Lionshead

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

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

bottle - Apparently Indiana distributors were thinking, what we need in this market is another bland pale lager. Enter Lionshead and Lionshead Light. It pours clear yellow with a small white head and smells of grainy malt. The flavor is sweet, light, and grainy. It’s drinkable and not terribly watery like the light version of this beer is. I’d call it better than most of the macro pale lagers, but that’s saying very little.

Clear straw color with a white head that makes a brief appearance. Simple yeast and bread flavors on nose. This is a chewy yet light bodied pilsner with hints of malt.

Brighter yellow, thin head. Plain cardboard aroma. Light dry hoppy flavor. A little metallic finish.

The nose was regrettable on this upon first whiff. Flavor is too banany for me. There is upfront taste, but then it is sort of empty. This is a cheap beer and there’s a reason.

Pretty basic pale lager, corn malt aroma, similar flavor, light and crisp palate, nothing special (except maybe the $4.99 per 6 pack price tag)

Highly disappointing...thought it’d be an innovative micro, but it’s just a macro-type beer made by a non-conglomerate. Generic American, flavorless (corn hints, malt hints, hop hints, soap more than a hint.) Damn, should have guessed by the $4.99/6-pack price! Alas...

12 oz Bottle - Pours pale gold with a thin white head. Aromas of hay, straw, lemon, and light honey. Very light body and some mild sourness and bitterness on the finish.

FOr a beer brewed less than 5 minutes from my house, and sold for $12 a case....not bad.