Short's Brewing Company Local's Light

Local's Light

 

Short's Brewing Company in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

  Lager - Pale Rotating
Score
6.04
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 11 Ticks: 16
Local’s Light is a classic American Lager crafted by Joe Short in 2004 to be “beer in its simplest form”. It’s a bright yellow beer with effervescent aromatics of fresh malted barley and lager yeast. Local’s Light has soft and subtle flavors of malt that finish crisp and clean making it perfectly balanced for smooth and easy drinkability.

Local’s Light underwent a rebrand in early 2018. You can read all about the new look of Local’s Light here.
 

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5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

12 ounce bottle from Whole Foods Ann Arbor Roosevelt, 3/15/16, as Local’s American Lager. Slightly hazy golden, thin fizzy tan head good retention. Aroma of skunk and corn? Also some hay and grass. The taste is grainy malt, corn, grassy hops. Thin bodied.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Sep 2016 at 21:43


5.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle. Lactic corn/barley malt aroma. Golden yellow with moderate head and effervescence. Sweet corn, barley malt and hay flavor.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Jul 2014 at 17:53


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

12 ounce bottle into lager glass, bottled on 6/19/2013. Pours lightly hazy pale golden straw color with a small fairly dense white head with decent retention, that reduces to a thin lace cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings down the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of cracker, bread, pear, apple, grape, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of malt, yeast, and light hops; with solid strength. Taste of pear, apple, grape, cracker, bread, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Lingering notes of light fruits, cracker, bread, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a short bit. Nice and pleasant balance of malt and yeast ester flavors; with solid robustness and no cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and light bodied; with a very smooth and lightly crisp mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is well hidden with zero warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very solid craft brewed light lager. Nice balance of flavors with solid robustness; and very smooth to drink. A pleasantly enjoyable offering.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Sep 2013 at 19:42


4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

On tap. Pours a clear gold with a white head. Aroma and flavor are both pale malts, but unfortunately with an off flavor slightly like foot. Honestly, I don’t think I could tell this from a macro lager. Very disappointing coming from Shorts.

Tried from Draft on 04 Apr 2012 at 21:36


6.8

Not impressed

Tried on 21 Oct 2011 at 16:16


5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

On tap. Poured a very pale gold with no head. Aroma was a light grain and a hint of grass hops. Flavor was light as well with grain, grass and hay.

Tried from Draft on 18 Jun 2010 at 06:23