On tap at One Mile House, crisp moderate-bodied pale lager offers delicate citric hop bittering to crystal malt sugaring. Spritzy carbolic spree perks up zesty orange-grapefruit tang, tart red apple scamper and mild spicing. Taste-wise: closer to a fruited pale ale.
Humdrum straw-yellowed pale lager guides sour lemondrop-candied tartness into dewy earthen dankness, leafy-hopped citric dryness and fragile white-breaded spine. Recessive lemongrass herbage spotted.
Fabulous ‘hoppy pilsner’ (posing as a pale lager) brings cereal-grained flaked rice sweetness, delicate sugar spicing and grassy hop respite to mellow citric fruiting. Lemon meringue tartness, navel orange tang, green grape acidity and wafting florality spread across the biscuit-y malt spine of light-bodied perfection.
On tap at Ambulance, ambitious moderation expands pale lager styling by adding distinct ginger lemon tea subtleties and varied herbal nuances to usual citric-spiced pale malting. Casual orange, tangerine and clementine fruiting picks up minty chamomile notion halfway through. Teasing orange blossom, lemongrass and sage wisps flutter.
Bland medium-bodied pale lager, reminiscent of simple grain-musked Czech or German pilsner, suffers from skunked yeast bittering, corn-oiled astringency and stale bread malting. Dry lemon-peeled bittering fails to ignite lightly metallic finish.
On tap at Ambulance Brew House, crisply polished moderate-bodied pale lager utilizes highly concentrated citric hop oiling to ‘up’ the sour saison-like yellow fruiting. As gentle as a lamb, its floral-wafted German Polaris hop strain provides light lemony pineapple, papaya and guava illusions over soft pine tones and distant earthen musk.
Suitably mainstream pale lager offers maize-dried astringency to corn-sugared sweetness, and silken crystal malt creaming, picking up a salty orange fizz at the midst. Pasty cardboard edges hedge in minor phenol astringency. Indifferent Mosaic hop fruiting deadens the mood.
On tap at Ambulance Brew House, wonderful citrus-crisped pale lager hybrid utilizes alpha-acidic calypso and citra hops to beguile the senses. Wafting lemon zest briskness informs up-front yellow grapefruit tang and subsequent orange rind bittering, pineapple tartness, mango tropicalia and tangerine sweetness. Dry woody tones and grassy hemp reminder reinforce zesty yellow-orange fruiting. Beats original Hopstitution hands down.
On tap at Ambulance Brew House, top-notch sessionable pale lager contrasts daintily peat-smoked German pilsner malts with wood-dried American citrus hops. Fresh-cut grass waft affects raw-honeyed grapefruit, lemon and lime wisps to its doughy white bread spine.
On tap at Ambulance Brew House, dismissive German-styled pale lager relegates red-orange fruiting to funky vegetal spoilage and starchy corn malting. Toasted white bread spine falters.
On tap at Ambulance Brew House, indeterminate hybridized pale lager loads bacterial brettanomyces souring atop subtle hibiscus flowering and wispy black currant nuances. Sour green apple, cherry, lemon and lime tartness as well as vinous green grape tannins usurp mildly pungent lactic acidity. Just needs clearer stylistic definition and deeper resonance.
