City Lager

Brewed by City Brewery (Melanie Brewing Co)
Style: Pale Lager
La Crosse, Wisconsin USA

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

Can from Fort Wayne, IN. Poured amber color with a large frothy white head that diminished slowly with good lacing. Medium grainy sour aroma. Light to medium body with soft carbonation. Light sour grainy flavor with a light bitter finish of short duration. Drinkable but not something I would recommend to a freind.

Straw color with a foamy white head. Grain and dextrose aromas. Very light malt flavor with hints of corn and mild hops. Dry finish with little left to show for itself.

UPDATED: JAN 18, 2005 Typical macro with little to make it special. Has a very light feel and finish. Little aftertaste.

This canned brew poured a large sized head of fine to large sized mostly lasting white colored bubbles that left behind a poor lacing. The body was a softly carbonated transparent orange color. The aroma was mildly malted and slightly off. The palate was smooth with a malty finish and a mild malt hop flavor that tasted a lot like their Light. I was expecting something slightly heavier than I got.

Autumn Brew Review 2004. Well, if the Pale Ale surprised me, this one didn’t. Amberish color with minimal head. Hints of hops and malts, but nothing really redeeming. Better than swill, but not great.

Can. Large sized white head and fine-medium sized bubbles that mostly diminished. Very little carbonation, transparent and a pale yellow hue. Malty, hoppy and musty aroma. Malt flavor. Smooth mouthfeel and light bodied with fair lacing.

Corn aroma, light yellow, tiny white head. Musty malt taste, hint of a hop. Some creaminess, dry finish. Average.

UPDATED: JUN 24, 2011 Big City 12 0z can. I’ve had this many times before but this is not a memory rate. It is usually one of the cheapest beers you can buy around these parts. Pop the lid and get a slightly sour beery aroma. Pouring into the glass you see the customary clear pale yellow american beer color. Lots of streaming bubbles rising from the bottom of the glass and the head is whitish and thin. The flavor is a little different than you regular old pale yellow lager, industrial and finely metallic of sorts. There is a hint of sourness in there that cannot be described and it certainly does not add to the enjoyability of the brew. Lacing on the side of the glass after a few sips. That aroma keeps pecking at your nose every time you go to get a gulp. Very mild bitterness builds as the drinks go on. Though not real strong on the alky side it does have a cheap malt liquor feel on the palate. The flavor seems to have an aged feel, but not aged for the better. The flavor is not harsh but it does have hints of unrefined cheapness to it. The personality is not too laid back. Tho much carbonation is present in the glass, I do not detect excessive bubbliness during the drink. A beer with a unique cheap wine flavor that I don’t think I’ve had before. One pale lager that may be similar in flavor is Chinese Yanjing 11º Premium Extra, but this is more in your face with it’s industrial hints. The finish on this brew is odd to describe. Tho not really bitter and lingering there is a brackish scunner that can not be ignored. Seems a bit plasticky. Cannot hold a candle to the likes of Miller, carlsburg, rolling rock, lionshead or schmidts. A little too unrefined and rude for a pale lager, tho it is just a little better than King lager. This is a very poor representative of the economy beer style, taste is overall very coarse.