On tap at Buffalo City Jug Shop, loosely Mexican-styled pale lager lets maize-flaked raw honey dryness influence sour lemon twist and mild herbal tease in crisply clean manner. Low grassy hop bitterness contrasts recessive baked bread spine.
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VICTORY HOME GROWN AMERICAN LAGER
Elusive clear golden pale lager with modest intentions. Mildly spiced lemondrop spritz tingles cereal grained carapils malting and alkaline astringency. Sedate Mosaic-Cascade-Citra-Chinook hop influence checkmarks unspecific citric-spiced neutrality.
DOUBLE NICKEL LAID-BACK LAGER
Inexpressive blue collar fodder lacks advertised ‘sweet melon’ influence. Unassuming orange-dried lemon bruise and murky vegetal musk gain sour splurge.
KENT FALLS CONNTEXT
On tap at Ambulance, dry-hopped pale lager lets horse-blanketed barnyard rusticity and grassy hop astringency contrast spritzy floral-spiced lemon zest above mild sugared oats base.
SAMUEL ADAMS SAM ’76
OK yellow-blanched pale lager reminiscent, at times, of a cream ale, due to lager-ale yeast combo providing buttery corn-starched cracker dryness to mild grassy hop astringency. Lightly juiced lemony orange tang picks up floral-perfumed alacrity below the grainy surface.
BURIAL BLOODTUSK KELLERBIER
On tap at Ambulance, smooth German-styled kellerbier (a matured cellar-aged pale lager) brings musky grain malting to dryly peppered Saaz hop spicing, picking up mild lemon rot bittering. Easygoing straightforward moderation.
CEDAR CREEK PATIO POUNDER PALE LAGER
Crisply clean German pilsner-malted moderation crowds groaty corn-flaked cereal malts with murkily herbed Hallertau hop earthiness and moist hay. Light chamomile tea smidge affects plastique citrus fruiting underneath.
THREES GOWANUS GOLD – DRY-HOPPED RICE LAGER
On tap at Ambulance, easygoing dry lager utilizes white rice adjunct and limey star fruit subtleties to create simple light-bodied profile. Lightly salted lemon tartness, brisk yellow grapefruit bittering, mild herbage and wispy white wining pleasantly reaffirm mild rice graining.
AGAINST THE GRAIN BLOODY SHOW LAGER WITH BLOOD ORANGE
Easygoing collaboration with Denmark’s Mikkeller Brewing brings tart blood orange zest to pilsner-malted Danish lager yeast and light grassy hop astringency. Floral-daubed blood orange continuance gains mild candi-sugared sweetness at the finish.
FULL SAIL SESSION MEXICAN-STYLE LAGER
Mellow off-dry yellow-cleared pale lager brings mild lemon-spiced spritz to subtle mineral graining, wispy hay-like earthiness and distant floral snips. Light cilantro herbage caressing the delicate citric finish goes fine with Mexican salsa.
GUINNESS HOP HOUSE 13 LAGER
Approachable pale lager draught utilizes mildly fruited Americanized Galaxy-Mosaic hops, Guinness house yeast and dry Irish barley. Lemony orange-dried apricot sedation shadowed by resinous pine wisp and fresh-cut grass astringency as lightly creamed pale malts form fuzzy foamed sweetness.
SMUTTYNOSE SMUTTLABS: EAST COAST COMMON
On tap at Barcade – Jersey City, warm-fermented and dry-hopped San Francisco-styled pale lager (2016 offshoot of earlier Stoneface Brewing collaboration) links caramelized oats sugaring with light floral spicing while contrasting moderate citric-hopped bittering and nutty pine resin. At the finish, lemony grapefruit tartness ascends, bringing crisp closure.
