Bow Valley Lager

Brewed by Big Rock Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
Calgary, Canada

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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Hazy yellow colour. Slight uric aroma with creamed corn background. Very light palate, almost the marshmallowy sweetness of a weizen. Has some light corn and sugar notes, like the crust of a pastel de choclo. Finishes almost candyish. Surpringsly drinkable, considering.

Not sure which is more disagreeable...the can which is a direct ripoff of the Bowen Island cans (hey, Big Rock, you sold the brand and now you rip them off, wtf?) or the fact that they invent a brewery (Pine Creek?) rather than just admitting that this is a Big Rock beer. In fact, I’m probably more annoyed that our government lets them get away with it, that our government lets them flat-out lie to the public, than the fact that Big Rock does it.

355ml can. Pale straw colour, vanishing white head. Weak aroma, slight grain note. Grainy malt flavour, a trace of grassy hops in the finish, a little metallic. Lots of carbonation and a thin body.