Crossbuck Kölsch
Siding 14 Brewing Company
- From:
- Siding 14 Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Kölsch
- ABV:
- 5.4%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.76 | pDev: 5.85%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 06, 2021
- Added:
- Dec 24, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)
3.45/5 rDev -8.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.45/5 rDev -8.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Not a terrible beer (it's quite nice and fruity in terms of the yeast esters), but to describe this as a kolsch feels way, way off. The colour is all wrong--it's too dark and too cloudy (why would you leave a kolsch unfiltered?), and the malt profile feels oddly English. Carbonation is pretty tuned in, but the yeast does go a bit too far over-the-top, erasing what you'd expect in terms of the crisp hop bite.
Dec 12, 2018
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.92/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
355ml can - huh, you learn something new every day. Apparently those black and white 'watch out for passing trains' x-shaped signs are called 'crossbucks'.
This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random splattered lace around the glass as it very lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of bready and doughy cereal malt, clover honey, some indistinct domestic fruitiness, a touch of earthy yeast, and some very tame leafy, weedy, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and biscuity caramel malt, a subtle plain yeastiness, some banana and generic pome fruity notes, simple syrup, and more understated leafy, floral, and wet grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly restrained in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, nothing in particular going out of its way to get in the way here. It finishes off-dry, the malt keeping up appearances, while the other sundry essences wave from the caboose of the last train leaving town.
Overall - this is certainly a well-made version of the style, with the Alberta craft malt really bringing some robust sweetness to the table. Tasty, and quite easy to drink, and I agree with the marketing blurb's pairing suggestion - standing by the crossbuck, watching the prairie world going by.
Dec 27, 2017This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random splattered lace around the glass as it very lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of bready and doughy cereal malt, clover honey, some indistinct domestic fruitiness, a touch of earthy yeast, and some very tame leafy, weedy, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and biscuity caramel malt, a subtle plain yeastiness, some banana and generic pome fruity notes, simple syrup, and more understated leafy, floral, and wet grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly restrained in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, nothing in particular going out of its way to get in the way here. It finishes off-dry, the malt keeping up appearances, while the other sundry essences wave from the caboose of the last train leaving town.
Overall - this is certainly a well-made version of the style, with the Alberta craft malt really bringing some robust sweetness to the table. Tasty, and quite easy to drink, and I agree with the marketing blurb's pairing suggestion - standing by the crossbuck, watching the prairie world going by.
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