Pale Lager - Mandarina Bavaria
Holler Brewing Co.
- From:
- Holler Brewing Co.
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- American Lager
- ABV:
- 5.4%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.91 | pDev: 4.86%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 21, 2017
- Added:
- Jul 09, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by donspublic from Texas
3.98/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Poured into shaker, 1 finger cream colored head nice retention and lacing. Crystal clear golden in the glass. Smells faintly of orange/citrus. Taste of biscuit malt, and some slight citrus, opens up with more orange in the middle and a very minor orange pith bitterness on the finish. Clean tasting lager, one of my favorite hops in a saison and it holds up well here.
Jul 21, 2017
Reviewed by champ103 from Texas
3.65/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.65/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
This is their Pale Lager, with a different hop. Obviously dry hopped with the German Mandarina Bavaria.
A: Pours a crystal clear golden/yellow color. A dense two finger white head forms with excellent retention and lace left all the way down the glass.
S: The nose is subtle, but citrus and orange rind up front. Grassy with a light green bitterness. More cracker and biscuit like malts round everything out. Very balanced and simple.
T: Like the nose, more subtle hops with some citrus and orange rind. Biscuit and cracker malts are more apparent with a light lingering bitterness.
M/O: A light body and effervescent carbonation. Crisp, clean, super dry and smooth at the same time. Really easy and enjoyable to drink. A well made lager.
Like everything Holler does, this is well made and really clean and dry. Which I always appreciate. As much as I think this is a well made lager, I don't think it is as good as Dollar Pils or the Nelson Sauvin version. Certainly a good malt balance, and the hops try to be citrus and orange like, but the few times I have had this hop in other offerings, it just seems a weaker version of American C hops. I kind of feel the same here. A good attempt, and they always make great lagers, but not their best, which might have more to do with my opinion of the particular hop than anything.
Jul 09, 2017A: Pours a crystal clear golden/yellow color. A dense two finger white head forms with excellent retention and lace left all the way down the glass.
S: The nose is subtle, but citrus and orange rind up front. Grassy with a light green bitterness. More cracker and biscuit like malts round everything out. Very balanced and simple.
T: Like the nose, more subtle hops with some citrus and orange rind. Biscuit and cracker malts are more apparent with a light lingering bitterness.
M/O: A light body and effervescent carbonation. Crisp, clean, super dry and smooth at the same time. Really easy and enjoyable to drink. A well made lager.
Like everything Holler does, this is well made and really clean and dry. Which I always appreciate. As much as I think this is a well made lager, I don't think it is as good as Dollar Pils or the Nelson Sauvin version. Certainly a good malt balance, and the hops try to be citrus and orange like, but the few times I have had this hop in other offerings, it just seems a weaker version of American C hops. I kind of feel the same here. A good attempt, and they always make great lagers, but not their best, which might have more to do with my opinion of the particular hop than anything.
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