Harp Lager

Brewed by Dundalk (Diageo)
Style: Pale Lager
Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland

Pours yellow. Nose is noble hops and hay. Flavor is crisp hops, hints of lemon and grass.

Bottle: thanks to dad for my B-Day! Food Pairing: Bratwurst mit Sauerkraut.

Pours yellow with a thin white head. Slightly malty taste. Much better than your big name American lagers but nothing special. Drinkable and refreshing.

On tap. Pours a clear gold with moderate white head. Aroma of pale malt and grass. Taste pretty much the same. Slight crispness in finish; slightly creamy mouthfeel. Underwhelming but ok.

I’ll be honest, this is not my favorite beer. It was almost skunky, bitter and metallic initial taste and very forgettable finish. Ah well... what are you gonna do.

6 pack from Publix. This beer is ubiquitous, so does it matter where I say I got it from. Clear golden hay color. The fluffy head, that sticks around, is a nice surprise, but doesn’t surprise me enough to give it a very high score. Pale malts and grass, with a slight corn sweetness come through and hit the nose. The beer isn’t a "light" as other pale lagers in terms of aroma, but doesn’t strike me as being anything extraordinary. Relatively smooth for a pale lager, but the flavor, as expected, falls flat. Corn, grass, some slight sweet flavor from the malt coming through, but in the end I am not wowed.

Bottled. Poured clear, bright golden with a sticky cap of white head.. crystal-clear with a bit of a watery look. The aroma picked up lightly-toasted pale malts and honey with crisp, grassy hop accents.. not bad. The flavor found a thin honey base with light grassy hops around.. tart lemony accents helped it out.. finished dry with a bright carbonation and more of the lemon. Light-bodied and crisp for the most part on the palate (just a little honey sweetness got in the way there).. refreshing stuff.

Love this stuff. Anytime of year, at any event there’s nothing better then a harp.