Granite City Northern Light

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

Name: Northern Light Lager
Date: 08/07/2008
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub, Madison

Appearance: clear pale yellow, scant head,
Aroma: light cereal aroma with light floral hops,
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, light bitterness, touch of grain,

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 8/20
Rating: 2.2/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *+/4

(Draught) Pours a clear pale yellow body with a small white head. Aroma of light grain and skunkiness. Flavor of light floral, citrus, and malt.

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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Omaha. Straw color with a few white bubbles atop. Hints of light grain and malt with some light floral to grassy hops. Somewhat watery feel. Flavors follow the feel. Light malt and grain with a bit of bitterness and acidity (citric).

Draft at S.D. location. Light clear pale color with an average fizzy white head that mostly diminished. Light sour citrus aroma. Light body with flat carbonation. Light sweet flavor with a light sweet short finish. Light in character.

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!

Sampled at the Cedar Rapids location. The body is a very pale yellow with a small head. The aroma is light and grainy with grass and carrots. The taste is grass and corn. There isn’t much character here.

This draft brew from the brewery poured a head of finely sized white colored bubbles that were fully diminished and left behind a transparent uncarbonated light yellow-orange colored body and no lacing. The mild aroma was malty. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The thin flavor contained notes of malt and hops. Not one that I would buy again.