Original Lager
Berghoff Brewery, Inc. in New Berlin, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pale Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.28
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bhensonb (22605) reviewed Original Lager from Berghoff Brewery, Inc. 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Draft at the Berghoff Cafe at O’Hare. Light noble hop aroma. Dark golden color with a white head. Near medium body with sharpish carbonation. Flavor is very full pale malt. They didn’t cheap on this one. The hop is rather fruity. The finish is fairly dry and definitely bitter. One really good lager. Amazing.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Original Lager from Berghoff Brewery, Inc. 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Draught at Berhgoff Cafe, O’Hare Airport
Blond color. Very simple, just a light crispy touch.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
bottle - Pours clear pale yellow with a thin head. It’s fizzy, smells lightly of malt, has the usual too watery body and sweet malt taste. I didn’t taste much, if any, adjunct flavor, which is about hte only thing it had going for it, but what little hops were there were not particularly good. Perhaps it’s better than Bud, but it’s still disappointing.
theisti (5540) reviewed Original Lager from Berghoff Brewery, Inc. 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Bottle. Pours golden with an average white head. I enjoy most Huber products, but was actually quite disappointed with this one. Really not much flavor or body here.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Pour is yellow with a white head. Aroma is a nothing. Flavor is almost next to nothing as well. If you want a lager that is close to a BMC lager but w/o drinking a BMC this is for you.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
I can’t believe I’m coming back to re-rate and upgrade this one, but my previous 0.9 seems inaccurate based on the beer I had last night - the metallic and sulfur notes I previously detected were 100% absent. I found this an interesting session lager, almost pre-proh in approach...certainly the beer’s been around since then, although who knows how the recipe has changed. The aroma featured a tingle of spicy hops. Flavor was clean and easy, with mild hop flavor, and mild hop bittering in the finish. Smooth, and not entirely watery. Light golden color with a nice big pure white foamy, almot creamy head.
JK (8181) reviewed Original Lager from Berghoff Brewery, Inc. 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Some malt and hop flavor. Gold with a lacing head. Far better than average for the style.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottled. Original rating; 7/30/04. Slightly offputting, yet there’s some attraction to it. There’s nice golden pour, certainly darker than any mega-lager. There’s minimal bubbling under a thin head. Taste seems a bit "old-timey;" I would have guessed a pre-Prohibition lager with minimal adjunct, but their website doesn’t suggest this. The site also says they’re now using Spalt and Tettnang hops instead of "domestic." At 20 IBU’s, twice that of their pilsner, I can taste it. This is a beer that wants to be liked, but it demands an attitude adjustment by the drinker.
New rating; June 7, 07. Had a bottle with lunch at the Berghoff Café on my birthday today. Maybe it’s because it was a hot day, but I feel much better about this. I did remember not liking it as much 3 years ago, but things have improved (new brewery ownership? Who knows). The yeasty bite (or was that iron in the brew water) is gone. Color tends closer to a pils than before. And a nicer balance with appropriate hops makes this a much more refreshing beer. Slightly dry finish, went well with a BBQ pulled pork sandwich. So yeah, I’ve notched my rating up a few tenths from 2.6, and happily, too.