Pearly white-headed yellow-bodied lager has promising fruited malt entry tamed by citric hop wisp and threadbare barley-wheat snip, finishing feebly as dour alcohol astringency overwhelms lightly salted sweet corn stipend.

Brewed in Texas as well as Mexico, this lawnmowing pale lager has a long history and its bottled and canned versions have featured many different, but similar, labels. Obvious Tex-Mex tequila-agave assertion goes fine with lemon twist. But too delicate and unassuming, lacking distinction from fizzed pilsner mouthfeel to light grained finish.

Soapy pale lager with sour wheat entry, dry corn-husked acridity, and doughy bread tepidity fades into fizzy ether. Minor grapefruit splurge dissipates quickly.

Centrist-minded Polish strong lager brings sour honeyed malt pungency and dank yeast sweetness to obtrusive rust watering. Frisky carbonation obscures bittersweet grassy-hopped grain persistence, finishing lighter than expected. Inessential.

Another easy flowin’ Rebel brew (bottled for Svijanska Brewery). Pale yellow hue, fragrant hops, watery flow, and a nip of sour bread yeast consume billowy front end. Mild grain bitterness and light malt persistence soften skanky yeast finish reminiscent of Heineken. A pleasantly acquired taste.

Light, straw-hued, ceramic cold-filtered pilsner with sharp hopped carbonation, malted grain embellishment, and lemony lick lacks consistency and dense texture of Sapporo Reserve.

Sweet Scotch-liquored burnt wood chip entry fades abruptly, allowing insistent barley roast to contrast dry-hopped maize astringency. Dirty grain murk drags down butterscotch-spiced creaminess and grassy straw-hay backend to dull lull. Dissipating wood-smoked curry-spiced finish lacks resilience.

Woozy malt whiskey waft and musty sourdough pungency upset sweet cereal-grained corn sugar frontage and biscuit-y wheat remnant. Faint hop bittering, suspect orange candy fizz, and herbal tinge of pale medium-bodied Baltic brew reach unwelcome astringency, though grainy thickness bests most lagers.

Pure mountain spring water flows through dirty mineral grain essence to soapy finish that’s indistinguishable even for a light pale body. Conservative barleymalt saunter under-whelms.

Pale-hued ivory-headed clear-watered pilsner links perky hops and musty barleymalts to sweet maple complacency. Ultimately, too simple to be effective.

Clear pale-bodied white-headed mediocrity with short sugary cereal splurge picks up smoked wood chip tinge at prickly hop tongue, but soapy finish palls.

Succinct amber-browned lager with pervasive mineral grain frontage, lively fruit-spiced insistence, and muted chocolate-vanilla trace coalescing grassy Saaz hop bittering, finishing smooth, crisp, and richly full-bodied. Apple-candied apricot-orange subsidy pleats caramelized Vienna malting. A formidable winner!