Grumpy Troll Captain Fred

Brewed by Grumpy Troll Brewery, Restaurant and Pizzeria
Style: Pale Lager
Mount Horeb, Wisconsin USA

Tap Gold color and cloudy with almost no head.A strong smelling lager with a little hop. smooth to the palate.Nice crisp strong flavor for a lager with a hop finish. I’m not a big lager fan but this is 1 of 5 lagers that i will drink.

Pils malt and corn in the aroma = very clean. The flavor has a similar pale/ corn base but with a pleasant picy, grassy hopping. A well-done classic american pils.

Pale Lager rating #100. Yellow and clear. Crisp, fresh, lively flavors of grains and corn, lightly sweet, with more of a sour note in the finish. A good pre-prohibition style lager, easy to drink and refreshing and made without any glaring defects.

Mild grain aroma,somehow you get the sense that there will be sweetness in the taste, sure enough ,flavor has a grain malt tasting,with a little sugary sweetness,it does have that light tartness to it,like some wheat was used. I would not describe this a crisp and clean,had more ale like characteristics. No off tastes,nice enough

Thin pale yellow body with a white head. The flavor is full of flowery hops and lager yeasts. Crisp and clean and quite refreshing. The aroma is flowery hops and corn grains. Fuller mouthfeel than I’d expect. I’d drink this again as it is a good beer for the masses.

Sampler tray

This was the first sample that I tried. It is definitely just what it advertises - a pale lager. That means simple and a nice thirst quencher. While it isn’t a style that I tend to visit often I wish more brewpubs had a fallback like this. You can tell some important things about a brewer by how well they do the ’easy’ styles and this is no exception.

Aroma / Appearance - The body was the color of white grape juice with no head to speak of. Lemons, orange peels and wheat formed the bulk of the complexity (or should I say lack of complexity). It was satisfying yet even for a simple beer it felt like there could have been just a bit more to it.

Aroma / Appearance - The easy drinking citrus flavored sample was soon gone. I was able to pick up a trace amount of bitterness but this was a very simple beer. I’d place it slightly above New Glarus Totally Naked which means if I ever come back and want a light session beer this will be my first order.

11/16/2007: Grumpty Troll Captain Fred is transparent with a golden straw color, mild carbonation, and no head. Its aroma and flavor are fairly typical and average. It has a decent maltiness and is refreshing, but other than that, this pale ale is nothing special.

Sample (draught) at the Grumpy Troll Brewery, Restaurant and Pizzeria in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. Rating #18 for this beer.

On tap at the brewpub 7/31/09: Pours a clear pale golden with a thin, clingy-lacing white head. Aroma of crisp noble hops and pale malt with some graininess. Starts light with a faint hint of sweetness and some grainy malt before a drier bitter finish. Pretty refreshing and drinkable, but nothing too exciting.