Dominion Lager

Brewed by Old Dominion Brewing Company (Coastal Brewing Co.)
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Dover, Delaware USA

Serve in Lager glass

In the bottle. This was the March 2006 Beer O the Month Club selection. Thanks to pman for the subscription! Golden in color with a white head that is very large with big bubbles. Has a fun lager yeasty aroma thaty conjures up rising bread dough. The flavor is hoppy at first, then is followed by a serious malt sweetness. This is well-made and a solid session lager in my opinion.

Straw gold, thin white head. Nose has some bready malt, lemon, maybe a bit of honey. Quite a bit of bready malt w. lemon, maybe a hint of orange. Some honey/very light caramel

The aroma is of sweet fruit and caramel malt. The color is a pale yellow with a huge white head. Head retention is fully lasting with excellent lacing. The flavor has a caramel sweetness which then grows into a mild hoppy bitterness. The finish is crisp and clean.

12oz bottle. Pours a clear, clean golden yellow color with a white fizzy head. Nose is honey and grass. Taste is sweet sugary honey, grassy and hay. Very crisp, lightly bitter.

Very tasty "lager." Poured a nice golden color wih a decent amount of fizzy white head. Aroma is malty sweet with slight grassy saaz scents. Flavor is smooth, full bodied and sweet malts. Not all that complex but refreshing and easy drinking. Overall, enjoyable.

Light gold pour with a thin but lasting white head. Grassy and straw nose with some hops. Yeasty taste with a slight malt character. Peppery and active mouthfeel. I really liked this one, considering the style. Very pleasant to drink, moderately complex and refreshing. Very nice brew.

Not avery long lived head to this golden lager, but a nice steady beading throughout. It’s got a honey sweet, toasted malt aroma with a balancing grassy hoppiness. Medium bodied and neatly carbonated, the toasted malts continue along with a hint of pear and an herbal bitterness. Nice crisp finish, and well worth repeating.

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Dominion Lager is my staple beer. As a beer lover, I always love to try a number of different beer styles, and often drink a number of different beer styles when enjoying beer. Dominion Lager is the beer I drink when I just don’t want to switch up. I drink more of Dominion Lager than any other beer. This is my drinking beer, a beer I just can’t get enough of. Dominion Lager is a German Export(Dortmunder) by style, and it is a fantastic example. This beer would be at home in Germany, and having been to Germany, and tasted beer all over that fine land, I know this to be true. Dominion Lager pours to a deep, bright, pale golden color, with a good white head, and a lively carbonation. The nose on this beer is a joy. Really deep malt aromas are balanced with just the right amount of grassy hop aromatics. Dominion hops this beer with Tettnang, Hallertau, Perle, and Saaz hops. The palate is a crisp and malty. Dominion uses the decoction method in brewing this beer, and it really brings out a wonderful depth of malt flavors. And there is great malt flavor in this beer, Munich, carapils, caramel, and pale malts are used. This beer is a very smooth, clean, lager, fermented with a yeast strain from Germany. This beer finishes with incredible balance, more malt up front, and just the right amount of grassy hop bitterness. I am always floored by this beer. This beer as an Export is perfect. It has to be one of the best, if not, the best domestic examples of the style I have ever tasted. At 5.4% abv, it is a great drinking beer, one my beer fridge is alway stocked with. One I always enjoy on draught, fresh and cold. This is just an outstanding lager, so drinkable, a great beer to have, if you want more than one. Dominion Lager is a natural with German fare.