Bohemian Rebirth
Melvin Brewing

Draft at Brewers Haven. About where I expected. A solid keller with a hoppy tinge. Almost clear, golden, small soft head. Smooth lager fell and taste with a hoppy edge. Smooth, crisp. Slick feel and tasty. Nice!

Brought back from Wyoming, Summer '21. Pours a bright yellow with light cloudiness. Massive luscious 1.5" white head, frothy, big in size and retention. Very well done.

The aroma was a light lager yeast but ample hopping. Not really pulling anything, was hoping for like a pilsner malt apparent, but whateva. Its still there, but the hops (Strata and Amarillo) are just pounding away and obscuring it. Has like a lemon apricot like weed strain smell to it.

Taste brought more of the lager yeast sensation up in here. Enjoying it. Still think the Strata hop is the most noticeable thing. Bitterness is in that 50ibu mouth feel range. Snazzy. Lightly toasted Vienna and Pilsner malt peeks it head out, this isn't just an IPL, its getting those L notes out there later on. Good carbonation.

If I could get this beer more often, I would drink it more often. Rare style ran through proprietary hops and it is a pretty good beer at the end of the day, another winner for Melvin.

Canned February 24th 2021.

Pours a lightly hazy straw yellow with a head of foam that just won't quit.

The smell is tropical fruit, grapefruit, toasted malt, more hoppy than malty.

The taste does have some assertive toasted malt, less presence of tropical fruit, almost none. Kind of a lemon almost tart note or two. Especially in the aftertaste.

Good mouthfeel, very flavourful Lager indeed. I do wish that the malt trumped the hops though. Or maybe a little more delicatecy was shot for.

a new one from melvin, they dont get enough credit for their lagers, solid across the board and often quite unique, including this one. the menu where i had it called it a keller type, but it was not really unfiltered looking to me, maybe a little off perfectly clear but super light and bright in the glass, and with a tall and lacy white head too, very attractive brew. its definitely insanely modern, which is not what the keller language calls to mind for me, but this is more of an india pale lager type, liberally dry hopped, juicy and a little bitter at the same time, and with much less of a contribution from the yeast and from the grain than is common in a more old world style lager, filtered or not. the hop profile is what makes this, it starts of sort of pure lemony to me, without acid or bitterness, and then moves floral like a blooming fruit tree in spring, then to a phase thats sort of plummy, ripe apricot too there, and then finally more of a grassy almost noble profile, but delicate with a white tea vibe and a return to soft citrus, a wild trajectory in a sort of mellow voice, but it definitely defines this beer for me. i even get little pops of green gooseberry, coconut flesh, and slate minerality, its wildly interesting but not super pungent, which is a neat way to have it, especially in a clean and light lager base like this. i definitely taste some lager yeast but its far from a leading note here, it cleans this up well through and combined with some hop bitterness makes the finish rather brisk. at first i was a little surprised by this, not at all what i was expecting, but i loved it once i got into it as accepted it as a very modern take on the style. id love to know what hops are used here, seems wholly unique to my palate. of a wonderfully high quality overall and right on for spring weather, bravo!