Granite City Northern Light

Brewed by Granite City Food & Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
St. Louis Park, Minnesota USA

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

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Here’s one that I could have passed on. Not very much flavor or aroma, some pale sweet malt with corn syrup. The malts taste like honeyed bread, but the flavor is so faint as to mainly impart a sugary sweetness. Hops? I’m still searching. Very pale yellow with almost no head.

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Poured a clear golden with a white head. Aroma was light and nonexistent. The taste was sour grain.

It’s a light. Aroma is grain light pilsner color light carbonation lace sweet breast taste low hops low malt, better than auklet lite though

Pours pale orange...has a caramel aroma...taste is pretty basic..hints of lemongrass caramel. ?. Kinda basic,

Tap. Light creamy malt aroma. Golden yellow color. Creamy barley malt flavor. A good light beer - has a nice malt flavor. Way better than its BMC equivalents.

Pour is a hazy yellow with a large white head. Aroma is kinda decent for a lager, a nice dry pils malt with a touch of grassy hops. Flavor is syurpy sweet malts with no hops and little aftertaste. Its a better than average lager with a little more body than others IMO and ok for a bargan bin pickup.

on tap-pours yellow/gold with a white head. Aroma is sweet light malt/corn, some fruit. Taste is sweet light malt/corn, 2nd fruit/spice hops.

Truly a middle of the road beer. Nothing special at all about it, but it’s not exactly offensive, rither. Bland looking with a gold body and a small white head. Aroma is okay, overall sweet. Very light, watery palate. The taste is okay at first. I would decribe it as a bland, somewhat sweet thirst quencher. But there’s a stale, cloying aftertaste that ruins a bit. Meh.

Draft from GC Rockford. Pours a clear pale gold with a small bit of light head. Aroma of water and sweet malt. Taste is lightly sweet. Water, cereal grains and Splenda. Light bodied with a thin texture. Lively carbonation and not much of a finish. Overall, it’s not very good. Still better than most "lite" beers though.

Pours pale thin yellow with rim of white. Little smell. Actually more sweetness than thought but watery thin body. So so overall.

Grainy, sweet and watery.....dont know what else to say......even for a basic lager, just too sweet!