Maritime Pacific Old Seattle Lager

Brewed by Maritime Pacific Brewing Co.
Style: Pale Lager
Seattle, Washington USA

Straw color and clear. Grain and grassy aroma evokes a German lager, but without the crisp finish. Something is missing. I think the hops should be maybe different. The cereal and sweet side needs the balance of Saaz hops.

Date: September 17, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Jolly Roger Taproom
Appearance: clear gold, wispy white head, streaks of lace
Aroma: sweet cereal aroma, light floral hops
Flavor: sweet cereal flavor, floral hops, balancing bitterness starts off light and grows into the best part of the beer
Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 9/20
Rating: 2.4/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ** /4

Not too bad and pretty solid for a lager. On tap in lots of locally-focused smaller pubs, it pours an expected clear gold with a grassy aroma but is has a touch more hops than usual. Good balance and clean taste.

A little soapy, somewhat hoppy aroma for a lager. This is a pretty darn good lager. A lot of hops in the finish. I actually prefer this to the pils.

Dry hopped draft at the brewery. Clear bright yellow, soft abrupt lager, some floral hops. Fiercely lagery. Dry like notebook paper, cottony, aspirin. Some corn? Lagers just aren’t my thing. This is a well built lager, it’s just that I don’t really like them.

Draft. Clear yellow, filtered. Nose is minimally hoppy but clean and bright. Some minimal sulphur/chemical scents. lemon sweetness to the hops, fresh and mild corn syrup nose. Crisp, wet, perfectly clean with a properly full body and a sharp and bright fullness to the malt body. well made, well lagered. Better than many of the ales I found around Seattle on draft. love it. I could drink this all day every day.

pours a pale yellow with a thin white head, and a very good lacing. smell of grain, corn, few malts, some hops, and a touch of citrus in the back. taste is thick, corn syrip, grain, some malt, and ends a little dry. overall not bad for a pale lager which is not my favorite style.

Draft at Beveridge Place Pub. Pours crystal clear light golden with a dense and creamy but short-lived platinum blonde head. Nice nutty and wet-grass-y nose. Creamy light body, carb is out of the way. Lemon, wet grass, wet leaves, and nuts on the mid-palate. Long nutty finish.