hopIQ found 10 beers with the same clean and dry character as James Ready 5.5. A value-priced pale lager at 5.5 percent, carrying the name of a Saint John brewer whose plant the Oland family took over. The brewery calls it dry and mildly spicy. Retail tasting notes describe sweet corn and malt, a light herbal hop note and a clean finish. Bitterness is low, and the slightly higher strength gives the beer a little more weight than a standard lager without making it heavy. It is the best known of the three beers in the line. Ranked by flavour match rather than popularity.
Closest match: Die Franken Halbe Pilsner — 87%. No twin in the catalogue yet.
5 countriesmatched across 56 flavour tagsbest match 87%
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