XV Lager
Oxbow Brewing Company in Newcastle, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Zero Gravity Craft BreweryLager - Pale Special
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Score
7.19
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tfontana (7277) reviewed XV Lager from Oxbow Brewing Company 3 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can from trade with ClarkVV--thanks, Clark! Clear, pale yellow, light sparkle, thin head with fair retention and trace lacing. Aroma is strong malt, bread crust, mild florals, lager yeast. Taste follows aroma. Smooth, frothy texture, soft carbonation, finish as taste, lingering dry bitterness. A lager with good strength. Light additional interest.
CLW (16859) reviewed XV Lager from Oxbow Brewing Company 3 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz can in a trade with Clarkvv. Thank you! Aroma shows me mild honey, like hints with baked bread and mild lager yeast. Flavor follows the aroma with a light crisp texture. Good malt backbone for the ABV. Nothing too complex but certainly is well-made and clean.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed XV Lager from Oxbow Brewing Company 3 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Canned 8/27/25, drunk 11/16/25, as pictured.
Light, airy, cracker and honey-like malts balance fresh herb-like hops. Nothing overbearing, but clean, crisp and aromatic. Weird, because these Zero Gravity contract brews have been terrible up to this point.
Remains clean, crisp, balanced and malty in the mouth. A pale ale in name only, as they could have easily called this a hoppy helles or pils. It's got tons of malt depth, plentiful hop flavor and just an all around robustness to it, yet still something I'd happily drink at a concert. Loads of flavor for its size, even tending on the quite malty side. Fresh herbs galore with light lemon and pepper to balance. Well, here's to better contract brews at Zero Gravity going forward (or maybe this was just a really small batch equating to higher quality, I don't know).