Red Hook-brewed Hawaiian-styled pale lager may lack depth (and taste somewhat different from original version), but dry-bodied toasted bread frontage and multi-grained pumpernickel-rye respite will please whole-wheat bread eaters. Zesty citric esters and sour green raisin wisp bring meager fruited swirl. 

Eye-catching circus freak-labeled series continues with complex 10% alcohol-fueled German-styled doppelbock posing as a strong lager. Sugary ginger sweetness invades red cherry, golden raisin, purple grape, and apricot fruitiness as well as buttery molasses-chocolate malting. Peppery hop fizz simmers tertiary gin-soaked barleywine, Chardonnay, and rum boozing and slight metallic twang. Like the finest non-flavored vodka, this full-bodied lager elevates its supplemental ingredients.

Clover honey waft prefigures corn cereal buoyancy, creamy caramel malt seduction, and intervening chalky mocha-cocoa souring as tamped down hops fortify buttery finish of fine pale amber. Slight departure from usual grain-based South American beers.

Drab straw-hued dry-bodied Jamaican retains smarmy crystal-malted cereal-sugared grain-caramelized sweetness, but carbolic fizz overwhelms dank doughy must and buttery popcorn resonance.

Heady ‘original’ Budweiser brewed in Czech Republic since 1795 brought to America in ’05, two years after the arrival of more consistent, less malt-y regional rival Budvar (a.k.a. Czechvar). Dry-hopped musk-scented honey roasted lager retains creamed corn assertion, toasted grain austerity, and malt liquor pungency. Informal Scotch piquancy, dank white bread staleness, and alfalfa-grass-horsehide trace whisked away by third sip. Canned version seems more astringently alcoholic and lemony bitterer.

Bitter hop-fizzed opening punctuated by pungent earthen mustiness countering delicate crystal-malted barley-wheat sweetness. More full-bodied and classier than most South American competition, comparing favorably to mainstream stateside lagers.

Wayward golden-cleared cumulous-headed pale lager integrates sweet corn-sugared grain affluence and cinnamon-honeyed wheat wafer motif with cheap malt liquor-like passage. Prickly hop fizz fades abruptly and watery washed-out finish confounds.

Even-tempered pale lager imbued by opulent honey palate, dry malt sweetness, and dull cocoa pitch lacks anticipated hop bite. Only moderate mocha richness saves this from being lost amongst commonplace lagers. Brewery defunct: 2006.

Bland rust-hued lager with thrifty citric hop thrust, dank rye-toasted malt continuance, and abject watery texture. Intrusive carbolic fizz overtakes subdued grains by undefined candied finish that lacks resolve.

Cereal grained pale lager perfectly suited for soft-headed beginners. Delicate roasted barleymalt sash and dried quince-orange-raisin decoy fill out dry-hopped finish. Mellow simplicity is its own reward.

Clear yellow appearance, light Scotch aromatics, and soft corn-sugared sweetness reminiscent of Miller High Life. White breaded yeast, fizzy carbonation, pleasant hop crispness, and agave hints round out fragile malt liquor-like South of the Border beer. Not as spicy as most Mexicans.