Brooklyn Lager

Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Vienna
Brooklyn, New York USA

Serve in Lager glass

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Well, this is my first "technical" rating for a lager..don’t think I am in love with the style, however this beer does the style justice. I tasted it with BeerBaron617, my beer buddy... It’s got a nice pour - a dark honey amber color with a nice off white head. It has lots of bubbly’s in it, which I like :) It smelled really nice, malty and a bit hoppy too. Not what I expected out of a lager. Taste was pretty decent. Defiantly tasted the sweetness of the malt and maybe a bit of honey and caramel. I got a big taste of the hops...it’s just really not what I expected out of a lager. Cheers to Brooklyn for doing a pretty decent job.

***review from Aug 5, 2007***

Just noticed that the best before date is March 07....I can’t imagine how great this beer must be when fresh. On the previous bottle I had, the pour was incredible and I was giving it a 10 but I was suspicious ’cause the glass was producing a cloud of endless fine bubbs that gave the brew an inch thick creamy cap the entire way so I decided to get another bottle into a different glass. This time the pour was equally good producing a large, thick off-white cap but this time the effervecance was almost nonexistant and the cap did not last. Left some sticky messy lacing and retains a ring. The beer is a medium amber colour and slightly hazy. The aroma is excellent and comes across quite refreshing - thick English style malts, good level of sweetness which is all blended perfectly with the soft floral hops. WOW. So chuggable! Well blended combination of caramel and biscuit malts, obvious spice and bold hops (apricotish) - more hops than I expected for the style, but a hell of alot less than the overhopped West coast stuff. Mouthfeel is ok and the carbonation is average. Medium bodied. The malts put a thin coating on the stiff hops that glue to your mouth. Great beer although I’d question it belonging in the standard ’lager’ category. Nice looking label! Another high quality offering from Brooklyn. Drink up.

I cannot believe I have never rated this! Nice dark yellow, good sized white head. Nice hoppy aroma. Taste is excellent - well hopped over a light but malty base. Floral. A session go to beer when I find it on the LCBO shelves.

Bottle. Smell is malt and hops. more malts though. Not a huge fan of this, but it’s pretty good. Very good cold. Very malty taste as well.

Amber pour with an off-white head. Malty aroma with some hoppiness coming out in the aroma. Flavor has some sweetness to it, nice malt . Crisp tasting, sweet aftertaste. It is what lager should be- Tasty!. Good at 45 -50 degrees. Crisy sweet malt aftertaste- a great flagship beer. Nice lacing.

Dam just noticed this brew expired a four months ago hope it still be good to drink. Body appears to be brown combined with burnt orange, a quarter inch cap was produced with excellent retention for a lager, very nice looking brew. Aroma is good but for a lager it’s not exactly fitting the profile but yummy smelling none the less. Lots of milder floral hops, tons of malt, and the typical grainy qualities found in lagers can be found in the delouses aroma. Very nice flavor the malts have a much darker taste and this a touch more bitter then what I was expecting, the hops are very noticeable and come across very flowery. The more I drink the more I can taste the malts and they seem to have a lemony taste in them. For a lager this dam good maybe a touch to much hops for the style but it works, the only real complaint I have about this brew is it is slightly watery but I shall let that slide because this is dam good.

This one caught me by surprise. At a local bar I ordered it b/c I was in the mood for a lager and I had never had this one before. Expecting something light with mild flavoring this was more like a Sierra Neveda Beer beer than a light lager, and I say that as a compliment. It is definitely dry-hopped with an aroma you smell way before your nose gets to the glass. For a lager it has a medium body and a clean crisp finish more like a pale ale. Definitely a beer I will be drinking again.

Pours a lacing off-white head with and almost amber body. Smells of citrus and spice hops along with some malt. Flavor is a bit caramelized malt and some citrus hops. Finish has a nice bitterness to it.

Amber pour, big head and lace. Bold and hoppy for a lager, with good carb and a sweetness pervading. Fair.

Bottle at Two Boots in Grand Central Station. The aroma is dry hops. The flavor is slightly bitter. The body was medium with a think texture and lively carbonation. The finish is mildly bitter.