Kodiak Ridge Light
World Brews

 

355ml can, a single from the local Liquor Stores N.A. Ltd., AKA Liquor Barn, Liquor Depot, Wine & Beyond, whatevs. This is obviously contract brewed by Genesee in Rochester, NY, but you'd think it was a bloody state secret or something, the way nobody knows anything around here about it.

This beer pours a super-pale straw colour, with a ton of puffy, thinly foamy off-white head, which leaves a few amoebic specks of lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.

It smells of grainy corn grist - moderately stewed - a metallic, plastic industrial complex essence, some drowned pithy apple fruitiness, and a drying musty, um, hoppiness, I suppose. Nah. The taste is hard well water, a consistent plastic wrap chemical 'character', some faint corny huskiness, and the same indistinct, unholy drying notes from the nose.

The bubbles are a tad active, but nowhere near supportive enough, the body a thin, diluted lightweight, and sort of, kind of, LCD smooth. It finishes barely off-dry, the amount of malt in this 97-pound weakling of a beer hardly able to sustain noticeability, let alone actually render effect on the end game. The latent weedy-ish hops, and the lingering industrial run-off can lay claim to that feat. Hah - 'Feet'! I kill me.

A weak, unappealing, pandering to the pork rind masses beer - not even worthy of apprentice lawn-mowing status. At least Coors Light tastes like nothing; this just had to go for less than zero.