Samuel Smiths Pure Brewed Lager

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Premium Lager
Tadcaster, England

(550 ml bottle) Pours clear golden/yellow with three fingers or so of frothy off-white head. Aroma of hay, honey, some vanilla and a bit of licorice. Mouthfeel smooth and with a nice bit of heft. Maybe a touch prickly. Very lightly dryish on back end. Foamy, patchy lacing. Flavor of honeyish malt with some hay. Little bit of bittering hops comes through in finish. A pretty nicely done lager with a good malt backbone.

Dark yellow with a soft finger of white head, aroma is very grassy, light hops and pale malts. Taste is apples, pale malt, a dusty grassy finish.

Poured from 550ml bottle into large dimpled mug. Aroma - Very light malt, grassy, a bit of lemon. Appearance - Pale straw yellow in color with pure white 1 finger creamy head. Head diminishes very quickly, but leaves nice lacing. Flavor - Maltier than I would expect, grassy, slight citrus and floral on the finish. Palate - Light and crisp. Not overly carbonated. Overall - I’m not a big fan of lagers, but this would be a good lager to give to friends stuck on American macro ’lagers’. Crisp, refreshing and flavorful.

Bottle. Pours a clear gold, nice white head that disappears rather quickly. Aroma is a touch of hops with malt. Flavor is a very pleasant mixture of hop and malt, touches of corn and cereal. Finish is subdued bittereness.

A very good lager, with a nice smooth flavor and aroma containing a gentle balance of malt and hops, it is not too much of any one thing, but nonetheless, still good.

Name: Pure Brewed Lager
Date: November 01, 2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Appearance: clear pale gold, wispy white head, streaks of lace
Aroma: sweet corn and cereal aroma, light floral hops, touch of green apple
Flavor: sweet cereal flavor, light floral hops, well balancing bitterness with a long bitter finish
Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 8/20
Rating: 2.2/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *+/4

didnt expect much from the smell, but i found the sweet, subtle fruit with light hoppy flavor very delicious.

550ml bottle. Golden with a big white head. Spicy hops, a bit of skunk, and some bready malt in the aroma. The flavor is light and clean, with crackerish pale malt and modest hop bitterness. Light bodied with medium carbonation. Unmoving, but refreshing as well. A bit worse for wear though.