LandShark Lager

Brewed by Anheuser-Busch InBev
Style: Pale Lager
St. Louis, Missouri USA

Allison was nice enough to let me sample one of hers. Faint nose of grain, fresh but mild and light, thinking summertime. Pours a light sparkling straw. The mostly lasting white creamy and fluffy head leaves a wispy sheet of lace. The mild front is wheatish, the middle has a moderate to full acidity, the almost non-existant finish is very brief. The light watery body is lively and crisp.

Pours a light golden with a white off head. Aroma is nothing special. Taste is of corn,p rice, and light malt. Basically no hops. Not real good. Will not purchase.

Pale beer...vastly overpriced for the quality. Flavors not readily apparent; watery overall. Nothing very unique about it.

12 ounce bottle from Richmond Beverage in Richmond, VT (April 2008) sampled out of the fridge from an appropriate Coors Banquet glass. For some reason I had a moment of excitement on seeing this, thinking I could finally scratch Florida off of my states list....but nope, just another Bud product. Anyway, the head is more stable than that of most pale lagers, white and creamy-fluffy; the body is totally clear light gold....mild, adjuncty (corn) aroma, but reasonably clean and fresh, lightly grassy....very sweet, sugary upfront, pretty dull and bland at midpalate, somewhat dry at the finish...no real hop presence, muted pale malts....bland but more drinkable than the majority of A-B products, certainly.

A generic pale lager. Ambiguously sweet on the nose. Sweet lime-like taste. It tastes like AB is attempting to emulate the taste of a Corona with the lime squeezed into it. To their credit, that is, in fact, what Landshark tastes like. Drinkable, but unremarkable.

Picked up a single at the Kangaroo this evening. This crap was almost $10 a six pack! Anyway first off it looks and smells like a Budweiser. So far it’s not looking or smelling good. The flavor is like pretty much any other AB swiller. Corn and more corn. You gotta give it to those little sneaky snakes, they make it appear to be some micro lager and try to charge you a fortune. This is bascially repackaged Budweiser.

Poured clear gold with a thin, fizzy white head. The aroma is sweet corn and malt. The flavor is overly sweet with what tasted like sugar added to this typical BMC production. Mouthfeel was blah. Will steer clear of this one in the future.

Appearance is light golden with a thin, small-bubbled head. Texture is light and watery with a mild carbonation level. Malts were rather sweet (grains, cereal). Slight milkiness. Very mild bitterness; not quite enough to cleave off the sweetness. The beer’s character wasn’t enough to cleave off its boringness.