Pungent barley-oats aroma seems too brash compared to pale yellow hue and flowery hop fizz, though dense sugared wheat thicket and spicy white grape finish offer wine-like White Ale or French Beer essence. Carbonation softly dissipates on tongue, flattening quickly.
Tag Archives: light lager
(ENGEL) BOMBERS PIN-UP BEER
Unique German lager packaged in bomber canteen pours light despite creamy density. Soft hop tingle and corn-sweetened malt liquor finish fade abruptly. Could use more character and body for $5 a can.
KINGFISHER LIGHT LAGER
(NEW CENTURY) MOONSHOT ’69 LAGER
Easygoing light lager contract brewed by Matt Brewery (makers of Saranac) christened after ’69 lunar landing to coincide with amount of caffeine used (69 grams) – same as a cup of coffee. Glutinous sour candied lemon drop opening overrides meagerly toasted cardboard-like barley-oats bottom, dry cocoa tease, and sweet corn smidgen.
(TUNNER’S) ROCK RIVER LAGER
BROU CZECH KOSHER LAGER
(HIJOS DE RIVERA) EXTRA 1906 LAGER
Fluffy white-headed pale-bodied barley-roasted lager with caramel-candied sweetness and mild sulfuric wisp leading to curious smooth Chablis-like finish. Lean metallic hop bitterness counters lingering buttery sweetness at back of the throat for one of the more satisfying Spanish brews. Fine as crossover for most white wine drinkers.
KIPER PREMIUM LAGER
NEW ENGLAND ELM CITY LAGER
By 2007, New England Brewery had relocated outside inceptive Norwalk site. Tinny green-canned straw-hued light-bodied German-styled pilsner yields to defective metallic astringency and slobbered malt liquor mustiness. Mild lemon-curried grapefruit-pitted bittering and rotten orange-peach sourness debilitate white-breaded rye wheat base, but mineral watered crispness ups the ante a bit for crisply clean session beer.