Granite City Northern Light

Brewed by Granite City Food & Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
St. Louis Park, Minnesota USA

On TAP@Granite City Omaha,NE. Pale yellow color, Thin white head no persistent, malty aroma like the flavor, but some corn notes in there. Mouthfeel is quite bitter.

On tap at Granite City in Orland Park. Pours pale golden with white head. Aroma is grassy with notes of corn. Flavor is watered down with hints of corn and sweet malt. Your typical brew for the masses who drink Bud and Miller products.

Pale yellow with a thin white head. Aroma of light corn, light sweet malts, another micro re-making an American macro, ugh. Taste is watery, thin, corny and finishes astringent.

Ah the old standard lager at a brewpub trick. Very similar to most light macros, has a lemony yellow appearance with limited head retention and lace to it. The beer was slightly cloudy as well. The smell was malty but nothing great. The taste is all malt and corn and the strongest flavor of the beer. There is a bite to it from the hops that gives it a sweet and sour flavor to it. Much sweeter then you would see from a macro light lager. There really was no body to the beer and was lightly carbonated. I guess this was the beer to try if you like macros. Then why not just order a Bud Light?

This beer looks like a cloudy version of Bud Light. It has a better taste than most big brewery lagers, but it’s over all pretty light on the palate. Not terrible, but I won’t be seeking it out anytime soon.

Draft at Fort Wayne, IN location. Very small white head that quickly dissipated, no lacing, transparent, no carbonation observed, and a pale yellow hue. The nose was pale malt with a hint of hops. Ditto for the flavor with some crispness. Smooth mouthfeel and light in body.Very uninteresting beer to say the least as it was too light in the nose and aroma give the style. Should have had more umph all the way around IMO.Easy drinking if nothing else.

I had this brew at the Sioux Falls SD location. It was crisp and refreshing but it wasn’t what I would go to a brew pub for. Yellow with not much of a head.

Golden body with no head. Faint aroma. Flavor of corn adjunct with a hint of honey. Not much else going on.