Boomtown Lager
Medicine Hat Brewing Company

A nice, delicious beer. Nothing fancy, but a good reliable craft beer with a nice light flavor.

Boomtown lager is a crystal clear, copper colored lager. It throws a decent sized, rocky, just off white head.
Taking my first sniff, what I notice first is a malt forward presence. It’s sort of a combination of toasted white bread and caramel. This paves the way for what seems to be fruit esters. It reminds me somewhat of ripe berries, just present enough to lend support to what came before. Moving along, all of this fades quickly and quietly into the background. The aroma is overall pleasant in its subtlety. Too assertive and these aromas would only overpower the senses.
On the tongue, Boomtown Lager boasts a smooth, rounded mouthfeel. Spritzy, pinpoint carbonation carries flavors of caramel and toasted bread easily across the tongue. Body builds towards a rounded center before dropping off into a finish that is crisp, dry, and slightly bitter. Flavors are straightforward but at the same time well balanced, and offering a lager that is refreshing in spite of its comparably assertive malt character.

Clear copper colour with nice foamy head that lingers. Mainly malt flavoured with a bit of mild bitterness. Minimal hoppiness, which I liked. Overall a very clean, refreshing beer that would be very nice on the patio in summer. My only criticism is that the flavour profile is a bit thin, but still extremely enjoyable.

 

Love this beer

355ml can, part of a sextet of this nascent brewing concern's canned offerings to show up at the 'local' bottleshop around here. A Vienna Lager, that will, essentially, if I'm reading the label correctly, help convert Old Vienna drinkers to craft lagers.

This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some inverted mountain range profile lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.

It smells of bready and crackery pale malt, a touch of earthy yeastiness, muddled pome fruity esters, and some plain leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitterness. The taste is semi-sweet, bready and doughy pale malt, a touch of caramel sweetness, subtle mixed peppercorn mill output notes, some apple and muted citrus fruitiness, and more leafy, grassy, and floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its basically structural frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and mostly smooth, nothing really sticking its neck out to interfere here. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malt softly playing us out.

Overall, this comes across as a decently rendered version of the style, nice and malty, with a tame hoppy rejoinder. Easy to drink, not boozy at all (sub 5%), and yet quite fully-flavoured - a neat trick if you can pull it off, eh?