Granite City Northern Light

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

August 2007 in Omaha NE. Should have had water there would have been more taste. Little to no aroma and flavor to match. For this to be called a beer it needs "kicked up about four notches". This could have been a Coors Light without the metalic taste.

Here’s one that I could have passed on. Not very much flavor or aroma, some pale sweet malt with corn syrup. The malts taste like honeyed bread, but the flavor is so faint as to mainly impart a sugary sweetness. Hops? I’m still searching. Very pale yellow with almost no head.

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A very disappointing beer from a place that seems like it should be able to produce better. Some sweetness but overall low on flavor. At Cherry Valley

Draught sample at the St Louis Park MN location, RBSG Minneapolis weekend, June 23 2007. Very very pale see-through yellow body, no head to speak of....mild, adjuncty but clean creamed corn/corn sugar aroma....very sweet, minimal malt character upfront but a bit of decent breadiness late....slightly metallic finish. Not so bad, though unfortunately the beers didn’t really get much better. My 200th pale lager rating, whoo hoo!

Typical light lager, cleaner and more bitter than most but still nothing to recommend it. This pub seems to cater to a family crowd and I’m not expecting anything great or challenging here.

I couldn’t smell anything on this yellow pour. It had a bready lager flavor with a slight metallic finish.

Minimal head with a sweet apple nose. yellow color and slightly sweet to the taste.

I felt this was pretty terrible. Deep golden colour, very clear, medium frothy head with zero staying power. There was no aroma that I was able to detect, but I can’t smell too well anyway. The flavour was drinkable, but not blanced at all. It has a sweet twang to it, making it feel like an amateur made it and didn’t ferment it long enough. I can see this being popular for most, but I’ll pass.