Del Norte Orale

Brewed by Del Norte Brewing Company
Style: Pale Lager
Denver, Colorado USA

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

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Draught at All Colorado Beer Festival. Pours clear light yellow with a small, fizzy, white head, diminishing with spare lacing. Aroma is average malt (meal, grain, straw), light hops (herbs), light sweetness (sweat) with notes of corn. Light bodied, thin texture, soft carbonation, and a chalky finish. Average duration, light sweetness, acidity, and bitterness.

12 oz. Pale gold with a small ring of creamy bubbles. Aroma is light dry grass and husky caramelized grain. Taste is the same, but leans a nit more to the dry grassy hop, which is nice. Also some metallic notes show up later. Light-medium body is soft, but tingly, and has a delicate balance. Pretty decent if you must indulge in the pale lager style, but I can’t imagine there wouldn’t be much better ales wherever this beer is sold.

Actually not bad, really. Clear yellow, spongy white head. Some corn, some grass. Crisp palate. Better than it needs to be.

Bottle from Half Time. Pours light gold with very little white head. Light grain/malt aroma with very light grassy hop. Med minu body. It’s not watery, but... Flavor is definitely sweet corn with a very little grassy bitter. More pleasant than the Cinco.

Bottle. Pours clear straw yellow with white fizzy head. Unlike its cousin, the Cinco, it actually has a somewhat pleasant grainy profile to it both in aroma and flavor. Light, water, over carbonated body. Over all, non offensive, light tastiness and sessionable.

Light yellow, good head. Really just another Mexican lager except it’s not skunked.

Pale yellow pour. Aroma of grains and floral. Tastes of a pilsner with a slight bitter jab. Finishes decently enough

bottle, clear yellow with white foam, aroma is musty with a decent fruity flavor, mild finish

If ever a quaffer this one is it! So easy to drink and so crisp, refreshing and flavorful. Watch out brews from Mexico, this one will definitely give you a run for the peso! Forget the lime and sale and drink it straight in order to enjoy its delicious flavor! I just might have found a new brew for my BBQ/fish fry! Now that I’ve enjoy a couple of these on the slow savor, it’s time to quaff a few cause these are sooo good!

Bottle, during 2011 Craft Lager Fest. Pale transparent straw, with a thin head. Smelled and tasted like a pale, corned up lager with zero character or effort. Light, corny, sweet, metallic.

UPDATED: AUG 1, 2011 TPSA. Pours a dark orange-gold with a light head. Some dark fruit and spice on the nose, followed up by the same flavors being echoed on the tongue. Finishes clean without being flabby, but is pretty hollow. Meh.