City LaCrosse Light

Brewed by City Brewery (Melanie Brewing Co)
Style: Pale Lager
La Crosse, Wisconsin USA

Pretty much like carbonated water in taste. A very, vary pale yellow with steady beading and a pillowy white head that does linger. Slightly sour, bitter finish wherein a trace of sweet malt makes its presence known. Water’s cheaper.

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The body is pale yellow with a small white head. The aroma has some corn and chipped beef gravy. A strange smell, indeed. The taste is grainy with some corn and a bit of metal in the aftertaste. This is not bad for a light mass made pale lager.

Picked up a single 12-oz bottle at Festival Foods in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Pours a clear, light straw blonde brew with a fast dissolving white head that dissipates clean with a thin ring. Aroma of light multi-grain malt, grassy hops and a touch of vegetables. Taste is very light bodied, well-carbonated with hardly no flavor except a thin malt and grassy hop taste. Finish is clean cut, crisp and no bitterness. Just your average run of the mill light, watered down beer.

Draft at George’s in Iowa City, IA. Clear golden color with rapidly disappearing bubbly white head that didn’t (and was probably never designed to) leave any lace on the glass. Smelled mostly of hay and light sprucy hops. Occasionally you get a whiff of the rediculously small amount of malted barley they used to brew it; almost like it desperately wants to be a good beer. Watery mouth feel. Dry on the tongue with a light grainy flavor. Tastes and smells like a once proud beer diluted 4:1 with club soda.

This is a top-rate light beer. There is some very light hop flavor and apple aroma. When cold, nothing offensive about it. Standard appearance and light palate.

Courtesy of Vinny’s at the La Crosse airport. Sickly light yellow color with tiny bubbles and a thin white head that was gone fast. Minimal lacing. Faint hops aroma and not much else. Light and clean body without a lot of flavor but very refreshing and easy to drink. Light bitterness makes this beer a lot better tasting than it looks or smells. The finish is also clean and relatively flavorless aside from a light malt sweetness. Non-threatening and straightforward Light beer.

Hint of hops aroma, pale yellow, smallish head. Mild taste of malt, light bodied, ordinaire.

just an average middle of the road beer not great but just ok in my opinion