Hopski (Pre-Prohibition Style Lager)
Acoustic Ales Brewing Experiment
- From:
- Acoustic Ales Brewing Experiment
- California, United States
- Style:
- American Adjunct Lager
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.36 | pDev: 13.99%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 13, 2025
- Added:
- Sep 08, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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This traditional style lager is wonderfully balanced, lightly hopped, mildly malty, and left unfiltered. Acoustic Ales has decided to go back to the roots of the historic Mission Brewery! We brewed this pre-prohibition style lager to emulate the recipe brewed at our very location 100 tears ago.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Todd from Finland
2.4/5 rDev -28.6%
look: 5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
2.4/5 rDev -28.6%
look: 5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
Great looking lager that pours a clear, pale golden with a foamy lace. Hints of grain and diacetyl. Fizzy carbonation with a light, but creamy, body. Biscuity, dry and full of cooked corn-like flavors and buttery slickness in the back. Quite bitter, and a rindy citric hop bite is this beer's only saving grace, but unfortunately it's not enough as it brings a rather unwelcomed astringency and oiliness with it that simply don't mesh well.
Being a pale lager, it's impossible to get past the flaws with this one as they dominate.
Jan 02, 2017Being a pale lager, it's impossible to get past the flaws with this one as they dominate.
Reviewed by mactrail from Washington
3.2/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.2/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
On tap at Toma Sol in Mission Hills. This is a fat and flabby brew with a tingly, pricly mouthfeel.
Pale amber in the pint shaker with a vanishing foam, though the carbonation releases with every sip. The mouthfeel is oddly oily as well. Biscuity malt with a sharp tangy finish. Sweet Hawaiian bread flavor.
This is quite drinkable, but not very interesting. One wonders if the concept took over the taste. Still, it's a less-bitter alternative to the usual over-hopped Acoustic brews.
Feb 23, 2015Pale amber in the pint shaker with a vanishing foam, though the carbonation releases with every sip. The mouthfeel is oddly oily as well. Biscuity malt with a sharp tangy finish. Sweet Hawaiian bread flavor.
This is quite drinkable, but not very interesting. One wonders if the concept took over the taste. Still, it's a less-bitter alternative to the usual over-hopped Acoustic brews.
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