Where Robert Met Fletcher
Black Gold Brewery
- From:
- Black Gold Brewery
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Lager
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.6 | pDev: 4.17%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 19, 2022
- Added:
- Jul 31, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.44/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.44/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
473 mL can from the brewery; dated Aug 12 2022 and served slightly chilled. Described as a "pseudo lager", with the phrase "lager-like without the wait" used in the description. So I guess they rushed the lagering process, or something? Strange to admit that, even tacitly, but I appreciate the pseudo honesty.
Pours a clear pale golden colour, generating an inch of soapy, foamy white head that lasts for the better part of five minutes. By that point, it has been reduced to a tight, creamy collar and thin cap, with plenty of sticky, lovely lacing flung about in its wake - looks great in the glass. Grainy and moderately sweet on the nose, with suggestions of apples and bread.
It's not bad, but it's a little on the sweet side for a lager, with a subtle, bubble gum-like background note. Grainy and bready at first, with hints of cereal, honey sweetness and sweet apples developing shortly thereafter. Maybe a hint of grassy hay at the finish, with mildly sweet grain/bread/cereal flavours dissipating into the aftertaste. Light-medium in body, with low carbonation and a smooth, unusually weighty mouthfeel for a (pseudo) light lager; goes down easy.
Final Grade: 3.44, a B-. Where Robert Met Fletcher is somewhere halfway in-between a blonde ale and a bog-standard American craft lager - i.e. not interesting in any way whatsoever, but it is inoffensive and easy enough to drink. I've had far worse lagers, but finding a better one is really not that difficult. I wouldn't discourage others from trying this, but you won't be missing much if you take a pass.
Oct 19, 2022Pours a clear pale golden colour, generating an inch of soapy, foamy white head that lasts for the better part of five minutes. By that point, it has been reduced to a tight, creamy collar and thin cap, with plenty of sticky, lovely lacing flung about in its wake - looks great in the glass. Grainy and moderately sweet on the nose, with suggestions of apples and bread.
It's not bad, but it's a little on the sweet side for a lager, with a subtle, bubble gum-like background note. Grainy and bready at first, with hints of cereal, honey sweetness and sweet apples developing shortly thereafter. Maybe a hint of grassy hay at the finish, with mildly sweet grain/bread/cereal flavours dissipating into the aftertaste. Light-medium in body, with low carbonation and a smooth, unusually weighty mouthfeel for a (pseudo) light lager; goes down easy.
Final Grade: 3.44, a B-. Where Robert Met Fletcher is somewhere halfway in-between a blonde ale and a bog-standard American craft lager - i.e. not interesting in any way whatsoever, but it is inoffensive and easy enough to drink. I've had far worse lagers, but finding a better one is really not that difficult. I wouldn't discourage others from trying this, but you won't be missing much if you take a pass.
Reviewed by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.75/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
They label this beer as a Pseudo Lager, and a lager-type beer without the wait. It pours slight cloudy and gold coloured, not much head. Candy-like on the smell. The smell is sweet and grainy, with hints of coffee bean. Medium bodied mouthfeel
Sept 24 2021
Jul 31, 2021Sept 24 2021
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