Island Tropical Lager

Brewed by Island Brewing
Style: Pale Lager
Carpinteria, California USA

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

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Bottle marked "limited release 2010" purchased at the brewery. Minimum hiss noise when opening. Pours with a clear golden body with a scant white head that fades to a ring quickly. Aroma of corn, bitter tannins extracted from grain, bread, earthy and woody (probably from tannins, not hops, but we will see), popcorn. Taste is dry, bitter, quite tannic, dry, earthy, popcorn, grassy, styrofoam. Not quite as bad as it sound, but I wouldn’t want to drink more than 4 ozs of this 22oz bomber. Wondering what went wrong with this one. Dry with decent carbonation. Not a great beer.

Pours a light yellow in color. Aroma is faint. Not much of the tinny-ness that I normally get with lagers. Pretty sweet. Corn pop-ish tastes here. Could do with more fizz to counteract the sweetness.

9/20/09 notes: on tap, brewery. Pours straw gold with a small head. Nothing to get much worked up about this one. Flavor and aroma are minerally, watery, bready and slightly grassy. A hint of grassy bitterness on the finish. Everything seemed so faint, but I’m sure that was kind of the intention of this one.