Northstar
Minhas Craft Brewery

A friend picked some up a 12 pack for 5 bucks at Aldi.

A - It poured out a straw yellow color with a small, short-lived head. No lace.

S - It smelled of corn and that's about it.

T - Tasted fairly sweet. There was a corn/grain flavor and some malt taste.

M - It was fairly thin and weak. A light-bodied beer.

D - Surprisingly it tastes quite good. The other characteristics are not so good.

Pours into a ghetto pint glass a sickly pale macro yellow saved by a voluminous head of wide spaced bubble pushing upward, upward, and falling away like a goddamn lie.

Surprisingly fruity pilsner grain with a little tang of hop. Nothing special, but nothing foul. No metal or sour funk.

Very dull, sweet flavor. A lot like High Life, actually, only slightly less sweet and with a fruity middle and a slight pinch of metal in the back along with a pronounced--if dull--dry hop.

Decent. Pretty good for the style. I’d put this up there with the likes of Grain Belt and PBR, not quite reaching the macro-god level of High Life or Stroh's but still far from being a drain-pour. And for 4.99 a 12 pack at Aldi’s (the grocery store where the meat has veins) it’s actually a pretty good buy.

Northstar by Joseph Huber Brewing Co. pours a light golden amber from a 12oz aluminum pop top can. Head went to over three fingers in my 16oz beer tumbler before going down to a full frothy ring, foam cap, and with bits of lace here and there.

Nose is adjunct corn with whiffs of alcohol with faint metallic notes. Palate is a well bittered malt with drying hops after taste. The carbonation is done well and satisfies completely.

Northstar by Joseph Huber Brewing Co. can be found at Aldi’s for $4.99 a twelve pack. I think that this a well done macro lager for the masses, although Joseph Huber Brewing Co. is billing this as a “Craft Brewed Premium Beer”. In either case, this “Northstar” is not a bad glass of suds, check it out.