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Wayfinder Beer

 

Look: Pours a crystal clear medium yellow with a sudsy white head that rapidly rises and slowly calms to a lid, leaving nice lacing behind

Aroma: Soda crackers, floral hops, pilsner malt, warm biscuits, cereal grains, and wafts of sweetness

Taste: Opens up with a punch of pilsner malt before being overwhelmed with a huge floral presence. Honeysuckle, jasmine, and tea rose stand out amongst the many floral notes and these and cracker-led malt go back and forth until it closes out

Mouthfeel: Light but full, very clean, medium-high carbonation, and crisp and clean on the finish

Overall: This is some good stuff. A new one for me from these folks and I love a good Export Lager, which this one definitely is. A strong flavor and aroma profile, plus plenty of floral hops and biscuit/cracker driven malt help define this as to its style, which I have always described as sort of an “amped up Helles.” Tasty, well-made, and recommended

12/22/24 can @ home

 

 

 

 

 

A - Pours a clear gold with a large sturdy white head. Good amount of clingy lacing.

S - Aroma is lager yeast, lemongrass and earthy hops.

T - The taste is white bread, sweet malts, red delicious apples, lager yeast and grassy bitter hop bite.

M - Medium body with medium carbonation. Creamy mouthfeel with a soft crisp finish.

O - Top notch Dortmunder.

 

Clear golden pour with visible carbonation feeding a large white head with slight murkiness. Smells of leafy and earthy hops with lemon and bready yeast. Taste is more solidly leafy hops in the spotlight, otherwise same base, so nose more balanced overall. Feel is sharp with hops, slight pale dankness, with sharp breadiness to pair. Carb is higher. Nice and slightly hoppy for style but in an intentionally artful way, still definitely lager, reminds if jacks Abby and germany combined into a lager. Went great with korean spring rolls

 

 

a little more robust to me than some of their other pale lagers, which i believe is the point, very old world and authentic, very german on the malt side, less hoppy than some other examples of the style, but well balanced overall with some finishing crisp bitterness, really fresh and flavorful beer, sexy can art, and the kind of beer i just want in my hand at all times. rich golden yellow to this, rising white head, high shine, high carbonation, high appeal. the aroma of this is grassy, straw-like, and full of earthy cereals, fresh for the style to me, less dusty and faded than the imports ever taste, herbal on the back end, a touch sweet, springy too though, neat bready yeast complexion, like all their stuff it seems extremely calculated and dialed in. the flavor is herbal up front, bitter later, balanced by bready lager yeast and minerals adding body, along with some mellow malt richness, uniquely flavorful on the grain side for how pale it is, and with rushing carbonation the whole drink, it goes down lighter than it seems like it should. still pretty robust for a pale lager, thought the abv might be higher actually based on texture, a nice early spring brew and something i think they could probably medal for in this export lager space, i cant think of better american made (or frankly made anywhere) versions of many of their styles, this one included, so impressive top to bottom here! glad i have a few more cans in the beer fridge to rip this weekend!

 

 

 

 

 

16 oz. can. Clear golden with a big white head. Smells of DMS, light spicy hops, some bready malt, and metallic notes. Tastes of the DMS around the edges, some doughy malt, spicy hops in the back. Lingering metallic flavors. Slick motuhfeel and, as described in the label, soft. Haven't been thrilled with these Wayfinder lagers, despite a good reputation. Even so, it's ok