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Weinstein Brewing “Fancy Pants” Lager
This special edition brew comes to us from the Weinstein family, hailing from New Jersey, though I believe this home brew was conceived in Alexandria, VA. At any rate, this brew debuted (for me) at a recent bocce outing. Seeing as we had a couple of bottles left over, I felt that a review may be in order. And so here you go.
This lager pours crystal clear or fairly cloudy, depending upon your preferred pour. Due to bottle priming, there is a layer of yeast and sediment at the bottom of each bottle, leaving you the choice to include that or not in your pour. As I like to have ‘all’ of my beer, I chose to go the full monty and make this a cloudy beer. The head of this is super-dense, flaring up into a pillowy couple of inches that slowly dies away. In the nose, the predominant aroma is of yeast with a decent malt backbone. It’s fairly typical lager, with some light metallic hop accents and a heavy grainy note. In the mouth, there are tons of malts, tasting earthy and grainy from the tip of the tongue on down to the back of the throat. In addition, there is a slightly cloying sweetness from the yeast that indicates a higher fermentation temperature. Also, there is a decent hop note here. It leans more towards the bitter metal than floral flavors, but does well to cut the malty notes that play such a big roll. All in all, it’s a fairly balanced brew that sticks with you through several seconds in the aftertaste, quenching but subtly leaving you ready for the next taste. This would make a decent session brew, and served us well on the bocce field…
