Harpoon 100 Barrel Series #32 - Potts Landbier

Brewed by Harpoon Brewery
Style: Zwickel/Keller/Landbier
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Bottle @ home, picked up in Atlanta by my bro. Thanks Jetson! Moderately hazy, amber brown appearance with a creamy, off white head. Grassy hops, straw, sweet, toasty, light caramel malty aroma. Sweet creamy, light caramel malty lager, grassy hoppy flavor. Pretty solid light lager from an american brewer.

awesome surprise beer courtesy of hopscotch, thank you! well rounded brew, nice spicy autumy feel to it. drinks well and has a big full body considering the abv. yummy! good stuff.

Boring basic german lager as far as I could tell, nothing to say about spicy hops, they weren’t in the one that I had.

I liked this. Clear amber body, small white head, great lacing. Nicely balanced, with great sweet malts and significant hops. Hard to call it a lager with its amber, rather than pale appearance and with its sweet rather than dry flavor profile. I liked it, whatever it really is.

Bomber. Nose has spikes of grass and sharp citrus, otherwise mild malt and doughy yeast. Copper-brown pour with a sudsy tan head. Taste is tart, lightly bittersweet, there’s some nice celery here from the hops but the texture seems to be more important than the mild flavor (I don’t dare call it bland). Medium body is crisp and clean, reminds somewhat of a cider. Sort of a lagered Bitter with thinner malt profile.

Pours Brownish copper fades to burnt orange to gold rim, off white head, sweet malty smell. Taste is molasses but not as sweet as smell, still very malt driven. Just enough hops to keep some balance, a solid German ale with some faint raisin and German yeast kicking in. As it warms i get more hop flavor with a herbal spiciness that adds a very nice effect. Seems like a dunkel weissen but with a bunch of barley. Good beer for sure.

Bottle. Moderate cereal and roasted for the malt, light herbs and earth for the hops and yeast with a hint of cola in the background. Head is average size, frothy off-white with fair but slippery lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is clear copper. Flavor starts lightly sweet and moderately acidic, then finishes lightly acidic and bitter. Palate is light to medium, between dry and watery and has a soft carbonation and a lightly astringent finish. Not much to this Landbier, but it’s still above some of the more popular German style beers.

Bottle--hmmmmmm, a beer that just kinda sits around and doesn’t do much for me. Dark amber color with a nice head that reduces and stays with the drink. Not much aroma that I can notice. The taste was nutty with some carmamel, some bread and malts made appearance, almost tried to be a British bitter, but not. So, so. Produce place 5.99

Amber color with white head. Malt aroma. Caramel malt flavor with spicy hop finish.

Aroma is nutty and spicy, with a little caramel. Taste starts out sweet, with some hop bitterness coming in for balance. A really good beer from an underrated brewery.