Sankaty Light Lager
Cisco Brewers in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Premium Regular|
Score
5.90
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It is named after the famous lighthouse that has stood on a bluff on the south eastern side of Nantucket Island since 1849. Perched precariously 88 feet above the raging Atlantic Ocean, Sankaty Head Light is in danger of falling prey to beach erosion. The lighthouse is the most powerful in New England.
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9/10
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 16:52
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled. Yellowish golden colour with a mediumsized off-white head. Aroma is caramel, some apples, grapes and mild strange fruity elements. Flavour is bready, caramelly, some apple skins, grapes and mild herbal tones.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2024
at 21:58
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
12 ounce bottle. Pale yellow gold color. Small fluffy white head. Faint grainy malt nose. Flavor is light and dry with slightly bitter notes. Thin bodied with a mild citrus hop accent. Watery mouthfeel. Brief dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Nov 2016
at 19:00
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle courtesy of altonbrownd, thank you! Clear pale yellow color, fluffy white head with good retention and solid lacing. Aroma of peppery straw. Taste is lightly bitter black pepper. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Aug 2016
at 16:57
4.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottle. Lemon malt and weedy grass aroma. Golden yellow with small head. Lightly sweet lemon malt and moderately bitter herbal grass flavor. Very light body. Not much to it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Nov 2015
at 20:51
4.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle: Clear gold with a small white head. Grainy, lemon aroma. Taste is slightly bready, grassy, a bit of lemon peel....straw. Not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2015
at 11:53
3.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
Per the commercial description, no. No it’s not reminiscent of an IPA. It has a modest hop nose if at all, a bit of straw. Somewhat clean sweetish grainy flavor, no hop flavors, almost no finishing bitterness. Empty flavor. Not a watery body thankfully, and surprisingly given the low ABV. I get the vaguest hint of strawberry somehow, so maybe not so clean afterall. Anyway, it’s kind of pointless. When I want a light lager (which is mostly never), I’m not gonna pay craft beer prices for it.
Tried
on 12 Jun 2015
at 18:16
3.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2
I don’t know where this one goes wrong exactly, but it does. Thin, skunky, anemic yellow, bitter without needing to be.
Tried
on 25 Nov 2014
at 19:26
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a pilsener glass.
The appearance was a light yellow color with a decent transparency about it to allow a light carbonation seen rising in streams. There was a two finger white foamy head that dissipated within about a minute leaving some spider web lacing speckling the glass.
The smell had a light sweet corn with a slight sweet cereal.
The taste was mainly sweet through the corn and cereal, it gets a little bready in the flavor.
On the palate, this one sat pretty light and came across pretty sessionable. The carbonation was there and good for its style and to me.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good premium lager.
This was poured into a pilsener glass.
The appearance was a light yellow color with a decent transparency about it to allow a light carbonation seen rising in streams. There was a two finger white foamy head that dissipated within about a minute leaving some spider web lacing speckling the glass.
The smell had a light sweet corn with a slight sweet cereal.
The taste was mainly sweet through the corn and cereal, it gets a little bready in the flavor.
On the palate, this one sat pretty light and came across pretty sessionable. The carbonation was there and good for its style and to me.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good premium lager.
Tried
on 24 Aug 2014
at 23:52
6/10
Tried
on 06 Aug 2014
at 21:10