Grand Canyon Rattlesnake Beer

Brewed by Oak Creek Brewing Co.
Style: Pale Lager
Sedona, Arizona USA

Color is a chilled haze of dark yellow, nearly amber with a thin but firm off-white head, fades fast to a skim present at first but goes away about midglass, lace in drippy strings. Smell is faint of roasty malts and musty, lightly grassy and floral. Taste is more of the same with a simple yet pleasant balance of roasty/toasty malts, lightly crisp and a airy soft easy dry biscuity breadish finish with a whisp of barely nociteable hop charge of light floral placement. Feel is a medium - close to getting light body, but smooth and lightly creamy and crisp, not bad at all. Pretty straight forward and easy, nothing stands out but there's not much wrong with it either; other then it being a standard of top quality, not fully flavored or bodied, just a bit over being plain and almost being good.

Courtesy of Bockyhorsey. <P> Sweet malty aroma with minor bread pudding with raisins asspects. Cloudy dark amber in color with a lazy white head. Molassess, brown sugar, bread, honey and very lightly toasted malts. This isn’t a pale lager. Way too dark first of all. Light bronze is the "dark end" for a pale and this is rich red amber. Plus it has almost no pale lager flavor notes except the sweet malt and this is MUCH sweeter. Almost tastes like a low-alcohol watery Gouden Carolus. Was a very nice suprise. I put this off till last thinking it would be a cheap lager and it is pretty damn good.

Bottle. Pour is cloudy amber with small white head. Aroma is light malt and hops with a honey kick. Flavor is very smooth and hoppy with a lightly sweet finish. very easy to drink with a nice full body. A nice surprise.

Pours with a brilliantly clear, full amber color that is topped by a frothy, slightly creamy, pale tan colored head. The aroma is scented with lightly spicy hop notes, sweet caramel malt notes and a touch of toasted grain character. The taste is sweet and fruity up front, with notes of apple, and berry being prominent. A touch of caramelized grain rounds out the flavor with just a wisp of hop character. Seems to be a touch spicy, a touch herbal and only a light bitterness in the finish. This has a bit of a creamy body to it that certainly keeps it from being light and watery. This is no where near the drain pour that I was expecting, it is certainly not a big or expressive beer, but the combination of lightly sweet malt, fruity notes and light hop character make for an easing drinking and quaffable brew and even the body of this brew has a bit of extra character to it.

Thanks to secret santa (Bockyhorsey). Pours out a darker amber color, appearance reminds me of yuengling. Sweet malts on the nose with a small head. Flavor is very nice for this style of beer, sweet malty backbone with some notes of brown sugar. An enjoyable beer for this style, very drinkable, hell if I lived in Arizona I’d probably drink it all the time.

Interesting brew. Cloudy yellow. Toasty aroma and flavor with a nice mellow Spalt? hoppiness. Tangy wheat malt bite. Thanks again AZ.

Pours gold/amber, with a huge, off-white head. Aroma is malt, with some fruit. Flavor is sweet malt, fruit, and hops. Body seems a bit heavy for the style. Not bad at all, just nothing to make it special. Thanks to Bockyhorsey for this bottle.

Pours a light copper color with a white head. Aroma is malty, grainy, toasty, and a hint of peppery hops. Flavor is malty, grainy, toasty, some honey, and a light peppery finish.