Pseudo Lager
Black Bridge Brewery

 

 

simple and easy drinking beer with balanced hops with sweet aroma to it that goes down smooth in a nice crisp finish after hard day or hard days of work.

Ordered this beer blind wanting a simple beer after a long day of travel. I was very impressed! It dances on the edge of being a pale ale but with an ABV of 4.5 this would be an excellent session beer (if I lived in Saskatchewan...). My glass emptied quickly. Don't expect the best beer in the world but it may be one of the tastiest session beers you've sampled in a while.

 

 

355ml can, currently part of Black Bridge's mixed pack available here in Alberta. So, how again is this a 'pseudo' lager?

This beer pours a crystal clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some sudsy random island group lace around the glass as it gently subsides.

It smells of grainy and bready pale malt, further biscuity/crackery notes, a bit of dried lemon peel, some meek hard water flintiness, and plain earthy, leafy, and grassy hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, a twinge of biscuity caramel, muddled pome fruit esters, an ethereal dry yeastiness, and more grassy, leafy, and dead hay-like hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite understated in its simple as the day is long frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, nothing really sticking its head up to make a party-spoiling ass of itself. It finishes a tad off-dry, but not by much - that crackery nature of the malt and the easy-going hops lingering just so.

Overall, a very approachable and engaging, um, lager (it kind of says it right on the can), with a full and robust (there I go again) flavour profile. With a hardly noticeable dip in the standard ABV, I could very well see this as the summer patio pounder that (almost) all lagers want to be when they grow up.