New Ridge
Woodfour Brewing Company

 

Pours a nice golden color with a fluffy white head. Great balance of malt/sweetness and flavor. Very easy drinking and the self-claimed "rustic lager" title is spot on. Really enjoyed this beer after years of WCIPA's and NEIPA's...great to have quality lagers that have a backbone.

Poured from a can into a pint glass. Pours yellow orange with a fluffy white head. Smells of sweet grain, nice aroma. Tastes of sweet grain with slight fruit notes. Beer is light bodied and easy drinking, good carbonation. Overall, a very good beer.

 

Pale, hazy-to-cloudy, slight head. Malt and some sulfuriness in the smell. The taste is like beer I've made when it's younger, before all the yeast settled, but this can is dated a month and half ago. So the haze and maybe yeast is pretty stably in suspension. The flavor follows the smell: pale malt, some sweetness, a little sulfur, pleasant aftertaste leaving a little sweetness but not at all cloying. Medium mouthfeel and medium-to-low carbonation. The can says "Inspired by the rustic beers of early Europe, ..." I think it fits that description well, clearly a lager but it doesn't seem lagered, and I like the result. Very pleasant.

 

 

Pours a rich golden amber with a decent bit of opacity, lots of visible carbonation, and a thin but persistent white head.
Smell is crisp with light crackery notes and a soft apple sweetness.
Taste has a prominent apple sweetness up front, with a lightly earthy bitterness on balance. There is also a pale crackery maltiness, like oyster crackers sort of. Very nicely balanced and quite drinkable.
Mouthfeel is full and soft with an excellent crisp, clean finish. Wonderful mouthfeel.
Overall this is a great summer beer, would probably be just fine in the winter too. Eminently drinkable and another addition to the increasingly popular and pleasing tide of light and drinkable offerings.