On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, initial caramel apple sweetness undone by mismatched lager-malted cider snag. Sugary candy apple glaze gone in a whimper as wet grain musk sets in.
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DROWNED LANDS WATER ELM: BERRY RICE LAGER
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, easygoing beige-cleared rice lager with washed-out raspberry-blackberry tartness and even wispier blush champagne and orange mimosa reminders gathering for spritzy summertime fodder. Ricey pilsner malt base too delicate.
DEVILS BACKBONE PEAR LAGER
Summery citrus sheen outlasts understated tart pear adjunct contrasting grassy hop astringency. Citric-doused pear subtlety gains wispy white-wined cider snip above light doughy malts.
ABITA SWEET ORANGE LAGER
Sweet orange-candied tang brings spritzy sun-kissed citrus pleasantry to salted spices and pilsner-malted wheat bottom. Juicy tangerine tang nearly outdoes zesty orange adjunct. Serve as a better shandy alternative.
DEEP RIVER DOUBLE DON WATERMELON LAGER
Easygoing watermelon-infused lager retains pallid fruit-spiced tartness over soft hop-fizzed white bread spine. Jolly Rancher-like sweet ‘n sour watermelon flavor melts down as lackluster cranberry, cherry and lemon snips fail to fill the gaps.
(BLUE DAWG) SHADOW’S WILD BLACK BLACKBERRY LAGER
Cloying artificial sugaring disrupts natural blackberry juicing of grape soda-like malt beverage with pink-headed ruby magenta hue. Phenol hop astringency disrupts gunky blackberry jam, purple grape, raspberry, strawberry and black currant undertones to nasty corn syrupy bottom.
(RINKUSKAI) COCKA TOO POMEGRANATE LAGER
Cruddy fruited lager (with heightened 12% alcohol flow) tastes like cheap corn-syrupy malt liquor dreck. Cloy sugaring ruins advertised pomegranate influence and slushy strawberry-cranberry slurp. Miserable whiskey-backed honey wheat base and dreadful vodka niche further deride Lithuanian stinker.
OPA OPA BLUEBERRY LAGER
Mild blueberry tartness stays complacent over phenol citric-hopped acridity. Bigger swig reveals blueberry pie, blueberry seed, and blueberry muffin illusions above sweet cornbread bottom. Light cranberry pucker adds minor sour-fruited pungency.
ABITA STRAWBERRY HARVEST LAGER
Parched straw-hazed moderate-bodied fruit-flavored lager brings powdered Pez-like sourness to muted cotton-candied strawberry shortcake tartness. Blanched cereal graining subsumed by astringent leathery acridity, diacetyl carbolic fizz, and watermelon gum illusion. Banana taffy, plantain, peach, and apricot lost in butterscotch midst.
LAKEFRONT CHERRY LAGER
Sweet and sour Wisconsin cherry tartness provides raspy up-front surge and overall depth to tangy fruited lager. Musty white grape pucker, pithy pomegranate parch, and tertiary cranberry-mulberry dryness counter candied red-black cherry thrust to honeyed wheat spine.
LAKEFRONT PUMPKIN LAGER
Sweet pumpkin pie essence enhanced by enticing cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom and clove spicing. But murky grain-hopped sterility and pedestrian sour citrus reminder hamper black currant riptide to astringent gourd finish.
SAXER LEMON LAGER
Horrid cabbage-sewage sniff off-putting for impossibly whitish yellow-hued clear bottled ‘malternative’ lightweight. Honeyed lemon tartness reveals hard-candied sugared cider scheme (thankfully superceding putrid waft), settling to fizzy lime soda delicateness with grassy hop backing. Brewery defunct: 2005.