Berghoff Original Lager

Brewed by Minhas Craft Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
Monroe, Wisconsin USA

Mini-keg. I am perplexed as to how this rates more than in the negatives. I must have had a skunked keg because it smelled and tasted like week-old gym socks. Awful.

12oz bottle labeled Prairie Lager. Clear pale yellow color. Pungently sweet, off aroma. Adjuncty, sweet body. This is really a crappy beer line, or they have a poor bottling system, or both. It was almost tolerable when ice cold, but when it warms the off flavors really shine.

Sampled in Davenport, IA. Pours a golden yellow. Aromas of light grains/grass/ and a hint of hops. Has a fresh crisp taste.

Poured from the bottle into a pint glass. Pour produced a pale yellow body topped by a small head of white foam. Aroma is of grain and grass, while light is better than most pale lagers. Initially sweet, then transitioning to bitter, this lager has a larger flavor profile than other pale lagers. A slight caramel nuttiness with a crisp finish. For a lager, this had a surprising semi-complexity. I could drink this again.

Bottle. Slight grassy aroma. Flavor of grassy hops, a touch of sweetness and some sort of nuttiness...maybe almond? I found the carbonation a little agressive. Pretty solid for a pale lager.

Nope. No comment. But I need more characters, so...it’s better than Budweiser and it’s worse than PBR. It smells and it’s skunky.

Bottle. Golden brew, slightly cloudy, with a white head. Aroma is of grain, with slight hops. Flavor is grainy in the begining and crisp and clean at the end. Refreshing! If it was available locally, I’d make it a regular.

On tap at the restaurant: Pale gold in color with a moderate head. This was dry in the mouth with a bitter finish which made it refreshing but overall unexciting...pass.