12oz bottle pours clear gold with near white head. The aroma offers up lagery notes, grainy malts and sugary sweet maltiness. The taste has plenty of firm grainy malts and sweet malts and then it rolls into sugary sweet lagery yeastiness as well as faint spicy hops. They claim on the label all the extra hopping they put into this yet I’m not really smelling or tasting much of any hoppiness. What?

Clear golden pour with a medium thin and fizzy white head that burns away quickly. Spotty lacing on the glass. Grainy malt and faint hops in the nose. Light body with flavors of cereal malt, mild hops and a bit of corn. The finish is mildly bitter with a grassy hops aftertaste. Nothing memorable overall.

24oz can picked up in Montana
Appearance: Clear golden with a small white head and spotty lacing
Aroma: Malts, cereal and honey
Taste: Lager malts, yeast and herbal
Decent

I find it amusing how reading through some of the ratings people had high expectations for this pale lager solely for the reason its being brewed by a micro brewer, only to be let down by the fact its still a pale lager. If anything, I was biased the other way. In fact I distinctly remember when my coworker brought this back from Whitefish thinking ‘Oh, cool a friggin pale lager. Of all the other things he could have picked, why oh why did he pick the pale lager?’ Nevertheless I had six chances to come up with something to type up. With a deep golden color that is bright and clear, a fluffy white head sits atop for only a minute or two. Aroma is more or less light floral hops and some lager malt, no real surprises here. Taste is clean and crisp, hops and lager malt. No grain or grassiness, no metallic twang. Not what I’d order on a regular basis, but if you’re comparing to style the 90th percentile is just.

12 oz can into Sam Adams lager glass. Now this beer brings back some memories. Haven’t seen this around since the early 2000s. Pours clear gold with a large white head with great retention. Aromas include creamed corn, cereal grain, SweeTarts, sour cherry jam. Taste is sweet and grainy and a bit salty. Carbonation is high, body is light. Has a bit of a tart finish. Bland, but not as bland as most of these types of beers.

Bottle. Pured honey gold with medium white head. Full aroma of malt and hay. Rather thin body, with a little maltiness, a little honey and a little hop in the flavour. Not much finish a little bitterness but more old tapwater.

Can from Whole Foods in Sacramento, CA. Pours darkish gold with a 4 finger foamy white head. Aromas of pale malt and noble hop. Near medium body with mild carbonation. It is fresh. Sorta refreshing. Unfortunately it goes slightly paperish. And there is arguably an unusual amount of hop, but it could use a lot more. Nothing particulary disgusting about it though. Damned with faint praise.