Opa's Kolsch
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue

An industry pint at the Oliver Square location. Part 3 of my weekday birthday extravaganza!

This beer appears a clear, medium golden yellow hue, with one finger of puffy, tightly foamy off-white head, which leaves a few instances of broad island atoll lace around the glass as things readily drop away.

It smells of sweet, pastry-like biscuity pale malt, a tame orchard pitted fruitiness, and earthy, floral hops. The taste is more fairly sugary, grainy pale malt, with hints of unbaked donuts and random fruity Danish, a subtle citrus essence, a bit of flinty minerality, and quite understated earthy, leafy noble hops.

The carbonation is adequately capable, the body a decent medium weight, and actually rather smooth. It finishes well off-dry, the biscuity malt still beholden to its sweetness, and the noble hops just providing enough offset to keep things in the sane zone.

A tasty and pleasant enough Kolsch - Gunther know's his scheisse - but this one could do well to dial back the sweetness a tad, and bring forth the dry biscuit maltiness by the same measure. Still, drinkable, for sure, especially in these heady and warm days of our temperate summer.