Blue Point Toasted Lager

Brewed by Blue Point Brewing
Style: Vienna
Patchogue, New York USA

Bottle. A slightly old bottle, so I’ll give them a little benefit of the doubt. Slight roasted malt aroma. Roasted, malty flavor with a little hop bitterness. Poured orange with a decent sized head. Easy drinking, nothing spectacular but a solid brew.

This is a good beer. It is a nice amber beer that has a strong malt taste. I find it to be simular to a Youngling lager. It is a good session beer and can be consumed at any time of the year.

Orange yellow color with no head. Aroma of malts, hops, and some caramel. Taste is sweet-caramel, malts with some hoppy bitterness. "Easy drinking" for sure.

I’m going to be kinder than some other reviewers and call out the key phrase from the commercial description: "easy drinking." This is not an aggressive brew, and sometimes, on a muggy summer afternoon like this one in DC, "easy drinking" fills the bill. I do wish they hadn’t called it "toasted," as there’s not much there in the toasted department, but otherwise, this is a pretty solidly pleasant, lightly sweet, lightly alcoholic, and very lightly hopped beer. Not a special occasion drink by any stretch, and the fact that it ran me $13 for a six made me expect more. But on its own merits, it’s a fine summer afternoon kickback.

(Bottle). Mild aroma of caramel and malt. Nice amber color with thick beige head. Flavor is mild, with some malty sweetness and a pleasant bitter finish. Refreshing, but somewhat pedestrian beer.

Smell is very faint sweet malts and bitter hops. Mostly nothing really. Taste is pleasantly malty with some hop notes. Maybe a little skunked, but not terrible.

On tap at Stouts NYC. Deep amber pour with a healthy off white head. Sweet caramel aroma and flavor. I was hoping for a little more of a toasted flavor given the name, but its very subtle. Still a quality, crisp amber lager, in fact I thought the waitress screwed up and gave me a yuengling, the taste and color are pretty much dead on, but after a few sips you can tell this one is a little higher quality.

Light clear amber, disappearing head. Very malty aroma with a dash of nuttines. Unremarkable Palate. Very malty flavor with light toastiness, no trace of hops, not enough bitterness very mellow, not much to it. Finishes with a little twist of lemon. Easily drinkable, but not very interesting.