Haus Lager
Craft Collective Beerworks
- From:
- Craft Collective Beerworks
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Lager
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.46 | pDev: 3.76%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 02, 2020
- Added:
- Jun 05, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.54/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.54/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
473 mL can from the LCBO; dated Jul 16 2020 and served slightly chilled. From the 'Haus Beer Co.' in Scarborough ON, but the label is identical to that pictured above.
Pours a clear golden-blonde colour, topped with one finger of soapy, sparkling white head that falls apart within two or three minutes' time. A modest collar and some filmy wisps on the surface remain in place, with minimal lace deposition; looks alright. Gritty, grainy pale malts on the nose, with hints of bready sweetness and light, grassy hops - pretty basic, but it's on point for the style.
Not bad, but not great either - I'm tasting cereal sweetness, along with bready malts and graininess. The hop presence is understated at best, providing only a touch of grassy hay near the finish, prior to a grainy sweet aftertaste that lingers briefly. Light in body, with spritzy carbonation that gives a firm bite to this brew, resulting in a crisp, prickly texture that scrubs the palate with each sip. Good drinkability; this is exactly the sort of no nonsense lager that I could knock back over and over again all night.
Final Grade: 3.54, a B grade. Haus Lager is serviceable enough, I suppose - the label had me hoping for something more along the lines of a pilsener or a helles, but it's merely a no frills American craft lager. There's nothing wrong with it per se, but there's also nothing compelling enough about this beer to distinguish it from the crowd of similar products on the shelves... other than the price, that is. $2.40 per can is a fair bit cheaper than most craft lagers, so this does have some value as a cheap, 'social drinking' option that I wouldn't mind returning to on occasion. Worth a fair shake.
Dec 02, 2020Pours a clear golden-blonde colour, topped with one finger of soapy, sparkling white head that falls apart within two or three minutes' time. A modest collar and some filmy wisps on the surface remain in place, with minimal lace deposition; looks alright. Gritty, grainy pale malts on the nose, with hints of bready sweetness and light, grassy hops - pretty basic, but it's on point for the style.
Not bad, but not great either - I'm tasting cereal sweetness, along with bready malts and graininess. The hop presence is understated at best, providing only a touch of grassy hay near the finish, prior to a grainy sweet aftertaste that lingers briefly. Light in body, with spritzy carbonation that gives a firm bite to this brew, resulting in a crisp, prickly texture that scrubs the palate with each sip. Good drinkability; this is exactly the sort of no nonsense lager that I could knock back over and over again all night.
Final Grade: 3.54, a B grade. Haus Lager is serviceable enough, I suppose - the label had me hoping for something more along the lines of a pilsener or a helles, but it's merely a no frills American craft lager. There's nothing wrong with it per se, but there's also nothing compelling enough about this beer to distinguish it from the crowd of similar products on the shelves... other than the price, that is. $2.40 per can is a fair bit cheaper than most craft lagers, so this does have some value as a cheap, 'social drinking' option that I wouldn't mind returning to on occasion. Worth a fair shake.
Reviewed by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.27/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.27/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
My can had a Toronto Address on the label with the name Haus Beer Co.
Pours a light straw colour with a respectable frothy head. Smell is your typical bread and grains and corn. The taste adds slight bitterness from hops. Has a bit of a metallic aftertaste that lingers in the mouth.
Sept 28 2020
Oct 06, 2020Pours a light straw colour with a respectable frothy head. Smell is your typical bread and grains and corn. The taste adds slight bitterness from hops. Has a bit of a metallic aftertaste that lingers in the mouth.
Sept 28 2020
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.62/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
355ml can - one of the first proprietary offerings from this mainly contract-oriented operation.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, somewhat rocky, and chunky off-white head, which leaves some splendid thickly-splattered lace around the glass as it very slowly sinks out of sight.
It smells of bready and crackery cereal malt, some mild lager yeastiness, faint musty apple notes, a twinge of wet cardboard, and some plain earthy, leafy, and dead floral hop bitters. The taste is grainy and doughy pale malt, generic store-brand applesauce (no criss-cross required, kiddo!), a hint of wet ground peppercorn, faded estery yeast, and more well-understated leafy, weedy, and herbal hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite laid-back in its phoned-in frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, in a sort of determined by committee sense of things. It finishes off-dry, the malt pretty much running the lingering racket.
Overall - this offering appears to span the gap between Big Boy domestic 'craft' lager, and the real deal from back in Fritzland, as it were (I've been watching and re-watching a lot of the current Archer season, and am now channeling Mallory). Anyways, not a bad first kick at the proverbial cat for these guys, inasmuch so that I'm looking forward to more to come.
Jun 09, 2018This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, somewhat rocky, and chunky off-white head, which leaves some splendid thickly-splattered lace around the glass as it very slowly sinks out of sight.
It smells of bready and crackery cereal malt, some mild lager yeastiness, faint musty apple notes, a twinge of wet cardboard, and some plain earthy, leafy, and dead floral hop bitters. The taste is grainy and doughy pale malt, generic store-brand applesauce (no criss-cross required, kiddo!), a hint of wet ground peppercorn, faded estery yeast, and more well-understated leafy, weedy, and herbal hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite laid-back in its phoned-in frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, in a sort of determined by committee sense of things. It finishes off-dry, the malt pretty much running the lingering racket.
Overall - this offering appears to span the gap between Big Boy domestic 'craft' lager, and the real deal from back in Fritzland, as it were (I've been watching and re-watching a lot of the current Archer season, and am now channeling Mallory). Anyways, not a bad first kick at the proverbial cat for these guys, inasmuch so that I'm looking forward to more to come.
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