Grain Belt Premium

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

Very sweet beer. Very yellow in color. Not too bad not too good. Wouldn’t mind getting drunk off

My friend gave me one of these and said I was in for a treat. I drank it and laughed a little on the inside. Fairly bland but not horrible. A big step up from Bud or Miller but still lingering in the corny category. Decent and smooth. Fine to drink but nothing to go out of your way for. Won’t buy on my own.

Crystal clear yellow. Biscuits and corn starch on the nose fleeting into warm wafts of stinking, old garlic and onion vegetal steam. Sweaty and ugly; lightly skunked. Flavor is much cleaner and simple to enjoy with crisp almond malts and minty hop bite; hints of lemon, wonderbread, and dry grass. Once past the gutter vomit of the aroma complaints are remarkably hard to make against this; no blatant chemicals or metallic flourishes are present even for a moment. Light bodied, very crisp, and smoothly finishing with lightly tart apple and honey sweetness; refreshing and leaving a sticky caramelized cashew and cotton candy skin in the mouth. Put this in a brown bottle and it might be the best made, most consistent and enjoyable of its style one could ask for.

This is a pleasant, refreshing beer. It is gold with a smallish white head that slowly dissipates. The aroma is pleasant, sweet grain, flowery, and a little fruity. It’s light but rather strong for the style. The taste is similarly mild but strong and complex for the style. It’s faintly sweet grain, a bit flowery, fruity with apple cider and a mild but long grain aftertaste. It’s a bit watery, like apple cider, but very nice, aromatic, crisp and easily drinkable. It is somewhat like a very dry apple cider with a toasted grain/beer element thrown in. Overall, this is very pleasant and satisfying if light.

This pours a bright yellow body with a slender fizzy head. If you snort hard, you pick up a soft scent of sweet pale malt along with some grassiness and a touch of metallica. Light-bodied and somewhat oily, it has mild, swet generic malt flavor with a touch of grassy bitterness. Oddly, not a bad drink.

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12 oz. bottle. A staple that goes back to my mid-teens. I don’t drink it as often since Schells started brewing it, but when I do, mmmmm…. Pours a clear yellow with a brilliantly white head. Taste is sweeter than you may expect. Malty and medium bodied with a crisp finish. I’m grateful that this was one of my first beers.

A MN institution. Kinda sweet, like liquid candy. But definitely a great standby for chilling in the summer, or out at the bars...

Oh Grain Belt, or as we used to call it in college - Brain Melt. The parties, the girls, broken condoms, chewing your arm off to get away. Ahhh, such fond memories of my Grain Belt bender years. I did graduate and have moved on to better brews. You are watery, thin and have a lovely urine colored body, but you will always hold a place in my heart.