Pure mountain spring water flows through dirty mineral grain essence to soapy finish that’s indistinguishable even for a light pale body. Conservative barleymalt saunter under-whelms.

Musty sour yeast aroma sets up frisky-hopped bitter malts and moderate buttery creaminess. But too predictable by third passing.

Drab clear-bodied white-headed pale lager settles to fair barleycorn sweetness after frustrating musty yeast nose, moldy malt liquor pungency, and oxidized herbal hop fizz recede.

Carbolic toasted lager with minor fruited grain bitterness, grassy hop fizz, and cheap honeyed malt surge flushed out by watery plainness, metallic spell, and deadened wood tones. Soapy dank finish wanes.

Puffy white-headed pale lager with carbolic overload retains pungent malt waft and sour yeast astringency similar to Dutch brews such as Heineken. Soft, buttery, and mildly creamy, but murky hops, washed-out barley, and soapy finish compromise cornmeal sweetness.

Lighter, simpler and less musky than most similarly styled Czech brews, lean Bulgarian lager relies on gentle barley, maize, and rice backbone to constrain sugary cereal graining contrasting mildly acidic herbal hop bitterness. Diacetyl finish veils gummy malt cloying.

Basic easygoing straw-cleared lager suspends expectant smoked wood aromatics abruptly, leaving sweet cola-like fizz and honeyed cereal malting to absorb minor peppery tingle mingling popcorn finish. Skip.