Taps Premium Lager

Brewed by Taps Brewing (Canada)
Style: Premium Lager
Virgil, Canada

[2448-20090814] Sample. Mild nothing aroma maybe has a little straw yeast. Clear, yellow brown body with a quick foamy white head. Grainy straw flavour doesn’t have much to hold it together but a bit of sweetness. Light body. Not to my taste but it’s a fair beer.
(@ brewpub; Niagara Falls, ON)

Golden-orange in colour, thin off-white coloured head, light lacing. The aroma is floral, lemon citrus, turning a bit sour. The flavour is of sour citrus, light sweetness comes and goes. Sour mouthfeel, light body, medium/high carbonation. Finishes watery, more sourness.

Another brewery with infection problems.

355ml bottle from The_Jester, why do you hate me Andy?
Opened on December 27, 2007.
No date.

355ml bottle that I had to buy a 6-pack to get. Clear bottle? What? Floaters? What? No way. Pours into my lager glass as purely head at first? WHAT? Oh come on! Aromas of HOPS, frightening memories of brooklyn lager start coming back. First try, must have been a bad bottle, it tasted sour and infected. I’ll try another. AHHHH! Same thing! Sickening plastic flavour with an even more sickening sweet and sour bite/aftertaste! This is on the level of Trafalgar’s infected crap! WHAT THE HELL DID THEY MAKE THIS OUT OF!??!?! I’M SO ANGRY! I’m a starving student! I can’t just blow my money away like this! Y’Aaaaarrg! Why is this even listed as a dortmunder/helles!??!?! Gimme my 11.50 back you crooks! AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGG!!

355ml clear bottle. Pours very hazy gold. Faint white head. Aroma is sweet, a lot of fruitiness, a touch of honey. Flavour was both floral and fruity, lemony hop cuts through the malt. Malts are a bit bready/toasty. Aftertaste is citrusy and grassy. Interesting.

341 ml bottle. pours hazy golden yellow with a small white head. aromas are yeasty and fruity. flavours are very fruity. this is a weird offering. mine came in a clear bottle and is not very lagerish. meh its ok enough but not one of my favs.

On tap @ the brewery - Besides being nice guys, the fellows at Taps make a great premium lager. Sampled on a visit to Virgil, and I was very impressed! Nice amber colour with a thick, creamy head. Malts create a substantial presence in the mouth, and the dry-tasting hops give this a lot more character than most lagers I’ve come across. Tastes more like an ale than a lager, but the mellowness is there. Picked up a 6-pack for the family to try, and it was gone quickly! Would definitely get this one again.

bottle: Tastes a tonne like Walkerville Lager or Neustadt Springs Lager, but not as good. The similarity is remarkable, likely in the malts. Lord Beamish hit the nail on the head though: why is Taps brewing everything besides bins of rottng apples? Definitely on the amber side of things which might throw your typical lager drinker. Sweet malts, some nice bite, finishes a little dry but way suprerior to their astoundingly awful Irish Cream Ale (I have seen people just dump this on their lawn it’s so undrinkable). But what’s up with the apple cider taste from this brewery? Maybe they should make some cider.

damn good lager, fresh and left behind from the company at a promotion at my club, the Adelaide Club. Above average lager, easy mouthfeel.