Pretty Things American Darling

Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project
Brewed at Just Beer (fka Buzzards Bay Brewing)
Style: Strong Pale Lager/Imperial Pils
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Footed Pilsner, Lager glass, Stein

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bottle thanks to nellie. poured yellow with a white head. sweet florals, earth, biscuity, and spices. smooth palate, very earthy, florals, and a spiced finish.

The aroma is light with wheat and light vanilla notes. The light clear straw yellow color has a small lacey head. The flavor is light without much crisp bitterness of hops. It is smooth, but not much flavor overall, more than a normal domestic pilsener obviously.

Bottle, thanks to nellie, pours a clear yellow with an aroma of muscat grapes and fruit cocktail, flavor of clean wheat, dry wood, has a smooth finish

Bottle from somewhere in Ithaca, NY. Very cool design. Pours a hazy, fizzy golden yellow with a white head. Smell is slightly citrusy, slightly grassy. Very easy to drink, some background hops and a light hop finish. Definitely fizzy though, all the way through.

bottle pours bright yellow and gold with a pillow of a white head. Aroma is floral, honeysuckle and lemon peel with white pepper notes as well. Flavor is delicious, balanced assertive grassy and earthen hops with a nice pal malt and hay body. This is a really nice beer, wish I had more for football season.

When we seek to disparage a beer we often call it lawn mower beer, a category often reserved for insipid American lagers and American wheats. In parody of their own lager, Pretty Things places a lawn mower front and center on the label, but this is no mere lawn mower lager. It is hopped with great intensity, and enjoys a slightly higher alcohol content; i would call this more of an American Pale, even if it does use a lager yeast. It its to lager what Pizza Port’s Panzer is to a traditional pils. Pale gold pour, good head, good lacing. Nose of grass, hops, malt. Taste of hops and malt, with a good finish. Very nice lager, not to be gulped after mowing the lawn.

Poured a yellow with a white head that was short lived but left nice lacing. Aroma was pretty dull. Grassy, some malt, but I struggled to get much out of it. The beer was a good lawnmower beer, light, medium carbonation. A strong pilsner feel from this brew. Grassy, sweet with light malts. Bready at times, but not ever in a heavy way. Good summer brew, but not anything I would reach out for. Overall impression is still strong, just not amazing.

22oz courtesy of Travlr. Poured a clear yellow with a thin, temporary white head. No lace. Sweet grains, cereal, cream of wheat, and artificial banana flavoring in the nose. Taste is cereal, artificial banana ending with some powerful piney, forest floor hoppiness that is sort of a welcome balancing agent to what is quickly becoming a sickly sweet, cloying body. Interesting.

Bomber at Birreria Paradiso, shared with everyone in sight. Pale yellow color, great lacing. Aroma of white pepper, malt. Taste is lager-like, moderately bitter, slight pepper, some citrus. Nice.

Pours a golden with a thick frothy white rocky head. Aroma smells of cooking spices, oregeno, basil and a little tomato sauce oddly enough. Flavor is malty with cereal grains predominant in the flavor. A little beet of crispix with some puffins mixed in. Mild lagering hops present an earthy and citrus flavor with a slight bitterness, just enough to balance the malt backbone. Alcohol is well masked.