Laker Lager Light

Brewed by Brick Brewing Company
Style: Pale Lager
Waterloo, Canada

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

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Clear yellow, nothing too special. Not a huge fan of Laker but you can’t beat the price.

473mL can from the brewery. Pours a pale gold with a medium white head. Aroma is okay, faint, but okay, cereal grains and Brick character. Flavour is exactly like regular Laker but without the pleasant malty sweet finish. That said, this is still enjoyable by light beer standards. Some good cereal grain malty sweetness, light palate (almost watery), with a mild dry finish and the same faint peppery zing that Laker has that makes me think there might actually be some hops here, or at least hop extract. Not bad, wouldn’t bother with again, but not bad...

Canette de 473 ml achetée chez LCBO (Ottawa, ONT). Arôme: Légère odeur de maïs et de fruité. Apparence: La couleur est blonde pâle avec une faible densité de bulle. Présence d’un mince col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Léger goût de fruité et de céréales. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement huileuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Arrière goût fruité. (Rating #2866)

Can single. Very pale dilute gold with big loose white head. Harsh volatiles and grain nose. Taste watery pear and apple Late residual sugar finish. Cream soda. Light clean hop bittering is OK. Palate a little tight from drying feel. I’d drink this fishing, but not more than 3.

Not bad but not great either. Not far off other light beers but, like all light beers, it’s pretty well tasteless. However, frat boys rejoice because: "It’s a buck a beer!"

[1866-20081123] 355mL can. Wheat grass aroma with a nice bready yeast background. Clear, yellow body with a quick foamy white head. Flavour is similar to the aroma with wheat and grass and bready yeast but lighter. Light body. Surprisingly nice light beer, refreshing.

Originally rated May 2006. After reviewing the Lakeport Light, I decided to review this one... Lakeport’s competition. This one is slightly more expensive. Pours the same golden colour, has the same foamy white head, dissipates as fast and has hardly any visible carbonation, just like the Lakeport. Grainy malt nose that is quite present for a light beer. Grainy watery mouthfeel. The taste is slightly better than the Lakeport, with a bit more all-over flavours. Grain malt, mild fruitness like apples, honey and just a tad of corn in the aftertaste. Just a notch up from Lakeport Light, but both are unoffensive light brews.

You have to admit that in never advertizes itself as anything other than what it is... a light beer at a buck a bottle.... You get what you pay for. Why am I reminded of that horrible joke (or at least one of the variants....)? Why are light beer and sex in a canoe so similar...? They’re both f*#@ing close to water...

355 ml can from Beer Store. Pours a clear yellow gold with virtually no head. Mild nose of grass and bread - surprisingly not terrible. Not much flavour - a little light grassiness and breadishness. Ultra watery body, no finish. Barely a beer but not enitrely disgusting.

355 ml can from the Brick Brewery retail store. pours pale yellow with a fizzy white head. the head quickly reduces to a ring but carbonation is moderate. aroma of light grainy 2 row, some adjucts (rice?), a puff of hop. the flavour is similar. the finish is not sweet but balanced not howid describe it. its more like the adjuct cider flavour and minimal malt have been watered down to the point where the carbonation makes them tolerable.