Cooking with Buddha!

Cool bottle, bonus points. Smell - quite weak, hops. Foam - small, white, thin, watery, half watery, some bitterness, some carbonation. Apperance - clear yellow, carbonated. Taste - carbonation, weak bitterness, weak hops, weak sweetness, refreshing and easy drinking. Not bad, but nothing special, OK simple pale lager.

330 ml bottle into lager glass, bottled on 1/6/2017. Pours crystal clear pale golden yellow color with a 1 finger dense and rocky white head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light corn/pepper, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with pale malt/corn and light earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light corn/pepper, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, floral, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light corn/pepper, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Bit of skunky aromas/flavors, but not overwhelming. Nice robustness and balance of pale malt/corn and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no lingering hop astringency after the finish. Moderately crisp/clean finishing. Very clean on lager flavors, with minimal fruity/yeasty notes present. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, and fairly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.8%. Overall this a good euro pale lager. All around good robustness and balance of pale malt/corn and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. This held up pretty great considering the date. Very clean pale malts/grains, and solid earthy hop presence/balance. Not overdone on adjuncts. A nicely enjoyable offering, and well made style example.

$3.00 green cool bottle (why I bought it) from Parkhurst Wine Shop at Rainbow Hill. No freshness date and there have been issues with this shop. Pours clear golden with a soft white head. Aroma isn't bad - green grasses, light bread; reminds me of Dab, which back in the day, I enjoyed every time it "fell off the back of the truck." Flavor isn't as good as Dab, but also not bad. Green grasses, envelope glue, light corn, plain malt. Still, not bad... really.

Bottle. Light gold with a quickly dissipating white head. Aroma is grainy, skunky. Lightly sweet with a watery body. Like a Heiny Light. + for the interesting green bottle.