Victory All Malt Lager (Dortmunder)

Formerly brewed at Victory Brewing Company
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Downingtown, Pennsylvania USA

Smells like toast and cereal, head disapeared in 30 seconds. Golden color. Bland lager taste, not skunky like most lagers but just bland. Its a good lager if you like lagers, but its not my style.

Incredible smoothness and perfect carbonation in the finish. Nothing is particularly striking about the flavor or the aroma, but all in all, this is a very pleasant lager.

I just tried their festbeir, and this is very similar, thought a bit better. This is a mighty fine lager. A great balance of light maltiness, sweetness, hops, as wiseguy pointed out. If this were not a Victory beer, I would probably rate it higher, but I hold them to a higher standard. This is a good beer for its style, but Victory makes much better.

Ahhh the sweet taste of Victory. Im back, hahaha, now let me bring you up to date. Ive been gone for a while, I went through a whole spiritual thing and became a Buddhist monk for about 3 months. The religion was ok, the no talking kina sucked. One day I realized how badly I looked with my head shaved, and then I threw in the towel. But Im back, back like a super ball after its been bounced on the ground. Back like a Chinese brothel hoe house that calls your name in the cool calm night sky. Back like a dog chasing after a speeding car and wonders why he has no front legs and can only bark in sentence fragments and not in full sentences. None of this is a rational thought or makes any kind of sense. But assuming that the best Chinese hoe house is Cha Chas and the best super ball bounces straight to the moon, I would trade it all, every last ball and every last hoe, just to get my arms around a Sean Quinn T-shirt. But as for the beer, all the malts are in the right place here, you even have some floating in the bottle. So cheers to you, Victory All Malt Lager, for it is you who bring out the best in our otherwise darkest hour.

Nothing especially interesting, but definitely a decent lager. I wouldn’t go hunting for this beer, but it’s nice and pleasant.

Light malty, a little sweet, a little hoppy. Just a well made, well balanced lager. Feels good in the mouth, but no after taste. Nothing to dislike, but not in the same league as their other beers.

Not a bad little lager. Interesting cracker-like aroma. More interesting to look at than many lighter lagers. At first sip it was very flavorful but had almost no aftertaste, and not much hops. This was pleasing enough but not challenging enoug hto be memorable. A good refresher.

A delicious dort/helles. Crisp and clean -very balanced. Alot like Great Lakes Dort Gold, and a little less like Wolnzacher, Jahrhundert and Kraftbrau's. I wish I knew precisely what contributed to the difference. Thanks to urbnhaut!