Benchmark Lager
Parallel 49 Brewing Company
- From:
- Parallel 49 Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Lager
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.38 | pDev: 3.55%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jan 24, 2018
- Added:
- Jul 15, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.5/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
16oz glass at the Edmonton Whyte Ave location - oh, yeah, this is one of the house brews for the Famoso chain of Neapolitan-style restaurants across Canada. Had to wait a spell for them to change the keg, and now we're good to go!
This beer appears a clear, medium golden amber colour, with one skinny finger of soapy, foamy, and wispy dirty white head, which leaves a few swaths of approaching headland lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.
It smells of grainy and bready pale malt, some subtle overripe apple and pear fruitiness, lager yeast, and weak earthy and leafy noble hops. The taste is gritty pale malt, a touch of caramel, muddled pome fruit, malingering yeast, and more plain leafy, earthy, and weedy hoppiness.
The carbonation is softly rendered, via its understated frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a wee creaminess setting in as things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, and generically grainy.
Overall, this comes across as a simple, and kind of blandly sweet craft lager, obviously not too different from Parallel 49's own version. A respectable enough brew for a place where I think more about red wine when I'm eating there, as it was a good placeholder whilst awaiting my spicy 'za.
Jul 16, 2016This beer appears a clear, medium golden amber colour, with one skinny finger of soapy, foamy, and wispy dirty white head, which leaves a few swaths of approaching headland lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.
It smells of grainy and bready pale malt, some subtle overripe apple and pear fruitiness, lager yeast, and weak earthy and leafy noble hops. The taste is gritty pale malt, a touch of caramel, muddled pome fruit, malingering yeast, and more plain leafy, earthy, and weedy hoppiness.
The carbonation is softly rendered, via its understated frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a wee creaminess setting in as things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, and generically grainy.
Overall, this comes across as a simple, and kind of blandly sweet craft lager, obviously not too different from Parallel 49's own version. A respectable enough brew for a place where I think more about red wine when I'm eating there, as it was a good placeholder whilst awaiting my spicy 'za.
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