6.1

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

Bottle. This rating is in memory of my late dad and mostly on fond memories from long ago. My dad would bring this home from time to time. He loved this brand because it was the best of the "cheap" brands. This was the very first dark beer I ever drank. From what I remember it was bitter. Not being used to dark beers I didn’t know this was suppose to be a good thing. I do remember thinking I liked it and my friends at the time making fun of me and saying it taste like motor oil. Anyway, just a memory.

4

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Historical (80s/90s) beer collection #82 - no rating.

4.1

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

3.8

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

5.9

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

7.5

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

Caramel barley malt and hay aroma. Golden yellow with small white head. Moderately sweet caramel, corn/barley malt, and mildly bitter hay flavor. Good body. Very good - the new King of the Macros. Now if they will only distribute this outside of Michigan.

7.3

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Apple, barley malt, and grass/hay aroma. Golden yellow with large off-white head. Mildly sweet barley malt and moderately bitter grass/quinine flavor. Good body. A solid beer.

6.6

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

Perfectly clear deep amber and copper coloured body with a relatively quick-dying two centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of grass, metal, light malts, a dash of biscuits, some yeast, wheat, a more pronounced hay and coriander seed freshness with a good hit of light European hops as well, very nice and akin to many of the beers you'd find in Ceska Republica (okay, the Czech Republic). Light to perhaps barely Medium-bodied; Very strong malt component with a biscuity, grainy and very grassy flavour that hits the mark nicely and leaves a strong complexity just in terms of malts, with a light dose of sugars, mainly from caster sugar and a touch of grassy and very perfumey hops noticeable as well - very nice. Aftertaste is rich from the malts with some lighter complexities of subdued European hops with low alpha acids, mellow sugars and a dash of lager yeast notes that add to the complexity, all on a very light scale. Overall, a nice beer that hits the lager notes nicely and still leaves enough complexity to make this worth drinking, while pretending to be a beer that you packed in your suitcase from Prague, but realising it's just from the better city of Detroit (no joke at all, 100% serious) instead. I sampled this twelve fluid ounce bottle, given to me by my dad's friend, purchased from Merchant's in Dearborn, Michigan on 18-October-2016 for US$1,99 sampled at home in Washington, nearly four years later on 08-July-2020 - Thanks Phil!

7.8

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

12 ounce bottle into lager glass, bottled on 8/7/2019. Pours fairly crystal clear medium golden amber color with a 1 finger fairly dense and rocky white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, wood, peppercorn, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with bready malts and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, wood, peppercorn, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, wood, peppercorn, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great robustness and balance of bready malts and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Very clean on lager flavors with minimal fruity/yeasty notes. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness and carbonation. Medium-plus carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth and moderately bready/grainy/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.6%. Overall this is a delicious American pale lager. All around nice robustness and balance of bready malts and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Great clean pils malt showcase, with nice noble hop presence/balance for the style. Mild residual sweetness with crisp dryness. A very enjoyable offering, and impressively well made style example as expected.