Everloving Light
River Roost Brewery

 

 

Pours a rather hazy pale yellow, half-inch head with decent retention and lacing. Nose has a grainy and fruity sweetness - the closest parallel I can find is an oldish stick of Juicy Fruit. Taste follows with moderate, vaguely tropical sweetness and a very light grain background. Mouthfeel is light and crisp. If you like Juicy Fruit, you might like this beer.

Can.

Crisp, light, refreshing, hoppy, zesty. A bit of citrus. Light malts. Earthy, little bit of bitterness. This is a great summer crusher!

 

 

16 oz can into a willi belcher glass.

Pours a lightly hazy straw color with 2 fingers of frothy white head. The head has decent retention, and leaves a nice amount of splotchy lacing around the glass.

The aroma is full of cereal grains, bready malts and grass. There's a bit of mango and lime zest, as well as a ton of allspice.

The taste brings plenty of citrus up front, with some sweeter malt notes in the middle. Finishes with cracked pepper and allspice and the faintest idea of white grape skin.

The feel is light bodied with plenty of effervescent carbonation. Nicely crisp and very clean.

Overall, this is a very good, well-balanced hoppy lager. It's absolutely not an "IPL", as the hops add a nice fruity character to balance out the malt. The Nelson hops provide a bit of peppery spice which works very well with this beer.

 

 

On Lukr at Blackback Pub

This one pours a slightly hazy light straw yellow color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like lemony hops, grassy hops, corn, and some hop spice.

This is a good light and hoppy lager, with a big lemon character, and some fresh cut grassy hop character. The malt character is light, but nicely supportive, with some corn-like sweetness and a bit of biscuit.

This is light bodied, crisp, very clean and nicely drinkable.

This, by design, is nothing that is going to knock your socks off. It's just a cleanly brewed and well done lager.