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.

Fine smoked beer with perky hop-spiced fizz increasing burnt wood overtones and ashen-grained pale malts. Lighter and less dynamic than the nearly perfect Rogue Smoke Au Rauch, therefore less worthy.

Impossibly transparent paleness, puffy cumulous head, and fey malt pungency further dulled by unripe quince dalliance. Putrid alcohol astringency negatively affects unassuming ethanol aftertaste.

Dry-roasted barleymalts and sour citric nip welcome rising butterscotch proclivity of coppery medium-bodied Vienna-styled lager. But dormant finish undone by lack of hop-grain punctuation.

Attractive Scotch-like copper-toned Swede finds faded wheat wine aroma caressing roasted barleymalt dryness and dainty caramel creaminess. Bottom yeast sediment provides sweet warmth echoing candied clove reassurance countering dry hop finish.

Interestingly, many Portuguese beers emulate watery mild-bodied Spanish styling rather than heavier wheat wine mode their French neighbors relish. White head, unassuming aroma, soft grain palate, and gentle hop fizz dissolve by bland, indistinct finish.

Musty dough aroma, persistent phenol hop coarsening, and garbled malted grains up-front. Insufficient clove, citrus, and mint hints get drowned out. Weak toasted barley finish as drab as aluminum hue. Plain, ordinary, but not common.

Clean-watered pale lager needs deeper cereal-grained cornmeal penetration to supplement dry breaded malt slope, grassy hop moderation, and thin rice adjunct.

Lighter, simpler and less musky than most similarly styled Czech brews, lean Bulgarian lager relies on gentle barley, maize, and rice backbone to constrain sugary cereal graining contrasting mildly acidic herbal hop bitterness. Diacetyl finish veils gummy malt cloying.

Pungent grain aroma consumes pale-toned pilsner-styled Italian. Sharp hop bittering enhances corn-buttered malts and distant wheat chaff for assertive richness. But metallic shard lowers appeal.

Problematic straw-hued pearly-headed pale lager retains repugnant skunked cannabis waft, soapy corn sugared butterscotch glut, and lazy apricot-tangerine reticence. Sticky honeyed wheat access dissolved by desultory diacetyl mustiness draping withered phenol hop resin of moderate-bodied bohemian-styled knockoff.

Here’s a new one – a double dry Canadian that’s unfortunately closer to salty U.S. macrobrew dreck. Despite crisp water and fine grain flow, dry-hopped corn malting and metallic astringency are as mainstream as it gets. Acrid vegetal finish is a downer. And its unusual classification is a canard.