It's day two of my Christmas Beer advent calendar, and last night I delved in my favourite territory, Lagers! This is NHL Alumni beer "Top Shelf."
It's an award winner brewed in Ontario. According to their website it's been created suppourt retired NHLers who didn't exactly live up to their expectations of Gretzky money.
All that aside, let's get down to brass tacks. How did it taste?
Honestly? It tasted like beer. I won't even try to give this a pretentious, raised-pinky review because that's just not the type of beer it is. It's an easy drinking lager, Molson Canadian or PBR could have poured out of this can I probably wouldn't have been able to tell the difference.
Well... that's a lie - it's definitely better than those, but this wasn't mind-blowingly amazing. But it's not exhausting either. I didn't reach point at which I said "This is just too malty" or "This is just way too hoppy." It's a beer-drinkin' beer if you know what I mean.
I give it a solid 8/10, mainly because afterwards I said "I want more. One wasn't enough!" And frankly, sometimes that's exactly what I like in a beer.
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