Gila Monster Amber Lager

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

Hazy amber with a tall, frothy & bubby light beige head that laces as it quickly fades, leaving island-like clumps of foam floating upon the top of the drink. The aroma is sweet malts with a fruity overtone. The flavor is nice and malty, but any hopping is negligible. It the finish is malty sweet with a slight metallic bitterness. Not sure why this is a "Pale Lager" when it comes across more like an American dark

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HAzy with a quarter inch head.light fruity aroma with a stong malt flavor. Minimal hops.

a delicious caramel and malty combination in this lager. very smooth start, taste, and finish.

Pours a light amber body with a moderate head. Aroma is malty and basic. Flavor is smooth caramel and toffee. There is a lingering aftertaste. Finishes sweet, and is very easy to drink.

Bottle. Dark amber with a medium head that diminished quickly. Medium aroma of hops and malt. Medium body. Medium flavor of malt and spice with a short finish.

Pours a rediish copper, minimal head, very thin lacing. Aromais sweet, dominant malts, almost no hop spice. Flavor is more of the same. Malts are decently toasty, nutty, and flavorful, but there is absolutely no balance here. When the hops do make an appearance, it’s a mild, grassy bit in the finish. Not bad, especially considering the low price point of this product. This brewery used to bottle Schlafly beers under contract of St Louis brewery, and did a good job with those.

it’s the color of that little bit of coke that is left when all the ice cubes melt in your glass. a little fruit in the nose (raspberry?) but heavier on the lemon/lime smell, also a fairly pronounced toastiness. the mouthfeel is fine, but pretty light. this is one of the weirdest beers i’ve had. there is no balance at all. it has a similar sweetness/carmel flavor as broadside, but with none of the body, then there’s this american industrial lager toastiness that’s tied into a hay flavor with an actually sharp bitterness, seemingly without resins, like they had an addition of straight alpha acids. it is so weird deffinately not reccomended. colin and i agree that old style is a finer selection.

Pours amber with a quickly disappearing head. Aroma is hardly there, a hint of malt. Taste is moderately sweet with notes of caramel, toffee. Palate was pretty thin. Pretty boring but not foul.