Great Lakes Brewing Golden Horseshoe Lager

Sorry to bore you with a brief trip down nostalgia lane here but we used to drink a lot of this beer in university. Keg fridge - cheap kegs. I used to like it then - don’t like it so much now but it gets extra points for the great memories (of lack thereof). Kegger!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pale gold clear pour with soapy head. Smells of cooked grains and corn. Taste is sweet and follows smell. Slightly harsh industrial feel. It is much lacking.

Bottle. Standard gold lager colour. Weak corn aroma that’s vaguely industrial... Simple grassy hops taste with some grain and vegetable. A little gross, but surprisingly drinkable at least.

Bottle: Straw colour with white diminishing head. Grain, corn and some malt in the nose. Watery, grainy, alcoholic...weak taste. Clean but papery mouthfeel. Not good.

341ml Bottle: Provided fresh from the brewer at the Mobile Monday event in Toronto. Glasses weren’t provided so a proper "Appearance" rating isn’t possible, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say it poured pale yellow with some carbonation and little head. The aroma is heavy in grains and sweet malts, the flavour isn’t offensive in any way, but purely bland and lacking in any character. I get the "mass tastes" idea with something like this, but it just entirely lacks any reason for consumption.

Bottle. Clear golden body with a small white soapy head. Predominately toasty aroma with sweet grain notes. Apple flavour and faint toast. Its ok but very straightforward and uninteresting.

Bottle. Sixth beer of the night for my own Swill (or almost swill) Fest. And the gems just keep on comin’. I’m sure this will be a winner, an Ontario Pale Lager. Sigh. Pours a pale yellow-gold, somewhat bubbly, with a small diminishing white head. Very, very mild aroma and flavour of mild malt, grain and hops. Clean and nothing foul but so generic and boring, it makes you wonder why anyone would bother with it and why the brewery would bother making it. Light bodied. You could do worse if you are looking for a Labatt or Molson replacement but that’s aiming so low...These guys are capable of making good beers, this just isn’t one of them.

[177-20070103] 341mL. Very unique aroma with very doughy yeast and strong sense of sweetness. Clear, golden yellow body with small bubbles throughout and a foamy medium-lasting white head. Flavour has same doughy yeast overdrive, sweet but sickly. Light-medium clean body. Worth it to smell, but not particularly pleasing.