Okanagan Spring 1516 Lager
Bavarian Lager. The decree states that only four ingredients can be used when making beer: barley, hops, yeast and water. The result is a lager with a crisp finish and a rich golden colour.
2.6
160 reviews
Vernon, Canada
Community reviews
Bière jaune pâle aux reflets un peu verdâtres, parfaitement limpide, bonne effervescence belle et uniforme, et surmontée d’un col blanc immaculé plutôt étroit mais tout de même mousseux, collant et persistant. Arômes de pain frais et malt pâle, léger grain, sucre brut et soupçon de citron. Effluves qui peuvent également faire penser par moment à la présence d’un houblon plutôt végétal, gazon et feuille verte. Nez ordinaire, complexité et intensité faibles. En bouche, pétillement moyen sur la langue, onctuosité tout de même intéressante, on note une belle rondeur, un moelleux et velouté fort intéressant pour le style. Au goût, pain frais, malt pâle et sucre brut (ça goûte le pain sucré…) avec notes de citron, gazon et feuille verte. Bon goût mais sans plus, complexité faible, intensité correcte en bouche. Bière correcte qui se compare sans complexe aux autres bonnes lagers pâles offertes sur le marché québécois…
0.341 bottle. Clear, gold color and a small, white head. Aroma of hops, pale malts, and hay. Taste is sweet, malty and features DMS. Light body, slick texture, and average carbonation. Finish is DMS-y as well. Overall not much to talk about, a bit better lager.
Appearance: clear pale straw with one fat finger of fluffy eggshell white head, excellent retention and decent lacing. (4/5) Aroma: grassy, biscuity, corn. (4/10) Taste: moderate sweet, moderate-low bitter. (5/10) Light body, moderate carbonation, short duration finish. (2/5)
Somewhat surprisingly, not terrible. A bit on the sweet side, but reasonably smooth with a decently dry crisp finish. (9/20)
Clear straw colour. Right from the can vigorously poured to create a tall think foamy head, quintessential lager looking glass of beer. Dry grassy aroma with a faint creamy scent with green vegetables and sugar notes with herbal undertones. Taste is very sweet upfront almost overbearing, hints of simple syrup and refined sugar, the bitter after taste is far too subtle for my palate.
Pours a clear golden with a medium white head on top that leaves nice lacing. Nose is of corn and light proper cereals. Taste is of corn, some lightly sweet cereals and bitterness is low to medium (enough to be noticed). Lightl fruitiness. Body is light to medium and carbonation medium to high and mouthfeel is a bit watery. Overall an OK mindless libation I guess, better than most macro but not quite good.
On tap at Kings head, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Veggie aroma with malt, grain, corn and yeast. Taste of corn and malty grain, nice balance, yeast with a nice hop bitterness, slightly grassy. Pleasant and drinkable.
On tap. Pours a clear gold with light head. Light aromas of cereal. Flavors of bready grain and corn sugar. Easy to drink and not offensive but no character.
Transparent white/gold hue with an immediately dissipating white head. Corn, malt, honey, and slightly metallic aroma. Thin bodied. Surprisingly not terrible tasting. An extremely smooth combination of corn, malt, honey, and yeast finishes with a wee bit of hop. Certainly better than most macros.
On tap at the new Jack Astor’s Lansdowne location (nice venue). I know it’s brewed to the Bavarian Purity Law standards, but in 2015, this comes across as a really old school beer. Both the aromas and tastes are all breads, cereals, grains and malts. Almost zero hop profile. It drank easy enough while watching an important hockey game in a bar, but I wouldn’t go out and buy this if it was at the LCBO.
341 ml bottle from a twelve-pack sampler from Sobeys Liquor, served in a shaker pint glass. Pours a faintly hazy straw yellow with low carbonation and an eggshell-colored head, leaving vertical oval lace spots. Aroma is of clean cereal grains and malt, faintly sweet, a touch metallic, with noticeable vegetal/tomato that gets a bit stronger with time, and grassy hops. Flavor is a bit more vegetal than what I prefer and has an initial metallic tang, but it settles back fairly quickly, and is clean and inoffensive otherwise. Thin and a bit slick; the finish is okay and appropriate for a lager. It’s a notch above most lagers; while it has a few aroma and flavor quirks, none are harsh enough to be deal-breakers. It started off questionably, but ended friendly enough. Good times.
Pours clear dark light head and lacing. Nose is. sweet corn and cereal. Flavs cheerios some caramel. Tastes light sweet very light bitter. Light body lively carb.
Sweet aroma, pale color, too light tasting for aroma. Slightly bitter palette. Overall just an average beer. Not outstandingly Bavarian.
