6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle - Light corn. Light gold with a small white head. Pale sweet corn notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2015
at 23:54
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle shared late night in the hotel lobby during RBWG 2015. Pours crystal clear pale yellow, with a creamy white head. Basic cereal and pale malt aroma. Medium sweet flavor, further sugary pale malts, cereal, hay. Light bodied with average carbonation. Simplistic cereal finish, mellow hay, white bread.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2015
at 23:53
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
There’s no arguing over the name here, this beer is definitely amber. I didn’t realize it was a Melanie beer when I bought, otherwise I might have thought twice. Nose is light caramel, toasty malts, grainy. Flavor similar, light malts, sweetish, peppery and herbal hop just barely present. A solid meh.
Tried
on 24 Jan 2015
at 15:06
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Clear light amber color with a light khaki head and average retention. Good lacing. Pretty light caramel taste for an amber but a very good smooth pale lager. Very sessionable.
Tried
on 26 Oct 2014
at 14:31
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Drank directly from a twist off bottle made in Latrobe. A little better than the regular version. Some detectable tartness in the background but just barely. Does have some of that old lager feel to it, you know, like a one year old case of cheap beer. Melanie shure has a nak for picking patriotic names, think defenders, heheh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2013
at 14:30
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
My bottle ws brewed over at the old rolling rock plant., right down the road. Difficult from the start. Twist off bottle pours dark yellow. Thin white head. This is probably more like a premium lager. Old alarming lager aroma. Looks pretty good now that it settled. Ooooooo, quite strong impressions initially. I was hoping for something a little better behaved. Slight wierd tartness at least gives it an interest. Finish is poorly made old cheap ice lager. I really want to like this but it reminds me of their defender series of beers. Just yur run of the mill rude cheap beer. Difficult metallic thing going on that is quite hard to get used to. Add this to another of those city brewing rude beers. They have plenty IMHO.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2013
at 11:42
3.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
12 ounce bottle from House of 1000 Beers, New Kensington. Pours a clear amber color with a thin white head. Fair head retention. Cereal grain aroma, some toast and faint hops. The taste is grainy malts, grassy hops, mild toast/ Thin bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2013
at 16:40
3/10
Tried
on 02 Apr 2013
at 06:15
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Chicken Chucks. Listed as being made in Latrobe. A clean crisp pale ale ish beer with smooth biscuit and caramel, light floral hops, quite easy and clean.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2012
at 21:06
3.6/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 5.5
A standard yellow lager with some malt and minimal flavor. Not much going on. The palate is actually not bad, and it is drinkable enough. The rep said they donate 1/2 of their profits to military families, so I like that.
Tried
on 21 May 2012
at 18:40