3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
I’m going against the grain here, but I think Big Rock got this one right. It seems that "lime lagers" are this year’s big fad, much like low carb beers were last year (or perhaps 2 years ago). Nearly every one I’ve tasted has been shit, with a saccharine soda-pop sweetness that is more cooler than beer. This beer is not sweet, nor does it come across as artificial. The pale malts are clean, and the aroma and flavour is more like lime zest (rind), and it does not knock your teeth out. The finish is very dry, keeping the palate fresh. This is by far the best take on a lime lager I’ve yet tried.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
From a bottle. Not sure why this one is rated so poorly... not that i’m a big fan of the Lime beers, but this one is by far the most drinkable. Most of the others are way too sweet and taste like coolers... but this one is actually tasty on a hot day if you want a simple light cool beer. I’d even go out on a limb and say if you enjoy the odd Corona with a lime in it, you wouldn’t mind this one at all. So, as a Lime flavored beer - it does alright.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Got this one at The Works in Ottawa, on tap. Another brewer doing the light lime beer I see. Kind of weird to have this in the middle of winter. Anyways, had to try one. Poured a decent golden colour with average carbonation, but not much head and lacing. Light lime smell with a crisp refreshing mouthfeel. The lime tastes more like real lime juice than syrup (like most bigger brewer doing a light lime beer). So, better than most, and has more of a normal beer taste than a light beer. Kudos for that !
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
355mL can poured pale yellow color with small white head leaving spots of lacing behind. A mild aroma of lime and some grain. Taste is lime with an undesirable bitterness in the finish. This is not a well done lime beer.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
A blonde lager with a thin white head. In aroma, a light mix of lime and malt. In mouth, a light adjunct laced lager with a sharp lime attack, mineral water, boring. Tasted Nov. 6 2009 at Ottawa Wine and Food Show.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pint at McMullan’s in Waterloo. Purchased because I don’t f***ing know why I guess I was drunk. Taps a straw yellow with a large white head. The aroma is surpisingly light on the lime, kind of light on anything really. Flavour is pale malts upfront met with some minor limey elements. I like that the lime aspects actually play sort of a background role here. It’s not oozing with obnoxious artificial lime flavouring. Actually almost enjoyable, and hey, if someone water-boarded me with it I still wouldn’t talk. Too bad I just despise this moronic trend in shittily flavoured swill.
2.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 7/20
Why does such a terrific brewery degrade itself by making "keeping up with the joneses" swill like this? I just don’t get it. This is typical terrible lime, just with a little bit of Big Rock touch in the great mouth feel and an actual average nose.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
341ml bottle - pretty sure via tupalev - been in my fridge forever, but it should be "fine." Very pale slightly cloudy gold with an average quick-diminishing white fizzy head. Lime?!!!? I get artificial lemon, weeds, a bit of alcohol. Taste follows - also not awesome. Thin, watery, okay carbonation, I finally get a bit of sweetened lime flavour in the finish, but by then the bus had pulled out of the station. Another flabby lime "beer"
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