin head, taste is somewhat watery but good, somewhat yeasty and grainy with raspberry. Finish is lightly sour but delish.
Jul 25, 2023
Reviewed by MonDak_Joe1953 from Minnesota
3.68/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.68/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
16oz can. There is a canned on date stamped on the can bottom but the stamp is off center and unreadable for the month. This is a beer canned sometime in 2023.
Mostly clear, pale gold colored body. Brief lasting white head, which results in an island and ring. Tiny lacing spots left behind.
Aroma is toasted malt and a vague berry smell.
Taste has a definite raspberry flavor, with delicate floral hops and toasted malts. Lemon flavor in the aftertaste.
Medium mouth feel. Wet and quaffable. Slight tongue sting. Good carbonation.
Has a subtle raspberry flavor that aids in being a summer crusher.
Jul 24, 2023Mostly clear, pale gold colored body. Brief lasting white head, which results in an island and ring. Tiny lacing spots left behind.
Aroma is toasted malt and a vague berry smell.
Taste has a definite raspberry flavor, with delicate floral hops and toasted malts. Lemon flavor in the aftertaste.
Medium mouth feel. Wet and quaffable. Slight tongue sting. Good carbonation.
Has a subtle raspberry flavor that aids in being a summer crusher.
Reviewed by MNAle from Minnesota
3.62/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
This is described as a raspberry Kölsch style. I'm hoping Utepils treated the raspberry with due subtlety. IOW, I'm hoping this doesn't taste of cough drops.
OK, late in the season for this summer beer so here goes.
Semi-clear golden yellow, nicely carbonated. 1 inch thick, white head with excellent retention and nice lacing.
The aroma is not strong, but is inviting. Subtle fruit (a good sign). Bready malts and bright hops.
The initial taste is very good. The raspberry is obvious, but has a natural fruit taste and is well integrated into the malts and yeast flavors. This pleasant and refreshing flavor mix carries through the middle. However, the finish and aftertaste develop a flavor that seems to permeate several of Utepils beers. In this case, it's not quite mineral and not quite metallic, but in the ball park of a mixture of both. While this lingers into the aftertaste, it does fade leaving the more pleasant initial flavors to try to rectify the situation. The beer does mostly succeed in being overall nice to drink since the metallic-mineral remains in the background in the finish.
The body is on the light side of moderate with good carbonation adding to the feel.
Overall, this could have been an excellent summer refresher, but the off flavors spoiled things.
As I've noted in several other Utepils reviews, I have detected a mineral / metallic off flavor in other beers from this brewer (notably their Altbier and Kristallweizen), but it is particularly not welcome in a lightly-flavored beer like a Kölsch. Not being a home brewer, IDK if it is due to their yeast, the water they use, their brewing techniques, or something else, but I didn't enjoy it in this beer. I've rated the "taste" factor as a middling 3.5, allowing the nicely done raspberry in a Kölsch style to bring up the score a bit. However, I won't be buying this one again.
Nov 29, 2021OK, late in the season for this summer beer so here goes.
Semi-clear golden yellow, nicely carbonated. 1 inch thick, white head with excellent retention and nice lacing.
The aroma is not strong, but is inviting. Subtle fruit (a good sign). Bready malts and bright hops.
The initial taste is very good. The raspberry is obvious, but has a natural fruit taste and is well integrated into the malts and yeast flavors. This pleasant and refreshing flavor mix carries through the middle. However, the finish and aftertaste develop a flavor that seems to permeate several of Utepils beers. In this case, it's not quite mineral and not quite metallic, but in the ball park of a mixture of both. While this lingers into the aftertaste, it does fade leaving the more pleasant initial flavors to try to rectify the situation. The beer does mostly succeed in being overall nice to drink since the metallic-mineral remains in the background in the finish.
The body is on the light side of moderate with good carbonation adding to the feel.
Overall, this could have been an excellent summer refresher, but the off flavors spoiled things.
As I've noted in several other Utepils reviews, I have detected a mineral / metallic off flavor in other beers from this brewer (notably their Altbier and Kristallweizen), but it is particularly not welcome in a lightly-flavored beer like a Kölsch. Not being a home brewer, IDK if it is due to their yeast, the water they use, their brewing techniques, or something else, but I didn't enjoy it in this beer. I've rated the "taste" factor as a middling 3.5, allowing the nicely done raspberry in a Kölsch style to bring up the score a bit. However, I won't be buying this one again.
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