Elmwood Lawnmower Ale

Formerly brewed at Elmwood Brewing Company
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Elmwood, Illinois USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Purchases as a 4 pack of 12 oz bottles at a local liquor store. Aroma of lemon similar to a bottled ice tea dominates a rather clean none complicated nose. Malt aroma low, hop aroma low. No honey aroma. Pours a pale yellow, small white head with large bubbles falls quickly but maintains a lace. Hazy. Dry front leads a balanced bittered middle. Over attenuated front to back with little malt flavor. Finishes crisp and dry with a hint of sourness. Oxidized earthy lemon after taste lingers. Light bodied with ample carbonation. Refreshingly dry. A beer that focuses on dry and light. The honey is muted but adds dryness. Lemongrass adds a Lipton tea essence. I would prefer more complexity from malt flavor and less oxidation. Interesting to try, but will not purchase again.

12 oz bottle. Poured a pale yellow color. Head was bubbly and white with pretty good retention and lacing. Aroma was of light malty caramel and molasses with a hint of medical adhesive tape. Citrusy, tart, and effervescent. Flavor is sour lemons and malty cereal grain. Overly carbonated, not a great beer.

Thin-bodied and weak tea flavoried waste of time. This is NOT a Golden Ale! This is not even a real lawnmower beer! Slight lemony twist in the finish just to make me feel better about the ten minutes of my life that I’ll never be able to get back.

#987. Bottle. Thanks to whoever brought this to the White Elephant exchange at the Chicago Area gathering at Flossmoor station. Hazy light yellow thin with no head. Nose is thin, hippy but fruity, taste is very lemony sour and newarly apricotty sharp extreemly carbonatied.

12oz bottle. Thanks to Beerdrenched for the taste and to vyvvy and thegreenrooster for the good gathering. Filtered and lemonade hued. Sparse white quickly dissipating head. Light bodied with a bready citrus flavor. Crisp and sweet with a candy flavor. Easy, but not bad. Just light. Good for what it is.

Pour is a cloudy yellow with no real head. Aroma is very sweet with a bit of fruityness in there. Flavor is buttery with some citrus and lemon. A bit watery but not as bad and most are saying. Could be a good session beer.

Consumed with sneagrams3, thegreenrooster & Beerdrenched - thanks to Beerdrenched for supplying this ale. Pours light yellow with a small white head that leaves instantly. The aroma has grassy hops and a bubblegum sweet malt with some fake fruit and perfume. Light body that has a touch of chalkiness and bits of sharp carbonation. Taste has lemon / lemongrass flavors with the finish getting a bit more sour and some sweet-tart flavor. Not my favorite, but better than the butchering it is taking here.

bottle-ya know, this isnt as bad as some of the previous ratings. pours very pale yellow with light carbonation and a small wispy white head. citris, lemon and sour notes on the nose. flavors are sour lemon and a smashing of light pale grains. really is quite refreshing, but not on a 35 degree night! body suffers from light/watery texture. better than their horrid amber ale for shure!!!!

Light-hazed pale golden with dead carbonation and a quick, white head. Lemony, pastry-like aroma to start before leaving an overall impression of Froot Loops in a bowl of sour milk. Spoiled yogurt flavor backed up by a roasted graininess. Sourness lingers in a phlegmy coating over the mouth and throat. Time to gargle and hit the sack.

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Very pale straw bodied with a short-lived, fluffy white head. It smells like lemon and, appropriately to the name, fresh cut grass. The flavor has traces of malt, but mainly tastes like an off lemonade... which I would prefer drinking given the choice.

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