Matured in open underground vats, unfiltered ‘keller’ beer styling uses only four basic ingredients (water-hops-barley-yeast). But turbid copper German suffers from crumbling spice-hopped butterscotch overlay and musty yeast bed. Clover honeyed caramel malts sour at midst, debunking dried tobacco whim and spiced apple tinge.

Fine smoked beer with perky hop-spiced fizz increasing burnt wood overtones and ashen-grained pale malts. Lighter and less dynamic than the nearly perfect Rogue Smoke Au Rauch, therefore less worthy.

Impossibly transparent paleness, puffy cumulous head, and fey malt pungency further dulled by unripe quince dalliance. Putrid alcohol astringency negatively affects unassuming ethanol aftertaste.

Dry-roasted barleymalts and sour citric nip welcome rising butterscotch proclivity of coppery medium-bodied Vienna-styled lager. But dormant finish undone by lack of hop-grain punctuation.

Sluggish pale-cleared cumulous-headed champagne-fizzed pilsner-like bore with astringent grassy hop bitterness distracting cloy grain sugaring, buttered corn tepidity, and dank maize-husked acridity to metallic finish. Slight agave hint amongst distant cellar musk.

Coarse peppery hop fizz depletes corn sugar sweetness, spicy lemon tinge, and wood burnt singe of vapid pale body. Soapy finish reaches nasty sulfuric heights.

A step down from multi-dimensional Belgian ales, lazy straw-hazed mainstream fodder lacks distinct character to soapy spring-watered finish. Lightweight trash finds sweet-corned pilsner malts going cloy and flaccid lemon-peppered hops getting limp. Closer to dank Eastern European fodder. Accompanies spicy Indian food well.

Metallic straw-hued white-foamed pale lager stuck in cardboard-y quagmire eradicates dirge-y whiskey spell and meager clover-honeyed corn syrup finish as boredom ensues.

Puffy white-headed pale lager with carbolic overload retains pungent malt waft and sour yeast astringency similar to Dutch brews such as Heineken. Soft, buttery, and mildly creamy, but murky hops, washed-out barley, and soapy finish compromise cornmeal sweetness.

Inconsistent viscous yeast particles dot turbid gold setting as candied butterscotch malting, juicy tangerine-apricot tang, and banana nut spell soften dank rice-corn base. Slight alcohol lick and dirty-grained soapiness reminiscent of Eastern Euro lagers.

Problematic straw-hued pearly-headed pale lager retains repugnant skunked cannabis waft, soapy corn sugared butterscotch glut, and lazy apricot-tangerine reticence. Sticky honeyed wheat access dissolved by desultory diacetyl mustiness draping withered phenol hop resin of moderate-bodied bohemian-styled knockoff.

Here’s a new one – a double dry Canadian that’s unfortunately closer to salty U.S. macrobrew dreck. Despite crisp water and fine grain flow, dry-hopped corn malting and metallic astringency are as mainstream as it gets. Acrid vegetal finish is a downer. And its unusual classification is a canard.