Lemonade Radler
Waterloo Brewing
- From:
- Waterloo Brewing
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 3.1%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.58 | pDev: 5.87%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 12, 2015
- Added:
- Apr 22, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.43/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.43/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
473ml can, the latest brewer to jump on this summertime (and others, let's not kid ourselves) bandwagon.
This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with one finger of wanly puffy, somewhat foamy, and generally bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some low-lying sea cave lace around the glass as it quickly bleeds out of sight.
It smells of a partly real, and partly manufactured lemon/lime fruitiness, flinty hard water notes, further indistinct overripe pome fruit, vague suggestions of gritty, grainy pale malt, some ethereal corniness, and a predictable no-show of hop, er, fortitude. The taste is sugary, grocery store-brand lemon-lime soda, one dusted with salt and pepper, weirdly, some plain pale and corn-bred malt, fleshy, kind of browned apples, chewing gum (maybe I inaccurately inferred that from the ingredients listing), and some bland, earthy, and let's just say benign bitterness.
The bubbles are adequate in their assertation that this is more beer than soda/fruit juice (so, um, good?), the body a sturdy middleweight for this sort of thing, and mostly smooth by the same hanging sword of Damocles. It finishes sweet, but somewhat moderated, the lemon/lime fruitiness having to work with an underlying generic maltiness in claiming responsibility, uber alles, for this underwhelming affair.
Not particularly bad, but not good, either, the mixed graininess of the malt reminding me just a bit too much of the brewer's other, non-fruit obfuscated dealios. Plain, and thus hardly as engaging as some of the other more craft-oriented radlers available out there right now. Or, if this is simply too much flavour for ya, you could just go and seek out the Rickard's version - I hear it's hard to come by of late.
Aug 12, 2015This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with one finger of wanly puffy, somewhat foamy, and generally bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some low-lying sea cave lace around the glass as it quickly bleeds out of sight.
It smells of a partly real, and partly manufactured lemon/lime fruitiness, flinty hard water notes, further indistinct overripe pome fruit, vague suggestions of gritty, grainy pale malt, some ethereal corniness, and a predictable no-show of hop, er, fortitude. The taste is sugary, grocery store-brand lemon-lime soda, one dusted with salt and pepper, weirdly, some plain pale and corn-bred malt, fleshy, kind of browned apples, chewing gum (maybe I inaccurately inferred that from the ingredients listing), and some bland, earthy, and let's just say benign bitterness.
The bubbles are adequate in their assertation that this is more beer than soda/fruit juice (so, um, good?), the body a sturdy middleweight for this sort of thing, and mostly smooth by the same hanging sword of Damocles. It finishes sweet, but somewhat moderated, the lemon/lime fruitiness having to work with an underlying generic maltiness in claiming responsibility, uber alles, for this underwhelming affair.
Not particularly bad, but not good, either, the mixed graininess of the malt reminding me just a bit too much of the brewer's other, non-fruit obfuscated dealios. Plain, and thus hardly as engaging as some of the other more craft-oriented radlers available out there right now. Or, if this is simply too much flavour for ya, you could just go and seek out the Rickard's version - I hear it's hard to come by of late.
Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)
3.48/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
473ml can poured into tulip 4/8/15
A clear straw yellow with a large but short lived foam that leaves no lace
S lemon juice, apple and a little pear, not a whole lot of "beer" going on, maybe some faint sweet grains in the background, smells more like Sprite then beer
T again its more pop than beer but I suppose that's what its trying to be so they accomplished their goal, I don't mind the flavor but I feel like I should be mixing it over ice with gin
M a little over carbonated and very thin, slimy on the palate with a Sprite flavor lingering
O I didn't mind this stuff but its not really beer at this point, feels more like a mix than a finished product
It is what it claims and fairly well suited for summer swilling but perhaps more suited for the wife as well
Aug 05, 2015A clear straw yellow with a large but short lived foam that leaves no lace
S lemon juice, apple and a little pear, not a whole lot of "beer" going on, maybe some faint sweet grains in the background, smells more like Sprite then beer
T again its more pop than beer but I suppose that's what its trying to be so they accomplished their goal, I don't mind the flavor but I feel like I should be mixing it over ice with gin
M a little over carbonated and very thin, slimy on the palate with a Sprite flavor lingering
O I didn't mind this stuff but its not really beer at this point, feels more like a mix than a finished product
It is what it claims and fairly well suited for summer swilling but perhaps more suited for the wife as well
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.5/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.5/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
473 mL can picked up at TBS; packaged Apr 7 2015 and served ice cold.
