Totally Noche With Lime
Short's Brewing Company in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Amber / Vienna Rotating|
Score
6.91
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Totally Noche is an easy drinking Mexican Dark Lager with a light brown hue and off white head. This beer smells of roast with a hint of chocolate and has flavors of mild chocolate, roast, and caramel. The finish is smooth, crisp, and clean. This time with lime added.
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6.5/10
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Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2019
at 17:46
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce bottle into lager glass, bottled on 9/7/2018. Pours fairly crystal clear deep orange/copper/light reddish color with a small dense and rocky light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of limes, citrus peel/zest, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread dough/crust, and toasted biscuit; with light notes of nuttiness, roast, pepper, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready/light roasted malts, limes, and light earthy hop notes; with good strength. Taste of limes, citrus peel/zest, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread dough/crust, and toasted biscuit; with light notes of nuttiness, roast, pepper, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Light herbal, floral, grassy, zesty, peppery bitterness; and lime tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of limes, citrus peel/zest, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread dough/crust, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/roast, pepper, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roasted malts, limes, and light earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness and fruit tang/tartness balance; with no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Very clean on lager flavors, with minimal yeasty notes present. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/zest bitterness and fruit tang/tartness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and lightly sticky/chalky/tangy/acidic mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.5%. Overall this is an excellent fruited Vienna lager. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roasted malts, limes, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth, easy, and pretty refreshing to drink with the mellowly bitter/tart/drying finish. Very flavorful, not overwhelming on any aspect. Great balance of juicy/vibrant limes and clean/rich Vienna malt complexity; with solid earthy hop presence/balance. A very enjoyable offering, and well made style example. Just as impressive as the base beer, but less bitter/drying.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2019
at 05:48