New Glarus Totally Naked Extra Pale Lager

Brewed by New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Premium Lager
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

2006 bottle (I assume) in a fantastic trade with Dorwart, consumed on 9/28/06.
Clear, light-beeswax with hints of copper and lemon tints. Lazy, large bubbles drift upwards, creating a small white head that, even with a forcible pour is dismally retained and creates no lacing.
Aroma: Hmmm, well, that’s not good. I must say I was expecting a clean, crisp, flavorful, light lager, being somewhat skeptical of the scores on here, not to mention most scores for pale lagers on this site. And how could New Glarus, a brewery which, seemingly, can do no wrong, create some mass-market, flawed mess of a beer? I didn’t believe it at all, but dipping my nose in to a cacophony of DMS, acetyldehyde, stale, washed out, cereal-grade-like malts and a sluggish, nearly metallic finish, with vanilla and other cheap, sugary bi-product, there’s just no way around it. This beer sucks. Badly.
The flavor is more of the same, compound brewing flaws making it mostly undrinkable to anyone looking to get more than just drunk. Fizzy carbonation, poor attenuation, even and just a cheap, corny, DMS flavor. Guess they don’t feel the need to condition this stuff for proper lengths of time. I can understand it, though. If people are simply switching from BMC to this and not complaining (the majority of them), why waste extra time and money to condition it when the microbrew crowd knows to just pass it up and buy their other lagers. I don’t grudge them anything for it. Still, it is pretty awful stuff!

Thanks to ughsmash for this one. Pours out a straw color with a frothy white head. Aroma is somewhat grassy with some sweet malts. Mouthfeel is a bit watery. Taste is smooth, but very stright foward with some swet malts, and that was really about it, plain and simple, which isnt always a bad thing

12oz bottle courtesy of Monger. Thanks, James! Pours a clear golden yellow with a fluffy white head; good retention and lacing. Slight aroma with a sweet, vinuous quality; like Welch’s grape juice. Light, crisp mouthfeel with good levels of carbonation, slightly grapey; light malt profile. The finish is quick, without any noticeable bitterness.

Bottle. Pours a pale golden color with a small white head. Aroma is very mild malt and citrus with a standard pilsner taste and texture. Extremely smooth and drinkable.

GABF 06. Overall, a nice pilsner. much better than the macros. Aroma is light hops, and muted malt. Taste is smooth. Lightly bitter finish.

Bottle sampled with Beerded_one. Pours golden with a decent sized white head. Aroma of of citrus hops & sweet malts. Flavor is sweet, slight fruit, citrus, and mildly bitter in the finish, ok brew, good for a premium lager.

New Glarus has too many good beers to waste time on this one. Very much in the vein of a macrobrew, though more balanced.

I do not like larger (apparently no one else does) but this is above average. Add some citrus and you come close to spotted cow which has had inexplicable success for an middling brew