Deadsommar
Wayfinder Beer

Murky yet mostly clear pale golden pour with a finger of white head. Amazing how this lager does capture the autumnal palate: fresh grains dot the rustically bready yeast, lemon meets the sweeter malt with acorn and sweet corn tones to the full malts mild hops finish, though as it warms I get hints of hay, hazelnut, and soda bread. Smell is the same without the hints. Smooth lager feel with pale and yeasty starring textures, though thinner overall. Perfect for harvest season

Look: Pale yellow and slightly opaque with a nice head that suds up and settles to a film, leaving sheets of lacing behind

Aroma: Floral notes, warm biscuit, soda crackers, raw dough, hay, and some herbal notes

Taste: Opens up with cereal grains and biscuits and soon joined by a sweet and slow-building flower nectar-like floral note that I cannot pinpoint for the life of me. Hay and soda crackers filter in next, along with some warm bread and dough, along with the sweet floral and somewhat herbal note, which is also prominent as it closes out

Mouthfeel: Full but light, very clean, medium-high carbonation, and clean and crisp on the finish with zero dryness

Overall: This is some tasty stuff. Another blindly bought lager from Wayfinder and another delicious beer – I’m noticing a trend here. This is good and very different as the malt profile is much deeper than I expected and the unique sweet floral-herbal note is interesting, tasty, and frustrating me greatly since I can’t explain it well. Oh well, check it out if you see it and you’ll enjoy it

 

 

This looks like we might have some positive deviation for once. You dig it the most, even if in actuality, it might be I who dug it the most. You're the one Ros(ario) that's left in my heart.

Pours yellow. Substantial clarity. Pretty beer is pretty. The aroma kicks a nice lager yeast up in the nose, kick the dust up. Hit me.

The taste is the best part, light notes of barley, hay, yeast give quite the authentic craft lager feel up in here, up in here. Delicate hopping is in equilibrium with every other aspect of the beer. Commercial tug job stays true, there is a very light fall sense of leaves and the ol' rustic playbook is well oiled. Sometimes there is some sunshine when she's gone.

Very crushable and dry mouth feel, quite the trick when you make a fall lager, as you start to waft into marzen like territory leaf taste wise, its difficult to maintain the levity and dryness this does. Well done. I meant to keep one or two of these until the weather warmed up again, but they were too good to hold off from.

 

16oz can

Pours a finger of soapy white head into my Willi. Retention is bad and the head fizzes away pretty quickly. Lacing is nonexistent. Body is golden yellow, crystal clear, with little to no nucleation. Looks very poor.

Nose is slightly toasty, minerally, and surely well-attenuated. Getting a creamy character, can says notes of chamomile but I think it comes across closer to vanilla. While it’s a little toasty, this still seems on the lighter end of a “fall” lager.

Flavor is pretty light at first - sourdough, corn, toastiness comes out with time. Pretty nice, drinks a little fuller than the nose.

The mouthfeel certainly has a lot to do with a that fullness. Carbonation is on the higher end. Body is somewhat light, but heavier than anticipated. A modest sweetness does some work here, finishes clean and attenuated. Bitterness is lowish, but very present. Solid mouthfeel.

Drinkability is good.

A nice little lager, does indeed have some rustic “fall” qualities.

 

Pale yellow, clear and clean. Light aroma of biscuits. Taste is definitely an AAL, 4.9%, very mild with low bitterness and very modest hop. Low carbonation. We paid $3.99 each for a 16 oz can; a better deal would be to get some other AAL and more beer. Nothing terrible here, but vastly overpriced and coming from a highly rated brewery capable of outstanding products, this was a real disappointment.