Neustadt Springs Lager

Brewed by Neustadt Springs Brewery
Style: Premium Lager
Neustadt, Canada

341ml bottle - pours a nice clear shade of gold, with your average lager head on top. Aroma is a bit earthy, and quite malty with some hops hanging out underneath. I’ve never been blown away by the aroma on a lager, and this one doesn’t change that, but it’s nice. Flavour however is even nicer - sweet malt, and surprisingly, lots of hops! I like it! Earthy hopping, rather than citrus, but is not without a delicate orangey quality. Nice bitterness in the finish. Crisp body. Very nice, refreshing, satisfying, upper class lager.

341 ml bottle - pours a shade darker than a typical pale lager, with a dense white head. Almost looks like an IPA. Aroma is mainly sweet malt, but there is a pleasant, if subtle, hoppiness in there too. Flavour expands on these elements - nothing too exciting, it is a pale lager, after all - with a solid sweet-malt spine with a surprising amount of hops that work quite well here. Also, a hint of biscuity yeast that keeps everything well-balanced. Beautifully delicate natural carbonation speaks volumes about the care taken with this beer - this is no poppishly carbonated faker. Crisp, simple and refreshing, a beer you want more than one of on a lazy summer afternoon on a patio, and a nice antidote to the ubiquitous adjunct-laden macro pale lagers on the market. Good work.

Pours a Golden yellow, with thin white head. Aroma immediatley reminded me of the outdoors for some reason, a lawn of fresh cut grass perhaps, but on closer inspection decided the aroma is closest to honey or corn syrup. The inital flavor is very sweet, i’m sure due to the smell of honey. The honey taste gives way to a more hoppy bitter bite, and then that gives way back to a honey after taste. A little too sweet, but all and all a pretty pleasent experience from a local brewery. Nothing to rave about or anything but I would certainly drink one again.

Grassy, floral and earthy hops are notable over sweet and fruity base. Clear golden body is topped by a line of white head that lasts well. Sweet and fruity flavour with fair bitterness. Some honey like sweetness especially in the aftertaste. Light bodied with moderate carbonation. Seems more like a golden ale than a lager but what the hey, it’s drinkable enough. Sampled at C’est What.

Draught @ Hostex: Huzzah, another domestic pale lager. o_O Pours yellow, little head. Aroma of honey, slight hops, something mildly earthy. Flavour is somewhat generic, a bit plain. Certainly a step up from, say, Labatt Anything, but not for me.

33cl bottle, Shelburne. Golden colour, Sweet tasting with a nice bitterness in the background and lots of malt. Interesting beer definitley worth a try.

bottle. Not everyone will like this lager, that is for sure. To me, it has some odd tastes that are definitely sweet right upfront in the mouth (molasses, honey, something syrupy, whatever). It reminds of Kalyani Lager from India but not with the same smooth, sweet finish. At best, this mouthfeel taste goes down the tropical pale lager road and at worst it’s like a Pinesol flavour/scent (CAUTION: do not eat salty snacks like peanuts with this beer, it will throw this flavour right off big time!) The backbone of this beer is sweet malts so be prepared. This is growing on me. This is a bold flavour for a lager which kind of works if you ask me. At least this baby stands out from the standard lager crowd in a favourable light.

bottle: Poured a nice golden colour with a white head. A malty and fruity aroma greets the drinker. Somewhat sweet tasting at first with a malty aftertaste. The hops are well balanced, but overall this lager is far too sweet for my taste buds.