Pap Pap's Salted Lager
Fonta Flora Brewery
- From:
- Fonta Flora Brewery
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- European / Dortmunder Export Lager
Ranked #36 - ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 86
Ranked #25,762 - Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 7.65%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 31, 2026
- Added:
- Oct 03, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
86
Very Good
86
Very Good
Dortmunder-style Lagerbier blended with ancient Appalachian sea salt.
Brewed with local pilsner malt, along with a touch of Cara foam, for a boosted body, and Munich malt, for a slight biscuit profile and a deep golden color. Delicately hopped with a traditional blend of European-grown Perle and Tettnanger hops. Fermented cool with our preferred lager yeast and conditioned cold for a dry, crisp and crushable finish.
Created in honor of my Pap Pap, Edward Shine, and a story he repeatedly told me, especially when I began brewing professionally. As a young man, my Pap Pap worked as a coal miner in western Pennsylvania. When he emerged from the mines with great thirst, he would crush lager at his local watering hole. By adding a dash of salt, he created a most crispy lager, making it the perfect post cave crusher.
Brewed with local pilsner malt, along with a touch of Cara foam, for a boosted body, and Munich malt, for a slight biscuit profile and a deep golden color. Delicately hopped with a traditional blend of European-grown Perle and Tettnanger hops. Fermented cool with our preferred lager yeast and conditioned cold for a dry, crisp and crushable finish.
Created in honor of my Pap Pap, Edward Shine, and a story he repeatedly told me, especially when I began brewing professionally. As a young man, my Pap Pap worked as a coal miner in western Pennsylvania. When he emerged from the mines with great thirst, he would crush lager at his local watering hole. By adding a dash of salt, he created a most crispy lager, making it the perfect post cave crusher.
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Rated by hman43 from North Carolina
3.6/5 rDev -5%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.6/5 rDev -5%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
It pours gold and clear. It has a white head with average head retention. It has grainy sweet notes with a bit of spiciness. It has a crisp finish.
Jan 31, 2026
Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
3.71/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
16oz can from Tavour. Very interested in trying this. Clear golden pour, thin creamy layer of white foam. Normal lager aromas, grainy with mild sweetness. The salt turns up immediately in the taste, blending nicely with the crisp bitterness. Bready, biscuity with lingering saltiness on the tongue.
Jan 12, 2026
Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois
3.33/5 rDev -12.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.33/5 rDev -12.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Canned 4/21/25; drank 7/6/25 @ the Yarchives.
Cloudy orange rust appearance.
A rough pour yielded a nice, noisy eggshell-colored head; almost no lacing remained.
Fresh corn, mild caramel & faint sea salt notes in the nose.
Medium thin mouthfeel.
Mild corn & sharp salt flavors.
This smelled OK, but I'm not sure how my beloved Granny salted down her beers...this was unpleasant on the palate.
Jul 07, 2025Cloudy orange rust appearance.
A rough pour yielded a nice, noisy eggshell-colored head; almost no lacing remained.
Fresh corn, mild caramel & faint sea salt notes in the nose.
Medium thin mouthfeel.
Mild corn & sharp salt flavors.
This smelled OK, but I'm not sure how my beloved Granny salted down her beers...this was unpleasant on the palate.
Reviewed by ChainGangGuy from Georgia
3.42/5 rDev -9.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.42/5 rDev -9.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
16 ounce can - $4.00 at Woodstock Beer Market in Woodstock, Georgia.
Canned On 05/06/24.
Appearance: Pours a golden-hued, crystal clear body with a quickly evaporating, white head.
Smell: Orange blossom honey atop pale malted barley with a faint hint of yeast character and snippets of stray hops.
Taste: Sweetish, honeyish tone with a bready maltiness. Faintly herbal, minutely spicy hop hints. Salt aspect carried throughout. Closes out a bit flat and languid.
Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Low carbonation.
Overall: It's alright. You could've produced the same effect with a sixer of Modelo Especial and a pinch of salt.
Jun 19, 2024Canned On 05/06/24.
Appearance: Pours a golden-hued, crystal clear body with a quickly evaporating, white head.
Smell: Orange blossom honey atop pale malted barley with a faint hint of yeast character and snippets of stray hops.
Taste: Sweetish, honeyish tone with a bready maltiness. Faintly herbal, minutely spicy hop hints. Salt aspect carried throughout. Closes out a bit flat and languid.
Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Low carbonation.
Overall: It's alright. You could've produced the same effect with a sixer of Modelo Especial and a pinch of salt.
Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
4.15/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
love the story behind this one and love the beer, cool to get my hands on a canned brew from these guys, this is thoughtful, intelligent, and exceptional. i love that the base beer isnt just yellow beer, it really is a smart base type, frothing from the can, nuanced on the grain side, dortmunder type, a little fuller feeling, more flavorful, and stronger, lends itself super well to the minerality of the salt, and this is quite salty as they go, super cool recipe and as expected, lights out execution. cool can art on this too. some biscuity and even honey malt character in aroma and flavor, faintly bready and toasted, cooked anyway, with the lightest center sweetness to me. subtle lemon and a faint tang in the aroma, clean on the ferment in the flavor with a full character lager yeast at play, old worldy enough for this to really have a personality, love the build of the base beer for this project with the salt, seems sort of healthful, protein rich or something, im into it! fairly lightly hopped, but it is nice and crisp on the back end, balanced, with the salt really ramping up in the middle and through the back end, this is drying on the tongue, even evaporative, with a wonderful come back and linger from the european malts and lager yeast and minerals working together. the salt is rightly the star of this though which is cool, and i love it in a lager not a sour gose type, although this does have faint back end acidity anyway. a brine note up front but not olive style or anything, bright and clean, iron and deep old earthiness which rules, and adding a refreshing cleanness to the finish. overall this is exceptional, salty, the carbonation pops, and i could drink it all day and night. fun beer, real unique and professionally done!
Jan 17, 2024
Reviewed by brentk56 from North Carolina
4.27/5 rDev +12.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.27/5 rDev +12.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Appearance: Pours with a bit of a bubble show that reveals a crystal clear golden liquid capped by two fingers of foam; good retention and patchy lacing
Smell: Bready aromatics with a grassy edge
Taste: Bready flavors forward with a crisp and clean finish; the salt is definitely present in the finish
Mouthfeel: Light to medium body with moderate to high carbonation
Overall: Love the story behind this beer; makes it that much more enjoyable
Jan 14, 2024Smell: Bready aromatics with a grassy edge
Taste: Bready flavors forward with a crisp and clean finish; the salt is definitely present in the finish
Mouthfeel: Light to medium body with moderate to high carbonation
Overall: Love the story behind this beer; makes it that much more enjoyable
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