Cult Lager
BrewDog

Coming in a slim, 330ml brown bottle, Batch 140, BB 21/08/09; served chilled in a straight pint glass. The ingredients, as opposed to mass-produced lager that this beer sets itself to differentiate from, contain 100% malt and whole leaf hops.

A: dark straw in colour with a moderately lingering pillowy white froth and rather light carbonation with big bubble at play.
S: rather sharp in the sour-sweet deparment, almost like the brewery's other lager product, Hop Rocker, for the unbalanced note b/w hops and the sweet side of aroma. Granted, the sweet lemony notes and nectar-ish sourness are pretty decent, like a real lager, and traces of apricots and floral hops stay loyally behind the façade... but overall the balance is not quite right, maybe under the influence of yeastiness?
T: sweet lemony, semi-flowery and juicy-fruity upfront (like US+German hops), against a clean but decent backbone of very pale malts (with a touch of water biscuits)... then a dry-ish bitterness with a fine aroma of crushed tangerine seeds and apricots manifests itself elegantly in the aftertaste, offering much bitterness across the palate to render a tangy, chewy and more-ish finish.
M&D: softly carbonated while remaining a refreshing palate, this medium-bodied lager is pretty aromatic and bitter indeed. Judging by the balance b/w malts and hops, it's more like a German than Czech pilsner, but added with a bit more fruitiness and ale-like profile of hop bitterness (not so clean, that is) like the modern British golden bitter. Despite the unbalanced aroma, the flavour proves that this is a decent, and quaffable, brew in its own right. Much more successful than its sister product, Hop Rocker, IMO!