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RATINGS: 260   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.39   IBU: 12   EST. CALORIES: 150   ABV: 5%
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Roll out the Barrel: 5.0% Alcohol by Volume and 12 IBUs. A classic American lager and the workhorse of the Gansett stable. Available all year long in bottle, can and on tap! Quality Supreme: We brew our lager with six row malt, seedless hops, corn from Iowa, our lager strain (the same one the brewery has depended on since just after Prohibition), and the purest water from Lakes Ontario and Hemlock. Taste & Enjoy: This beer is brewed just right for drinking—crisp and refreshing. It’s got more flavor than other premium lagers, yet it’s one of the most drinkable beers in the world. Narragansett has the highest rating of all domestic premium lagers on BeerAdvocate.com, and received the bronze medal for American Lagers at the 2008 World Beer Cup The History: The Lager is old reliable. It was the first beer brewed by “The Original Six” back in 1890, the bestselling beer in New England from the 1930s to the 1970s, and the official beer of the Boston Red Sox from 1944-1975.

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Contract brewed by High Falls Brewing Co. for since 2007, the production moving to City Brewing in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 2009 and then to the City Brewing plant in Latrobe, PA in 2010. It is anticipated that production may be returned to Rhode Island in the future.


doboy's rating

2.8
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
doboy (397) - Morehead City, North Carolina, USA - JUN 15, 2012
Not too bad. Pours a yellow, clear with a light head. Aroma is light hops and malt, somewhat European. taste is light hops, malt, a pilsen but sweeter. Aftertaste is good. Mouth feel is better than average. This is a good summer time beer. remembered it from college, only college beer I will still drink!


most recent ratings

1.7
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 2/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 5/20
ads135 (1728) - Lawrence, Kansas, USA - JUN 16, 2013
On the upper end of the American light lager category. A little hay, some corn sweetness, and a crisp aftertaste. Tried in NYC in 2013.

2.9
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
wlajwl (2984) - Quad Cities, Iowa, USA - JUN 11, 2013
Aroma is grainy malts and light citrus. The flavor is grainy malts, mild sweetness, light citrus and a beery/mildly bitter finish. Not bad for a pale lager.

3.4
   AROMA 9/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 12/20
Emitch14 (61) - Westhampton, New York, USA - JUN 9, 2013
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3
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 14/20
Ret12 (404) - Maryland, USA - JUN 6, 2013
I actually really enjoyed this beer, nice and crisp with a decent balance of the malt with tiny amounts of hop flavor

3.1
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
Scrapersnbeer (1018) - Boston, Massachusetts, USA - JUN 5, 2013
Hey Neighbor...it’s ahrr bee-ya! The rescue of the Gansett name from the heap of defunct regional beer brands, almost all owned by Pabst somehow. Heavy aroma of grain, corn and other vegetal elements. Nary a hop in sight, but that’s okay for this one. It has a yellow copper color, looks heavier than it’s counterparts. Kind of a dirty sweet taste, nothing profound or sugary, just enough to tell you it’s a lager. Notably heavy it the body. Don’t believe the reviews that call it a doppelganger for PBR...try both consecutively and judge for yourself. Of all the beer out there, this has the most nostalgia attached to it for me, and best of all, not owned by AB Inbev, SABMiller or even old Jim Koch. Okay, made by contract-only Melanie...let’s get that brewery going in Providence. My 1000th rating.

2
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 8/20
andyhwcinc (1166) - Chicago, Illinois, USA - MAY 25, 2013
Enjoyed on tap at Improv Asylum in Boston, MA after eating some great lobster rolls. This just wasn't very good, bland lager with very light crispness.

1.5
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 2/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 6/20
pras (293) - Maryland, USA - MAY 19, 2013
Move over PBR there is a new hipster beer in town. Light pale yellow. Little nose, little flavor. A waste of calories.

2.8
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
Rrauth (650) - North Carolina, USA - MAY 14, 2013
Mystery beer night. This is actually not a bad beer for two bucks. Doesn't smell like crap and is pretty decent. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

2.3
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
jbruner (1200) - Tallahassee, Florida, USA - MAY 1, 2013
What can I say, for a crappy pale lager in a can, it’s over of the best, but it is still just that, a tasteless pale lager you drink out of a can as a substitute to PBR.

2.7
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
sonnycheeba (1986) - Federal Hill, Baltimore, Maryland, USA - APR 28, 2013
Tap. Pours clear gold with thin, fizzy white head which quickly dissipates. Aroma is muted with notes of caramel, cereal malts, apples, light floral hops, and faint corn. Flavor is dry, bready malts forward with supporting light floral notes, corn, and light fruit. Light/medium body and low carbonation.


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