Feathered Fields
Forest & Main - The Brewery
- From:
- Forest & Main - The Brewery
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Japanese Rice Lager
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.89 | pDev: 3.6%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 07, 2025
- Added:
- May 16, 2024
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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One of our most favourite things we have in common with each other here at the brewery, is how much we all love rice. It’s Gerard’s most favourite food ever, and for everyone else, definitely a top ten. Anyway, it was about time we put some rice in a lager. For big boy macro breweries, rice is often used in lagers as a cheap way to lighten the body and provide fermentable sugar. Given our love for this little grain, we were hoping to capture more of its flavor in the beer. For this reason, we selected some really aromatic heirloom Basmati and Ponni rices, cooked them in our mash kettle, and then mixed in the rest of the German Pilsner barley for our standard lager decoction mash. We hopped it with a balanced amount of Hallertau Mittelfruh and Motueka, and fermented it with our lovely lager yeast before spunding and cold conditioning for many weeks.
It pours an ethereal straw color with a white head like a cumulus cloud on a sunny day.
It pours an ethereal straw color with a white head like a cumulus cloud on a sunny day.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ValentinaTereshkova from Pennsylvania
3.7/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.7/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Going through my old tasting notes and found this one - I recall picking it up as a single from a local specialty bottle shop.
Pale golden yellow with moderate head. Very smooth, with all tastes light across the board - a little toasted grain, a little citrus, and a little spicy hop bitterness, but all of them come together nicely to be a step above the typical "beer-flavored beer" you get from these sorts of light lagers. I think I'd need to sample it again to refresh my memory, but overall it's just a well-crafted lager in a style not typically approached by craft brewers.
Jan 07, 2025Pale golden yellow with moderate head. Very smooth, with all tastes light across the board - a little toasted grain, a little citrus, and a little spicy hop bitterness, but all of them come together nicely to be a step above the typical "beer-flavored beer" you get from these sorts of light lagers. I think I'd need to sample it again to refresh my memory, but overall it's just a well-crafted lager in a style not typically approached by craft brewers.
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.05/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.05/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
This one pours a very clear golden yellow color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.
This smells like toasted rice, baked bread, light hop spice, and flowers.
I really like how many more craft rice lagers I’ve seen lately. There’s a wonderful toasty and doughy rice note to this one, with a touch of floral and grassy hop spice, some crackery breadiness, and a little bit of an herbal and mineral like note.
This is light bodied, clean, crisp, and very drinkable.
This brewery does so many things right, in my mind.
Jun 24, 2024This smells like toasted rice, baked bread, light hop spice, and flowers.
I really like how many more craft rice lagers I’ve seen lately. There’s a wonderful toasty and doughy rice note to this one, with a touch of floral and grassy hop spice, some crackery breadiness, and a little bit of an herbal and mineral like note.
This is light bodied, clean, crisp, and very drinkable.
This brewery does so many things right, in my mind.
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