Daves BrewFarm Select Golden Lager

Daves BrewFarm
Brewed at Stevens Point Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
Wilson, Wisconsin USA

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

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Can… Clear yellow lager with a mid-sized, wispy, white head. The aroma is of toffee and butterscotch malts; perfumy and peppery hops. Medium to full-bodied and oily with tickling carbonation. Decently balanced – bittersweet. Crisp, lightly bitter finish. Bottle courtesy of mashmaster!

Bottle shared by alexsdad06. Poured clear golden color with an average frothy white head that was mostly lasting with good lacing. Medium balancecd aroma. Light to medium body with a thin smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium balanced sweet flavor with a medium sweet finish of short to moderate duration. Soft drinkable beer.

Yellow-golden, clear beer with a very even formed, medium, just yellowish tinted head. Faint sweet, sweet-spiced (coriander??) nose, pale malts and some honey. Much drier taste, bit metallic, but ending in a rather dull malty finish, contrasting with the hoppy(ier) onset of every sip. Quite slick, light to medium bodied; metallic thing hangs on in the aftertaste. Ubiquitous lager. Not the thing what I expect from Dave’s BrewFarm.

Canned. Poured crystal-clear medium golden with a tall, well-retained white head.. looked great in the glass. The aroma picked up sweet, toasted grainy notes and honey with crisp, fresh grassy hop accents.. balance was quite good. The flavor found honey and pale malts again at the core.. fresh, bright grass and lesser earthy bitterness around.. sticky-sweet toward the back.. almost crisp, but a little too tacky on the finish. Light-bodied and sweet overall on the palate.. balance was solid, and this was very drinkable.

UPDATED: DEC 27, 2009 Stevens Point version: The first packaged beer from Dave’s Brew Farm arrives in Minnesota. Picked up a 12-pack at Zipps in Minneapolis, MN. Pours a clear golden amber colored brew with a decent white head that has some nice retention and leaves behind a pillowy foam head. Some spotty lacing too. Aroma of golden grain malt, a hint of apple, some floral and spice hops and a touch of white bread. Taste is medium bodied with a soft carbonation. Flavors include some light apple, golden grain malt, a hint of allspice and some light Mozzarella. Why do all of the sudden have a craving for a Chicago style pizza? Finish is quite balanced with maybe a notch towards the sweet side. Mild bitterness at first and then a smooth aftertaste. Not your typical average macro-made lager and definitely not a lawn-mower beer. I can see this lager satisfy both the craft beer and lager drinking crowd.

Dave’s BrewFarm version: I had the opportunity to try the Select Golden Lager during the BrewFarm’s open house. Appearance semi-clear compared to the Stevens Point filtered version. Flavor is quite different. The BrewFarm version is much maltier, nearly full bodied, more fruit and definitely higher alcohol. Finish is semi-sweet with a little alcohol bite.

Can. Gold color with a thin head. Light marshmallow and dusty grain aroma. Easy malty flavor, moderate bitterness that’s in the earthy and floral realm. Not complex, but an easily drinkable session beer.

Pours a lightly hazy golden with orange notes and a medium creamy white head that laced. Aroma of grassy notes, corn, bready malt and citrus. Flavor of the same, dry and crisp but pushing thin. Too much like a macro lager for me. Nothing to help set it apart.

Can. Pours a clear deep gold with a white head that dissipates nearly completely to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of malts with notes of bread and wet grain with a hint of backing crisp hops. Flavor is mainly wet bread/grain with just a bit of hop presence. Nothing special.

A good looking, golden colored lager with a very thick, tall head that lasts a long time, and a thick lacing on the glass that would embarrass many Belgian ales. Standard lager aroma, reminiscent of Blatz as a child, when I would take a sip from Grandpa’s glass. Smooth malt flavor and very light hops, but definitely some sweetness to the point it would be hard to drink many of these. Unusually thick palate. A well constructed beer that delivers on the palate and appearance, with a bit more to offer than the ordinary yellow lager.

UPDATED: FEB 1, 2010 Courtesy of tytoanderso via trade

Can: The aroma has some honey sweetness along with some light hay and grass. It pours a transparent gold with an inch tall white head with good retention and lacing. The flavor starts with some light honey sweetness and just a touch of citrus. The finish is moderately grassy. Nothing special but easy drinking and somewhat refreshing. Light-medium bodied somewhat lively carbonation.