Marble-ous Rice Lager
Ponderosa Brewing Company

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From:
Ponderosa Brewing Company
 
New Mexico, United States
Style:
American Adjunct Lager
ABV:
7%
Score:
+8 ratings needed
Avg:
3.8 | pDev: 5.79%
Ratings:
2 | reviews: 1
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Mar 05, 2015
Added:
Dec 12, 2014
Wants:
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Gots:
  0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
 
Rated: 3.58 by toothirsty from New Mexico

Mar 05, 2015
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Reviewed by ONovoMexicano from New Mexico

4.01/5  rDev +5.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Served in a 4 ounce snifter at the brewery.

Bright golden color and excellent clarity. Light carbonation visible. Head is creamy and pale off-white. Lacing is plentiful. 4.5

Big mineral and grain aromas. Sweet malty presence like a helles, but also a potent hop aroma both grassy and floral. Minerally too. 4

Quite sweet but it's hard to characterize this flavor as just malty sweetness. Seems there's some corn-like sweetness within. The hops are true to the nose: floral, grassy and slightly resinous. There is something subtly solvent and sake like that is faint and at times indiscernible. 4

Bitterness is to be reckoned with here. This has a mean bite and a stiff bitterness, plus a dry, faint solvent element that definitely reminds me of sake. The body is full-feeling but I can sip this fairly easily. Quite interesting. 3.75

For uniqueness alone I quite like this. But this isnt a novelty beer, it's genuinely good. I find it to be sort of a hybrid of a helles, pilsner and sake (only in the slightest of ways) and the result is tasty. Good stuff.
Dec 12, 2014