Florida Lager - Florida Beer Company

    Florida Lager is, unsurprisingly, a Lager created by Florida Beer Company which is located in Melbourne, Florida. Unfortunately, I used the majority of this beer in a beef roast recipe, so I only had a small taster left of the beer to review.

    The Lager pours a very clear, pale brown-amber color with lots of bubbles. There is a light head to the beer (though the picture was taken after it subsided). Really I'm impressed with the beer's color as Lagers tend to be a gross, pale straw color.

    The beer has a slight grainy malt scent with no perceptible hops presence. There really isn't much to say about the beer's aroma, it really comes off as mediocre.

    Florida Lager is light-bodied with a carbonation level that comes in at the high end of medium. The beer has a very weak mouthfeel overall. The Lager has an alcohol content of 5.1% ABV.

    Florida Beer Company's beer is lightly sweet. The light flavor of grainy malts is the only real noticable taste to the beer. There is a slight flavor of corn in the beer's aftertaste, suggesting some adjunct grains were used in brewing the beer. Overall a pretty boring beer as far as flavor goes.

    I find it interesting that this brewery is called the Florida Beer Company. It's as though they are the official beer makers of Florida. I wonder how other breweries in Florida feel about this title. Of course my imagination runs wild and I start thinking that maybe Florida Beer Company is some sort of evil empire that attempts to opress other breweries. If you ask me, it's time for these smaller breweries to combine their brew forces and stage a beer rebellion! I can see it now, one hundred smaller brewers, armed with bottlecap throwing stars, taking on the evil armies of the FBC.

    Florida Lager ends up being a pretty bland, mediocre Lager. This sort of beer is good for cooking, as hops tend to lend strange flavors to food when the grainy, maltyness of a beer is what you want out of cooking with beer. I wouldn't choose to drink Florida Lager for flavor, but it would be fine as a session beer.

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