Route 66 American Lager - Mustang Brewing Company

    Route 66 American Lager is an Lager brewed by the Mustang Brewing Company in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. According to the label, Mustang Brewing Company works to brew highly sessionable beers without skimping on the quality.

    The Lager pours a surprisingly dark color for a beer of its style. A small, white head forms at pouring, but quickly fades. No lacing is left by the seemingly thin beer.

  Route 66 smells mainly of grain. Bready malt with just a bit of sour corn scent make up the sweet smell. A tiny bit of hops fruitiness is almost hidden under the bready malt aroma.

    The beer has a light to medium body with a moderate level of carbonation. Surprisingly there isn't the normal wateriness seen in Lagers. The beer has an alcohol content of 5% ABV.

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    Route 66 is very light on the tongue. Bready, pale malt flavors make up the majority of the beer's taste, with a bit of adjunct grain sourness. The sometimes unpleasant adjunct flavors are very mild. Mustang likely used fewer of these alternative grains than the bigger breweries tend to. There is an interesting spice to the beer, possibly due to the strain of yeast used in the Lager.

    Interestingly enough, after searching for this beer online to see if I could find the brewery's description of it, I realized that this is either an extremely new brew, or has been pulled from production. Even Mustang's website had no mention of the beer. I did, however, find another beer called "Route 66", so I wonder if there was a lawsuit against Mustang over copyrights or something similar. Either way, looks like I got my hands on a rare brew.

    Route 66 is a very drinkable Lager. There's nothing horribly wrong with the beer, but it certainly doesn't tread any new grounds. I'd like to see an all barley Lager, as adjunct grains just add unwanted flavors in my opinion. I guess it's a good thing that I didn't necessarily love this beer, as it may be unobtainable from now on.

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