Fisgard 150 Bavarian Lager
Lighthouse Brewing Company
- From:
- Lighthouse Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Helles
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 80
- Avg:
- 3.4 | pDev: 10.88%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 8
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 08, 2014
- Added:
- Mar 22, 2010
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
80
Good
80
Good
Fisgard 150 Bavarian Lager is a traditional Bavarian style lager that is renowned for its crisp dry first impression and refreshing mild hop finish. This beer features an imported yeast strain, premium malts and noble hops in keeping with the authentic Bavarian style. The extended conditioning period gives Fisgard 150 an extremely smooth mouth feel, while the imported pilsen malts create the exceptionally bright, clean, colour characteristic.
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Reviewed by CalgaryFMC from Canada (AB)
3.8/5 rDev +11.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.8/5 rDev +11.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Bottle poured into a tulip glass. Straw yellow just grading into golden amber, with an inch of bright white head composed of rather large bubbles. Notably sweet aroma, corn flakes, candied lemon, and perhaps a hint of tropical fruit, anchored firmly in malt territory but with a fine hop aroma as well, noble with a few American twists. Palate is similarly fine and refined if a tad sweet, ample hay-like noble hops floating on top of a bread-like gentle maltiness. Considerable residual sweetness, perhaps more than is desirable for the style but I am currently alright with this relative lack of cleanliness. Lacks crispness but delivers a good flavor. Some fruity and floral/green echoes, berry, licorice, mixed herbs, pumpkin? Thick-bodied for the style as well, has a little chew and finishes herbal yet sweet. Not sure why this brew ranks so low here; I think it exceeds an "okay" estimation but whatever. I have highlighted the potential flaws here as well as the significant upside.
Jul 01, 2014
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.58/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.25
3.58/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.25
355ml bottle, a single broken free from its mixed-pack shackles.
This beer pours a crystal clear, pale golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, bubbly, shiny off-white head, which leaves some sparse low-lying cloud lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of grainy, corny cereal malt, a hint of lemon cleanser, and sharp grassy, weedy hops. The taste is more warm flecked corn, a bit of pale malt, mild overripe lemon rind, a hard water minerality, and leafy, somewhat floral hops.
The carbonation is fairly quiet in its goings about, the body a decent medium weight for the style, and really rather smooth. It finishes off-dry, the cereal malt and wet flint notes carrying on.
An adequate enough example of a heartier lager, one without the alcohol uptick, yet with a few minor rough edges. While a fair deal preferable to the macro lagers of the land, it pales somewhat against the more readily available and consistent all-malt craft lagers. Worthy to try, but I'm not particularly motivated to revisit this.
Mar 16, 2013This beer pours a crystal clear, pale golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, bubbly, shiny off-white head, which leaves some sparse low-lying cloud lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of grainy, corny cereal malt, a hint of lemon cleanser, and sharp grassy, weedy hops. The taste is more warm flecked corn, a bit of pale malt, mild overripe lemon rind, a hard water minerality, and leafy, somewhat floral hops.
The carbonation is fairly quiet in its goings about, the body a decent medium weight for the style, and really rather smooth. It finishes off-dry, the cereal malt and wet flint notes carrying on.
An adequate enough example of a heartier lager, one without the alcohol uptick, yet with a few minor rough edges. While a fair deal preferable to the macro lagers of the land, it pales somewhat against the more readily available and consistent all-malt craft lagers. Worthy to try, but I'm not particularly motivated to revisit this.
Reviewed by joemcgrath27 from Canada (AB)
3.08/5 rDev -9.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.08/5 rDev -9.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
A - light straw yellow, stark white head with decent volume retained decent with a constant stream of carbonation from the bottom
S - corn adjunct, crackers, hints of leafiness, fairly basic
T - much like the aroma, with a touch of mineral/metallic, mild flavours, again fairly basic
M - crisp and clean, strong carbonation, slightly bitter and dry
O - better than a run of the mill macro, but in that same vein, easy drinking with a slice of pizza, probably not worth picking up outside of a mixer pack
Apr 05, 2012S - corn adjunct, crackers, hints of leafiness, fairly basic
T - much like the aroma, with a touch of mineral/metallic, mild flavours, again fairly basic
M - crisp and clean, strong carbonation, slightly bitter and dry
O - better than a run of the mill macro, but in that same vein, easy drinking with a slice of pizza, probably not worth picking up outside of a mixer pack
Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)
3.05/5 rDev -10.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.05/5 rDev -10.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
355ml bottle poured into pint glass 29/1/12
A clear golden yellow with a two finger head that falls quickly leaving no lace
S floral and grassy with some soggy corn flakes and cracker
T some lemon to go with what I smell, nothing special here, has a slightly sour flavor that leaves a little too be desired
M a little thin but has a little snap too it and a clean finish
O better then our macros but this one just didn't do it for me, that slightly sour lemony cornflake is bringing it down to average
I'm hoping there's better offerings in my mixed 12 pack because this ones pretty basic
Jan 31, 2012A clear golden yellow with a two finger head that falls quickly leaving no lace
S floral and grassy with some soggy corn flakes and cracker
T some lemon to go with what I smell, nothing special here, has a slightly sour flavor that leaves a little too be desired
M a little thin but has a little snap too it and a clean finish
O better then our macros but this one just didn't do it for me, that slightly sour lemony cornflake is bringing it down to average
I'm hoping there's better offerings in my mixed 12 pack because this ones pretty basic
Reviewed by Derek from Canada (BC)
3.15/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.15/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
A light floral & grassy aroma with a slight hint of sulfur. Same with the taste, it's nice that the lager yeast isn't too neutral. The bitterness is very mild, allowing a bit of residual sweetness to come through (I'd certainly prefer a little more bitterness). Light to moderate body, off-dry finish. Certainly preferable to many macro's, and the restrained bitterness may appeal to that market... I just like a little more bitterness & flavour in a brew.
Jun 05, 2011
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