LaCrosse Lager
City Brewery (La Crosse Plant) in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
5.36
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5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
On tap at Bodega. Pours a clear light gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of sweet corn and straw with a touch of bread backing. Flavor is similar with corn and straw with some sweet grains underlying. Slightly crisp.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Dec 2014
at 16:04
4.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle poured into a shaker. Pours a clear dark gold with a half finger of white head. Aroma of corn and grain. Taste is light sweet. Meh, not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2014
at 09:48
3.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 2
Corn-yellow/gold beer; somewhat fluffy off-white head, not very stable. Metallic-grassy nose, even a bit like sewage water - otherwise said, pretty unappetizing. Unpleasant, slightly lemony-sour and very metallic taste, plus a flavour as from decaying grass. light, watery, fizzy, but the aggressive flavour keeps coming. Ugh! Txs to DavidA - I guess ;^}
Tried
on 12 Mar 2009
at 14:41
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Courtesy of Vinny’s at the La Crosse airport. Clear straw color with a fizzy white head that disappears quickly. Nil lacing. Aroma of mild hops and wet paper bag. Light-bodied and crisp with a decent hoppy character, along with a hint of malt. The finish is bitter but not flavorful. All in all this is an average Lager.
Tried
on 28 Nov 2005
at 09:10
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 6
Pretty good for what it is. An ordinary light lager. Yellow color, very light and simple hop and malt flavor. No flaws.
Tried
on 08 Oct 2005
at 20:55
4.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
So I felt the need to class up my list of ratings with the one, and only (as far as I know, anyway), can of beer with a magnificent walleye painting! This lager has above average flavor for the style. In fact, LaCrosse lager is clearly above repulsive status. And, did I mention, there's a damned fish on the can? Holy shit!
Tried
from Can
on 15 Jun 2003
at 01:15
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Canned. I want to say something nice about the folks at City Brewery, who worked hard to keep the yeast active at the brewery after Pabst/Stroh’s bought out the Old Style name and closed them down. In fact, this is a pretty decent American lager. Pouring from the can gives a nice fluffy head that remains for most of the drink. The usual straw color is no surprise. Can’t find anything wrong with the taste, which is okay considering its Wisconsin-cheap price. Definitely recommend this as your basic lawnmower beer.
I took this to my brewclub meeting with the current Old Style to see how they stacked up against each other. Even in tiny sample glasses, sitting warming on a picnic table, we had no difficulty picking out this as the better beer (though truthfully, not much better).
I took this to my brewclub meeting with the current Old Style to see how they stacked up against each other. Even in tiny sample glasses, sitting warming on a picnic table, we had no difficulty picking out this as the better beer (though truthfully, not much better).
Tried
from Can
on 26 May 2003
at 20:18