Buzzards Bay Lager

Formerly brewed at Just Beer (fka Buzzards Bay Brewing)
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Westport, Massachusetts USA

An above average lager - I certainly wouldn’t have guessed it was a Dortmunder/Helles - seems more like your normal macro lager. Golden bodied, aroma of malt, medium bodied - smooth but fully carbonated too. Taste is malty sweet with small hints of hops at the finish.

Color: a clear gold. Head: just right, bubbly and white. Aroma: soft, slightly sweet, but clean. Taste: simple, refreshing. As far as lagers, go: perfect, without a flaw. Nothing bad about it, but didn’t set me on fire. Then, a good lager is like a foot soldier, it just does job, follows orders, charges down the throat and quenches the thirst. I would be happier with the world if the Heinekens and the MGDs tasted remotely like this, and I’d be happier with the maddening throng of macroswill lovers, if they sought out better lagers like this one.

Heineken from Massachusetts. An easy beer to hate, its presentation seems ’branded’, pretentious, too clever. The beer is non-descript. A waste.

Light soft sweet and uninspiring. Not an export, more like a very plain continental style lager. Too sweet.

Draft at VT Brewers Fest - Golden yellow in color with a slight whitish head. Aroma is a malty/yeasty mixed in with some hops. Flavor is of small hops and biscuit malt. This is clearly a plain lager and not what they advertise it as and a slightly above average one at that.

2004 bottle. Dark yellowish-orange, but very clear with a small off-white head and bubbly. Aroma of dry biscuits as it says, lots of yeast and a very earthy, almost herbal hops appeal. Flavor is meaty, earthy, soily, dry and yeasty. Very strange, not terribly complex at all. It tastes like a spoiled sweetness is present. Not a tremendous rendition of the style, I would class this one as a regular lager if I hadnt known. Lightly fizzy mouthfeel, medium body. eh. . .

Sparkling clear, light golden lager with a small, creamy, white head. Decent retention with sparse lacing. The aroma and flavor are both malty with notes of butterscotch, butter and light herbs. Decently balanced by the diverse hops. Medium-bodied with a syrupy/sticky mouthfeel and fizzy carbonation. Short, bitter-sweet, creamy finish. Good stuff... for a helles.

Pours a medium-dark transparent golden color with a small white head that disappears. Aroma is quite sweet with perhaps a floral note, but it’s a little unusual. A bit malty up front but more dominated by the hops which are actually pretty bitter. Feels very thin. Overall, for a beer named "Lager," this was surprisingly flavorful, but it’s still not great.