Kling
BarrieHaus Beer Co - Tampa

Poured a seethru straw-gold body with decent head that quickly dies and left no lace. The aroma is mild, grainy, pretty much what you'd expect from a light lager. Smooth beer, light, not watery but it's thin and slightly smooth like a pils and has no bitterness with a clean finish.

16oz can - no date - poured into a pilsner stem at 40°F.

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Pours a brilliant crystal-clear liquid golden, with a short finger of sudsy white head with poor retention, receding to a thin collar. Some visible effervescence.

Nose: Really nice clean, rustic malt - crackery, dry, and grainy with some dusty silo character. Some subtle lemon zest, honey biscuit, fresh flowers, a hint of pound cake, and a noticeable thread of minerality.

Palate: Kling greets the palate with that near-perfect classic lager malt balance. It's dry, clean, and a bit flaky with cereal grain and a whisper of toast - but there's also this beautiful underlying bready, nutty character beneath it, bolstering the grain with some roundness. A zesty, shimmering minerality ushers in a wave of mild lemon and stone before a gentle grassy, floral hop note peaks through, backed by this beautifully gentle hint of clean orchard fruit-esque yeast. The hops do not build to bitterness, instead, just gently finishing with toasty grain, bread, and a kiss of pear. After opening up a bit, on the front end, a bit of spicy hops and ester notes begin to show.

Mouthfeel/Body: Moderately light-bodied, but that underlying malty roundness also lends a bit of soft weight to the palate - remaining delightfully crisp and snappy, but with a bit of hearty substance behind it. Effervescence is quite lively and spritzy, though shy of aggressive. Tight minerality also translates, until the finish wraps everything up in a clean, dry, but adequate ending. Some oily cling lingers.

Overall: This is a remarkably clean, refined, and tasteful American lager. Such a stripped down base is so easy to tarnish, but there's just the right amount of malt and hop character fine-tuned to showcase this beer's capability. The ester notes that emerge could be turned down a notch, and the restrained hops cause the minerality to come across ever-so-slightly metallic, but even still, this is delightfully refined.

No canning date (presumably canned ~ late-11/2020); consumed on 1/9/21

Pours a crystal-clear, deep copper-gold body topped with a finger and a half of fluffy, dense, slightly off-white foam; good head retention leaves a paper-thin veil of cap, substantial, creamy collar, and a moderate spread of webby/spotty lacing holding to the walls of the glass.

Aroma opens with honeyed biscuit in waves across the bouquet, with a firm minerality developing flaky, crackery malts over the middle; a tinge of grassiness leaves an herbal suggestion with cereal grain and soft bread crusts through the close.

Taste brings toasty malts and white bread as a somewhat quiet introduction to a burgeoning minerality and soft yeast textures over the mid-palate; hints of dough lead into a contrasting grassiness on the back end, finishing with light cereal grain and crusty bread.

Mouthfeel offers a medium body along with a full, fluffy carbonation, peaking with a pillowy spritz as it dissipates over the mid-palate, drying with a soft prickle to an ultra-firm and clean swallow.

Alternating between a full expression of fresh, bready malts, and an almost-metallic minerality, this brew offers a more refined, focused take on a classic American lager while simultaneously maintaining that throwback, grainy character to distinguish itself; straightforward, evenly-conceived, and downright sessionable.