Satsuma (Dry Hopped Lager)
Steel & Oak Brewing Co.

Poured from a 473ml can. Canned on 03/07/2019.A German-style lager that has been dry-hopped with Mandarina Bavaria hops.
A: Pours a nice clear golden yellow with a thick lasting white head. Nice lacing.
S: Mild malts with a whiff of hops.
T: A light taste of bread/yeast notes with a hoppy finish.
F: Nice and light with good carbonation/very clean and crisp.
O: A very good dry hopped lager, nice work on this puppy.

650ml bottle - dosed with Mandarina Bavaria hops, to apparently achieve the promise in the name.

This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and chunky bone-white head, which leaves some splendid splotchy webbed lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.

It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, some prominent chalkiness, dried orange peel, a bit of earthy spice, and some edgy leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, a bit of lager yeast, muddled domestic citrus, a bit of biscuity caramel, faint tropical fruit notes, further indistinct melon rind, and more testy earthy, leafy, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a bit of citric acridity kind of swooping in and causing a minor ruckus here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and citrusy hops the order of the lingering day.

Overall - this comes across as a very flavourful lager, nice and fruity and well-rendered. The choice of hop was very apt, as it goes a long way in providing the intended fancy orange essences, which definitely support the crazy drinkability. Great stuff!

I will be getting this again.