Del Mar St. Export Lager
Left Coast Brewing Company in San Clemente, California, United States 🇺🇸
Lager Regular|
Score
6.01
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
12 fl.oz. bottle. Pours clear golden colour with a mid-sized white head. Aroma of pale malt, straw, mild hops. Taste of pale malt, grains, mild hops, metallic hops, boring!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Clear golden body with a short-lived head. Low carbonation. Very little lacing. Aroma of cereal, earth and lemon. Flavour of sweetcorn, lemon biscuits and a touch of honey. Thin body with a watery texture. Light fizz. Clean and easy drinking.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle into lager glass, no bottle dating. Pours fairly crystal clear bright golden yellow color with a small dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of cracker, biscuit, light honey, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance of bready malt and earthy hop notes; with good strength. Taste of cracker, biscuit, light honey, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/spicy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of cracker, biscuit, light honey, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness and balance of bready malt and earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Very clean on lager flavors with minimal yeast ester notes present. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, fairly crisp, and lightly creamy/bready/sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish as expected of 5%. Overall this is a very nice Dortmunder lager style. All around good robustness and balance of bready malt and earthy hop flavors; and very smooth, crisp, and clean to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Total Wine in Huntington Beach. Pours light gold with a fizzy white head. Aroma is bready with a touch of grassy/spicy. Near med body. Flavor is bready with some interesting grass and spice bits. Not the typical Helles hop impact. Not more. Just seems more complicated. Good for the style.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Location: 12 oz bottle from State Line, 1/11/15
Aroma: The nose is sweet malts and corn, apple juice, some grainy malts, and a little yeast
Appearance: A clear yellow-golden beer with a small, fizzy head and basically no lacing
Flavor: Taste-wise, it is rather sweet, almost unpleasantly so, lacking balance
Palate: This one has a somewhat cloying feel, with a lively carbonation, and a rather sticky finish
Overall Impression: Weirdly, it seems like no one east of the Mississippi has rated this before me. Anyway, I found this to be fairly poor. At best this is just an okay overly sweet lager. For me though, it is too sweet, and has too much of a corn/adjunct flavor.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12oz bottle pours with a near clear gold body that supports a thin off white head. The aroma offers up sugary sweet malts, a nice little graininess and then a thin vague citrus note. The taste delivers a good dose of sweet malty breadiness where there’s a thin vague mildly tart citrus attempting to balance out the sweetness (but failing). Behind those notes lurks some sweet lagery fruity esters that pushes this sweet beer even sweeter unfortunately.