Brew Kettle Irish Lager

Brewed by The Brew Kettle/TBK Production Works
Style: Pale Lager
Strongsville, Ohio USA

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

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Bomber. Transparent, mega-magnifying and pale copper in color with a creamy white rung and surprising cascading lace. Watermelon Jolly Ranchers give pause in the aroma, with following wafts signaling freesia, Band-Aids, fusel oils and sugary grapefruit. Modest pineapple taste joins a cranberry wheat bread flavor. Woodsy hop bitterness and a diluted passion fruit profile are at odds with each other. Musky, water-soaked corn husks. Diluted, weak and defined by brevity. Little to no malt backbone, with a pils malt finish into musky nothingness.

Bottle: deep gold w/ a lasting white head. I’m not quite sure what the hell an Irish Lager is, but here we go! Bready malt and a light floral hop, also lightly grainy; clean. Well balanced w/ a lean toward a lightly bitte, floral finish, but has a sweet grainy malt flavor up front and in the aftertaste. Flavor is also clean of off flavors. Highly carbonated, prickly m/f, smoother as it warms. Light bodied but not watery. Overall a pretty good beer. Not terribly exciting, but a very solid beer with a lot more flavor than your typical macro.