When most beer connoisseurs (elitist hipsters) think of American Style Lager, they think of a light beer that has a flavor profile of watered down bald eagle urine. For most of us, this type of beer is typically the first beer you ever had; and it probably made you wonder why people liked this stuff until you got drunk enough off them to make out with that cute girl from your macroeconomics class (fine, it was her kind of okay looking friend).
These beers are your Budweisers, Coors, PBR, Natty Ice, etc. They are all cheaply made, mass distributed, and good for few more things than getting drunk on fizzy water, drinking beer from a large bowl you would typically serve a salad in, or getting shithouse drunk (technical term) for the same price as a bottle of water at a a rest stop. Blue Point Toasted Lager from Patchogue, NY (5.5% ABV, distributed by AB-Inbev) is certainly related to these beers. It has a stylistic twist which makes it an amber style.
Copper in color, our most popular and unique brew is made from six different malts, including English Pale, Crystal, Munich, Carapils, Wheat, and Belgian Caravienna. Toasted Lager’s balanced flavor of malt and hops makes for easy drinking and the special lager yeast we use produces an exceptional, long-lasting smooth finish.
This gives it some actual flavor, mostly a nice toasty malted kind of taste and a really smooth finish so you can easily drink this A.D. (ALL DAY)! I can equate it to waving your Chinese made American flag on the 4th of July (pretty damn American).
Some say that this beer is overrated, or the “TGI Fridays of craft beer.” While Blue Point Toasted Lager could be seen as “mainstream,” and is palatable to your drunk uncle Joe, I think that’s a good thing. It’s easily a go-to beer if you’re the type of guy or girl who gets overwhelmed by the taps at a bar and doesn’t want to be the nerd nervously muttering “bud light please” at the bartender.
Disclaimer: Blue Point Brewery is a short drive from my house, and a company most Long Island beer drinkers have fully embraced. I am proud that both this beer and myself are both born and raised on Long Island so this may be a biased review; but I don’t care and I never will. I take back the disclaimer; This beer is everything I love about this country!