Lancaster Litening Lager

Brewed by Lancaster Brewing Co.
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA

An orange golden beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet with a somewhat weird Lite beer hop profile. The flavor is sweet malty with only faint hints of hops, and a thin body. Boring.

on tap -pours an off white head that laces and gold color. Aroma is grain. Taste is sweet grain, faint hops. OK carbonation.

Tap at the brewpub. Very pale golden straw colour. Pale pils malt that is pretty expressive really. Soft floral hoppiness that really comes through on the back of the palate as well. Fresh malt base. It’s a pretty solid take on the style.

Draft. Medium gold pour with medium head. Aroma of hopcit, honey, apricot. The flavor was hopcitris, but maintained a sweet, fruity taste, with some honey in the finish. This one is medium on the palate, and notably complex for this style.

Sample at the brewpub. Strong buttercotchy/diacetyl aroma & flavor, very malty, some milkiness..fuller and darker than most, but rather boring overall.

On tap at the brewery. Poured a translucent golden with a white foamy head. Aroma of gran, grass and some malts. Flavor and feel is very light. Also picked up the grass, grain and yeast/bread in the flavor.

Draught at brewery: Poured clear yellow color, with small, diminishing, creamy, white head. No lacing. Grainy malt, chalk, and cardboard flavors dominated. Very light and thin with chalky aftertaste. Overall, not impressed; very thing, and Yuengling is much better.

Sample, at Lancaster location. Pours a clear dark gold body with a wispy off-white head. Very light nose, just a bit of bready malt and honey. The flavor is rather bland, bready malt with just the lightest touch of hops on the back end. Finishes a little rough and grainy. Light to medium bodied with fizzy prickly carbonation. Not too much going on with this one.