MacLean's Grapefruit Lager
MacLean's Beer
- From:
- MacLean's Beer
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Light Lager
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.52 | pDev: 2.56%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 16, 2022
- Added:
- Jun 08, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.43/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.43/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
473 mL can from the LCBO; best before Dec 23 2022 and served slightly chilled.
Pours a crystal clear light golden colour, producing an inch of fluffy, soapy white head that lingers for the better part of five minutes. A frothy collar lives on, surrounding some filmy wisps on the surface; a modest smattering of lace is also deposited. Not a lot of effervescence. Grapefruit candy, specifically pink Jolly Rancher on the nose, with suggestions of grainy pale malts, doughiness and maybe a faint murmur of actual grapefruit juice.
It's plain, but inoffensive and undeniably thirst-quenching. Faint grapefruit candy tanginess right off the hop, followed by grainy pale malts and some (very light) grapefruit peel bitterness by mid-sip. Suggestions of grain husk at the finish, with light grapefruit peel/oil bitterness that quickly fades, leaving a clean aftertaste behind. Light in body, with moderately low, fine-bubbled carbonation that softly prickles the tongue, contributing to its smooth, refreshing mouthfeel. Effortlessly easy to toss back.
Final Grade: 3.43, a B-. One thing I'd suggest is that you don't go into MacLean's Grapefruit Lager expecting something radler-like: it isn't very juicy or sweet, and the grapefruit flavouring is clearly artificial - they mention this on the front label, but even if they hadn't bothered to do so, it's really quite obvious. That isn't inherently bad, but I just don't think it works very well here - you get the peel and candy, but none of that 'real' grapefruit juiciness, i.e. the aspect of the fruit that I really love. The underlying lager itself is nothing special, either. Worth a try if you enjoy citrusy light lagers, but probably safe to skip otherwise.
Sep 16, 2022Pours a crystal clear light golden colour, producing an inch of fluffy, soapy white head that lingers for the better part of five minutes. A frothy collar lives on, surrounding some filmy wisps on the surface; a modest smattering of lace is also deposited. Not a lot of effervescence. Grapefruit candy, specifically pink Jolly Rancher on the nose, with suggestions of grainy pale malts, doughiness and maybe a faint murmur of actual grapefruit juice.
It's plain, but inoffensive and undeniably thirst-quenching. Faint grapefruit candy tanginess right off the hop, followed by grainy pale malts and some (very light) grapefruit peel bitterness by mid-sip. Suggestions of grain husk at the finish, with light grapefruit peel/oil bitterness that quickly fades, leaving a clean aftertaste behind. Light in body, with moderately low, fine-bubbled carbonation that softly prickles the tongue, contributing to its smooth, refreshing mouthfeel. Effortlessly easy to toss back.
Final Grade: 3.43, a B-. One thing I'd suggest is that you don't go into MacLean's Grapefruit Lager expecting something radler-like: it isn't very juicy or sweet, and the grapefruit flavouring is clearly artificial - they mention this on the front label, but even if they hadn't bothered to do so, it's really quite obvious. That isn't inherently bad, but I just don't think it works very well here - you get the peel and candy, but none of that 'real' grapefruit juiciness, i.e. the aspect of the fruit that I really love. The underlying lager itself is nothing special, either. Worth a try if you enjoy citrusy light lagers, but probably safe to skip otherwise.
Reviewed by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.62/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours clear gold in colour, large white head. Not hazy like most other grapefruit beers. Very light on the grapefruit flavour on the taste and smell, likely a good thing because it’s artificial flavour (says on the can). Grainy and slightly hoppy otherwise. Not a bad beer at all actually
Aug 17 2022
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