Forager Gluten Free Lager
Whistler Brewing Company
- From:
- Whistler Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Adjunct Lager
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.08 | pDev: 12.99%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 17, 2025
- Added:
- Feb 01, 2015
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
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BC’s first Craft Gluten Free Lager made with a grist of sorghum and rice. It’s hop forward and full of character
TECHNICAL SPECS
IBU 35 | HOPS Brave & Sterling
TECHNICAL SPECS
IBU 35 | HOPS Brave & Sterling
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by talisen-crw from Canada (ON)
3.5/5 rDev +13.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev +13.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
At my lady Pamela's house; canned and chilled, 355mL in a pint glass. From Erie Street Gastropub on Erie Street East in nearby downtown Windsor. My first gluten free beer, and my first beer from the Whistler, British Columbia brewery.
Jun 17, 2025
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.7/5 rDev -12.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.7/5 rDev -12.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
330ml bottle - a gluten-free lager, made with sorghum and rice, and named in honour of the Whistling Marmot, who likely would eat stuff just like that.
This beer pours a clear, very, very pale straw colour, after foaming up all over my god-damned table upon cap poppage - this never bodes well in a non-bottle conditioned brew. Anyways, marching on, it exhibits one measly finger of puffy, frothy, and generally bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a bit of sudsy webbed lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of stale and musty apple cider, hard water, other wan mixed orchard fruit, wet hay, and a weird floral, booze-free perfumed character. The taste is gritty, slightly grainy, and rather generic-seeming, um, 'malt', rancid apple juice, equally unpleasant bruised banana, and a strange, late-arriving spicy, leafy, and earthy hoppiness.
The bubbles are fairly active in their tight and sometimes fizzy frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and way too pithy and clammy to even begin a discussion around smoothness. It finishes off-dry, and well, just freaking off - that sour apple essence melding with some unfortunate leafy, grassy hops.
Yup, this is another G-F brew that should be returned to whence it came, i.e. taken 'round back, and dumped where they keep the sorghum. Blerg - using some sexy new and old world hops doesn't really help, as all it does is remind you what a real beer's attributes should be like, so it's nothing more than lipstick on a pig, I'm afraid.
Feb 02, 2015This beer pours a clear, very, very pale straw colour, after foaming up all over my god-damned table upon cap poppage - this never bodes well in a non-bottle conditioned brew. Anyways, marching on, it exhibits one measly finger of puffy, frothy, and generally bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a bit of sudsy webbed lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of stale and musty apple cider, hard water, other wan mixed orchard fruit, wet hay, and a weird floral, booze-free perfumed character. The taste is gritty, slightly grainy, and rather generic-seeming, um, 'malt', rancid apple juice, equally unpleasant bruised banana, and a strange, late-arriving spicy, leafy, and earthy hoppiness.
The bubbles are fairly active in their tight and sometimes fizzy frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and way too pithy and clammy to even begin a discussion around smoothness. It finishes off-dry, and well, just freaking off - that sour apple essence melding with some unfortunate leafy, grassy hops.
Yup, this is another G-F brew that should be returned to whence it came, i.e. taken 'round back, and dumped where they keep the sorghum. Blerg - using some sexy new and old world hops doesn't really help, as all it does is remind you what a real beer's attributes should be like, so it's nothing more than lipstick on a pig, I'm afraid.
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