This radler pours a foggy straw-yellow colour, capped off with one finger of loose, soapy white froth that fizzles away rapidly over the next minute or so. A thin collar is left hugging the glass, with a wispy, bubbly film remaining on the surface. The nose has a nice, zesty lemon quality to it, along with lots of sugary lemonade sweetness. Notes of grainy pale malt and apples are also detectable, particularly as it warms up a bit.
Not bad at all; a good mix of tart lemon juice and sweet lemonade flavours, with a bare minimum of clean, grainy pale malt flavour buried in the background. There is also a bit of an apple-y flavour - which is not surprising, as apple juice is listed as an ingredient. I'm not inclined to complain about that, though; it's a neutral, fruity-sweet flavour that hangs around in the background and helps cut through the lemony tartness a bit. Finishes with a bit of sugary lemonade sweetness. The mouthfeel is light and the carbonation levels are high; very soda pop-esque, without the slick, lingering feel that I recall the grapefruit version having. Ridiculously refreshing, and absurdly drinkable.
Final Grade: 3.5, a respectable B. Much, much better than their old radlermass from a few years back. Waterloo's Lemonade Radler isn't terribly beer-like, and it's not exactly an 'authentic' radler either - but the flavour profile is still quite appealing, and it's a damned refreshing beverage, apple juice or not. I'll have to do a side-by-side comparison to confirm, but I think I might like this one more than their grapefruit radler, too. This tallboy really hit the spot after a long bike ride, and is one of several radlers that I will likely be repurchasing over the coming summer months.
May 05, 2015This radler pours a foggy straw-yellow colour, capped off with one finger of loose, soapy white froth that fizzles away rapidly over the next minute or so. A thin collar is left hugging the glass, with a wispy, bubbly film remaining on the surface. The nose has a nice, zesty lemon quality to it, along with lots of sugary lemonade sweetness. Notes of grainy pale malt and apples are also detectable, particularly as it warms up a bit.
Not bad at all; a good mix of tart lemon juice and sweet lemonade flavours, with a bare minimum of clean, grainy pale malt flavour buried in the background. There is also a bit of an apple-y flavour - which is not surprising, as apple juice is listed as an ingredient. I'm not inclined to complain about that, though; it's a neutral, fruity-sweet flavour that hangs around in the background and helps cut through the lemony tartness a bit. Finishes with a bit of sugary lemonade sweetness. The mouthfeel is light and the carbonation levels are high; very soda pop-esque, without the slick, lingering feel that I recall the grapefruit version having. Ridiculously refreshing, and absurdly drinkable.
Final Grade: 3.5, a respectable B. Much, much better than their old radlermass from a few years back. Waterloo's Lemonade Radler isn't terribly beer-like, and it's not exactly an 'authentic' radler either - but the flavour profile is still quite appealing, and it's a damned refreshing beverage, apple juice or not. I'll have to do a side-by-side comparison to confirm, but I think I might like this one more than their grapefruit radler, too. This tallboy really hit the spot after a long bike ride, and is one of several radlers that I will likely be repurchasing over the coming summer months.
Rated by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
4/5 rDev +11.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +11.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A great example of what it's supposed to be
Apr 26, 2015
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