Estes Park Staggering Elk

Brewed by Estes Park Brewery
Style: California Common
Estes Park, Colorado USA

Serve in Lager glass

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A light pilsner in color and taste. Overall a typical light golden beer, not a lot to note. Notes: Pub visit during ’09 GABF

This lager poured a clear and flat looking with no head at all other than a soapy rim. Scents include apple juice, corn, citrus and a very light hop scent. First sip was very watery and thin on the palate with faint hop flavours and almost like a watered down apple/pineapple juice flavour. To weak to like.

Sampler at the brewery. Pours a thin white head, over a clear, yellow (SRM 3) body....nose is light cereal, mild light hop spice....taste is mild cereal, light corn, dry finish.....mouth feel, carbonation both medium. This meets the style of a Pale Lager better than that of a California Common. BJCP 6/3/10/4/5

Very pale yellow pour, white head. Grainy, corn, extremely light hop aroma. Flavor follows suit. Meh.

Very pale, clear gold with a white head. Aroma of grain and light citrus. Taste is pretty much standard pale lager with a tiny touch of hops. Body is thin. Not much to it.

Tap at the brewpub. Light gold/white head. Light citrus aroma. Lightly bready, mildly citrus. Decent.

draft at the brewpub - Pours hazy gold with a lasting white head. It smells of bready malt and some mild hops. This light to medium bodied brew has a pleasant enough balance between the pale malt and the hops. It’s light to medium bodied and a decent quaff.

12 oz bottle. Poured a hazy, dull yellowish gold with a foamy white head. Aromas of lemon, floral and sweet pale lager malts with corn. Tastes of corn and sweet malts, some citrus, a light grassy hop, and a corny, malty finish. Good carbonation and a crisp, smooth medium light bodied mouthfeel.

12oz bottle. Thick dirty orange-tan color. Big fluffy white head. Tart lemon-citrus aroma with some toasty malt in the background. Tart and tangy stuff. This is a pretty underrated beer. Nice creamy medium-bodied mouthfeel. Pretty balanced, with some up front bitterness that leads into the fruity malt finish. Tangy stuff, lots of character.

Draft at the brewery. Filtered clear amber yellow colored body. Sweaty apple/dried hops/crisp cracker nose. Clean nose and clean flavor/body. Somewhat syrupy. Fresh, without any glaring defects. Crisp red apples and semi-sweet corn. Refreshing.