3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Found this in Kyoto. Pours deep orage gold with a big white head, disipating quickly but decent lacing. Nose of grassy hops and a sweet herb/mint and flowers. Somewhat soapy flavour, good balance of hops and earth and tangerine malts. Tart and some cream. Sort of Odd. Bottle is only a month old but may have not travelled well. Sitting under those bright lights might have added some stale bread flavours.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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