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Brooklyn Lager 3.42 1081

Brooklyn Lager

Percentile
84
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bottled
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
10813.43/5.03.42/5.05.2%99Lager glass
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Brooklyn Lager, the Brewery's flagship label, is New York's "hometown" beer, brewed to a pre-Prohibition recipe that dates back to the days when Brooklyn was the brewing capital of the East Coast. Brooklyn Lager has won numerous awards. Wrote Michael Jackson in the Simon & Schuster Pocket Guide to Beer: "The dry-hopped, fresh, flowery, firm, flavourful, Brooklyn Lager **-*** started well, in 1988, and has gained in character since."
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 dm9831 (1167), Monee, Illinois, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
Aug 17, 2009  
clear gold, fluffy white head, good lace. nice balance of sweet malts, and mild hoppiness in the nose (my notes say good smell!). flavor follows the nose with a sweet malt start, followed by a hoppy bitterness. light body, nice bitter finish. i didn’t expect to enjoy this one much, but i was reallty surprised. a good sessionable beer (i had more than one). i had several bottles of this at the bar in the newark airport rennaisance hotel.


 can8ianben (907), Pasadena, California, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/57/104/513/20
Aug 17, 2009  
Little detectable aroma aside from some faint yeast. Clear golden with a thin head. Crisp and pleasantly bitter.


stephenj007 (35), Houston, Texas, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Aug 15, 2009  
Bottle pour...lager glass. This beer is good. Aroma was full, nice, almost sweet, but roasted malt goodness to it. The pour was smooth, nice, with a darker tinged head that laced to the side of the glass as I finished it. Crisp, full body and flavor, with some hops bitterness that seems just right for this beer. Overall, a very good brew. I think I will have a glass Sunday night with our spicy, Greek marinated, bbq’d chicken.


 phaleslu (557), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/515/20
Aug 14, 2009  
Draft. Pours clear amber with a frothy off-white head that hangs around for the ride. Malt, grain, hops, and citrus in the aroma. More flavor than you’ll get from just about anything else with "Lager" on the label, with some enjoyably mild bitterness to the hops. More body than expected, too, and nice smoothness. Just a very good lager that beats the hell out of most of its peers.


 Jmichael (633), Asheville, North Carolina, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/55/103/514/20
Aug 11, 2009  
heavier body than a lager may generally represent, good full palate, and fluffy mouthfeel. mild flavor but good. I grabbed to have for my fishing trip, wanted a good lager out of the can and it fit the bill rather well. But the best beer (to digress) to have on a boat in the middle of a lake in the middle of nowhere canada, is a bell’s two hearted, bottle. Damn perfect time to have that beer.


 CUJO (367), Brooklyn, New York, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/104/516/20
Aug 7, 2009  
Bottle: pint glass: From Brooklyn, drinking a Brooklyn, in Brooklyn....nice. Pours a dark amber, light brown, clear. Pour creates nice bubbles leaving a full finger off-white head. The nose is of raosted malts, very nice and medium. The taste is full doy, yet thin enough to drink quickly. Again the roasted malts come through, with an even blend of hops. Very well balanced, very drinkable. Great brew.


brewslurp (9), Switzerland
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4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Aug 6, 2009  
Brought 6 pack back from NYC. Amber color with nice white head. Head stays all the way down with good lacing. Nice sweet malt aroma with floral hops. Very nice balanced taste between malt and hops. Crisp, a little dry and fruity. Fuller bodied than most lagers. Extremely drinkable. Great beer.


Craybees (17), New York, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/518/20
Aug 5, 2009  
Pretty excellent, all around. Well-balanced as one could ask for, with just the right hop profile and level of maltiness. The nose and appearance are just about perfect.



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