Pats Classic Lager

Brewed by Pat''s Pub & Brew House
Style: Pale Lager
Vancouver, Canada

Fairly grainy and sweet aroma is clean. Brilliantly clear golden body is topped by a low but lasting white head. Flavour is just as the aroma suggests: lightly grassy hops create light bitterness over the sweet and lightly grainy malt flavour. Light body with fizzy carbonation. Pretty straight forward and obviously meant for mass appeal but drinkable at any rate (although I must admit, I switched to Tree Hophead when t was time for a refill). Sampled on tap at the pub before the United Steel Workers of Montreal show in early 2008.

Well, it’s a Big Brew Technologies beer, which means that if you actually go to Pat’s you’re better off drinking the Hophead or Spy Porter that they also carry on tap.

The lager itself, though, isn’t half bad for a macrobrew. It seems modelled after Lucky and hits the mark quite nicely. Golden colour with a nice sparkle. Unionmade aroma of light grain and acetaldehyde. Soft body, with some funk. It disappears quickly in the watery finish and has enough malt character to not completely suck.