Beer of the Week: Leinenkugel's Northwood Amber

Beer score: 4.3

Company: Leinenkugel's
ABV: 4.9
IBU: 18

This beer has been around more than 30 years and was originally called Leinenkugel's Northwood Lager, though it's not impossible the recipe has changed in all that time.

Regardless, when pouring there are scents of honey and grass and lemon. When drinking, it has a wet, sweet basic lager flavor with a bit of a fruity taste along with more of that honey. Kind of plain except for the sweetness, because even those hints of scents are just that, hints, and barely that.

Not an overly exciting beer, but it doesn't suck. I could spend an afternoon with a few of these.