Up In Kolsch
Balsam Lake Brewery & Market

On tap at the brewery

This beer is mostly clear looking in the glass with a slight haze to it. Light stream of carbonation bubbles rise in the glass. There's a sticky looking white head with sticky looking lacing on the glass.
The nose is just just full of cereal grains. There is a slight floral element to the aroma.
The flavor is totally full of malts. Very strong cereal grain flavor. There's a floral element in the middle. The beer finishes off with a sharp bitterness on the back that lingers.
Decent body. The feeling of the bitterness lingers on my palate.
Not bad at all on this summer day.

8 oz glass at the brewery.
L: SRM 5 Pours a slightly murky dark apricot color with a thin frothy white head, light steady carbonation bubbles, medium-thick splotchy webbed lacing.
S: Light caramel, light grains, distant fruit, a suggestion of pastry dough.
T: Lightly sweet malts, a gentle hop zing, somewhat fruity with light bright citrus and distant apple, a suggestion of dough. Not much aftertaste.
F: Crisp and bright medium-light bodied with a snappy and gently drying finish.
O: A very tasty and refreshing beer that goes down fast. It is bright tasting and is well balanced. I find it to be very good to excellent in its style.