Clear golden pour with a thin white lace. Malt lager flavour. Quite sweet with a smooth finish.
Dorée et limpide, une mousse blanche assez gênée se pose sur le dessus de la bière. Le nez de céréales et d’houblons floraux loin d’être explosifs n’est pas très marquant, tout comme les saveurs de cette bière. Facile à boire, mais rien d’extraordinaire. Du foin liquide, carrément.
Bottle thx to Ingo (not on RB, yet ;) ) cons 2014-08-23 Göteborg
And a new Province - thank you SIr!
AR: overboiled veggis, caramel
AP: oily coppery, wee frothy white head
F: sweet corn, white sugar, wetabix, wee grainy
First rating
Bottle 341 ml thanks to Ingo! Sampled on August 23, 2014.
Clear golden color, small white head. Bread, yeast, light toasty scent. Malty, dry, mineral, bread, yeast taste. Medium mouthfeel to fizzy, low bitterness.
5/3/4/3/9=2.4
Rerate
355 ml can. On June 19, 2015. At Rickshaw Theater, in Vancouver, British Columbia. (at the Goatwhore show).
As "Spring 1516 Lager"
Clear golden color, white head. Malty, sweet scent. Malty, clean taste. Medium mouthfeel, medium bitterness. Malty aftertaste.
4/3/5/3/9=2.4
Rerate
On June 21, 2015. At Moose Vancouver, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Draught.
Clear golden color, white head. Malty, a bit vegetable taste- Malty aftertaste. Medium mouthfeel, low bitterness. Malty, a bit vegetable scent.
5/3/5/3/10=2.6
Bottle courtesy of Ingo (non-RB). Pours golden with a small white head that doesn’t leave much trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is tiny sour with cereal, lemon zest, hay and cardboard. Taste is tiny sweet, tiny bitter and tiny malty with cereal, old bread, hay and lemon zest. Mouthfeel is soft, tiny round and light bodied. Finish is tiny sweet, slightly bitter and tiny malty with cereal, bread, hay and lemon zest. Smells pretty bad but goes down easily…
Pale yellow. Smells malty, grassy, with slight spruce and pepper. Taste is semi sweet malt, grass, orange peel. Finishes slightly dry. Average carbonation but slightly thicker. Decent but nothing special.
Can. Pours clear gold, fluffy white head. Smells like rice. Tastes rather bland and tasteless, a little sweet.
Pours like your average lager, no need to go into descriptions. Aroma has a slight hoppy note. Flavour is fairly basic, but has a good balance between the malt and the hops. Not bad at all, though maybe a bit underwhelming. Good for a solid drinking session and inoffensive to those who may be tip-toeing into the realm of real beer.
341 ml bottle. Pours straw yellow white quickly dissipating head... Aromas of malt and some mild hop citrus. Taste little on citrus side, malt notes. It?s clean and crisp, decent but not great.
Definitely a crisp finish and a rich golden color but not much else to see here. Very basic lager with little flavor... Crisp and clear but not as floral or malty on the Aroma or flavor as I’d like to see. Very sessionable though and easy to drink.
Nose is decent sweet green apple, some lemon, little green pea, feel is watery, taste is sweet green apple, corn, weak piss, lemon note
I could easily drink this again, but probably wouldn’t. It is nothing special, but is by far one of the better lagers. It has a bit more taste than most and gets rid of the sweet corn piss taste that I am use to. All and all a drinkable little lager that is a step up from others.
Aroma is carbonation and bland maltiness. Taste is very bland.... Some dry malts and corn adjuncts. Pretty basic. The appearance is a clear gold with a pearl thin head that retains poorly.
Une bouteille de 341ml. La vallée de l’Okanagan est à des lieux de la Bavière au plan géographique et à des milles au plan des lager. Bière blonde insipide avec des accents commerciales.
Can, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma and flavour brings out light herbal notes, grassy notes and crisp biscuity malt. Not bad, nothing offensive, but not interesting. Drinkable.
On tap @ Cock and Lion Ottawa. Pours a clear, light gold with a small white head. Aromas are light fruit and grains. Tastes are light grainy malts, subtle hops, and a touch of alcohol. Thin on the palate, light bodied, short stale aftertaste. Not a great beer.
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Pours a good golden colour with a foamy head. Some lacing. Taste bready malty and honey a little hops).
This light lager reminds me of Labbat 50. A very classic flavour. No bitterness a bit coppery in flavour. Light colour and little head. Refreshing outside on a sunny day. -- rated via 'Find A Beer' for Blackberry 10