Bohemian Grapefruit Lager
Two Tales Brewing

A: Pours a relatively clear medium to dark copper in color with moderate amounts of fine active visible carbonation rising from the bottom of the glass, moderate amounts of small dark yeast particles in suspension, and moderate honey + dark golden yellow + amber colored highlights. The beer has a half finger tall fizzy foamy beige head that reduces to a large patch of mottled very thin film covering approximately 90% of the surface of the beer and a thin ring at the edges of the glass. Light amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Moderate aromas of slightly sweet grapefruit citrus over the top of light to moderate aromas of biscuit + bready + toasted malts with minimal amounts of grainy sweetness. Hints of grassy hops and lager yeast.

T: Upfront there is a moderate flavor of biscuit + bready + toasted malts with minimal amounts of grainy sweetness. That is followed by light to moderate flavors of lager yeast and light flavors of grapefruit citrus. Finally there are light flavors of grassy hops which impart a light amount of bitterness which fades away fairly quickly leaving a relatively clean finish.

M: Slightly heavier than light bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Crisp with a relatively clean finish.

O: Easy to drink with well hidden alcohol and a crisp + refreshing mouthfeel. The grapefruit matches fairly well with the base Czech Pils especially in the aroma.

Poured from a brown 11.2 oz. bottle. Has a copper color with a very small head. Smell is of grapefruit, light sweetness. Taste is grapefruit, tart, none of the sweetness in the aroma, some herbal notes, hints of soap. Feels light bodied in the mouth and overall is mediocre at best.

 

Gold with a lasting white head. Quite bitter on the tongue, but very well balanced. My favourite on in summer

 

 

Dark orange pour from a 330ml to a pint glass, some standstill haze-flex and a decently retaining white head. Brings a very evident grapefruit flavor that's reminiscent of Grapefruit Sculpin or Sam Adams Grapefruit Rebel, definite noble hops/German lager base making a noticeable difference here though. Toasted grain and a decent spicy+herbal hop kick meld decently with grapefruit but certainly not spectacularly. A touch of skunk here as well but it's not enough to be too off-putting. A pretty good/substantial feel for the low ABV, kinda prickly from carbonation/hops/grapefruit bitterness. Nice potent grapefruit flavor, pretty good hoppy light-lager backing, decently refreshing and drinkable, good but a bit weird/imbalanced at times.

Caramel orange with a hint of red, lots of floating particles within, topped with a finger of foamy white head. Good head retention, moderate carbonation.

Hay, Czech Pilsner like, caramel, a hint of fruitiness but not strongly grapefruit.

Grapefruit, hay, caramel, a little spice, light Sichuan pepper quality, sort of numbing hops. Hint of caramel.

Light body, lots of foamy carbonation.

Got on Wishbeer, drank in Chiang Mai Sept 6th, 2015. Notable for the grapefruit which is really quite nicely combined with the malty qualities of a lager. The flavours meld together nicely.