Weir Beer
Shawn & Ed Brewery Co

Pours a brilliant clear gold colour with a loose white head atop. Corny and grainy on the nose. Very metallic on the taste, overpowering the lager characteristics that this beer would otherwise offer. Nicely carbonated
Feb 3 2023

Tallboy from a four-pack purchased at the LCBO; coded Jul 27 2022 and served slightly chilled.

Pours a crystal clear golden yellow hue, crowned with an inch of puffy, foamy white head that settles down to a quarter-inch cap and a wide, sudsy collar within a couple of minutes. Lots of messy lacing is splattered about, too - looks great to me. Grainy barley malt sweetness on the nose, with lesser hints of grass and biscuit.

This is a solid low calorie lager: clean flavour profile and very sessionable, but very straightforward. I'm tasting grainy pale malts and a bready, slightly biscuity background sweetness, with hints of grassiness and maybe a spritz of lemon zest. Finishes malty, followed by a clean aftertaste that leaves the palate ripe for a follow-up sip. Light in body, with average carbonation levels that gently prickle the tongue, resulting in a crisp and refreshing mouthfeel. Ultra sessionable; I could easily plow through all four of these on a Friday night.

Final Grade: 3.66, a serviceable B grade. As a 'new beer' experience in general, Weir Beer was unspectacular at best... but for a craft light lager, I'd still rank this one pretty highly. Not sure if it's all-malt, but I think I would take that bet. At $3.50 per can (or $14 4-pack), there are certainly more affordable alternatives on Ontario shelves, but I wonder how many actually match up to this one's quality? Oh well, at the end of the day it's a good light beer, and golf always was a rich man's sport.