Ashley Cotter-Cairns is astounded by Brooklyn Lager.
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Brooklyn Lager review
Submitted
by Ashley
Cotter-Cairns
It's not every day I get to review a
New
York beer. And it's not every day I
get to sample a
beer that stops me in my tracks with bags of character and quality. Brooklyn lager
fulfils both of the above criteria.
Following recent encounters with seemingly dozens of fizzy red Canadian lagers, when I opened this beer and poured it, I must confess my heart sank just a fraction when I saw the colour.
I had my review half-written already: yet another fizzy red beer from North America. Ho hum. And then I tasted it.
Brooklyn lager
Brooklyn lager is a missing link. If you like cold, fizzy, refeshing beers (especially in summertime, when New York City, or Montreal, if you can find this there, can be like hell on earth), but also love the taste of hops, you’ve just found the perfect bridging beer.
Brooklyn lager has a lot of the character of an IPA, while masquerading as a lager-style brew.
Obviously if there's the comparison
to an IPA, then you are
going to have to be a fan of bitter,
dry-tasting beers to enjoy this fine lager. But again, the
missing link aspect comes into play. This is hoppy
without the intense dryness of most IPA-style brews.
The aftertaste is still very bitter, but you don't get that
bottom-of-the-birdcage feeling in your mouth after a few seconds that
IPAs at
their dryest can create.
It's almost criminal to market this beer as mere "lager". It's just
superb, refreshing and flavourful
to the nth degree: but on the other hand, if
you bought a six-pack expecting a fairly bland, blonde-style, middle of
the road lager, then you'd
be extremely disappointed. Mad, even.
And in New York in summer, a mad beerhead could cause a minor riot.
It might just convert a fizzy piss fan into a hops fan, though. If that happens to just one per cent of the populace, then Brooklyn lager will be doing a public service.
Quite simply the best lager I've ever had.
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