Lionshead Light

Brewed by Lion Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania USA

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

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UPDATED: DEC 31, 2007 Some hay in the aroma. The taste is something like what permant hair treatment smells-like; day old cut lawn. Quite un~offensive and laid back. Very decent carbonation. Easy to palate. No bitter attributes per se. Has manners. A good cheap lager. Finish is non assuming and well behaved. Very happy with this case. Only 46 US cents per bottle! Would not hesitate to purchase again. My undercap puzzle #409 translates to ......well, I can’t figure it out!

Originally reviewed: 1/23/12. A friend of mine gave me a 6-pack of this the other day. Poured the final bottle into a pint glass for review. Pours a pale, translucent gold with fine lace on top. No head or lace left behind on the glass. Nose is of cheap grains and freshly-cut honeycrisp apples. The mouth is crisp and thin. Very light, not surprisingly. Very sweet beer. Light apple juice, mild corn, sweet finish. This drinks like flavored water, and it is refreshing. I’ll give it that. Decent enough to wash down some wings or something, but nothing I’d stock the fridge with on a regular basis. My favorite part of this beer was the pictorial riddles under each cap. Nice little touch to an otherwise boring beer.

Cheap college beer. The flavor is about as close to water as you can get nut I assume if you are buying this you’re not expecting much

From a bottle poured a golden color with a fair amount of head. Light malty flavor with a quick finish.

Light, Skunky. It’s what I expected. A throwback to old college days and bad beer. Ahh memories.

I suppose I’ve been overdue to rate a pale lager, so here we go. Serving: 12 oz. can from Jesse at Fireworks. It has your typical macro light appearance. The nose is rather non-descript, an attribute that I don’t mind in this case. The taste is clean with a bit of grain but not much else. Very clean finish. It’s easy drinking and unoffensive, though it does lack flavor.

This beer is from Pennsylvania but it is a dead ringer for a Polish pale lager. It’s grainy and lightly skunky despite being brown bottled. It’s clear straw yellow w/ a long lasting white head. Definitely light in texture w/ fizzy carbonation but I’d say this is much closer to being an actual Pilsener than most American lagers.

Pale watery corn swill lacking any kind of depth. Aroma shows...well...not much of anything. Slightly sweet corn notes do little to appease even the most undemanding beer drinker.

Pale yellow, head dissipates quickly. The aroma is a skunky, yeasty maltiness. My sample is from a can and that may be imparting some off aromas. The skunkiness dissipates after a few minutes. The beer is light bodied and crisp. It has a light sweetness to it and there is no aftertaste. Better than the macrobrews, but not by much.

bottle - Pours clear yellow with a one finger white head. It smells of grainy malt. It tastes of grainy, adjunct laden malt with a foul aftertaste. It’s weak and watery, another cheaply made, low quality beer. What’s the point?

Bottle [12oz] shared with garthicus -- c/o of HogTownHarry. Pours a slightly hazy pale gold with a spare diminishing frothy white head. Aroma of corn and grain, of course, but also with some sweetness, a hint of fruit and some light hops -- could be worse. Flavour’s mild, watery and light but thankfully clean, with grain, pale malt and very light hops. Light bitter finish. Light bodied. I thought this would be much worse, I mean it’s not very good but for a Light lawnmower beer, you could do worse.