Frugal Joes Ordinary Beer

Brewed by August Schell Brewing Company
Style: Pale Lager
New Ulm, Minnesota USA

Name: Frugal Joe’s Ordinary Ale
Date: 04/11/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

pale yellow, wispy white head, light malt aroma with funky floral hops, light malt flavor, touch of sweetness, light hops, almost tasteless,

Aroma: 3/10; Appearance: 4/10; Flavor: 3/10; Palate: 4/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 1.5/5.0
Drinkability: 5/10
Score: 4

12oz bottle-pours a foamy white and very pale yellow color. Aroma is grain, musty. Taste is grain, sweet (corn?), musty, mild light hops. OK/mild carbonation.

Pours a transparent pale golden with a thin, spotty-lacing ring of white head. Aroma of slightly grainy pale malt and a hint of earthy noble hops. Body is thin, but smooth with little grainy malty character and a touch of earthy bitterness toward a clean, but boring finish.

12oz bottle. As bland and plain as you could imagine. Nose? Light cracker malts, light caramel, stinky, stale, flat smell. Taste is the same. Minimally offensive corn, dust and stale crackers. Boring.

Yeah - what the other raters said about this and then some. Actually not too offensive, since it’s mostly watered down corn syrup. Praise be I only bought one.

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Ultra light straw color with a fading white head that does leave a thin lasing lid and some lace. Corn mush and grass aromas. A very mild DMS, not the full vegetable, but rather a lightly steamed vegetable sort. Sweet, very sweet, not malt, but corn and simple sugars. Flavor-wise this is truly a drain pour. As I refuse to finish this one. This actually gets slightly better as it warms. OK, I’ll finish it, but at least it got slightly easier as it warmed.

Bottle from TraderJoe’s. Poured light pale color with a minimal head that diminished quickly with virtually no lacing. Light grainy aroma. Light body with soft carbonation. Light sweet flavor with a light sweet finish of short duration. Much of what I expected.

The body was pale yellow with a quickly fading white head. The aroma was green bell peppers and potatoes. There was earthy dirt. The taste was potatoes with some slight bell pepper twang. Typical for a very light pale lager. The finish was slightly corny and sweet in the finsih. The body was light and very watery.