Wigram Vienna Lager

Brewed by Wigram Brewing Company
Style: Amber Lager/Vienna
Christchurch, New Zealand

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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500ml bottle. Pours bronzed amber with a loose off white head. Nose of toasted sweet malts with distinct marmalade notes. Nice clean palate with similar flavours and a mild hop bitterness. Easy drinking. A good example of the style.

Colour: cloudy golden brown with a tan head Aroma: Toffee caramel notes and honey. Malty and smooth, very drinkable, slight hoppy aroma. Smooth taste, full flavour. Sits at top of mouth.

A lightly malted lager which is nice and clean. Good length (for a lager).

I’ve had this beer a couple of times before, but never rated it. I’m sorry. This is me trying to be a better person. I’ve always enjoyed that particular authentic marmitey Germanic yeast aroma that gives warm buttered toast and tangerine citrus. It’s intriguing and an aoma I would be quite happy to have as the last thing I ever smell. The colour is a gorgeous amber that lets off a rocky, fluffy white head. The fist flavours are al mandarin, tangerine and pink grapefruit and then soter tones of fresh bread and roasted hazelnuts. For all intents, this is quite a simple beer, but of a style that you don’t see terribly much of here in New Zealand. A thoroughly enjoyable drop made more enjoyable by its rarity.

500ml bottle. Rich golden orange colour, sunset in a glass with a solid level dirty white head and strong caramel malt aromas that beckon and invite you in. Well balanced malty flavour that hits all parts of the mouth. Robust and moresish . A good effort.

Strong carbonation dark amber pour aroma caramel earthy light fruit toast strains flavour toasted earthy caramel toffee fruit hop bitter is right on gritty note smmoth malt finish smooth bitter nice toasted malt sweetness as well bitter sweet aftertaste

Tap. Nice aromas of apple and nuts. Taste is sweet, with average duration. Palate is oily, with a thin-to-medium body. Yellow, with a frothy white head.

UPDATED: APR 2, 2010 Aaahh, the good old Vienna Lager. I wonder how many people have really tried a true Vienna Lager? This is a nice beer, well made, and would go quite nicely with a bratwurst.

Bottle. Clear toffee amber, medium off-white head. Initial aroma made me think of toast with maple spread. Nice toast & toffee flavour, medium bodied, nicely hopped finish of medium bitterness. Tasty, and a nice take on the style (even if they don’t use Munich malt).

Hoppy fruity aroma, some toast and bread notes, a touch of wood and caramel. Nice one finger head, good rentention and lace, red-orange body, slightest haze. Firm bitterness, toasty malt character in flavour, some hop flavour coming through. Medium body, medium carb.