Logger Road
Baxter Brewing Co.

this is a beer that exists

 

 

One of those boutique light beers. Bready, light bitterness, and pretty dry. It DOES taste better than Bud Light et al, but I guess the main point of redundancy here is whether or not you're willing to find it and pay extra for a light beer that tastes maybe 30% better than cheaper and completely ubiquitous light beer. Putting that aside, it's good. Very low abv. You're more likely to get a buzz from swishing mouthwash.

 

Poured from the can into a Libbey style pilsner glass.

Nearly mirror like finish of dark brass color. Just the faintest and quietest of looking amounts of carbonation, with barely a whisper and the occasional slow rising bubble. Big wonderfully even bright white head of three fingers, settles slowly to a tall crowned bubbled collar with some pill leftover lacing. Real nice looking lager.

Sticky malt sensation on the nose, and a bit of pasty like yeast flavor hinted. The aroma has a bit of sweetness but lacks some of the bready and hinted clean and crisp character one could expect. Maybe even hints a little buttery sensing too.

Palate seems to indicate no big surprises. Very light bodied, but somewhat expected for such a low abv. Still there is a modicum of decent flavor here. Light packages of soft pils like dough malt, but not much crisp or hinting herbal flavor. Finishes sticky and slightly pasty, but hinted sweetness is much more dialed down nicely than hinted from the aroma. Clean but also fleeting, on the palate for the aftertaste also.

Very drinkable but almost disappears too quickly in flavor, and has a hard time maintaining a profile. Doesn't quite hit solid flavors of other lighter styles like say milds, but certainly holds it's own. Probably the most sessionable American lager I have had, just lacks a little bit but not terribly.

 

 

 

Nice beer that delivers. Overall, quite satisfying. For a light beer, I could see drinking this after mowing the lawn, no problem. It needs needs to be drunk in the sun!

The beer pours as you would expect for a pale lager. Sparkling clear, half inch of white foam that dies down to a remnant ring.

Smells faintly of bread, slightly grassy hops with a touch of citrus, and corn.

Taste is the same as the smell, and there is a definite corn taste. It is actually a little sweet, very little bitterness. It feels a little heavy for the style and it isn't in the watery category.

It is an OK beer, basically being a low alcohol AAL, and it checks the boxes for what it is. Drinkable, nothing to really seek out, but at a cookout nobody would be upset at having an icy cooler full of this beer versus others in the category.

Tastes like a miller. Could easily put down 30

 

From an undated 12 oz. can. Sampled on July 14, 2020.

As far as pale lagers go, it looks like it should with its straw yellow appearance, bold white head, and fine clarity. Lots of bubbly carbonation.

The aroma emits sensations of white bread, barley grain, maybe some lemon grass, or grass in general.

The mouthfeel is light but smooth. Feels heavier than light.

Sweet bready taste sums it up with a little grassy hop finish that is also semi-dry and fairly clean.

Pours a medium yellow with a 1 finger head, smells like corn and grain with a very slight smell of malt. Tastes smooth and light with a minor malt aftertaste and finishes very clean.

A: Pours a pale yellow color with 2 fingers of head that fades down to a thin cap

S: Cereal grains, light bready malt, and corn

T: Follows the nose. Starts off with a mix of the grains, bready malt, and corn. Some very light fruitiness in there as well. Finishes with lingering grain and bread

M: Light bodied with moderate carbonation

O: Plenty of flavor for this light lager, and super easy to drink. It is what it is, but much better than your typical water beer