Berghoff Brewery
Monroe, WI
Available: MN, WI, MI, IA, IL, IN, MO, PA
The Berghoff Brand originated with the family that established the Berghoff Restaurant in Chicago in 1989.
ABV: 5.5
ABW: 4.4
Color: 5
Bitterness: 20
Original gravity: 1053
Beer Talk
Prairie Lager
Published January 2009, Volume 29, Number 6
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John Hansell
Straw color. Soft, delicately sweet, grainy aroma with honeyed malt and a hint of vanilla. Light-bodied and slightly grainy, with more of the same honeyed malt, leading to a clean, gently dry finish. Not overly inspiring, but it is thirst-quenching. A beer to drink when you want to focus on something other than your beer.
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Stephen Beaumont
The first words out of my mouth on tasting this beer were: “Wow, that’s sweet!” And it is, too. Not in the malty dubbel or rich doppelbock kind of way, but for a pale golden lager with a German pedigree, pretty damn sweet. The nose is sweet and sugary and the body starts and stays corn-on-the-cob-accented and sweet; only the finish brings in a refreshing note of mild hop. Make no mistake, the Berghoff name is the most German thing about this beer.
