The quest for a good light beer continues. This time. I'm going for a local Tennessee brewery, and I genuinely know nothing about them. I mean, they're in Nashville or the surrounding area, but I don't know how good any of their beer is. It seems odd for the first beer I try from them to be a light beer, but this is where we're at, so I'm going to assume all of their beers are great.
The quite pale, yellow beer has a slight haze to it, and that's unexpected. The head is reasonable, and it evaporates relatively quickly before it leaves a dusting across the top of the beer with significant holes for the beer to breathe through. The aroma is very light, and it smells of sweet malt with little else, but lagers don't have to be too complex to be good, do they?First sip is shockingly not horrific. The beer is quite sweet, despite the assertion by the brewmaster for a large brewery once commenting in an interview that bitterness was the defining characteristic of beer. I'm not sure I entirely believed him at the time, and this beer would suggest that he was almost entirely incorrect. Still, it's kind of okay.
Tip-in is sweet bread malt with a looming bitterness kind of sitting behind it while carbonation does a very gentle sizzle. The middle is way too much carbonation hitting the back of the throat while a still sweet malt flows uncomplexity down the throat. The finish is slightly dry as the sweetness give way to bitterness that doesn't have any hops to justify it.
Bottom Line: Not horrific.
2.25/5