Pour is a clear yellow with a small white head. Aroma is musty grain with some clean grain. Flavor is very grainy with a minor hop. Finish is watery but none of that wet paper bag thing that lagers can give off. Decent grainy flavor. Like most "craft" lagers this has way more body than any BMC lager.

12 ounce bottle from a Kroger. Pours a crystal clear golden color with a large fizzy white head. Average head retention. Skunky aroma despite the brown bottle, along with notes of faint malts. The taste is pale malts, corn, tinny hops. Medium bodied. Meh.

A big special thank you goes out to riversideAK for this not so local beer. pours pale yellow like any other ubiquitous pale yellow american beer. Bottle is nicely embossed, its not yer typical brown bottle with a twist off cap. Decently clean aroma, nothing offensive. On the taste buds it comes across gentle but with a hop background that makes you think this is a heavy APA or possibly even a mild IPA at first, quite interesting. I would say this possibly has more floral hops flavor in it than any other pale lager I have ever tasted. After the initial impact tho, you fade back into mild APA flavors or even toward the end of the session, you are pretty sure it’s a lager. Not bad but perhaps more than I care for in a lager and this is what probably gets it such a high, per se, percentile when compared to other pale lagers. Certainly a lager with personality. If you like APA or IPA but despise pale lagers, you should give this a try, I think you may be pleasantly surprised. Finish is pale lager but overall, this is not your typical pale lager. Alex, I owe you one!

12oz bottle Pours out a clear yellow topped with a foam white head. Sad to say this Private Reserve should have been kept private. Tast of not much. Sorry this was not good at all. or maybe it is just the style I don’t like