Serving Type: BottleABV: 4.7 percent
Appearance: Under Dog Atlantic Lager pours a lighter shade of brown. It highly resembled something close to a glass of iced tea. IF you want it to be something more filling, it also has a color that resembles the crust of freshly-baked break. There are also a few sectors of the body that are a shiny gold as well. This brew featured those beady carbonation bubbles that rose upwards in streaky trails. It also had a slight haze with a thin, but bright white head that faded away after about a minute and a half. To my dismay, there wasn't any lacing to be found once the head of the beer went away!
Smell: Very bready and crackery. A little grassy and a low hop profile. Overall, this was a very moderate aroma. There was also a bit of fruit that peaked through. I sensed it was something close to an apple, but everything else seemed to distort it. I couldn't quite tell.
Taste: This was kind of weak in the first portions of the tasting for me. The apple flavor was very light and hard to detect on the front of my tongue. The bread and cracker profile kicked in after the apple and was thankfully quite stronger. The bread/cracker sensation took a foothold and combined for a tasty finish with the mild hop bitterness. A definite plus for me was the plethora of carbonation adding to the texture of the beer.
Overall Rating:
This is a quality lager. The lack of head retention was a little on the downside for me as was the weakness of the fruit presence. I actually felt a little stressed trying to figure out what it was. Before I knew it, a third of my beer was consumed! The bread effect and the mild hop notes work very well with this, though.
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