Minnesota Trip Beer #108. Keg at Muddy Waters, Minneapolis, 5/10/16. Clear golden, large creamy white head, good retention. Aroma of pale malt, corn, mild toasted malt. The taste is corn and grassy hop. Medium bodied, crisp, mild lingering bitterness.

Minnesota Trip Beer #17. Bottle at Scuzzy’s, 5/7/16. Clear very pale golden. Aroma of corn and grain. The taste is grain, corn, grassy ops. Thin bodied.

Bottle: Clear, dark amber with a short, off-white head. Caramel and light cola scent. Taste is pretty much the same....a little metallic bitter. Nothing memorable, but nothing offensive either.....OK.

On tap at City Works. Pours a clear deep amber with a ruby hue and a pink head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has tons of sweet blueberry with a bit of light grains underlying. Flavor is similar with lots of sweet blueberry and not much else.

Bottle. Caramel malt and hay aroma. Amber with large head. Moderately sweet caramel malt and moderately bitter dry grass flavor. Decent body. Solid standard beer.

Can. Milky barley malt and straw aroma. Golden yellow with moderate head. Mildly sweet barley malt and mildly bitter straw flavor. Nice body. A great pale lager.

On tap at Stanley’s. Pouts a clear gold with a white head that dissipates slowly to the edges and laces. Aroma has lots of straw and hay with a bit of sweet grains and grass supporting. Flavor has a combination of grass and straw with some bread and hay underlying.

This is the best of the three current Grainbelt beers, with the others being far too sweet. Familiar Grainbelt aroma with less sugar. Surprising amount of hops in the aroma as well. Quite dry, considering its provenance. A dry, bitter, hop bite and some grain, and I am reminded of sipping Blatz from my grandfather’s glass 30 years ago. I really like how dry this beer is in the flavor and palate. Looks good, yellow color and a tall, thick head that lasts and laces the glass.

Purple foam, and purple beer. Served cold, a little ice in the first few sips. Sweet with blueberry, and lots of blueberry flsvor. The sweetness of Grain belt works well with the fruit. Lasting purple head. Surprisingly good. They could can this beer and compete with the fruit beer market. Much better than their radler or gose. --- Beer merged from original tick of Blu on 20 Sep 2018 at 18:16 - Score: 7