Urban Underdog
Urban Chestnut Brewing Company - Midtown Brewery & Biergarten

 

Typical american lager, but with a smoother finish, and not that garbageish after taste some beers like Pabst give you. This would be a great refreshing beer on a warm summer day. One of the smoothest american lagers I have tried for sure. Pretty simple to the palate. The taste is so mild that even a person that's not really into beers (not me :D) would still like. The beer flavour isn't overwhelming like some.

 

 

 

Had a couple pints for the reasonable price of $6 a piece at Hendel’s in the (somewhat) historic neighborhood of Florissant in St. Louis. A very approachable APA with a fruity hop flavor and smooth, slightly bitter feel with a faintly funky yeast in the finish. Well-balanced with plenty of malt. These hoppy beers are always an experience after being in Germany drinking traditional lager styles.

Note: the can currently used as the photo is for their Underdog lager as this one should be a black can with a white font.

16oz can dated "23-10-13" and poured into a tall Becker shows a bright, clear yellow-gold body and supports a 1.5" proud head of mixed white bubbles that falls to a persistent 1/4" cap and leaves copious webbed lacing.

Complex aroma includes grass, honey, crackery malt, and floral notes.

Flavor matches and leans sweet, especially so with the nearly creamy feel, yet the floral hops keep it in check.

As for mouthfeel, I expect a bit more crispness, bite in a lager. This is too smooth and as I noted, nearly creamy. The finish is wet but not sticky, leaving a clean palate.

Overall a very nice lager.

16oz can pours a rich golden yellow color with a substantial amount of fizzy white-colored head that fades down to a still thick but much reduced layer on top while leaving chunky lacing. Smells of adjuncts, pale malts, a bit of hops, a bit of apple. Light malt flavor with an unmistakable corn flavor, a light apple note, and a strange and funky hop flavor that has a very unpleasant herbal-grass-earth note about it that rounds out the flavor very offensively. Light to medium body with a small bitterness and a moderately bubbly but still fairly smooth carbonation mouthfeel. Feels crisp before the hops and more creamy at the finish.

This was an OK American Lager, but it's not very unique or notable, and the strange and unpleasant hop flavor really brings it down. Won't buy again.

 

 

Pours an effervescent straw color with 2+ fingers of fluffed up eggshell colored head. Traces of head retention & lacing

S: Traces of citrus & grassyness, sweet grainy notes once warm

T: Lime, grassyness, some soft sweet grainy/cereal notes & dryness up front. Dryness, grassyness & just a touch of sweetness as this beer warms up, just a kiss of lime. Finishes dry, a little sweet & a touch of lemon

MF: Light/medium body, delicate carbonation. Skews a little sweet & the body is a little too thin for me

Was hoping for more better, the sweetness & lack of body, just don't quite do it for me. I'd just a soon have a Bud Light

Pours a clear light golden color with a sudsy white head, grass and cracker notes with a nice dollop of lemon dominate the nose.

The grassy and lemon flavors are forward on the taste and delicious, with the cracker flavor at the back of the palate, and a medium, crisp mouthfeel. Really good beer.