Korbinian and lunch

Being a devotee to Weihenstephaner I surprised myself I've never tried their Korbinian or Vitus after all these years. I picked both up while at BevMo yesterday and decided to pop open the Korbinian to have with my lunch of steak, balsamic carmelized onions, mushrooms, and provolone paninis and a simple spinach salad with a dijon and garlic white balsamic vinaigrette.

The beer poured with a light beige head and had a moderate roasty malt flavor with quite a bit of sweetness that had a bit of dried fruit element to it. The texture was creamy smooth with a light carbonation. This is a tad bit more bitter and roasty than their standard dunkel, but not overwhelmingly so. Overall this was an easy drinker that won't create too much damage at 7.4% and also paired well with the rich and earthy flavor of the panini.

Lytle Creek Kolsch

With the weather warming up this week I was jonesing for a nice refreshing beer mid afternoon today. I decided to pop open a test bottle of my Lytle Creek Kolsch I bottled at the end of March to satisfy my craving.

The beer poured a clear golden hue with a thin white head. This had lots of carbonation (although not causing an overflow when the bottle opened) with a fast stream of bubbles up the glass. There was a yeasty aroma to this still young beer, but not much else of note on the nose.

The yeast was not nearly as dominate in the taste with a very sweet flavor with a hint of banana beyond the yeast. The extra dose of hops I used in the brew were obviously still under estimated, since there was hardly any taste of it, especially for what should be a kolsch style beer.

However with the nice bit of bubbly and light flavor, this was definitely refreshing and went down easy. Maybe this farily neutral recipe might be useful for mixing in fruit or other flavor add ins. Hmmm....