Enterprise Brewery Knappstein Reserve Lager

Brewed by Enterprise Brewery (Knappstein Wines)
Style: Premium Lager
Clare, South Australia, Australia

Serve in Lager glass

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As with many others the term premium lager and the winery source had me feeling very sceptical. Add to this the presentation and you can hear the wine drinkers voices waxing lyrically and condescendingly about how good it is to drink a proletariat bevvy once in a while. WRONG, WRONG WRONG. From the moment this is poured there is a feeling that this one has broken the mould. Very pale body and creamy head but the crispness and herbaceousness of the nose are readily present. The slightly higher ABV does seem to give this a degreee of oiliness in the glass which does not disappoint when savoured. The mouthfeel is thicker than the typical premium lager which, together with the muted carbonation, also lends itself to the comparison with a good dry white wine. This is a delightful beer from start to finish. For bulk sales this is marketed in a 16 pack, 4x4 rather than the common 6x4. Perhaps this is due to the price point which allows the carton to retail for around $53. Not cheap but this is not your typical swilling beer anyway. After all, it is a premium lager.

This beer offers very little aroma but over-delivers on the flavour. The taste is more complex than any other lager I’ve ever tasted

Pale straw colour. Citrus,grapefruit taste. Lots of flavour for a lager, maybe due to the sauvin hops.

Poured very clear pale amber with moderate white head that lasted a few minutes. Big aroma of sweet citrus that is great but has not much else. Taste of citrus nicely matched with bitter hopps with the hopps continuing to a very long bitter finish. Plenty of flavour here for a lager. Medium body with thin oily texture and soft carbonation. Overall a pleasant lager, but perhaps a touch too bitter.

Pale straw in colour with a lovely white head, Notes of grapefruit on the nose. The flavour is rather fruity and this beer grows on me the more I drink it. The beer has a lingering bitterness reminisent of a Kolsch

Pours a light yellow colour with a frothy white head. Aroma is fruity with some floral notes. Taste also fruits such as grapefruit and grape with some floral hops and yeast. Nice soft mouth feel. Long subtle bitter finish. Really surprising, liked this one a lot.

Brown bottle brought back from Australia by brother-in-law. Intringuing lager from Clave Valley more renown for it’s riesling than their beer. Best before 13 june 2012. Nice straw-wheat field colour with a white head. At first the smell is very nice, cat pee, some mango, New-Zealand unripe sauvignon grapes wine. I like this nose !!! The taste equal the nose with this ton of mango fruit, pineapple and this very distinctive Nelson Sauvin hops. Nice texture, good mouthfell. This beer is a regal. I would easy make this beer my back from work drink.

(Une dégustation offerte par rodenbach99. Merci!) Une robe jaune pâle. Une petite tête blanche. Un nez de malts pâles qui rencontre des houblons débordant de fleurs, d’ananas, de mangue et d’agrumes doux. Des saveurs bien goûteuses en fruits et en fleurs sucrées. Un malt légèrement mielleux. Une bouche de moyenne densité avec un pétillement normal et une texture huileuse. Une finale amère sur des notes florales et fruitées. Difficile à battre.

330 ml Bottle. Pours straw yellow, with small long lasting head. Floral and fruity citrus aroma - similar flavours - one of the most flavoursome lagers i’ve ever had - and very enjoyable.

bread, floral, dough, pale, clear, white foam, medium bitterness, medium body, oily feel, lively, bitter,

If this is truly a lager than it is the finest I have ever had. There are floral and citrus hops from the nose. I haven’t had Sauvin hops before. The beer is medium bitter and the hops bite has a funky, resiny note with some pine. There is a slight malt backing, but I don’t feel as if this beer is as well balanced as the hops are very astringently powerful and are overtaking the rest. This beer certainly has a high craft value and as a lager there is something very nice here. At the same time, it is still in a category that I mostly avoid. Cheers!