Murky dry-hopped rye-malted pilsner places mild Scotch wisp above sour-fruited tartness. Toasted cereal-grained oats-dried caramelizing reinforces rotted orange-apple pungency and grassy leather-laced bottom. Ample alcohol astringency wearily consumes cracker-salted citric finish of medium-bodied triviality.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: SHMALTZ BREW. CO., SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: PRIVATE LANDBRAUEREI SCHONRAM, SCHONRAM, GERMANY
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Sour diacetyl buttering, phenolic hop fizz, and gnarly vegetal astringency plague musty sour-malted straw-hued moderate-bodied pilsner. After modest barley-rice sweetness counters mild lemon bittering and grassy-hopped repose, coarsened corn-oiled finish impedes progress. Withered white bread spine collapses and wavered herbal nuances barely register.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BOSTON BEER CO., BOSTON, MA.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Enjoyable frothy session beer allows candi-sugared yellow-fruited nature to inundate mild piney hop bittering to biscuit-y cornbread bottom. White grapefruit, yellow grape, and green lime complement tart lemon-seeded overture. Lively citric finish scatters floral, black pepper, and fresh-cut grass nuances below crystalline pilsner malting.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: OSKAR BLUES BREWERY, LYONS, CO.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Crisply carbolic straw-hued Czech pilsner needs deeper yellow-fruited luster and more incisive lemony lime tartness to overcome bleak corn malting. Understated herbal-floral influence, lackadaisical grapefruit bittering, and barren honeysuckle whim weaken over time.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: CHUCKANUT BREWERY, BELLINGHAM, WA.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Adequate corn-malted yellow-fruited cereal-grained pilsner brings spoiled lemon nuances and herbal tinge to the forefront of German-styled medium body. Murky orange-grapefruit meander needs better thrust.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: ANHEUSER-BUSCH, ST. LOUIS, MO.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Boringly astringent and completely insignificant Bud Lite derivative flattens out metallic phenol hop coarseness with meager coriander/ orange peel wisp to stale white bread frailty. Lacking sufficient salty-grained bitterness, and worse, efficient counteractive malt sweetness, this fizzy orange seltzer approximation goes nowhere fast.
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: LOWENBRAU, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: AUGUSTINER BREWERY, MUNICH, GERMANY
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BARKLEY SOUND BREW. CO., COLD SPRING, MN.
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BECK'S BREWERY, BREMEN, GERMANY
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: BECK'S BREWERY, BREMEN, GERMANY
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
- Author: John Fortunato
- Brewery: HEINEKEN BREWERY, AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND
- Category: Beers A-Z
- Comments: None
Musty yeast-scented clear-bodied Heineken ‘light’ maintains white bread signature, gentle hop fizz, crisp water flow, and wheat toast finish for amiable simplicity bettering non-alcoholic rivals.




