Boxer Lager
Minhas Craft Brewery

Pale golden color....begins with rich aromas of caramel apple pie, roasted nuts, brown sugar, and indian spices..then deeper in delicate aromas of orange honey, and a herbed flat bread-like malt which is followed by aroma's of burning cigar embers, peat, and honey roasted nuts....provides a bold round entry to a dryish full body and lingering tobacco, herbal moss, and a honeyed cracker fade with a deft touch of astringent citrus hops.

The taste is rich, velvety and smooth..mildly sweet with chocolate covered espresso accents..Also smoked pepper, baked cherry and rye toast notes evident in abundance with smaller notes of soda noodles, lime starfruit candy, light mollasses, and dried citrus.

Finishes with a prickly pepper and roasted grain-accented fade.

Otherwise pretty unmemorable.

This is one i have a few times a year its not my favorite beer but its really good i do enjoy it everytime great flavor great feel will be getting it again

Appearance: Clear gold, fizzy head disappears shortly.

Smell: Some sweet corn smell

Taste: Mild sweetness, then light grainy flavor with bits of apple. Light bodied. Finishes with more of the apple note.

Overall: Always intrigued by the 36 pack selling for under $15, finally trying a single Boxer. Not terrible, has some decent grain flavor before the apple note takes over. A 6 pack would get very tiring, let alone a 36 case.

 

Poured from a silo can into a pint glass. Pours golden orange with a fluffy white head. Smells of sweet adjunct grain, nothing else. Tastes of plain lager grain. Beer is light bodied and easy drinking, good carbonation. Overall, an average beer.

Compared to Coors light? Masterclass.

Note: I was honest on four of the categories, but boosted the overall score due to the budget of this beer.

I enjoy many styles of craft beer and will on occasion spend nearly $30 on a four pint pack of high quality stuff. Today I was looking to stock up on football watching beer. My go-to's have been High Life or Yeungling for the bulk drinking lagers. I was at a Shop Rite in New Jersey on Novermber 5th, 2022 when I happened upon this stuff. I saw 30 packs of Natty and Genessee for $24. High Life was $26. Something called Boxer Premium Lager was $19.99 for a 36 case! That is 55 cents a can, in 2022!! I though.. Jeez that will probably be God awful and likely poisonous. So I checked beeradvocate, and it got some decent reviews. I said I'll give it a try. If it's awful I only have 35 more

 

Not to objective because it is my favorite lager and costs less than a buck for 24 ounces.

It has a cara-pils malt taste that harkens to the beers they made at that brewery since I started drinking. Some comments attribute it to yeast...which makes some sense because you couldn't afford expensive malt at that price.

Most younger "serious" beer drinkers are sucking down heavy hopped beers. If your looking for your beer to taste like high gravity bitters or grapefruit you will need to spend more money.

This beer is distinctive and produced in relatively tiny batches. At the price there is no comparison.

It reminds me a bit of beer from India.

This is what happens when Millennial beer-snob, know-it-alls review a beer.

If this beer were twice as expensive and packaged differently, with maybe the silhouette of Muhammad Ali, or a sharp photograph of a boxing glove, the 30-somethings would be falling all over themselves.

As it is, this is a cheap, easily drinkable beer with a wonderful mouthfeel and a nutmeg, Hefeweizen taste.

Not my first choice. But an OK choice.

Is it a 'BudHead?' *( the tantalizing, wonderful, heavenly mix of two great North American loggers, Moosehead and Budweiser mixed in a 50/50 proportion? ) HELLS NO.

NOTHING IS.

( and if you're NOT thinking of going to the store and buying a sixer of each, both Moosehead and Budweiser, and trying it yourself in a tall dimpled or nonic glass, then you are simply a fool )

But, I digress. Boxer is a cheap, easy Buzz. Throw a lemon slice in and maybe once squeeze of honey and you've got yourself a terrific summer cooler. Even adding ice won't ruin things for you....

 

Id rather go sober. Manjit is disgusting.

Poured from 12-ounce can into a vintage O'Doul's bow-tie glass. Stunningly clear golden color, with a finger or two of white head that settles rather rapidly. As AAL's go, this is pretty inoffensive. Boxer is light bodied, not too sweet, and mostly dry on the finish, with some light grain, grassy hops, and hints of tart apple on the nose and palate. Pretty typical. However, there is something else going on here: there are unmistakable notes of hefeweizen yeast, which contribute aromas and flavors of banana and clove. These notes are present in some other offerings from Minhas / Rhinelander as well. Is this a characteristic of their house yeast? I don't know. But those notes of banana and clove really give this a pleasant kick. (And you can't beat the price!)

 

L. Clear light bright orange with noticable carbonation for a lasting thick ring and partial patch.
A. Cracker, vague cereal grain, faint candy corn, bread, hay, dry grass. Smells just ok.
T. Bready and biscuit-y, a bit corn chip-y, some citrus in there like lemon and orange pith, corn flakes with a sprinkle of sugar, some toffee/honey maltiness in there as well. Finishes with a pithy bitterness and a pinch of ethanol.
F. Not actually watery, a bit above a light body, below average carbonation, not too dry.
O. Given all the lousy reviews, I'm pleasantly surprised. Heady Topper it ain't, but you could pay twice as much for for a worse beer.

Colleges kids drink this because its cheap. Its disgusting. Deserves a zero rating!

L: pours yellow gold permeated by streams of rapidly rising bubbles under a 1" frothy white cap with poor retention

S: some apple, green apple, faint hops, and a hint of movie theater popcorn butter. Green apple is the biggest aroma

T: Sweet corn and a mild corn sweetness start the flavors with apple, some very mild spicy hop flavor, and a very mild hop bitterness

F: The body is light and the carbonation is medium full

O: The beer is slightly sweet and misses the boat on character and interest

 

 

It's a cheap lager. Nothing more, nothing less. Pours a watery gold. Head diminishes quickly. Very weak aroma. Corny barley flavors. Highly carbonted.