Chameleon-like extra smooth Italian-styled pale lager gives faded chocolate roast mildness and sharp toasted hop chiding an overripe orange-peach tease. Skittish caramelized backdrop, shaky corn-barley base, and butterscotch-toffee sedation need better assertion. Brewery defunct: 2004.

Disguised as a dry lager in America since pilsner designation is deemed light and watery, golden-hued hop-infested medium body is similar to Dutch competitor Heineken with its musty aromatic pungency and prolonged bitter-grained finish. Yet Grolsch has saltier bitterness, sharper Bavarian grain perkiness, and oft-times malt liquor-like strength.

Tinny grain bitterness and intrusive phenolic fizz disrupt slim honeyed lemon sourness, fresh cut maize dryness and husked wheat backbone of bland moderation. But brisk mineral water flow nearly saves it from indistinction.

Matured in open underground vats, unfiltered ‘keller’ beer styling uses only four basic ingredients (water-hops-barley-yeast). But turbid copper German suffers from crumbling spice-hopped butterscotch overlay and musty yeast bed. Clover honeyed caramel malts sour at midst, debunking dried tobacco whim and spiced apple tinge.

Sharp musty-scented pale-bodied artesian lager retains crisp barley-hopped sweetness, grassy bottom, and watery simplicity, but generic soapy finish lowers rating to half of its Spanish ‘Five Star’ moniker.

Strong golden-hazed bitter gathers Scotch malt insistence, nutty ascension, and buttery texture, despite finishing a bit watery. Slight mocha tinge hidden below stabilized hop salience.

Another lively carbonated citric-soured yeast-stenched Dutch brew. Sweet vanilla creaming juxtaposes supple hop bitterness at midst. Spritzy orange peel detected at earthen nut finish. Too dank and soapy to overtake better local competition.

Sluggish pale-cleared cumulous-headed champagne-fizzed pilsner-like bore with astringent grassy hop bitterness distracting cloy grain sugaring, buttered corn tepidity, and dank maize-husked acridity to metallic finish. Slight agave hint amongst distant cellar musk.

Coarse peppery hop fizz depletes corn sugar sweetness, spicy lemon tinge, and wood burnt singe of vapid pale body. Soapy finish reaches nasty sulfuric heights.

A step down from multi-dimensional Belgian ales, lazy straw-hazed mainstream fodder lacks distinct character to soapy spring-watered finish. Lightweight trash finds sweet-corned pilsner malts going cloy and flaccid lemon-peppered hops getting limp. Closer to dank Eastern European fodder. Accompanies spicy Indian food well.

Metallic straw-hued white-foamed pale lager stuck in cardboard-y quagmire eradicates dirge-y whiskey spell and meager clover-honeyed corn syrup finish as boredom ensues.

Puffy white-headed pale lager with carbolic overload retains pungent malt waft and sour yeast astringency similar to Dutch brews such as Heineken. Soft, buttery, and mildly creamy, but murky hops, washed-out barley, and soapy finish compromise cornmeal sweetness.