Leinenkugels Red

Brewed by Leinenkugel Brewing Company (Tenth & Blake Beer Co.)
Style: American Dark Lager
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

UPDATED: MAR 6, 2009 Can on a plane. Pours clear reddish amber with a decent off-white head. Mostly sweet bready malts in the nose, with a hint of fruity hops. Same with the taste, a little more caramel, hardly any hop presence. Mouthfeel is OK, finish is sweet and pretty weak but lingers a little longer than I expected.

Bottle. Multiple tastings (Previous tastings from memory). Went through a Leinenkugel kick while living in Chicago. Not sure why, they really aren’t all that great. Still not a bad cheap beer.

Bottle. Clear amber with a light cream colored head. aroma. Very mild malt with a sweeter finish that seems a bit unclean.

clear reddish, copper color, small white head quickly reduces to bubbles, some lacing. node is much too mild with traces of malt, maybe honey. flavor has sweet malty notes, but not much else else. medium bodied, smooth finish. fairly uninteresting and way too one dimensional, and i still have 5 bottles remaining from a sampler case purchased @ sam’s club in matteson.

Shared with the boys for Cellar Reduction #3. Tried to do a small vertical here, to no avail. Really old bottle was so bad we couldn’t drink it. Pours clear reddish amber with wispy white head. Nose of caramel with a little heat. Flavor is a lot caramel malty biscuit, with some butter. Downside of fair.

Bottle at 3rd Cellar Reduction with Butters and sixfootsix. Pours a fading off-white head with a golden red body. Smells metallic and honeyed. Tastes the same with a sweet thin finish.

Reddish in color and clear but lacking any semblance of a head. Some hop smell with a good balance in the taste. Slight sweet malt in the flavor.

BOTTLE, TAP: Copper/red pour, off-white head. Non-descript aroma, Flavor is standard lager with some malt and grain.