Great Lakes Brewing Golden Horseshoe Lager

Brewed by Great Lakes Brewing (Ontario)
Style: Pale Lager
Etobicoke, Canada

So I’m at my brother-in-law’s place and I find a single bottle of this behind a big stash of liquor in his storage room. Hmmmmm. Pale yellow, very carbonated with a big head. Faintly appley aroma. Moderately sweet pale malt, again with a faintly apple character. I’m not sure that this "apple" character is part of this beer’s usual profile, as I learned this bottle is probably pretty old, and likely off. Anyway, maybe it was my mindset (watching hockey), but I liked it.

So, they used to serve this tripe on tap at a local diner where the barteneder would show you her nipple piercings at the drop of a dime. It was slightly less expensive than the other beer on tap so we would drink it 2 jugs at a time. Light golden in appearance, much like the nipple piercings - whoreshoe brings back fond memories of large breasted bar maids. Thank you Great Lakes Brewing.

Predictably boring. Pours pale gold with a thin white head. Corn and grain aroma. Flavour virtually non-existant. Too much effort imitating the macros.

The Lure:
Odorless yellowish water with a faint huskiness.

The Festivities:
Extremely watery, vapid, but thankfully not infected. A few malt husks are felt, but I’m looking real hard here. Even the father-in-law thought it was boring.

Transcendence:
I could hear my neighbor fart through the thin walls of my old apartment.

Not bad, had it on tap in Tillsonburg, Ontario. It is a better alternative to Blue or Canadian, but that isn’t saying much.

Pale yellow lager with a collapseable white head. Chalky corny aroma. Tatstes like chalky Lakers light....damned, it is a Lakers clone, thus the name. Sorry to my Montreal brethren for giving them this swill.

I was expecting to get full pieces of barley from this brew after tasting it. Pretty gross.

Draft at the Flour City Brew Fest. Only thing in my notes on this was ’Not good’.