Luxurious alcohol-soaked ruby-chestnut slow sipper provides massive barleywine influence to dry sherry-bourbon medicinal warmth and ripe fruited template. Prune, fig, and rum raisin encounter rewarding brandy-soaked orange-bruised apple-candied cherry, peach, and tangerine zest embedding chewy molasses bed. Busy backdrop finds anise stickiness thickening peat-smoked tobacco-dried oaken woodiness. Aggressive cognac finish increases depth.
Monthly Archives: January 2009
KUHNHENN DEVILS HORN
Recommended tiny suburban brewpub bottles this respectable Belgian lambic-like ale for walk-in customers. Deep cherry tartness fortifies dry oak tangent and grape tannin souring as candied yeast sweetens oncoming green apple pucker. Orange peel bitterness persists, jamming raspberry-melon auxiliary and syrupy malt thicket.
KUHNHENN AMERICAN I.P.A.
Mighty fine India Pale Ale gains piney evergreen freshness over quince, citrus, and raisin fruiting, enlivening vanilla-spiced bottom as marvelous cookie dough thickness brings forth a chocolate cake-like finish. Complexly compelling.
KROSS DOUBLE KROSS BROWN ALE
Too unassumingly fizz-induced to be labeled decent brown ale. Where’s the mocha? Grain flavors don’t separate enough and hops are undefined. But seasonal clove spiciness (unusual for this style) provides some depth to dry phenol finish. Brewery defunct: 2010.
KROSS BRUEGHEL BLONDE ALE
Limited coriander, clove, and orange peel contribute to flowery hop frontage and citric-fizzed white ale finish of Americanized tripel. Compared to finer Belgian blondes, it’s limited by its much lighter sweet-sour malting. Brewery defunct: 2010.
KROPF GENUINE GERMAN DRAFT
Genuine wheat-backed German draft gains rich hop-grained consistency. Creamy crystal malt sedation spreads across tongue. Doesn’t explode in the mouth with usual foamy effervescence many yeast-injected German brews sometimes do. ‘Smooove.’
KRONENBOURG 1664 PALE LAGER
Mildly creamed straw-hued French/German border brew much closer to German Bavarian lager than wine-y French ale. Salty sharp-hopped maize-dried smoothing, baguette-like sourdough yeast breading, and residual citric sugaring subside too quickly, leaving insufficient character to distinguish Kronenbourg from better competition. Serve with a lemon twist to add luster. Amazingly, this is supposedly the leading brand in France with a ridiculously absurd 40% market share.
KROMBACHER PILS
Sour bread-scented, foamy white-headed, pale-bodied German ruined by washed out hop subversion and fey mineral graining. Watery finish depletes tepid Scotch malt sweetness.
KROLEWSKIE PIVO JASNE
Repulsively bland, soapy, cabbage-scented lager gains diacetyl corn malt clutter to counter dismal lemony hop slot. Strong, but obtrusively pungent.
(KRALOVSKY) KRUSOVICE IMPERIAL PREMIUM PILSENER
Pleasant pale straw moderate body tucks minimal cereal-grained malt sweetness and honeyed biscuit trace into bland sourdough retrenchment. Astringent dry-hopped lemony peach bitterness absorbs harmless cardboard-y shred to pungent finish. Reluctant green apple spicing suffocated.
KRAIT LAGER
Ethereal citric aroma barely registers as cornbread sweetness and doughy wheat airiness infiltrate light-bodied off-dry golden-cleared lager. Copious white yeast sediment strewn crosswise provides sugary residue, countering salty hop pep.
KOZLAK BOCK
Inadvisable green bottle doesn’t plague reputable creamy Polish bock. Sweet brown chocolate drips into big fig embrace and nice hazelnut-walnut-pecan wrap, creating initial full-bodied lunge. Honeyed wheat girds frisky carbolic fizz as massive raisin-prune influence steps forward. Busy finish picks up meritorious burgundy-barleywine ripple. In embossed brown bottle, brown-sugared toffee and butterscotch sweetness scatters thru corn syrupy dried fruiting. Spicy nutmeg tingle drapes latent caramelized raisin-fig-prune conflux.