Dixie Beer

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

Bottle. Pours clear gold with a rough white head. Aroma of honey and grass. Light body, watery texture, active carbonation. Some sweet biscuit and a dash of corn and wood in the taste, lightly sour,lightly floral, lightly bitter crisp finish. Seems like an interesting compromise between a Pils and a Mexican lager.

From the bottle pour straw gold with a thin stripe of a white head. I don’t pick up any of the cypress, maybe it’s more of a "driftwood aging" gimmick. Overall this isn’t offensive in any way, maybe not exciting, but drinkable. Doughy malts and a soft honey note. Balanced, hops add a soft spiciness. Oh, and don’t forget, incredible "pure yeast" character.

Bottle. Smelled like stale feed corn. Light hop bitterness and corn and grain in the taste. Watery.

This was a sub-par beer. I’m guessing Dixie is to New Orleans what Henry Weinhard’s is to Portland. Poured a honey tone with a white head that faded quickly. I did not like the carbonation with this one, too thick and way too much carbonation. Pretty one dimensional as the style serves. Cracker malt grains a little bit of citrus and pine toned hops and that’s pretty much it.

Reviewed 2/10/2009 (bottle): Pours a very clear, very pale yellow colored body, with a smallish creamy white head that’s diminishing. Has a banana malty aroma. Grainy, and light smelling. Almost effervescent. Watery taste, grainy. Maybe corn. Light taste.

12 ounce bottle from Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA. Pours a clear golden color with a large head. Average head retention and poor lacing. Aroma is grain, corn and skunk. Taste is tart grain and corn. Medium bodied.

Pours a light clear yellow color with fizzy white head. Smell is corn-ish sweetness to the malt and a touch cereal like. Perhaps corn pops. Taste is a bit less sweet than the smell perhaps, with a crisp, bubbly watery taste at first followed by a corn-pop like sweet malt finish. Lightly grassy bittering hops that balance enough to drink more than one of these. Not a terrible pale lager, and pretty clean with a lightly corny finish.

clear gold color, respectable white head, slightly lacy. nose of musty malt laced with a sweet corniness. flavor is mildly malty with not much else to round it out. medium bodied, a bit fizzy, lightly bitter finish. i misspent much of my youth drinking this at the old maple tree inn on 107th and western. say something pithy (i am writing my notes verbatim).