780 Lager
Labatt Brewing Company Ltd.
- From:
- Labatt Brewing Company Ltd.
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Lager
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.68 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 31, 2012
- Added:
- Mar 31, 2012
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.68/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.68/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
A special test run, for the YEG market, if the name wasn't all that clear. A pint at the Public House, whose menu proclaims this an 'urban wheat ale'.
This beer appears a slightly hazy medium golden amber colour, with a thin cap of fizzy white head, which wisps away quite readily, leaving but a few iotic specks of lace around the glass for the measly effort.
It smells of sharp grainy malt, some thin muddled orchard fruitiness, and a dirty earthy dryness. The taste is generic fruity, grainy malt, maybe a bit of overripe apple sticking out, and very little else beyond a mild phenolic AAL undercurrent.
The bubbles are rather restrained, the body a fairly solid medium weight, with a mild metallic edge that spoils the pedestrian smoothness. It finishes off-dry, and mostly clean, that fruity graininess the only differentiable flavour.
If I seem to be imprecise in my assertations, even more than normal, it's because this beer reflects just that - hard to figure out what it is supposed to be - not a crime, per se, but it does appear to resemble the 'local' brewer's claims - a 'rich amber ale', if only bland and uninspiring at the same time. Labatt's 'Rickards' moment, perhaps?
Mar 31, 2012This beer appears a slightly hazy medium golden amber colour, with a thin cap of fizzy white head, which wisps away quite readily, leaving but a few iotic specks of lace around the glass for the measly effort.
It smells of sharp grainy malt, some thin muddled orchard fruitiness, and a dirty earthy dryness. The taste is generic fruity, grainy malt, maybe a bit of overripe apple sticking out, and very little else beyond a mild phenolic AAL undercurrent.
The bubbles are rather restrained, the body a fairly solid medium weight, with a mild metallic edge that spoils the pedestrian smoothness. It finishes off-dry, and mostly clean, that fruity graininess the only differentiable flavour.
If I seem to be imprecise in my assertations, even more than normal, it's because this beer reflects just that - hard to figure out what it is supposed to be - not a crime, per se, but it does appear to resemble the 'local' brewer's claims - a 'rich amber ale', if only bland and uninspiring at the same time. Labatt's 'Rickards' moment, perhaps?
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