Super-fake orange creamsicle flavor tacked onto a light golden ale. Smells like candy. At first I was hoping it would actually taste like orange instead of nondescript citrus notes, but this is certainly too far in the other direction.
On nitro, the deep roast is at the forefront, smoky and a bit sharp. With the nitro-malt sweetness the effect is almost like hints of peat whiskey on top of a chocolatey dark stout. I can't say I've ever had a lager on nitro before, and this may not be not super lager-like, but it was quite good.
I just got a ton of prickly hop spiciness and bitterness with this, and nothing else. Maybe my palate was out of whack. I'd give it another chance given the opportunity.
This is the first India Pale Lager that I've felt didn't taste just like an IPA, so I'll give it points for that. That said, I liked the sweet, biscuity, malty finish, but it didn't mesh well with the strikingly bitter hoppiness. Hello, headache! I didn't finish the can.
Indistinguishable from a decent, run-of-the-mill stout. Reminded me of Dragonstooth, roasty but light-bodied. I guess I was hoping for something more unusual, given the the lager-i-ness.
Nutty, coffee flavor with a hint of molasses sweetness. Light body, slightly bitter, funky finish but without the lactic thickness of other recent dark lagers.
Grassy with some sharp lager hop bitterness and a decent amount of malt. Amber still seems a little indifferent to me as a lager style, but it hit a lot of what I look for in a lager these days.