Pours light for heavily carbonated wheat beer. Tangy citric fragrance, tongue-tickling hop fizz, and fine German water provide initial soft tone. Orange peel midst brings out moderate bitterness. But weak pale malt finish dissipates too quickly.
TUCHER KRISTALL WEIZEN
Water-crisped banana-clove overlay gets summery lemon hop fizz. By dry finish, light grain convoy covers citric notes. Ultimately too mild for serious beer hounds.
TUCHER HELLES HEFE WEIZEN
Sunny yellow turbidity, frisky floral nose, and dry fruited mouthfeel offer summery appeal. But fizzy phenol flow disrupts lilting grapefruit-banana tartness, clove-coriander glint and bubblegum hint to buttery yeast bottom. Modest wheat sentiment stabilizes spry citric outlay.
TUCHER DUNKLES HEFE WEIZEN
Silken caramel-wafted bubbly-fizzed dark lager layers honeyed wheat sweetness above yellow fruiting of copper-hued tan-headed moderate-bodied German. Perfumed hops, satiny fruits, and clove spicing reach soft crystal malt finish, providing uncommon lilt.
TUCHER BAJUVATOR DOPPELBOCT
Smooth double bock flaunts sweet candy waft, caramelized barleymalt stickiness, and ascending chocolate overtones. Rich yeast adds appealing density to otherwise easy finishing bock.
TUBORG PREMIUM LAGER
Musty sour malt odor of white-headed amber-toned medium body disrupts well-hopped barley flaking. Weak orange dullness dries out to faint tinny finish. Needs creamier register.
TUBORG GOLD LABEL PALE LAGER
Stale-breaded corn-soured billowy-headed moderation was one of the first imports offered to American market during early ’70s. Burnt coffee dryness and ripe grape undertones disappear too far in front of disturbing grassy-hopped vegetal finish for any maintained dignity.
TUBORG BIERE DE LUXE
Drab white-headed pale-cleared canned lager languishes in one-dimensional crystal malt blandness, allowing no sub-texture to lacquer cloy corn crimp and shabby grain strand. Watered down fluff.
(TSINGTAO) RED DRAGON XTREME LAGER
Musk-y malt-scented amber-paled lager garnishes sugary butterscotch sweetness and glutenous sticky rice follow-up with buttery dry-hopped oats-toasted finish. Not bad for mass marketed mainstream fodder.
TSINGTAO PALE LAGER
Doughy hop-fizzed beer from behind (what’s left of) the Iron Curtain. While visiting China, Tsingtao had more noticeable grain frame and gentler water flow. Sweet rice snip furrows into delicate yeast sinew. Floral hop spices caress crisp, easygoing finish. Try it with a lime.
TRUMER PILS
Originally brewed in Austria and Germany, smooth golden lager maintains slick honeyed malt inertia, sweet corn-sugared cereal-grained dalliance, and mild hop-spiced lemon zest. Mild multigrain breading and biscuit-y finish add to light-bodied goodness.
TRUE NORTH LIGHT
Soothingly bitter-hopped wheat-backed rye-pumpernickel entry becomes one-dimensional after a few sips. Dry lemony hop fizz encounters sourdough nicety, but soothingly sweet diacetyl finish gets watery. No longer brewed.