Reinheitsgenot
BKS Artisan Ales

Single can from Harrison8

Pours a dark honey color with a clear transparency. Head is two fingers of white foam.

Aroma is grassy and spicy hops blended alongside tropical fruits. The tropical fruits add a little sweetness, with crackery, bready, and biscuity malts forming the backbone. Those zesty, grassy, and spicy hops add nuance in the middle layers.

Flavor profile is driven by spicy, grassy, herbily, and faint medicinal hops. Crackery, wafery, and light bready malts add support and structure. While the front end is hop heavy, the hops fade, allowing the malt character to shine through at the finish. Thanks to this malt heavy character at the finish, it develops a clean finale that nears on dry. Tropical fruits are interspersed in the flavor profile, showing up in hot flashes around the board like a whack-a-mole video game. Each little burst adding a little bubble pop of sweetness. Faint bubblegum notes at the end start to overshadow some hop play as the beer warms.

Mouth feel is medium-thin with a consistent, medium-soft crispness. It retains an excellent drinkability just from mouth feel, landing somewhere between lawnmower beer crispness, and soothing, velvet robe while sitting at the fireplace.

Overall, a sublime lager that leans into heavy hops. That's part of the play here, pairing a quintessential NE IPA brewer with a German focused brewery. The result is a bridge across the ocean between the two origin points, creating a playful and tasty lager.

Served in a 15.5oz Spiegelau tulip from a 16oz can.