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Fort Garry Brewing Company Ltd.
- From:
- Fort Garry Brewing Company Ltd.
- Manitoba, Canada
- Style:
- Light Lager
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.85 | pDev: 17.54%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 26, 2020
- Added:
- Jul 01, 2010
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.33/5 rDev +16.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.33/5 rDev +16.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
341ml bottle, part of the Fort Garry mixed pack circulating at my office Christmas party right now.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden straw colour, with one anemic finger of thin, weakly foamy, and soapy off-white head, which leaves a few sparse instances of arched lace around the glass after its brief struggle with gravity and surface tension.
It smells of semi-sweet bready cereal grain, faint generic orchard fruit, earthy yeast, and mild grassy, weedy hops. The taste is more grainy malt - some barley, some corn, but generally well blended, like yer average breakfast repast. There's really very little else, beyond a few wan earthy hop echoes, and a moderate saccharine swelling as it warms.
The carbonation is a bit prickly, and thus average in its quotidian frothiness, the body boxing in the upper reaches of the lightweight category, and smooth, with a tiny, encroaching cloying character. It finishes off-dry, the grainy malt persisting, but accruing a fair bit more of that clingy, palate-coating essence.
For a light lager, this sure beats the pants off most of the competition - flavour and weight alone put this in a certain rarefied company. However, dropping the relativity-speak, this is indeed a so-so quaffer, good only for when a lower ABV may be a requirement, and you don't want to totally give your beer-drinking palate over to the dark side.
Dec 17, 2011This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden straw colour, with one anemic finger of thin, weakly foamy, and soapy off-white head, which leaves a few sparse instances of arched lace around the glass after its brief struggle with gravity and surface tension.
It smells of semi-sweet bready cereal grain, faint generic orchard fruit, earthy yeast, and mild grassy, weedy hops. The taste is more grainy malt - some barley, some corn, but generally well blended, like yer average breakfast repast. There's really very little else, beyond a few wan earthy hop echoes, and a moderate saccharine swelling as it warms.
The carbonation is a bit prickly, and thus average in its quotidian frothiness, the body boxing in the upper reaches of the lightweight category, and smooth, with a tiny, encroaching cloying character. It finishes off-dry, the grainy malt persisting, but accruing a fair bit more of that clingy, palate-coating essence.
For a light lager, this sure beats the pants off most of the competition - flavour and weight alone put this in a certain rarefied company. However, dropping the relativity-speak, this is indeed a so-so quaffer, good only for when a lower ABV may be a requirement, and you don't want to totally give your beer-drinking palate over to the dark side.
Reviewed by CrazyMike from Canada (AB)
2.82/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.82/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Pale golden apperance with thin light head that disappears quickly leaving little lase. Smell consists of grassiness and malt, very hard to pick up though.
Taste is grassy with a hint if malt and hops, picked up some sweetness as well. Taste is very light though and hard to detect. Light bodied with moderate carbonation. Aftertaste is a lingering dry grassy taste.
Overall, not bad for a light beer. The grassiness helps give it character, but kind of boring and makes you wish you stuck with Fort Garys regular lager. Drink when it's 30 C out.
Jul 31, 2011Taste is grassy with a hint if malt and hops, picked up some sweetness as well. Taste is very light though and hard to detect. Light bodied with moderate carbonation. Aftertaste is a lingering dry grassy taste.
Overall, not bad for a light beer. The grassiness helps give it character, but kind of boring and makes you wish you stuck with Fort Garys regular lager. Drink when it's 30 C out.
Reviewed by Sammy from Canada (ON)
2.2/5 rDev -22.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
2.2/5 rDev -22.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
Not the worst replacement for a macro beer that I have had. Poor yellow coloured body, with a little light head. Minimal taste but not harsh, a light malt.Lighter mouthfeel, carbonation is there but not too aggressive.Nothng I would try again, but not the worst beer I have had.
Apr 17, 2011
Reviewed by andrenaline from Canada (ON)
2.51/5 rDev -11.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
2.51/5 rDev -11.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
Second selection from their summer mixer pack.
A - Pours an incredibly pale golden colour with next to no head and zero lacing.
S - Very metallic scent with a hint of cardboard. Yes, cardboard. Faint grassy scent, and a bit of a sour lemon finish.
T - The grassy malts are the strongest flavour on this one. After-taste is a bit more bready, but rather non-existent.
M - This one is very light and smooth on the palette, however tends to bubble up a bit too much in your mouth. Similar to the last one I tried, I found the carbonation a little high, and it also finishes very dry.
D - I love almost any beer and would never turn this down, but that being said, I would never offer it to someone. Flavour is rather bland, the mouthfeel is dry and overly carbonated. Obviously being a light lager, the scent and flavour are expected to be mild, but I wasn't overly impressed by this offering.
Jul 01, 2010A - Pours an incredibly pale golden colour with next to no head and zero lacing.
S - Very metallic scent with a hint of cardboard. Yes, cardboard. Faint grassy scent, and a bit of a sour lemon finish.
T - The grassy malts are the strongest flavour on this one. After-taste is a bit more bready, but rather non-existent.
M - This one is very light and smooth on the palette, however tends to bubble up a bit too much in your mouth. Similar to the last one I tried, I found the carbonation a little high, and it also finishes very dry.
D - I love almost any beer and would never turn this down, but that being said, I would never offer it to someone. Flavour is rather bland, the mouthfeel is dry and overly carbonated. Obviously being a light lager, the scent and flavour are expected to be mild, but I wasn't overly impressed by this offering.
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