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Rating: 2.5

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Generic sudsy pale lager (named after Southern California tattoo collector) maintains fizzy hop-spiced sharpness above cheap corn-rice adjuncts that seep into glutinous wheat spine. Solvent-like finish and latent phenol nature further disrupt.

Rating: 2.5

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Awkwardly dry-spiced aggressively-hopped lager tries too hard to please blue collar thirsts and extreme hop-heads alike. Sticky almond paste-marzipan-butterscotch influence raids toasted caramel malts, but astringent Scotch souring and dank whiskey drear lead nastily coarse malt liquor assault for wayward Swede.

Rating: 2.5

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Lackluster yellow-hazed light-bodied German pilsner-styled pale lager lacks distinction. Fizzy honey-toasted buttering counters mild grassy-hopped bittering to glutinous wheat backdrop. Deficient sourdough finish gets soapy.

Rating: 3

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HIGH & MIGHTY PURITY OF ESSENCEPour slowly unfiltered alcohol-tinged malt liquor-like pale lager. Peachy orange-tangerine tang overtaken by pine-barked grapefruit peel bittering. Wavering floral bouquet enhances tropical pineapple passage, mild blueberry souring, and soft currant lacquering. Ultimately, stylistically expansive as an adjunct lager.

Rating: 2

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BANKS CARIBBEAN LAGERSimple pale-bodied session beer that’ll satisfy poorer American blue collar tastes. Sour corn-oiled turn-off picks up dry phenol hop bittering fortifying fragile barley-roasted wheat-cracked spine to minimal soapy finish. Oily diacetyl mouthfeel, putrid Scotch malting, green apple souring, and cooked vegetable tinge beat down satisfactory rice adjunct.

Rating: 2

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Modest light-bodied dry lager with too much acidic citrus bitterness and not enough counteractive sweet red and orange-fruited luster. Grapefruit peel bittering and mild juniper hop astringency ransack white grape tartness and peach-apple tang to weak white-breaded spine.

Rating: 3

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Red Hook-brewed Hawaiian-styled pale lager may lack depth (and taste different from original version), but dry-bodied toasted bread frontage and multi-grained pumpernickel-rye respite will please whole-wheat bread eaters.

 

Rating: 4

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Eye-catching circus freak-labeled series continues with complex 10% alcohol-fueled German-styled doppelbock posing as a strong lager. Sugary ginger sweetness invades red cherry, golden raisin, purple grape, and apricot fruitiness as well as buttery molasses-chocolate malting. Peppery hop fizz simmers tertiary gin-soaked barleywine, Chardonnay, and rum boozing and slight metallic twang. Like the finest non-flavored vodka, this full-bodied lager elevates its supplemental ingredients.

Rating: 2.5

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Up-front glutinous wheat sweetness and cloying corn sugaring embellish simple hop flow. Musty yeast souring counters Vienna-styled cereal-grained malts, combining for prosaic Euro Scotch essence. But unassumingly soapy butterscotch finish lags behind.

Rating: 1

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Respected Italian film director, Frederico Fellini, deserves better than lackluster blonde lager tributary. Initial cabbage-like vegetal waft of palest yellow pearly-headed lightweight bodes badly. Moldy sourdough breading debunks timid lemongrass midst, bruised orange taint, and olfactory hay-barnyard astringency. Lamely watery, soapy suds.

Rating: 3.5

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Clover honey waft prefigures corn cereal buoyancy, creamy caramel malt seduction, and intervening chalky mocha-cocoa sourness as tamped down hops fortify buttery finish of fine pale amber. Slight departure from usual grain-based South American beers.

Rating: 3

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Clear golden-hued white-headed green-bottled lager lacks distinction despite boasting influence of ten international brewmasters’ strange affinity towards exploiting Heineken-Beck’s sour malted grain sharpness. Sunny hop briskness and bread-y yeast pungency remain steadfast, but fizzy seltzer flow whimpers to mild bitter finish.

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