Faint sweet hop aroma. Smooth taste with subdued hops flavor and a mild year/wheat malt flavor. Overall, very mild. Hard to believe with flavors this subtle that it’s 6.3%. Slight hop bitterness lingering in aftertaste.
4 out of 5 stars.
Category Archives: General Lager
Samuel Adams Sam ’76
Faint sweet malt aroma. Refreshing taste slightly crisp but soft. Light flavor mix of malt and hops. Decent. Fairly smooth and flavorful, but nothing stands out very prominently.
4 out of 5 stars.
Founders Solid Gold
Faint sweetness in the aroma of malt or corn. Clean taste with a slight twinge of sweetness, but overall pretty bland. No aftertaste except a hint at the very back of the roof of the mouth of a mild sweetness. Totally unremarkable. Sure, make a light lager for people that drink Bud Light, but why? But why not just buy Bud Light?
2.5 out of 5 stars
Short’s Noble Chaos
Full earthy malt aroma. Crisp malt taste with some nice supporting hops in the background. Flavorful, slightly crisp, and lingering malt taste with multiple malt flavors dancing around.
4.5 out of 5 stars
Bell’s Quinannon Falls
Faint light sweet aroma. Crisp flavor, quickly drying. Nice clean malt aftertaste.
4 out of 5 stars.
Short’s Local’s Light
Sweet aroma. Crisp taste, almost like apple cider. Flavor them becomes a mix of sweet crispness and a soft malt flavor. Somewhat refreshing, but relatively uninteresting.
3.5 out of 5 stars.
Deschutes Hopzeit Autumn IPA
Sweet aroma, almost like citronella. Nice crisp taste with a good hop sweetness and clean malt flavor. Very refreshing.
4 out of 5 stars.
Odd Side Ales Chillindamos
Had at the brewery. Munich lager dry hopped with Galaxy hops. Faint sweet aroma. Slightly crisp, sweet taste. Had a mild malt aftertaste of light grain, but also tastes a bit like corn grain. Don’t notice the Galaxy hops except very faintly in the background.
4 out of 5 stars.
Grain Belt Premium
From a Minnesota brewery. No aroma. Flavor very not present. Clean malt taste comes in the aftertaste and lingers. Clearly the replacement for the missing MillerLite from the tap list.
3 out of 5 stars.
Upper Hand Lager
Clean crisp malt aroma. Slightly sweet flavor that quickly crispens. Leaned taste buds slightly puckered but with a lingering clean malt taste. Very nice.
I was worried since this was the last of a 6 pack from summer. Brewed on 6/30/2015, drank for this review on 1/9/2016, so a little over 6 months old. Taste has held up well, though, with only a mild sweetness detectable that I don’t recall before.
4.5 out of 5 Stars.
