This beer appears a clear, medium golden amber colour, with one skinny finger of soapy, foamy, and wispy dirty white head, which leaves a few swaths of approaching headland lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates. It smells of grainy and bready pale malt, some subtle overripe apple and pear fruitiness, lager yeast, and weak earthy and leafy noble hops. The taste is gritty pale malt, a touch of caramel, muddled pome fruit, malingering yeast, and more plain leafy, earthy, and weedy hoppiness. The carbonation is softly rendered, via its understated frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a wee creaminess setting in as things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, and generically grainy.

This is a decent tasting Vancouver Microbrewery Lager.I assume like it's fresher taste is a bit along the lines of another Local beer Red Truck Lager meaning it doesn't have a lot of preservatives in it so both of these brews copy The Rickards type formula in the way they're made.I haven't seen any Rickards on a BCL shelf for years.It like RTL isn't that cheap but i don't mind buying this every so often especially if it's on sale to support good Smaller Vancouver based Craft beer Brands.