Refreshingly tart summertime pale lager suits shandy lovers with its lemon-dropped ruby red grapefruit juicing and candied pineapple snip. Sugar-spiced ginger adjunct reinforces herbal-tinged citric splurge, but saw dust reminder and murky hop splotch prove weirdly astringent.
Incongruent ‘Imperial Mexican lager’ brings raw-honeyed orange flowering to pastry-like buckwheat malting and complacent floral-citric Amarillo hops. Bordering on cloy due to its cloying sorghum, aspartame and butternut nuances. Subtle lemony orange tartness seems lost.
Spry full-bodied ‘pure brewed’ lager with initial lemon spritz giving way to flowery-hopped peach seduction. Crisp barley-toasted malting elevates soft biscuit spine. Well balanced from firm-headed golden hue to taut nut finish. Stolid bitter pungency isn’t far removed from German beers such as Beck’s or Dinkelacker (or Holland’s Grolsch, for that matter).
Mild amber lager in a can stays crisp and clean as brisk honey-spiced lemon spritz, delicate mineral graining and herbal hop nip recede at light bread-crusted spine.
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.
