New Belgium Shift Pale Lager
New Belgium employee-owners work in shifts to brew to life world-class beers. Those efforts are rewarded daily with a shared end-of-shift beer. We’re passing that welcomed occasion onto consumers in this lightly-hopped Shift Pale Lager. From work to play, from bottle to can, from bold and heavy to refreshing and sessionable; Shift salutes the shift in occasion, package and beer. So, go ahead and get your Shift beer, you’ve earned it!
ABV - 5.0; IBU - 29; Calories - 160 (per can); Hops - Target, Nelson Sauvin, Liberty, Cascade; Malts - Pale, Munich, C-80; OG - 14.3; TG - 2.3
ABV - 5.0; IBU - 29; Calories - 160 (per can); Hops - Target, Nelson Sauvin, Liberty, Cascade; Malts - Pale, Munich, C-80; OG - 14.3; TG - 2.3
3.3
459 reviews
Fort Collins, United States
Community reviews
I didn't take any extra notes when I tried this beer for the first time but I'm gonna try it again and update my comments.
Can from Tanakaya. Drank straight from the can. Good light cracker aroma with juicy citrus and light pine on the nose. Good carbonation and well-balanced on the palate. Light cracker to biscuity malt with classic American hop flavor. Nice and refreshing bitter finish. Definitely more of a session IPA than a lager, but fine by me.
Pours clear copper with a puffy white head, very good retention. Aromas of grass, grapefruit, earth, biscuit. Light body, good carbonation. Gentle sweet, mild bitter finish. Pretty bitter for a lager, but still quite quaffable.
Poured from can into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a clear golden color with a one finger head of fizzy white foam. The head fades relatively quickly leaving only a little bit of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – This beer smells like cheerios. It is super heavy in a grainy and cerealy smell with some aromas of a lighter sweet fruit of peach and apricot with a little bit of a caramel sweetness rounding it out as well.
Taste – The taste begins with a sweeter fruit flavor of a light pear, apricot, and peach along with some decent showing of a bready and cheerios like flavor that was detected in the nose. These flavors make a base taste for the brew with some light changes occurring as the taste moves on. More toward the middle of the flavor profile some light hay and grassy hop tastes start coming to the tongue. The cereal and grain increase in intensity more toward the end with some of the lighter fruit being replaced by some caramel and leaving a nice somewhat sweet, but still crisp and easy drinking cerealy taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the beer is average to a little thicker side for a 5 % abv. lager with a carbonation that is on the slightly lower side. The feel and carbonation were decent for the style as they did a nice job for both the lighter fruit and lager characteristics all while upholding the lighter hop and cereal tastes of the brew nicely. Personally however, I would have liked a little bit more carbonation to make it slightly more refreshing, but overall it was good.
Overall – A rather nice drinking, slightly sweeter, and grainy in nature lager. This would be a great beer to have while sitting around a campfire and chatting or good for a day of football watching with some friends. Sessionable, flavorful, and overall a nice brew.
Aroma: grass, hay,
Appearance: golden, clear, white head
Taste: light sweetness, lightly bitter,
Palate: medium body, thin feel, average carbonation,
not bad - note can indicates Pale Lager but ratebeer has this one as a Premium Lager
12 Fl OZ (Can) pretty good lager. I found this to be a good one. taste is present and has a all around satisfying lager feel. would drink again for sure
Good quality lager with a nice clean well balanced character. New Belgium has gone for the big market with all their brews. With this one it works.
Can. Pours a golden with off white head. Taste and aroma don’t stray far from just regular malts.
Can. Pours golden with a small white head. Aroma of grains, grass and citrus. Flavor of pale malts, mild citrus, floral, grass, toasted grains and a touch of fruit.
12 oz. can from Folly craft 12 pack. Very smooth drinkable pale ale. Session ale indeed. Delicious.
12 ounce can purchased at Total Wine Pembroke Pines, FL for $13.99/sampler pack. Nothing special.
Better than the infamous fat tire. Actually tastes pretty similar but with a lighter mouthfeel, more hops and less roasted flavor. Decent.
Can from sampler pack. Nose is Piney and light feel. Hoppy for a lager but somewhat uninspiring.
Amazing taste. Good piney nose.
Good head! Nice lacing!well balanced. Nice all time beer!
6/XII/14 - 12Fl. Oz. can from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ home - BB: (smudged ink)/FEB/15 (2014-1468)
Clear pale orange beer, creamy off-white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: malty, hay, grains, caramel, some ripe summer fruits, bit sweet, hint of exotic fruits. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: some citrus, sweet malts, more citrus, bit of caramel, pretty bitter hops. Aftertaste: exotic fruits, pineapple, citrus, grassy bitterness. Very nice lager!
Can’t argue with success, right? NB has crafted a national presence based on its unique beers. Problem is, marketing seems to dominate its more recent creations rather than brewing. Shift is way too hoppy. A lager should be quenching and easy to drink. This isn’t.
High drinkability quotient and even a little real flavor. Pours golden amber with decent head and lacing. Crisp barley finish with more hops than the average lager. Very good for a lager. Can I found in the fridge at work.
355 ml can. Clear bright golden yellow, healthy white lasting froth. Herbal lager malt aroma. Taste is not too sweet toasty pale lager malt, slightly floral and fruity, hints of citrus herb and spicy hop. Average carbonation, light bodied, lightly hopped. Better than most. LF (Lagerboy Friendly)
12oz can. Golden color with one finger head. Grass and malt with a little citrus aroma. Taste has more of the citrus and malt. Dry finish. Decent.
One the best all-round New Belgium brews available. Highly drinkable with nice body and bite for a pale ale
Clear golden color with foamy white head. Faint citrus aroma and pale malt. Crisp, clean taste and smell. Taste lightly hopped fruit, toasted malt, slightly fizzy finish. Could definitely drink a few of these.
Can 0.33l from De Hopduvel beer shop Ghent Belgium.Pour it golden color with small white head.Aroma of cognac, spices.Taste is very strange sweet, malty, kind funky.Very good balanced and drinkable. I liked it.
12oz can from Kroger in Grandview. Gold pour, white head. Aroma of grain, grass, malt, citrus. Tastes of floral, pine, peach, toasted malt, biscuit, grapefruit. Clean, easy drinking, rather nice.
Good for a pale lager I suppose, not too bad of a beer just not anything special, will drink not buy
"definitely sessionrific. where does pale lager end and pilsner start. light floral hopping with a great aftertaste. light and infinitely quaffable. pale lager perfected. i’ll likely bump my score if i have more than 8 oz this nice..."
12oz can. Pour color is darker than expected for a pale lager - a little on the orange side. Aroma indicates a nice sweetness. The flavor comes together nicely, with a really pleasant malt sweetness and just barely enough hops to clean up the finish. I was happily surprised by this one. Very sessionable, effortlessly drinkable. What American pale lager should be.
Decent lager. Most definitely better than your standard options for this style. Easy sipping, not much in the way of hops. Very crisp and clean.
Can from Archive Beer Boutique January 2014. Not my favourite beer from these guys but certainly drinkable with a mellow flavour and you have to work a bit to detect the aroma.
Pale Lager in a can. Another New Belgium classic. Crisp finish and definitely better than Miller for a football game
Dark straw pour with off-white head. Nose was mild hopcitrus, some fruity sweetness. Tasted of pale malt, grapefruit, resiny hops, and a crisp finish. A hopped up pale lager with much more flavor than most.