For some reason I want to call this beer "Enjoy" as "Please Enjoy Responsibly". I don't know why, I just do. Enjoy is Low Life Barrel House's newest lager and this may be their most straight forward lager yet, with their other stuff being more funk-forward or foeder aged. From the website: Pearl hops lead with a slight bite to linger momentarily to make way for a crisp, clean taste. Light colour and flavours, with aroma of subtle florals and grapefruit pith.
Appearance: For a moment as it's poured it has a pale light straw/golden hue to it, slight amount of cloudiness to it but it quickly clears up to be a sparkling clear lager with a good amount of carbonation in the body but rather light/minimal head on top.
Aroma: Notes of straw, hay, honey and a slight hint of citrus. There's a sharpness in there that reminds me of what a Canadian Lager used to smell like - I don't know if it's the hops used or the malt, but it's a slight sharp bite that tingles the nostrils just a tad.. I kind of miss that aroma from the 2000s.
Taste: My dad demanded a sip and said "that's not bad", so that means it's pretty good for a "craft beer". Very clean lager that is getting "sampled" quicker than I can write. Notes of hay and straw, a bit of a grassy hop presence, hint of lemon.. It's really, really smooth. Very crisp, and even.. crushable as the kids say.
Overall Thoughts: Simple, but definitely the kind of beer you can see a millennial father using as a lawn mower beer or to take camping or just about anything. They only sell this in 6-packs at my local LC but this is one of those times that you have to buy a pack of it. This will be added to the list of the beers that Manitoba Beer Cast and I check out to determine what is Manitoba's best Bud/Bud Light alternative.. that list is only growing - and many who know me would have never seen me promote a lager as recently as five years ago, but here we are!
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