Doe Pee
Minhas Craft Brewery

330ml bottle. Urge to pull out a rifle primed by the perky deer depicted on the label.

This beer pours a glassy pale golden yellow colour, with one finger of bubbly, fizzy dirty white head, which leaves some random and sparse specks of remote islet lace around the glass as it quickly wafts off.

It smells of musty white bread, over-aged white wine, a further underwhelming drupe fruitiness, and - there it is - some industrial effluent astringency. The taste is fairly sweet grainy pale malt and corn husk pithiness, really muddled orchard fruit, gritty pea-gravel, and dead floral hops.

The carbonation is quite light, with just a lounging frothiness, the body on the far side of medium weight, and plainly smooth, a small tackiness growing as it warms. It finishes still somewhat sweet, the wan graininess and corn pone still holding fast in the face of the lingering acetone industrial effect.

A bland, unappetizing (for reasons way beyond the name) lager, the 'premium' designation all the more funny for it. This has the sweet stamp of typical Minhas corner-cutting written all over it - funny for the website, I suppose, but a failure as a lager, as a beer, and as a muse for my acrimony, it would seem.