Up-front barley-oats graining softens soda pop flow as cloying corn syrup dredge overrides flagging hops. Starch-y butterscotch permanence creases wheat-honeyed finish.
Tag Archives: amber lager
LABATT’S ELEPHANT RED LAGER
PORTLAND HONEY LAGER
TIGER GOLD MEDAL LAGER
FISCHER D’ALSACE AMBER MALT LIQUOR
(DUTCH EXPORT) AMSTERDAM MARINER PREMIUM LAGER
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.









