Black Oak Premium Lager

Formerly brewed at Black Oak Brewing
Style: Premium Lager
Etobicoke, Canada

Serve in Lager glass

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Bottled from a trade: Unsure of the date on this sample. Pours a very light copper color with a nice cap and lacing. Lively carbonation. Light fruity hops in the aroma over some grainy sweetness. Bit of a fizzy mouth feel..from carbonation but this settles back as you begin to catch some crystal malts and some hops in fair balance...fast clean finish...not in the same league as the pale ale and nut brown ale...certainly a u=turn from their wonderful porter and saisson. A very forgettable lager I understand why it would be deleted.

Rating this from memory, as I somehow never got around to officially rating it when it was still available. It was always the weakest of Black Oak's three main beers, presumably an attempt to capture a bit of the mainstream market. Better than many other Ontario "premium lagers" to be sure, with a bit more colour than most and some soft hops in the finish. But with lagers like Creemore and several good imports available, it just wasn’t one that I bothered with very often. Hopefully, the decision to kill it off will give them more time to play with interesting seasonals and one-offs, as that’s where Black Oak really shines.

Thick white foamy head which is persistant. Golden yellow coulour. Downhill from there, malty aroma with soapiness (and I dont use soap to clean my glass). Tart and lemony taste with barely any malt or hops to help. Average.

Scrawny cereal and limping citrus...Good lace retention over watery, sweet blandness...One for the father-in-law I'm afraid...

(Bottle) Pours a large, white, quick dissipating head and a highly carbonated, golden body. Looks like ginger ale. Nose of doughy malt and slight hops nose and flavour. Lightly tart and fizzy. Average.

A shade darker than your typical mass-produced swill, and exactly what you’d expect (and hope) from a North American micro lager. Smelling the beer conjures up thoughts of fresh baguettes and hot buttered toast smothered in honey, while the mind eggs the glass away from the nose and down to the lips. The flavours are quite restrained, and continue in the bready vein the nose hinted at. Perfect balance between sweetness and bitterness makes this quite a thirst-quencher. If you are trying to encourage a friend to give up corporate beers and work up the courage to try a micro, this one’s a great, inoffensive starting point

ALmost no head. Tiny aroma with a light fruit background. Sweet, lightly hopped texture with an almost vegatble flavour. Thick body.

Pours a clear fizzy golden with a bland musty old hops aroma. Light, crisp, semi-sweet body. Not as bad as a lot of American standards out there.

Light amber in colour with a very thin white head. Smells of sugar, stale hops and a bit of malt--nothing too terribly offensive. Medium-bodied; Strong corn flavour --just like muching on a tortilla chip! A bit of metal and sweetness in the taste as well, but not much. Overall, not a great beer and one that shouldn't be sampled if possible to avoid! I was still lucky to sample this! Thanks to Jeremy (jercraigs) for bringing this bottle!

Nice head, and appearance. Nicely hopped. I am not a lager fan but this is enjoyable. Still prefer the Black Oak Pale Ale though! :)