Float On
Ocelot Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

At the brewery on tap. The beer pours a light amber color with a slight head and lacing. Aroma had hoppy hints. The taste follows the nose. A good beer from a consistent brewery.

On tap at brewery:
Ok, this is a hard one to rate for me. It’s listed as a “pale lager” and I assume it’s more American due to brewer. But the brewer likes making German styles.

A slightly amber leaning, lovely clear body. Thin head cap lasts and provides consistent lacing early, spotty later.

Nose has a malt foreground, a tad more cereal than bread up front, with a classic noble hop background.

Taste opens very clean. The malt comes on with a honey grain sweetness. There is a midwestern field-like impression here, the grain, the dry grassy bitterness, a little sweetness of honey bee pollenated flowers (work with me here). There’s a very light lemony citrus note in there as well. A medium dry finish, where the sweetness gets cut off pretty cleanly, but it’s not too bitter - bitter leaning maybe, but not by much.

I quite enjoyed this. It gave me a very general impression of a craft brewer version of generic lager. The color and flavor indicate more than a Pilsner base, and the hops aren’t trying to dominate. I’ll be interested in others’ opinions.