Samuel Smiths Organic Lager

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Pale Lager
Tadcaster, England

2007 - North American Organic Brewers Festival – Portland, Oregon
Golden in color with a thin head. Had a deep malty flavor being a lager. This was light with hops and had some off flavors. Might have been an older bottle that was opened. Dry to the finish this was Ok not my best beer.

6/9/07: Sample at Columbus Ale Fest ’07.
Grassy aroma. Light hay body. Grassy flavor – stale – with some lemon.

White head on a golden body. Nice, smooth taste. Easy to drink. Good any time in the year.

Bottled. Clear and pale golden in coloured with a medium sized white head. Mild and refreshing with notes of malt, grass, hops, bread and flowers. Maybe a bit too mild.

Bottle in the Waterguard, Cardiff. Smooth but stealthy lager. Malty flavour, goes down well but lacks a little.

clear golden w/small white head, light aroma of malt with mild floral and citrus notes. medium body and light carbonation for a lager. fairly bitter syrupy malt flavor with a little caramel and some subtle orange and flowers near the end. crisp but almost pale ale like. bitterness is a little overpowering, and makes it fairly straightforwarad. good but not one of my favorite smith beers

From a distinctive 550 ml. Samuel Smith bottle with a coded freshness date on the shoulder of bottle, sampled at cellar temperature in a lager glass. Poured a clear pale lager golden with a frothy, rocky white head, good retention, small amount of ringed sticking. A largely clean aroma, sweet malty, grainy, lightly citric and floral. Good tiny bubble carbonation and a crisp, dry, clean, smooth, tight light bodied mouthfeel. This is better tasting than I remember, it’s been awhile, I decided to pick this up when I realized it was a newer, fresh bottle, tastes of sweet grainy pale malts, a very light green grape skin fruitiness, a citric flavored hoppiness that has a soft bitterness, and a dry grainy, lightly fruity finish, a pretty clean finish with a very soft herbal leafiness cleansing the palate. I don’t if it is because today was another hot, with some humidity, spring day, or if it is because I had this right after playing golf today, but I found this to be quite refreshing, highly enjoyable. I’m thinking I need to do a side by side comparison with the Pured Brewed Lager, to see if there is any differences.

Surprising fruit aroma, more like a light ale. Brassy color with a firm white head that somewhat laces. Firm mouthfeel, reasonable level of carbonation, and some nice hop at the start. The finish could have more hop, but at least the common lager "rice" impact is hardly detectable. Could fool me into thinking I was drinking ale. Except after a while a lager corniness pops up a little. Decent as lagers tend to get. Crisp. Clean.