Offbeat Asian-styled straw-hued moderate-bodied light lager places interesting herbal twist above rice-grained backdrop. Lemon-honeyed crystal malting and palm-sugared ginseng-guarana-ginger-eucalyptus-sage dusting rise above bark-dried sodium salting.

Astringent citric-hopped phenol-spiced straw-hued light lager gets watery fast. Diluted candy-soured orange rind and lemon peel bittering tops sullen grain tepidity and corn-oiled gloom. Parched lime-like acidity and skunked vegetal waft overwhelm frail finish.

Washed-out aluminum-hued dry-bodied lightweight ruined by tinny corn-oiled rice wine souring and nasty cider-y finish; leaving tinny aftertaste. Nasty stuff.

Anyone for salted pretzels or buttery popcorn? This light-bodied lager suffers from doughy nothingness and astringent corn-maize nature. Faintest butterscotch-marzipan flicker saves lightly toasted malt finish. Contract brewed for Maryland’s Hook & Ladder.

Fizzy platinum blonde has bland character at 125 calories. Grassy maize-straw wheat astringency hampers bruised lemon, green apple, and unripe peach tartness to cardboard-y white bread spine. Fleeting buttery corn-oiled dankness turns cloy. Budweiser-owned Red Hook became a formulaic brewery way before these ’09 soft-bodies.

Impossibly pale-toned lightweight with sugared rice-corn sweetness wracked by skunked cabbage nosing and compost-addled sorghum funk still betters chemically altered ‘lite’ macrobrews.

Palest straw-hued 95-calorie softie with dry popcorn-maize acridity maintains sugar-fizzed rice cake sweetness that betters most boring chemically augmented light beers.

Ridiculous low-carb craze brought forth this sharply crisp fizz water mediocrity that betters competing Michelob Ultra. But dry wheat shard, faded Scotch twang, and meagerly citric ping bereft of malt-yeast resolve.

Steeltown’s I.C. light beer gets South of the Border “twist” from Acapulco lime, sustaining soft hop fizz, light banana hint, and funky grain mesh.

Clear gold foil hue extremely pale for low carbohydrate alternative thankfully bereft of nasty ‘lite’ beer preservatives. Fizzy flow lacks hop, barley, or yeast concentration, as lime-y seltzer water finish turns cardboard thin before dropping off precipitously.

Nebulous straw-hued light pilsner not as astringently corn-liquored as atrocious stateside foe, Iron City Light. Sugary malts, oily hops, and vegetal fringe cheapen idle popcorn finish.