Fruh Kolsch: 5.0 – It’s overall pretty damn standard for a kolsch, nothing to wow – but nothing to distract. Average is the key word of the day it seems.
Price Average: $3
Website: https://www.frueh.de/
Tag: Kolsch
Single Cut Brewing Hop Sounds Dry-Hopped Kolsch
Hop Sounds Dry-Hopped Kolsch: 7.5 – There’s a very unique sort of sweetness going on there that comes back in the long aftertaste. The fruit here is very nice, and it’s a very nice kolsch that does a lot of very nice things.
Price Average: $12 for 6-pack
Website: https://singlecut.com/
Definitive ‘Contee’ Kolsch Blond Ale
Contee: 3.5 – Along with Schwazbier if we asked brewers to make more of a certain style – it would be Kolsch. We say this to frame the context of this being a poor outing as a great tragedy for us. There is an orange citrus flavor here that overrides so much of the beer you can barely even tell the style, just orange + ale is all you get.
Price Average: $13 for 4-pack
Website: https://www.definitivebrewing.com/
Upslope Brewing Company Rocky Mountain Kolsch
Rocky Mountain Kolsch: 4.0 – There’s an herbal sort of aspect here or at least some kind of vegetation that’s not like wheat. It feels slightly odd for a kolsch and it’s not terribly tasty.
Price Average: $10 for 6-pack cans
Website: https://www.upslopebrewing.com/
Gneiss Sonnenschein Kolsch
Sonnenschein Kolsch: 7.5 – It’s a bit cheeky to state they haven’t tried to capture sunshine in a bottle and just made a nice kolsch instead – especially given how cliche that is, and that even doing this tactic is meant to imply it regardless. That being said it is a nice delicious kolsch, so who gives a shit.
Price Average: $12
Website: https://www.gneissbeer.com/
Devil’s Purse Brewing Handline Kolsch Style Ale
Handline Kolsch: 5.0 – It’s a pretty okay Kolsch. We do love a good Kolsch, but this is just way too muted, both in and out of the can.
Price Average: $10 for 4-pack
Website: https://www.devilspurse.com/
Exhibit A Brewing Goody Two Shoes Kolsch
Goody Two Shoes: 6.0 – It’s a nice kolsch but there’s a sort of metallic taste to it that sort of ruins it. It’s a draft though so take this at face value.
Price Average: $6 Draft
Website: https://www.exhibit-a-brewing.com/
Trillium Big Sprang Kolsch Inspired Ale
Trillium Big Sprang: 2.5 – This is just way too hoppy for a kolsch. This is what an IPA beer geek would enjoy because they think they are ‘branching out’ from their shitty beer taste.
Price Average: Trillium Big Sprang $12
Website: http://www.trilliumbrewing.com/
Island Brewing Company Kolsch
Island Kolsch: 5.0 – A nice kolsch style beer, for a blonde it’s actually quite good, but for a kolsch-style it’s not great.
Google Shop Average: Island Kolsch $5 draft
Website: http://www.islandbrewingcompany.com/
Franconia Kolsch
Franconia Kolsch: 3.0 – This is a really bland taste. Honestly this tastes like stale cereal.
Google Shop Average: Franconia Kolsch $6 draft
Website: http://www.franconiabrewing.com/