Flat Top Lager
Parkway Brewing Co.

 

 

Straight from a can, canned 6/5/23, so just over a month ago. Now I'm really a big fan of this brewery; I think their Get Bent IPA, their Ravens Roost Baltic Porter compete with some of the best, and they've a lot of other good beers in their lineup. I'm not so sure this is one of them, at least for this beer drinker, who enjoys a European style lager more than the American style. Not much body, drinks a bit too easy, with a lemony after-taste, that I might find appealing with a meal, but not the one I just had. That said, if I were in a different mood, or if I were, in fact, a different sort of beer drinker, I might say this is a mighty fine beer. I'd certainly buy it over a lot of other options at the super-market.

12 oz can, picked up at the brewery

pours a clear pale golden in color, with bone-white colored head. pretty good head retention. aroma is grainy - maybe a little corn. a touch of grassiness. Not sure if this is an all malt lager or if it is an adjunct lager. taste is similar, a touch sweet but pretty clean flavor. thin bodied, higher carbonation, easy drinking.

On tap at brewery:
A white noise hazy to this pale golden lager which has a decent initial head and lacing which lessens further down the glass. The carbonation level is solid throughout on this medium dry finishing beer.

On the nose and taste, there’s a light but insistent grassy bitterness that is more than you’d get in today’s AALs, but fits in with what I think makes a good craft American lager. Flatbread and light waves of grain develop as the beer warms a bit, bringing with them a sweeter impression to the beer, especially the front end. There’s also a bit of a lemon accent mixing on with the grass at this temperature.

Pretty solid across the board, and even though I enjoyed it most at the more chilly middle half of the glass, it was tasty enough ‘too the last drop.