Beach Chair Lager
Prince Edward Island Brewing Company

 

 

I bought a can at the beerstore in Ontario 473ml at 4.5%.
poured a yellowish golden color with a 2finger head into glass.
taste and smell is like a banana almost done fruit flavors are there but the perfect amount well balanced so not that sweet with very little bitterness
easy drinking beer and enjoyable
overall a good light lager with a hint of flavour.
cheers

 

What we have here is a nice, solid lager. I am sitting outside in the sun and sipping away as I type. It is a step up (a small step to be sure) from generic mass produced beer but it is local and deserves some love.

 

Poured from a can into a tulip. Pours lazy, yellow gold with weak collar throughout. Fruity nose really gets you in the mood for a Patio BBQ. cutesy smooth finish will suffice for a weekend nap. enjoyed on Victoria Day long weekend....even thougn it isn’t Ontarian! ;)

Picked up a can of this on a whim, on my usual "beer adventures". and truth be told, I wasn't expecting much out of it. But hell, worth a shot?

L: Clear, straw colored body with low head. Typical lager stuff. No worries here.
S: Smells almost like..banana? Like banana bread with too much banana-to-bread ratio? Interesting to me.
T: A touch of sweetness on the intro, of that grainy, wheaty stuff we all get in decent lagers. Kind of tastes like artificial banana flavouring. Don't know why I lean towards it.
F: Peacefully rolls on and off the tongue. Very nice.

Overall: It's simple, dignified, and noble. Definitely worth a try. It may not make me want to be on an East coast shoreline in a beach chair, but I can certainly drink one of these on a beach chair in my backyard on a warm, summer day.

 

August 20 2023

Clear gold with modest head. Clean bready nose. A surprising medium malt body and crisp lager finish makes this primo summer drinking on the Island.

Tallboy can purchased at TBS; packaged Apr 29 2017 and served well chilled.

Pours a clear, sunny golden-blonde colour, generating nearly one finger of loose, soapy white foam that fizzles off within the next 90 seconds or so. A sickly-thin collar remains, as do a few wisps upon the surface, but unfortunately there is no lacing whatsoever. The nose largely consists of clean, grainy pale barley malts, with lighter notes of doughy biscuit sweetness, grassy hay and spicy continental hops. It's a simple aroma, but that's hardly out of the ordinary for American pale lagers.

A passable, unexciting session lager. The flavours aren't much more varied than the aroma, with cereal grains, bready, crackery barley malt and light honey sweetness comprising the bulk of the profile. The remaining gaps are filled in with hints of grassy hay and vaguely floral hops, culminating in a grainy-sweet finish that fades within a second or two; only moderately clean-tasting. Light in body, with assertive carbonation that results in a crisp, pleasing texture. Very easy to knock back, and not really interesting enough to be qualified for anything else.

Final Grade: 3.41, a B-. PEI Brewing's Beach Chair Lager is a decent effort, but it's probably safe to assume that the average macro beer enthusiast will enjoy it more than I did. There's nothing specifically wrong with it, per se... I just find it to be very one-dimensional, and a little too sweet. The premium price point doesn't do it any favours, either - I can't think of any reason to reach for this one again when there are plenty of German/Czech pilseners that beat it out (not only in terms of flavour, but also on price point - or at least, that's the case here in ON). Worth the tick - I mean, it's not every day you see a brew from PEI in this province - but not something I intend to return to.

Pours to give a clear yellow body with a pearly white head that decays fairly rapidly. The scent is very bready, with a bit of sweetness, and a lot of clean malts. The taste is very malt, with a bit of an almost grassy bitterness, and that very faint sweetness coming through again. It has a fairly clean finish with a nice bit of breadiness included. Really nice lager, perhaps a new regular for lagers???

 

 

Serving Type: 500 mL Can

A- Pale Yellow colour topped by a macro-esque weak white head. Poor retention.

S- Crackers, bread, and a little bit of funk from what I assume is Saaz hops.

T- Similar to aroma but with more of a hop presence.

M- Light Body and refreshing high carbonation.

O- Excellent local (relatively) Lager that reminds me a lot of Pilsner Urquell. Excellent Malt Flavours and a good dose of hops. Lacklustre head but it doesn't really take away from how good this brew is.

 

 

I don't think the slogan "as natural as (Prince Edward Island) itself" entirely makes sense, but it looks to be true; Beach Chair Lager has a dense cloudiness and iron-willed head, features not likely to be observed were it made with adjuncts, filtered or pasteurized, and it also has the sunniness of island climate (Caribbean, not Atlantic Canadian, but still...)

Beer and bread are both made from yeast and grain so it's not unusual for one to smell like the other. But this one has a notably 'bakery-fresh' bouquet and scents of dough and warm white loafs. It's somewhat comforting, reminiscent of hot toast on a cold winter morning.

Pleasant though it is, this kind of profile is also plain. The first few gulps are incredibly refreshing but once thirst is out of the picture and flavour becomes more of a priority, you're stuck between the moon and Charlottetown. I'm drinking this beer but already thinking of the next one...

Granted most drinkers won't tire of it as quickly as me, and for them the 'next one' will be the same as the first. And I get it - this is a clean, agreeable beer with simple cereal malt and subtle fruit flavours that won't overwhelm or numb any more than they'll offend. I imagine pitchers of Beach Lager are popular, and why not?

Lagers like this are proof that beer is the undisputed everyday, universal alcoholic - the liquid 'salt of the earth'. There's nothing not to like here - casual drinkers, craft drinkers, and copious quantity drinkers are all likely to appreciate this lager for its simplicity, straightforwardness, and sessionability respectively. As advertised, Beach Chair is as nice as a day at the beach!