Ellis Island Light Lager

Brewed by Ellis Island Casino & Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
Las Vegas, Nevada USA

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

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Pale gold color with no head or lacing. Nose of soup and animal fur with a bit of rancid grains. Tastes a bit stale but well balanced & creamy (medium bodied?)

Date: December 02, 2010
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: hazy pale yellow, fine white head
Aroma: light sweet cereal malt aroma, faint floral hops
Flavor: sweet pale malt flavor, touch of cereal, just a hint of floral hops, light bitterness
Aroma: 3/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 3/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 6/20
Rating: 1.8/5.0
Drinkability: 5/10
Score: * /4

This is not good. Smells of butter and acetyl. Looks like pee. This has an extremely strong butter flavor. Couldn’t drink this at all.

On tap at Ellis Brewery in Las Vegas. Aroma is corn, appearance is very light pilsen color, taste is bare and light. Palate is crisp. Overall a winner in my book. I ordered a 24 oz and was only charged $1.75. One of the best deals and hidden gems in LV. My girlfriend loved it and thought it was too good to be true, however she is not a craft beer drinker and sticks to the wheat brews. I wish they bottled their beers and I was able to buy in Chicago region. Thes beer is on the same level as a miller lite, but a hand crafted touch.

One of a battery of large samplers of the beers on tap at the time of my visit, and generously offered to me by the brewer, Joe. The color was straw tone, with a modest amount of white foam to the head, and spots and thick ribbons of lacing. The aroma was a typical light lager nose, with light yeast, grain, and a hint of corn. The flavor was similar, adding very light hop bittering, low carbonation, in a thin body. Somewhat consistent with all of the Ellis’ beers. An ultra sessionable hydrator.

On tap at Ellis Island Casino. Pours a clear gold with a small frothy white head. The aroma is a faint corn malt. Thin mouthfeel and a bit watery with corn malt flavor. Easy to drink, but not too much going on with this one.

Light grainy aroma, touch of crisp hops. Pours light golden. The flavor is grainy witha hint of sweet. Crisp clean finish. Well made, but uninteresting.

Sample at Ellis Island casino. Pours clear golden, thin white head. Aroma / taste, malts, hops, pale malts, sweet corn? aroma, sweet and light. Good thing the samples were free when playing the slot machine.

Pours straw color with a white head. Smells of skunk, peppery, caramel. Tastes dry and basic with a peppery finish.

Pale straw color. Sweet aroma. Light corn syrup and fruit flavors. Mild & balanced-not all bad, but pretty weak.

Yellow pour with creamy white head and lace. Lemony, sour, paper, and metallic on the nose. Lemon, semi sweet light corn flavor. Thin and watery and slightly foamy. Drinkable.