Fitgers Yellow Jersey Lager

Brewed by Fitgers Brewhouse
Style: Premium Lager
Duluth, Minnesota USA

Serve in Lager glass

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[On-tap at Fitger’s] Pours pale golden with a small, long-lasting white head. Aroma is crackery, floral hops and bready notes. I like it, but simple. Huge cracker again in the taste, with a sweet, honey component. Average mouthfeel, with a long finish. Maybe it is because I hadn’t expected much out of it, but I was pretty impressed with this. Really sessionable, and although not amazing, it was still the surprise of the night.

Tap. Clear yellow pour with a small white head. Soft pils aroma. Taste is mild hop, lemon, maybe some cracker. Decent summer brew.

On tap at the brewpub. Light faint malty aroma. Plain. A bit lemony. Pours a very pale clear gold. Little head. Flavor is a generic, slightly flaccid wet pilsener malt. Not fresh or snappy. A bit of hoppy cracker flavor. Some higher fermented lager fusels. Wet. Okay.

Sample at the brewpub. Light gold color with a white head. Slight lemon aroma, very clean. Light grassy flavor with a nice bitterness, but smooth at the same time.

the beer is a nice golden color, fairly clear, and topped by oh - a quarter inch of whitish foam. Maybe a half inch in subsequent pours. Soft and slightly sweet aroma. A little malty, a little hoppy. Nothing really stands out. Smooth is an understatement. Malty and hoppy at the same time - good balance. Sweet toasted malt stands out, but at the same time the beer has a nice dry quality to it. Subtly spicy hops, a hair of lemon bitterness. Not quite medium body, very ample carbonation.

Hazy golden hue, slimmish layer of foam... Sharp, citric nose, big time spice in here, saison-like, nice and lovely... Zesty on the tongue, hoppy, bumping with fruit, lush, rich, tasty. Definitely a pilsner, but deeper, larger, wider than any you’ve met before. Big texture, wide mouthfeel, fullish body...big, brash, bold. Yum... plenty big, booze-wise, for the style, outsized enough to remind you to put on the brakes while imbibing...one of the best examples of the kind I’ve yet to examine.

Cloudy yellow color with no head. Aroma of muddled apricot. Yeasty flavor, but no wheat or breadiness to accompany it. That slight apricot come back too.