Pioneer Lager

Brewed by Sand Creek Brewing Company
Style: Pale Lager
Black River Falls, Wisconsin USA

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

This beer is really pretty decent, but still nothing much to it. I like some more complexity.

Pioneer Lager--2000 12 oz. Bottle. 5.40% ABV. 18 IBU’s. (3.5 / 5.0) Amber Lager. Clear rich amber color. Light hop front followed by rich malty body with lightly toasted fruit flavors. Dry sweetness. Incomplete lager smoothness. Tight chalkiness in end with light citrus note. Sampled 8/17/2000.

Wet grainy nose. More orange pour than most lagers. Actually doesn’t taste that bad. A little watery, but plenty of grain on the tongue. taste quickly departs.

Courtesy of Skyview. Very murky brown/orange color with a quickly collapsing large head. Fairly heavy floral and citrus hops for a pale lager. Those fade in the flavor a lot. Mostly grains and caramel.

June 2008 Beer of the Month Club

Overall Impression: Average looking, average tasting amber lager.

hazy amber, medium quickly dissipating head, tiny white bubbles with slight lacing. not at all pale lagery looking. very sweet malt, perhaps hint of hop in nose. flavor is earthy malt and floral hops which do not offset each other very well. no body, mildly bitter finish. i like lagers, so this one is disappointing in its complete lack of lagerliness. 6 pack from liquor depot in monee.

Amber in color with no head and low carbonation. Aroma is a bit nutty with some biscuit aromas. Flavor is nothing really special, low caramel sweetness and little bit of a walnut taste. Overall not too impressive of a beer but definitely better than the macro options.

A none too impressive lager, tasting largely of malty corn. The Beer of the Month people need to try a little harder.