Drab light-bodied amber-cleared Vienna lager tastes more like a washed-out pilsner at first. But its understated toasted rye spicing sweetens softly over astringent raw-honeyed wheat straw midst and gluey cardboard bottom. Moldy dried fruiting and mild tobacco crisping lost to carbolic hop fizz. Try it with a lime while eating Mexican food.
On tap at Dog & Cask, sessionable amber lager brings raw-honeyed lemon rot souring to the fore. Mild grapefruit bittering contrasts sassy sugared spicing just below pale-malted grassy hop stead. Baked bread, barley biscuit and toasted caramel undertones fade abruptly.
Complacent moderation (formerly Heavy Seas Marzen) lacks focus and gets washed-out. Buttered biscuit-like Vienna malting, phenol-spiced lemony orange nip and toasted white bread spine stay thin. Cardboard-y caramelization needs sugary boost.
Disturbing Turkish moderate body retains nasty compost waft, off-putting vegetal dredge, and lemon-rotted tangerine souring. Astringent grassy hop swamping, mild cabbage skunking and musty yeast unpleasantness confine crisp water flow. Skip.
Unbalanced moderate-to-medium-bodied Vienna-styled dark amber lager brewed in collaboration with Germany’s Potts Brewery lacks sturdy stylistic theme (and decent flavoring), becoming endlessly ponderous by peculiar maibock-soured finish. Rotted lemon-peeled bittering reaches dour hop-spiced orange-dried acridity over nutty tobacco-leafed desiccation and muddy earthen peat fungi. Blanched cherry-grape fruiting lost amongst raw-honeyed astringency and phenol carbolic fuzz.
Sunset red medium bodied patriot weaves candied Vienna malts through sticky maple and butterscotch scheme. Moderate spiced hops support rosy orange-tangerine tang, but strident dry nut finish too mannered.
Doughy amber lager with suspected Jewish handle receives plain matzoth bread punctuation tempered by rye-dried sesame-pumpernickel-tobacco wisp. At dankly sweet finish, chewy yeast, toasted barley, and dank honey embittered by belated hop sass.
Bittersweet caramel luster dominates soft milky yeast flow of reliable copper-paled Vienna lager. Floral spiced-hop screed, distant toasted barley heed, and dried raisin sneak add depth. Reminiscent of Sugar Daddy candy bar and more complex than ordinary grain-based lagers.
Wintry pine-scented lager lacks ‘serious’ Vienna-style pale malt schtick. Instead, mired by dank barleymalt sweetness, choppy chocolate waif, and incomplete corn sugar finish masking any redeeming apricot or tangerine undertones.
Cascading tan bubbles reach top of golden ‘malt liquor’ as fuzzy hop-roasted opening softens to pale malt frisk, sustaining spicy nose and bitter lemon peel twist to counter sugary caramel suggestion.
Translucent copper lager disappoints as cracked wheat pettiness, caramel malt weariness, and toasted barley elusiveness hit by ascending acidity at mellow grassy hop finish, leveling off effectiveness.