UPDATED: MAR 4, 2022 4 oz. pour on tap at Stout Burgers & Beers, Studio City. It's a clear, pale yellow with light sparkle, finger-width white foamy head with fair retention and nice lacing. Aroma is moderately strong malt, bread, biscuit. Taste is strong pale malts--maybe Pilsner as well?--with bready, biscuity component. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with smooth, frothy texture, soft carbonation and lingering dry bitterness and yeast. Overall, nice strength and sweetness with late bitterness of flavor; aroma is a bit mild.

Draft. Nice and light. Amazing clarity on the pour w/ good head retention. Nice little bite at the end. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Aroma is one of beer’s most complex features. Aroma is propelled by lively CO2 and dampened by pillowy heads - especially nitrogen foam.

Draught @ Underbelly, San Diego. Aroma is sweet with buttery malt and fruity hops. Flavour has grassy hops, fruits, some herbal bitterness and mild fruits. Rather fruity for a pale lager.

Draught @ Underbelly, San Diego, CA Pours yellowish orange with a smooth head. Aroma of grass, citrus, hay, malts and lemon. Taste is smooth, slightly grainy and citrusy with some lemon and hay. Finish is smooth, sweetish and earthy with some corn, lemon and hay. A bit untypical.

Clean, malty lager. Light earth an fruit notes but mostly grain. Refreshing with a nice light bite. Good lager.

On tap Oro non molta schiuma lieve nota maltata mielosa anche in bocca luppolatura media secchezza media lieve cereale

Draft. Used to like this one before I got very into beer and haven’t had it in ages, turns out it’s still very good! Pours light gold. Sweet malt aroma with some bubblegum and cereal. Taste is on the sweet side too but nicely complex with some drying hop bitterness. Solid.

From a flight at Tratoria Neapolis in Pasadena CA. Pours a clear gold with an off white head. Light malty nose. Flavors of biscuit, butterscotch and bubblegum. One of the most complex pale lagers I have had.

On tap at Trappist Provisions. Believe it or not, I’ve been tracking this one down for a while now. I can see why it’s rated so highly as a pale lager. It kind of changes your mind on what this style can actually be. It pours a clear golden color with a nice white head. The aroma is rather spicy and floral with a light maltiness that has some corn and apple, but not over the top. The flavor is full bodied with prominent spicy and floral hops, more corn and light malts. Very creamy mouthfeel. Excellent stuff.