Elementary
Four Winds Brewing Co.

 

Nice lager almost tastes like it has a hint of sea salt

Four Winds Brewing 'Elementary Lager' @ 4.5% , served from 2x 355 ml can's part of the Notus Mixed Pack
A-pour is almost clear from the can to a clear light gold in the glass with a small size white head , leaving a spotty lace along the tulip
S-corn , lemon & lime
T-clean & crisp American lager , light body somewhat big taste
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-2 of 4 light beers , very easy drinking
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355ml can poured into tulip.

Pours a clear straw yellow with half a finger of sugar white head that leaves some obsidian knife edge lace as it recedes.

Smells of wheaty and corny breakfast cereal, red apple and white grape, lager yeast and some mild grassy hops.

Tastes of grainy pale malt, unsweetened corn flakes, white grape juice, apple skin and some more soft grassy, weedy hops.

Feels light and mild. Light bodied with frothy carbonation. Finishes dry.

Verdict: Recommended. Tasty and smashable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - once again, my man Jay makes me smile with his attached tag jokery! Cheers, man! And a Canadian-made lager on X-mas Day - why the hell not?

This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, very loosely foamy, and bubbly chalky white head, which leaves some random streaky and splotchy lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of bready and crackery pale malt, white breakfast cereal, a bit of indistinct citrus acerbity, subtle gasohol notes, a kind of earthy yeastiness, white wine grapes, and very tame leafy, herbal, and wet grassy green hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy and doughy pale malt, a bit of wet saltine crackers, some still extant lager yeast, faded overripe citrus, slowly evolving cornbread notes, and some more rather timid earthy, musty, and dead floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly thorough in its palate-clogging frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, with a small airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the varied malts bickering amongst themselves, to the tune of no one else listening.

Overall, this is hardly the equivalent to the innumerable macro lagers of the world that the so-called beer cognoscenti out there have apparently deemed it - so fuck them. Is it the best craft lager out there? No, of course not, but it could very well be a gateway apparatus that might lure the unaware 90-ish percent Inbev drinkers out there to finally try something better. Drops mic.

 

 

 

650ml bomber poured into pint glass a few weeks back, from notes

A slight haze in a bright yellow body, lots of tiny fast bubbles, two fingers of bone white foam hangs around for a while leaving a couple random patches

S bready notes, straw, lager yeast, faint citrus, not a whole lot going on, the hops try to shine through but fall a little short

T maybe a little of the corn malt but its macro like with more hops, again it’s OK but basic

M light bodied, crisp, fairly clean finish, soft carbonation, feels like a lager

O a step up on macros but nothing all that memorable, heads in the right direction but falls short

If they doubled the hops I think this would be pretty sweet, decent brew but compared to other brews I’ve had from these guys it’s a little disappointing