Northern Monk Brew Co. Great Northern Lager

Great Northern Lager

 

Northern Monk Brew Co. in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Lager - Premium Regular
Score
6.74
ABV: 4.3% IBU: - Ticks: 20
We love our big juicy IPAs and impy stouts, however, sometimes what you want is simplicity. We’ve been brewing lagers in Patrons and at our Refectory for a while now – we’ve taken everything we have learnt, continuing to tweak the recipes until we were confident of brewing a really good lager, coming in at a sessionable 4.3%. Bamsberg pilsner malt and Saaz hops bring a distinct clean character to this pilsner-style lager, with additions of wheat rounding out the mouthfeel
 

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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Backlog. Golden colour with a mediumsized white foamy head, which leaves some lace. Aroma is crisp bready malts with some herbal, grassy and mild floral tones to it. Flavour is citrus, some mild floral tones with some bready, biscuity and mild herbal tones too.

Tried from Can on 26 Oct 2025 at 11:54


On keg at the Hanging Bat.
Appearance - pale yellow and clear. Thin white head.
Nose - bitter salad and corn with light bread.
Taste - more of the same.
Palate - light bodied, dry finish.
Overall - good representation ot the style.

Tried from Draft at Hanging Bat Beer Cafe on 14 Jul 2025 at 21:09


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can from Beer52. Lighted misted gold with small well formed white top. A floral, sweet spice and grained aroma; promising. Taste of lager malts, peach, and a nice bitter floral and lemon rind bite with hint of spice. Light bodied but far from watery, moderate soft carbonation. Top lager.

Tried from Can on 02 Jan 2025 at 03:09


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tap at FOB, Rimini, Italy. Pours golden, fairly transparent, with fine white foam. Aroma is weak of cereal. Body and carbonation are average. Taste is very moderately bitter. Final is average.

Tried from Draft on 23 May 2024 at 21:35


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

330ml can, via Beer52: BB 13th June 2024. Drank at my parents on 27th December 2023. Mini-haze to the golden body, snow white crown. Dry and fairly 'harsh' in nature, some malt action but mainly a feeling of dry hops.

Tried from Can on 27 Dec 2023 at 19:52


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5

Keg @ Northern Monk Refectory, Manchester. Golden with a strong lager nose and a crisp taste.

Tried on 19 Mar 2022 at 07:32


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

440mml. can. @"home", 07/11/2020
[#3.622 Global - #420 England - #24 Northern Monk]
Clear pale golden colour with a medium lasting off-white head. Aroma is cereal grains and light straw. Taste is bready malts, light lemon and hay. Clean soft sweet finish. Quite drinkable but bad value.
Next one please!

Tried from Can on 07 Nov 2020 at 11:16


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Can 440ml (KSM Kampus, BB 18/12/20)
Clear golden colour, small white head. Grainy aroma has mild citrus. Light-bodied. Quite neutral malty flavour, light fruityness, citrus. Clean but not very exiciting lager.

Tried from Can on 30 Jul 2020 at 18:28


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

440ml can shared with Finn at Agenturet Øl og Vinbar. Misty yellow-golden body, crocheted lacing from a stable white head. Moderate malt-fruity aromas, bread and mid-sweet lemon. The taste profile follows suit with grain, lemon and a bite of mild peaches. Rounded semi-sweet malt-fruity ending. Satisfying. (Tromsø 27.07.2020).

Tried from Can on 28 Jul 2020 at 07:21


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Spandert av Rune. Delt. Gylden. Lavt skum. Blir film. Metallisk humlearoma. Smaken gress & malt. Myk munnfølelse. Lett tørr avslutning.

Tried on 27 Jul 2020 at 13:29