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RATINGS: 1509   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.45   EST. CALORIES: 156   ABV: 5.2%
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Brooklyn Lager, the Brewery's flagship label, is New York's "hometown" beer, brewed to a pre-Prohibition recipe that dates back to the days when Brooklyn was the brewing capital of the East Coast. Brooklyn Lager has won numerous awards. Wrote Michael Jackson in the Simon & Schuster Pocket Guide to Beer: "The dry-hopped, fresh, flowery, firm, flavourful, Brooklyn Lager **-*** started well, in 1988, and has gained in character since."


3.3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
rlgk (5573) - Skövde, - MAY 16, 2004
Amber color, nice white/brown/yellow, head. Aroma is metallic and floral. Flavor is metallic and a little spicy. Floral touches and also some vanilla. A very rich and nice tasting lager.

3.8
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
Lilja (179) - Malmö, SWEDEN - MAY 21, 2012
En väldigt god amerikans lager. Frisk och fruktig och en lagom beska som faller mig i smaken. Funka alltid.

3.6
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 13/20
laiti (1675) - Tampere, FINLAND - MAY 19, 2012
35,5 cl bottle @ home. Rated on 19.01.2011
Aroma is rather hoppy with exotic fruits and hints of grainy malt typical to lagers. Flavour is rather hoppy with exotic fruits – but behind those the grainy malt and hints of roastiness can be observer. Nice one, closer to a Premium Lager than Vienna – or maybe this is just a ”Premium Vienna”?

2.9
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
Lowenbrau (344) - SPAIN - MAY 16, 2012
330ml bottle. Malty and herbal aromas. Pours bright gold, with nice white head, some lacing, persistance. Taste is malty, slighty bitter. Light body and average carbonation. Sjort light bitter finish. Good lager, but nothing remarkable.

3.8
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 16/20
Vinegar92 (56) - Matera, ITALY - MAY 16, 2012
Ottima lager di casa Brooklyn. Aspetto ambrato con schiuma poco persistente. Gusto che definirei "lager artigianale". buona..

3.6
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
Arve_Christian (612) - Oslo, NORWAY - MAY 15, 2012
Backlog autumn 2011 Golden color, good foam Light/medium body & complexity Crisp and refreshing- wanted more

3.9
   AROMA 9/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 16/20
Bathory (56) - Bryne, NORWAY - MAY 13, 2012
Aroma of mild caramel, nuts and sitrus. Golden colour, with a white head that nearly disappears after a little while. Very nice taste, and a long bitter aftertaste. Really good lager, that fortunatley are quite easy to find at bars around the Stavanger-area.

3.6
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 15/20
foxo82 (161) - Leicestershire, ENGLAND - MAY 12, 2012
Bottle from Stirchley Wines & Spirits. Pours a clear amber/brown. No head. Smells rich and slightly smokey with brown sugar and ginger. Tastes more like an English ale than a lager - rich, bitter hops with a long finish. Very well balanced with some tart citric notes, malt and grapefruit. Mouthfeel slightly fizzy. Good lager/bitter.

3.2
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
hivemind (426) - New York, New York, USA - MAY 11, 2012
On tap at whatever bar I’m at right now in Brooklyn. Pours glassy dark amber into shaker with small off-white head and splotchy lacing. Aroma is kind of muted but mainly malty. Fresh palate with a bit of hop bitterness, a bit of spice/zest, a bit of a citrusy sweetness, and a medium to long grainy finish. Dear Brooklyn Lager, you are an ok beer in my book, love your friend hivemind I hate you dad.

4.1
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 17/20
wlajwl (1789) - Quad Cities, Iowa, USA - MAY 8, 2012
Aroma is grains with mild roasted/nutty notes and a hint of hops. The flavor is malts, a mild roasted/nutty note and a hoppy finish, but not too much so.

3.9
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
BlackHaddock (1709) - Shropshire, ENGLAND - MAY 8, 2012
Widely available in the UK, brown 35.5cl bottle, this one is best before Aug 2007 and was drank on a sunny April Fools Day 2007. If I hadn’t joined this site in August 2006, I wouldn’t have touched this beer with a Barge Pole, (I had drank Bud, Olly, Blue Ribbon, Coors and few other watery products from your shores previuosly and vowed never to drink such crap again) but I am now trying American beers again, if the price isn’t too high. Poured into my Veltins 0.2litre stemmed glass (twice), it looked a lot darker than the lagers I normally see in Europe, not the straw blonde norm at all, this looks like a real beer! Deeper tones of old gold with an off white head. Aroma of hops and yeasts, a lot stronger than any other lager I’ve had, and I’ve had more than my fair share, this is good stuff. Bitter and malty taste, this is very, very good stuff in deed. Good retension of flavours, a strong almost heavy aftertaste where the hops re-assert themselves. This is one of, if not the best lager I have ever had and I don’t mess with those sort of quotes (see some of my other reviews). It is also the first time I have had an All-Malt Lager, so am I being unfair to European brewers? You can add German and other European Pilsners to that list, as I consider them all to be in the same basket. So well done Brooklyn and American All-malt lagers. I now have to decide if All-Malt lagers should really be compared to normal Pils and Lagers, life does get difficult doesn’t it?


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