Rock Bottom Lumpy Dog Light Lager

Brewed by Rock Bottom Corporate Office
Style: Pale Lager
Louisville, Colorado USA

The Rock Bottom set of reviews is a reflection of my hasty attempt to drink a small quantity of many beers and produce accurate and helpful reviews. Clearly I’ve failed, but I hope my incoherent and cryptic critiques can help at least a few folks who wander in and want to know what to order. It takes a very loving and, to a degree, forgiving person to love a canine creature of such hideousness as adorns (blemishes?) the label of Rock Bottom’s Lumpy Dog. It takes a similar character to love the beer after which it’s named. The sickly, urine yellow color is off putting enough to worry even a hardened beer veteran, and the cookie cutter American lager odor reeks of prosaic commonality. The taste is on par with any pale lager, which collectively deserve to take a one way tour of our cities’ fine plumbing systems. There is an appealing but low key sea salt taste, but that’s no substitute for good flavor. This should technically be the first sample you have, it being the lightest of Rock Bottom’s fare, but you may want to skip it altogether and leave it for the beer nebbishes at the table.

This draft brew from the brewery in Cinci poured a small sized head of fine to medium sized mostly diminishing white colored bubbles that left behind a good lacing. The body contained soft carbonation, was transparent and weak straw yellow in color. Its aroma was non-existent. Its mouth feel is initially tingly and crisp with a lingering tingly crisp palate. Its flavor contained crisp mild malt hop notes.

Samples at the Denver Location. Very light color with a thin lace and thin head. Aroma is of grassy hops, light pils malt and some wheat. Smooth flavor with a bit of hops and even some dms/cornlike flavors. Very easy drinking.

Very mild, grainy malt aroma is vaguely sweet. Brilliantly clear gloden body with decent, fine bubbled head that recedes to ring with nice lacing. Mild grainy sweet flavour with a slight lemon-citrus herbal note and a whisper of hop bitterness. Light body with strong carbonation. Sampled on tap at Rock Bottom Denver with Olivier_MTL and Rastacouere.

Light grainy nose, yellow color, lathery head. Full sweet barley taste for a light beer, surprisingly so. Odd balance. Low bitter. Watery and thin. A crowd-pleaser for sure.

Blonde pale vêtu d’une mousse blanche adhérant à la paroi du verre. Arômes de grains, de céréales et de timides houblons floraux. Faiblement goûteuse, céréales et grains nous conduisent vers une fine dose de houblons floraux, style hallertauer. Texture poudreuse, présence en bouche est légère, corps très mince, faible carbonatation. Une bière de consommation de masse. En fût, Rock Bottom, Denver

Tap in Denver.
Pours a translucent gold. Aroma is faint hops and sour water. Flavor is tangy sour; it’s like a macro with balls. Palate is decent. Not bad, but not fantastic.
Bottle.
Not much different than tap as far as taste, but the lack of carbonation makes it weaker and duller.

On Tap @ Rock Bottom Denver- Pours a clear golden color, small white head. Aroma is like a light brew, as well as the falvor. A decent alternative to BMC.