Tag Archives: light lager

BUD LIGHT PLATINUM

‘A bolder light-bodied lager’ redefining inoffensively pallid ‘lite’ category due to higher alcohol content (6%) and less calories than Budweiser (137). In a translucent cobalt blue bottle, aluminum-cleared softie brings pastry-sugared crystal malting to unspecific fruiting as delicate hops trickle through. Thankfully, avoids musty corn-dried astringency and nasty alkaloid oiling of Bud Light. Trendy 2012-originated triple-filtered offering is better, sweeter alternative to mass marketed gunk.

(MELANIE) BEER 30 LIGHT PREMIUM

Nasty Midwest muck brewed in Wisconsin for Indiana company sponsored by Ohio syndicate. Generic-named, purple-canned light lager starts desolate and watery, then turns ugly quick. Disturbing sourly skunked malt pungency, rotted vegetable continuance, and miring malt-liquored corn oiling not worse than cat-pissed ginger ale putridity. Chalky aspirin-like solvency beckons. As The Jam once sang, ‘the bitterest pill is mine today.’ At $11 a 30-pack it’s still not a bargain. Just awful.

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TAPPETO VOLANTE

Poor musty Italian blonde lager with pearly-headed opaque-cleared hue lacks body, texture, and complexity, though crisp alpine-watered sparkle revives salty club soda spritz. Thin, watery, washed-out and soapy, its doughy malt spine cannot carryover sour rye breading, swilled corn-floured murk, and phenol citric musk.

MOOSEHEAD LIGHT LIME

Cloying saccharine-like lime soda likeness may put off all but fruited malt beverage lunkheads. Dry lime spritzer (with acrid hop-fizzed aridity and straw-yellowed hue) picks up definite agave influence, but goes flat quick. Sugary lemonade snip, tart white-yellow grape parching, and zesty menthol herbage round out trendy light-bodied desiccation.

BALASHI PILSENER

Not far removed from styptic herb-embittered dry-grained 80 Shilling Scottish Ale or bland baquette-like Copper Ale, this medium-bodied pilsner-lager may be somewhat robust, but cardboard-like rye-breaded pungency, corn-husked brown rice musk and dirty vegetal earthiness skulk subsidiary sulfuric skunking. Desalinated tap water brings slight saltine hint. Richer and headier than Aruba brewery’s ‘Limited Brew’ as well as most lighter-bodied Caribbean beers, but dirtily vegetal and ultimately less rewarding.