Greetings for the road one and all and welcome to another day of height-challenged beers. Today we are going to highlight a beer from the Pyramid line out of Seattle, a line I discovered at the Beerfest a month ago. Best known for their Apricot ale, I decided to start with their seasonal blonde ale: Curveball. Why? I have no good answer other than it was at the front of the stack and I grabbed it on the way out the door this morning. This beer is a cold conditioned lager that got me curious: what is a cold conditioned lager? Is it similar to the ice beers of last month? Are my chances of going blind increasing as I add another ice beer to the resume? Well never fear dear readers, for I have the answer and it’s actually quite informative. A lager of any type (Pale, Dunkel, Bock, Pilsner, Marzen to name a few) are all fermented and conditioned at low temperatures and produce ABVs of anywhere between 4% and 14% and a variety of colors. This particular lager pours well with minimal head that dissipated too quickly to get a picture of and was mildly carbonated. The nose was strong of malts and a slight hint of banana and grain and brought back memories of some of the *ahem* less expensive beers from last month. The taste was very run of the mill, tasting a little metallic with companion tastes of lemon peel and malts and the taste turns to more ethanol than anything else before turning into a sour aftertaste. Not my cup of tea really, I was impressed back in April with their Heff and Apricot this one is definitely not worth my time again. They have too many other beers to try to write off the brewery right now but a few more beers with similar results will cause that in my interest to quickly wane.
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