Road Trip Classic Lager
Red Truck Beer Company Ltd.

A very thin head. Crisp very pale lager. Ice cold perfect to down in 1.5 minutes after mowing the lawn. Price point on sale is very attractive . Probably best to avoid unless it's free. But still much better than no beer.

 

almost looks unfiltered, smells minerally/metallic, tastes clean but bland with a hint of that banana flavour that you taste in some wheat beers, bitter aftertaste.

 

355ml can, part of their summer 2021 'Adventure Pack' mixer, and also sold on its own. Man, a road trip seems like a fantastic idea now, but, alas, we're all working towards that, to different degrees, right?

This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with one finger of weakly puffy, loosely foamy, and kind of fizzy dirty white head, which leaves pretty much nil in terms of lace anywhere near the glass as it rapidly evaporates.

It smells of grainy and crackery cereal malt, a hint of feline urine, some hard water flintiness, and very tame earthy, herbal, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and bready pale malt, ethereal citrus peel, faint petrol, a damp minerality, and more understated leafy, weedy, and musky herbal hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight, and generally smooth, with nothing spoiling the ongoing party, as such. It finishes trending dry, like the good little old-school lager that this purports to emulate.

Overall - well, not a bad effort, with the German and Czech hops lending an extra bit of credibility to this whole affair. Actually kind of crisp and refreshing, which is the exact salve I require at the moment, so, to that, I say Prost! Or Na Zdravi!