Christian Moerlein Select Lager

Christian Moerlein Brewing Company
Formerly brewed at Lion Brewery
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Cincinnati, Ohio USA

Serve in Lager glass

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Found in my fathers cellar. Bottle aged two years. First american beer to get reinheitsgebot? Pours a cloudy yellow color with a minimal amount of acidic head. Smells like caramel. Most of the hops were gone and the beer was very cidery. Probabley too old but I can still see the merit of this beer. Held up pretty well over those years.

350 ml bottle from Bevmo. Clear golden with almost no head. Sweet malty and cereal aroma. Smooth slightly citrus taste with a crisp finish.

Name: Select Lager
Date: 04/21/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, 50 More Beers on the Wall

clear dark yellow, scant head, light sweet malt aroma, sweet corn flavor, light floral hops, light bitterness,

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 8/20
Rating: 2.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Bottle from BevMo. Medium golden in color upon pouring. Small foamy white head. Creamy aroma of malt and grains. Maybe a hint of acidity. Fairly flavorful. Some malt to go along with some grainy bitterness. A little hint of hops at the end. Not bad.

I thought this beer was average, not bad, though. It was slightly darker than a pale beer. It was nicely carbonated, but the beer did have a slightly bitter aftertaste. All in all, I’d buy it again.

Pours a golden amber body with a modest white head. Nice sweet malty aroma with a touch of floral/grassy hops. Medium bodied, this has a light caramel and bready malt taste with just a hint of hop bitterness to balance it out. Not bad.

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12 oz, gift from my gf from WI. Orange amber with very small white head. At first crisp lager aroma but when swirled sweet malt with alc aroma. Flavor of banana, malt, not bad. Med body, crisp and very slight chalkiness. Not bad, not great.

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Bottle: The aroma is rather weak with some faint caramel, lemon, and maybe smoke. It pours a transparent golden-orange with a small white head. The flavor starts with some real faint caramel with some mild lemon and faint bitterness in the finish. The mouthfeel is a tad thin and watery. Not bad, just boring.

Rated 11/21/06: Good lager indeed, very filling and flavorful. Aroma is nothing to get excited over but it’s decent. Bright golden pour with a big white puffy head and lots and lots of lacing. Very full and thick mouthfeel (at least for a lager). Good malty flavor a touch of sweet grains along with some slight toastiness. Good choice for a lager, comparable to Leinenkugel’s Original only a bit better.

Pours a light yellow color with a white head. Aroma is malty. Flavor is of light malts.