Spencer Brewery Vienna-Style Lager

Vienna-Style Lager

 

Spencer Brewery in Spencer, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

  Lager - Amber / Vienna Regular Out of Production
Score
7.03
ABV: 5.5% IBU: - Ticks: 3
An authentic Vienna Lager, with characteristic red-amber hues, moderate carbonation, delicate malt notes and complex toastiness, this Spencer closes with a dry, crisp finish.
 

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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Pretty good Vienna lager. Has a malty toasty character but a touch crisp in carbonation and thin in body. Still pretty good stuff.

Tried on 24 Jul 2022 at 01:30


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

One of the newest Spencers to date, from the most adventurous trappist brewery so far in terms of beer styles - this one representing a Wiener, the original amber lager style, in a kind of 'downtuned' form compared with their Festive Lager. Eggshell-white, mousy and frothy, bubbly, lightly membrane-lacing head on a misty orangey to even amberish peach blonde robe. Aroma of hard caramel candy, cold tea and tea bags, lightly smoky phenols even comparable with (unsmoked) cigarette shag, bread crust, dried apricot, minerals, touch of dried orange peel. Sweetish onset with restrained fruity notes (apricot, apple peel) but very subtly so, medium fizz with light minerally effects, smooth and lightly glueish mouthfeel; peanutty and hard-caramelly malts, subduedly sweetish with a very light toasty-bitterish edge, retronasal smoky phenolic accents again, light herbal hop bitterishness in the end, dryish. Hoppier and more phenolic than a classic Wiener, this is in fact an American style amber lager, very akin to Samuel Adams' Boston Lager (one of the great 'catalysts' of the craft beer movement) or Brooklyn Lager. No flaws here, but I found the Festive Lager a little bit more convincing and original due to its - for the style - higher ABV.

Tried from Can on 11 Jun 2019 at 18:59


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Spencer Vienna Lager (by Spencer Brewery):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5

7/VI/19 - 12Fl. Oz. bottle @ Belgian Ticks Tasting, home, BB: VIII/30/19 - (2019-818) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Clear orange beer, small irregular off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: caramel, bit sweet, malty, grains, hay, some banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, pretty bitter, hoppy, caramel, grains. Aftertaste: more bitter, slightly sweet, caramel touch, bit smoky, fruity touch, nice.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jun 2019 at 22:03