Grand River Town Hall Lager

Brewed by Grand River Brewing
Style: Premium Lager
Cambridge, Canada

500ml bottle thanks to Boutip. Clear golden with a medium foamy white head. Good retention and great lacing. Aroma is banana syrup for kids, marshmallow strawberries, waternmelon, fizzy peach candies, citrus and malt. Flavor is very fruity, slightly less candy than the aroma. There is citrus, peach, strawberries, herbs, malt, hops and an interesting bitter finish. Thin to medium body with fine bubbles. Much better than expected, I’m impressed with this one.

Growler from the brewery - pours a shocking rusty copper hue with a medium white head. Beautiful, fresh aroma filled with bread dough, sweet malts and a good amount of hops. Nice yeastiness in there too. Flavour is brilliant - an expert mingling of hops and malt, with the malt providing a good body and the hops adding a nice refreshing bitter finish. Jesus, this is 3.9%?! You’d never know it to look, smell or taste, and really puts to rest the notion that "light beer" has to be light in colour, aroma and flavour. This blows all of them out of the water. I prefer the Galt Knife Old Style ever so slightly, but the two combined are without a doubt the best two lagers in Ontario, hands down. Terrific stuff.

Bottle, fresh from the brewery. This is a transparent golden orange colour with a thin, permanent, off white head. The aroma is very nice: plenty of malt, honey, fresh bread, orange peel, clove, flowers, lemon, spices. Mouthfeel is medium, smooth. The flavour has loads of lemon zest; it’s very floral too, with dandelion, grass, oats, cereal, apple, some peppermint. Finish is medium to short with grassy hops.

This was the second beer I tried from this place and it seems to be the same as the plowmans but a notch down on the bitter scale. More drinkable than the plowmans but still way over-hopped. Not as an acidic of a beer either as the Plowmans.

Well, I gotta say, as far as "premium lagers" go, this and Creemore are probably the best I’ve ever had. Pours a fizzy gold yellow with no head. Aroma really grainy, big bread notes, a little bit of honey and lemon, ends on a strange note, kind of smells like an old basement. Flavour is grainey, bread, lemon zest, grass, a touch of hops and more lemon in the end. A bit of soapiness in the finish, but its actually not a bad thing....in a weird kind of way. Really good, will buy again.

Growler from brewery. Pours a slighly hazy yellow gold with small white head. Sweet malt aroma. Sweet malt flavour with a nice hoppy but smooth finish. Another really impressive offering from Grand River.

its a hazy yellow with a small ring of head. smells grassy, sort of metallic, and not to say it lightly but like urine. tastes light, strangely a bit like alcohol considering its percent, dull-almost bready, a tiny bit spicy, with a noticeable metallic taste. it feels flat though moderate bodied, from its packaging and the rating i expected an interesting, flavourful low percent lager but this is just too far off tasting.

clear yellow, fluffy white head. Plain nose, slightly herbal, dried fruits, some citrus, soapy, bready. Bready taste as well, smooth and clean, balanced well, not an amazing beer but better than any other light lager ive tried.