Ballast Point Longfin Lager

Brewed by Ballast Point Brewing Company
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
San Diego, California USA

Straw yellow color with a white head. Aroma of malts, bread, and spice. Flavor of spice, yeast, and malt. Smooth and a refreshing.

On tap at Old Grove.. Pours straw yellow with a thin white head and lots of carbonation.. Bready sweet aroma.. Flavor was very light and bready. Light with lots of carbonation.. Super easy drinker.

Pours a very pale and very clear light golden yellow color that is almost as clear and light as water. Looks like a very diluted ginger ale. Fizzy white head that quickly dissipates into a very thin ring. I wanted to use words like urine to describe the appearance but thought better of it. I wish that I could give it less than a 1.0. Pilsner malt aroma with subtle light crisp fruits;apple and pear, some bready yeast and subtle hops. Very bland. Crisp medium body that is slightly spiced with some nice bready yeast, pilsner malt crisp light fruit and subtle hops. I’m shocked at the flavor and complexity of this beer after how awful it looked and bland it smelled. This is a pleasant surprise. Spice notes up front with clean crisp apple and pear notes followed by some slightly earthy straw notes. Slightly watered down with a subtle hoppy finish.

On tap at the Pizza Port Session Ale Fest. Pours with an ultra-pale yellow, water like body, with a huge, resilient, creamy white head. Aroma is a bit of wheaty, spicy, with a touch of corn and light hops. Taste is grainy with a bit of alfalfa, light, refreshing, bready, crisp, lager bitter finish. Fizzy and thin, but what a pale, lager style beer should be.

Draft at the brewery. A light golden beer with a thin white head.. The aroma is sweet with notes of Halletaur hops. The flavor is sweet with light notes of grass, leading to a dry and rather bitter finish.

Pours like a pilsner from the tap at the brewery. Mildly skunky in aroma with notes of carb apple and possibly pineapple in the flavor. Not bad.

Draft at the brewery. Pours a clear gold color, with a small light white head. Smells of some wet grains, light subtle hops, and a bit of malt. Smells like a lager. The flavor was crisp and simple. Had a small citrus and hop presence mixed, with a grainy undertone. Crisp, clean and easy to drink is really all I can say about it. Boring beer, for a boring style, but it drank ok.

On tap @ brewery, RBSG. Clear straw color, thin broken white head. Slight wet grain cast to the aroma, otherwise clean. Pretty straightforward malt character with a mildly bitter finish.