Peak Organic Coconut Lime Kolsch

The Stats
Style: Kolsch
ABV: 4.7%
Current Ratings...
- Untappd: 3.38/5
- Beer Advocate: 3.68/5
- RateBeer: 3.04/5

Commercial Description
"Bringing a wave of tropical notes and a touch of citrus, this beer is beautifully designed. A crisp, bready, German-Style Kolsch serves as the foundation for this beer. Then we add a splash of organic coconut and organic lime. This Kolsch is very complex, but remarkably refreshing. It’s like we put the beach in a can. We hope you enjoy!"

Appearance
Straw yellow color with a transparent body and lots of carbonation bubbles rising from the bottom of the glass. It poured to a finger of white head.

Aroma
The lime is unquestionably the most prominent and has a puckering, zesty kick. There's a small toasted note, which I attribute to the coconut, but Kolsch characteristics are hard to find as they are masked by the title ingredients, but a subtle herbal quality is noticeable if I try hard enough.

Taste
The lime is still here, but definitely muted when compared to the aroma. The coconut actually came through big, which was a nice surprise. It has a sweeter quality to balance out the lime zest. The base beer itself doesn't lend much flavor as it has more of a generic, wheat, corn, or grain taste. I get a very tiny bit of a spicy hop note, but it fades away quickly. If it wasn't for the coconut and lime, it would taste like a subpar Kolsch.

Mouthfeel
Still, thanks to the lime, this managed to be a refreshing experience. The light feel and carbonation also helped make for a crisp body and it was easy to drink.

Overall
As I said before, the added coconut and lime steal the show and help elevate an okay Kolsch into something with a semblance of flavor. It's an Americanized version of the style, but it turned into something enjoyable.

Rating
7.1/10

Peak Organic Ripe

The Stats
Style: Imperial IPA
ABV: 8%
Current Ratings...
- Beer Advocate: N/A
- Untappd: 3.87/5
- RateBeer: N/A

"A wicked dry hopped double IPA"

Pours hazy light orange with a finger of white head.

The aroma is surprisingly bland. If I dig deep enough I can find some orange juice concentrate and fresh-cut grass, but then I'm taken aback by an off flavor of buttered popcorn.

The taste isn't yielding much better as a stale bitterness runs rampant throughout. It's not bitter as in hoppy, but bitter as in a beer gone bad (despite being canned less than a month ago). It does manage to start off with a splash of tropical fruits and refreshing orange juice on the very front of my tongue, but I think that is where the good time end. Aside form the bad bitterness, this tastes like unflavored seltzer water which is almost appropriate seeing as this "Wicked Dry-Hopped Double IPA" has almost no genuine flavor to it. As it reaches the end, the aftertaste has a green bean and metallic feeling. It is nearly undrinkable.

Mouthfeel is lacking. This is an 8% DIPA, but it is as thin as regular tap water. As I said before, the lingering vegetal flavors make each sip a challenge, but hey, at least the alcohol is not noticeable.

Don't let this review deter you from Peak Organic because they produce some stellar stuff, but Ripe was just plain bad. It's touted as a massively dry-hopped Double IPA, but there's no way I can believe that to be true. It was lacking in genuine hop flavor and the flavors that were there were unpleasant. I can tolerate this beer and can finish the can, but there's no reason you'd want to. It's a rare miss from this brewery.

Rating
3.8/10