Dandy Lager
The Dandy Brewing Company
- From:
- The Dandy Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Japanese Rice Lager
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.7 | pDev: 7.03%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 02, 2021
- Added:
- Oct 01, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by thebriansmaude from Canada (AB)
3.77/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.77/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
It took me a few tries to figure out what this beer was trying to do. I usually see the use of domestic pils malt as a cheap out, but they really figured something out flavour wise with the toasted rice. There is a complexity here that goes far beyond the regular domestic adjunct lager swill, but it still doesn’t stack up to the all malt Euro lagers. There is a lovelyFloral or grapefruit flavour here that is quite nice and unexpected, but still balanced. I’d like to see this very beer come in at 4.5%, and I could crush it all day.
May 24, 2020
Reviewed by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)
4.23/5 rDev +14.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.23/5 rDev +14.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Superb. Clean but flavourful--I'd put this up against any mainstream lager in North America. Golden yellow, no haze; thick foam--cracker, rice, just ever so faintly herbal on the nose. Very refreshing.
Nov 18, 2018
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.42/5 rDev -7.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.42/5 rDev -7.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
473ml can - I've seen mention that this is the Dandy lads' first lager, however, they did make an Oktoberfest brew a couple of years ago, so, yeah.
This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat fizzy bone-white head, which leaves a few instances of remote island profile lace around the glass as it slowly sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, toasted rice cakes, subtle domestic citrus rind, and some plain earthy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, steamed white rice, a hint of lager yeastiness, muted generic citrus pith, and more understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and generally smooth, but for a wee clamminess that evolves as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malt the order of the lingering day.
Overall - I can't say that there is anything particularly wrong with this offering, but it just comes across as kind of plain and dull. I don't really get the touted crisp or fruity notes, and what we're left with is a simple malty lager. Meh.
Oct 03, 2018This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat fizzy bone-white head, which leaves a few instances of remote island profile lace around the glass as it slowly sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, toasted rice cakes, subtle domestic citrus rind, and some plain earthy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, steamed white rice, a hint of lager yeastiness, muted generic citrus pith, and more understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and generally smooth, but for a wee clamminess that evolves as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malt the order of the lingering day.
Overall - I can't say that there is anything particularly wrong with this offering, but it just comes across as kind of plain and dull. I don't really get the touted crisp or fruity notes, and what we're left with is a simple malty lager. Meh.
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