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.
Tag Archives: light lager
MARIACHI CERVEZA
HOMETOWN LIGHT
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.
TRADE ROUTE DRAGON KING LAGER
(INDIAN RIVER) NATIVE LAGER
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.
SAPPORO PREMIUM LIGHT LAGER
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.
HOOK & LADDER NO. 2 LIGHTER
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.
RED HOOK SLIM CHANCE LIGHT LAGER
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.
SINGHA LIGHT LAGER
KIRIN LIGHT LAGER
BUDWEISER SELECT LIGHT LAGER
Thin ultra-dry straw-paled light body with only 99 calories fails to ignite. Unleavened white bread barrenness and washed-out Seltzer-fizzed white aspirin chalkiness made worse by drab maize-rice finish. Faintest sweetness evaporates on impact. Inoffensive. Horrid canned version sucks more, allowing tinny metallic acridity to completely nullify barren corn-husked astringency and unbuttered popcorn spell.




