Neustadt Springs Bruce County Premium

Pours with some crazy bubbly white head. Dissipates quickly, but wow. Unexpected. Slightly hazy and yellow. Sweet a little hoppy, wheaty and a bit of corn meal. Tastes like a wit, wheaty, grassy with a hint of citrus. Surprisingly complex.

Slow carbonation, hazy and cloudy, pale yellow gold body. Scent: apples, grass, noble hops. Surprisingly bitter, fresh and tart, very little aftertaste, some citrus and musk. As with a lot of Neustadt products, has a watery body. However, good lacing and great for the pale lager category. Kind of numbing, for some reason. This is the second "Bruce" beer I rated today. No, I wasn’t at a gay bar.

on tap at lion’s head inn, lion’s head ontario. nice golden colour. good carbonation. syrupy sweet with no complex aroma or taste. maybe a little malty. goes down smooth on a hot day.

341 ml bottle, courtesy of StompBrockmore - pours a very pale straw colour with a decent sized white head. Aroma very faint, sweetly malty with some light fruit, that’s about it. Flavour much the same, though there is a (faint) hop bitterness in the finish. Neustadt’s far superior regular lager crushes this bland though inoffensive mass-market thirst quencher.

341ml bottle - pours pale gold, quite fizzy, with a two-finger white head. Obviously intended as a "thirst quencher". Aroma is sweetly malty with some corn and faint hops in the background. Flavour is a little hoppier, with notes of apples coming through along with a mildly sweet, chalky, maltiness. Very light on the pallate. Sweetness is accentuated in the finish where it dominates over any hoppy bitterness you might otherwise expect. Actually, it becomes fairly cloying. Otherwise, kind of boring and ordinary. Compared to Neustadts much superior regular lager, I see no reason to opt for this one.