Rice Lager
Folly Brewpub
- From:
- Folly Brewpub
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Japanese Rice Lager
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.66 | pDev: 3.28%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 18, 2022
- Added:
- Jun 05, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.66/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
3.66/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
473 mL can from the LCBO; coded Apr 18 2022 and served slightly chilled.
Pours a clear pale straw yellow colour, briefly topped with half an inch of tight, soapy white foam. It fizzles within sixty seconds or so, leaving behind only a thin collar and a few wisps on the surface. Wholesome aroma of white rice and graininess, with hints of doughy sweetness and grass.
It's not very interesting, but it does have a clean and completely inoffensive flavour profile. Grainy pale malts, white rice and doughy, bready sweetness, with just a hint of apple skin; faint suggestions of grassy hay lead into a weakly malty finish and off-dry aftertaste. Light in body, with average carbonation that feels crisp on the tongue, lending a little bit of a bite to this lager's smooth mouthfeel. Ridiculously easy to knock back, so in the future I think I'll buy this in multiples of three.
Final Grade: 3.66, an adequate B grade. Folly's Rice Lager is nothing fancy, but it's one of those rare beers that any beer drinker should be able to drink without complaint. Love your Busch or Bud? This is more expensive of course, but it's just as crushable. Or maybe you're a beer geek such as myself? I need 'regular' beers to keep in the back of the fridge, something to offer to friends or drink ice cold after mowing the lawn or what have you. You know what I'm getting at: Rice Lager can and should be enjoyed by everyone.
Jul 18, 2022Pours a clear pale straw yellow colour, briefly topped with half an inch of tight, soapy white foam. It fizzles within sixty seconds or so, leaving behind only a thin collar and a few wisps on the surface. Wholesome aroma of white rice and graininess, with hints of doughy sweetness and grass.
It's not very interesting, but it does have a clean and completely inoffensive flavour profile. Grainy pale malts, white rice and doughy, bready sweetness, with just a hint of apple skin; faint suggestions of grassy hay lead into a weakly malty finish and off-dry aftertaste. Light in body, with average carbonation that feels crisp on the tongue, lending a little bit of a bite to this lager's smooth mouthfeel. Ridiculously easy to knock back, so in the future I think I'll buy this in multiples of three.
Final Grade: 3.66, an adequate B grade. Folly's Rice Lager is nothing fancy, but it's one of those rare beers that any beer drinker should be able to drink without complaint. Love your Busch or Bud? This is more expensive of course, but it's just as crushable. Or maybe you're a beer geek such as myself? I need 'regular' beers to keep in the back of the fridge, something to offer to friends or drink ice cold after mowing the lawn or what have you. You know what I'm getting at: Rice Lager can and should be enjoyed by everyone.
Reviewed by AlexandraDen from Canada (ON)
3.54/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Pours a very light, slightly hazed but mostly clear straw colour. No appreciable head but long lines of bubbles running to the top.
Aromas typical of a rice lager, that crisp white rice mash smell, lightly bitter hops. Not complex but enjoyable
Very light general grains up front, followed again by the crisp rice mash that imparts a very slight hint of savouriness. Lightly bitter hops but no major hop profile, just a lightly bitter presence
Light bodied, moderate carbonation, lightly prickly, incredibly crisp mouthfeel with a nice snap on each sip.
So, strangely enough, this is the third rice lager I’ve seen from Canadian brewers this summer. Not sure if Japanese and Korean styled beers are coming into popularity, or it’s just an economical thing, rice is absolutely super cheap compared to grain and hard to mess up the flavour profile when brewing (even though in Canada we have the capacity to grow and feed ourselves with grain 50x over for every single Canadian).
Either way, this is not a complex beer whatsoever. The carbonation has less of an edge compared to the highly carbonated, crispy and prickly Japanese rice lagers you may be used to like Sapporo et al. It is also less dry. That said, there are no off flavours here and it is very crisp and easy to drink. Forgot how much I paid but as a cheap beer I could see myself drinking this from time to time when I want that snappy, fast and easy drinking kind of beer that isn’t a syrupy corn mess macro.
Jun 11, 2022Aromas typical of a rice lager, that crisp white rice mash smell, lightly bitter hops. Not complex but enjoyable
Very light general grains up front, followed again by the crisp rice mash that imparts a very slight hint of savouriness. Lightly bitter hops but no major hop profile, just a lightly bitter presence
Light bodied, moderate carbonation, lightly prickly, incredibly crisp mouthfeel with a nice snap on each sip.
So, strangely enough, this is the third rice lager I’ve seen from Canadian brewers this summer. Not sure if Japanese and Korean styled beers are coming into popularity, or it’s just an economical thing, rice is absolutely super cheap compared to grain and hard to mess up the flavour profile when brewing (even though in Canada we have the capacity to grow and feed ourselves with grain 50x over for every single Canadian).
Either way, this is not a complex beer whatsoever. The carbonation has less of an edge compared to the highly carbonated, crispy and prickly Japanese rice lagers you may be used to like Sapporo et al. It is also less dry. That said, there are no off flavours here and it is very crisp and easy to drink. Forgot how much I paid but as a cheap beer I could see myself drinking this from time to time when I want that snappy, fast and easy drinking kind of beer that isn’t a syrupy corn mess macro.
Reviewed by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.6/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.6/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours apple juice colour and pretty much headless. Metallic and grainy on the nose and taste. Weak flavour profile. I can barely pull out some grains and a little bit of hops. Having said that, the taste is not unpleasant at all. Refreshing and sessionable
June 5 2022
Jun 05, 2022June 5 2022
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