Cork-bottled Frenchie with dry-fizzed sweet wine essence remains strong yet unassuming. Creamy caramel-malted brew goes down smooth but lacks consistency and firm formal finish. Further taste tests reveal sharp-hopped orange-bruised Scotch-candied tartness. Malt liquor labeling is a canard.

Deviating a bit from the pungent malt theme of most Dutch beers, hop-roasted bittering counters corn sugar timidity before fluctuating sweet ‘n’ sour finish adds muted lemon-lime niceties. As generic as its brewery’s name, third string Heineken rip-off finishes like a cheap corn-dredged American malt liquor. Repellent dank malt sourness, flat head, and skunked yeast mustiness worsen raunchy pale-bodied saltine.

Dignified spice-hopped pale-toned old-timer counters cereal grain essence and sugary malt nose with floral wheat souring, though sterile salty fizz inflicts thin corn sugar finish. Cloying ginger ale fizz less slick than Pearl’s vapid Country Club rival.

Soothing buttery yeast flow and soft hop constraint reach short-lived malt finish as hints of berry jump off the tongue sporadically. Better than the usual macrobrewed suspects.

Cloying gluten-free 5% alcohol drear plunges to overly sugared ginger ale template. Fizzy-hopped honeyed molasses opening picks up lemony tartness, but dank cider-y aftertaste is either off-putting or an acquired taste.

Oxidized orange souring and spoiled vegetal astringency cut through repulsive glutinous wheat dankness of unbalanced medium body. Nasty sorghum aroma, rotted lemon encumbrance, and peanut shell dalliance don’t help matters.

Mild grain essence provides relaxing front-end while lingering spiced hop bitterness and delicate malt sweetness inform dry doughy finish of coppery medium-bodied Old Vienna-styled amber lager. Quite splendid!

Translucent pale-bodied cumulous-headed amber counters pungent malted grain nose with lemony orange zest and salty carbolic fizz to dismal sour hop finish. Skunked sulfuric woes, typical of lesser Dutch lagers, disturb bitter congruence.

Flanked by nostalgic Volkswagen minibus label, this “mellow, effortless” hippie-stoked Vienna lager plies musty-fruited Vienna malt essence to muted herbal-hopped mocha nuttiness. Though organic mineral grain finish never relinquishes subordinate fruit-spiced red ale tang, a stoic blandness gets exposed on repeated sips.

Sinewy yeast sweetness and pungent malt-toasted grains enhance spicy citric adjuncts of moderately creamy lager. Bitter hops awaken caramelized orange midst of well-defined Czech. Would fit comfortably alongside assertive German Octoberfests.

Bold amber-hued billowy-headed premium lager gains bubbly citric zest by alcohol-burnt finish. Bittersweet honeyed mocha malts sneak through lingered hop merriment.

Soapy washed out lager with bland see-thru amber hue mired by puzzling dank sourness and oily corn liquor finish. On positive side, butterscotch dalliance nicely saturates cracked wheat base.