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Garden Lager

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🌍 Croatia · Lager · One of 132 Lagers in hopIQ

Garden Brewery's craft lager — a precisely brewed pale lager from Zagreb's internationally minded craft brewery. Cold-conditioned for extended clarity with a clean, crisp malt character and a balanced European hop bitterness. Garden Lager is the approachable, everyday option from a brewery better known for hop-forward ales: a craft lager that demonstrates the same precision applied to the brewery's IPAs.

ABV
5%
IBU
18
SRM
pale golden3
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Flavor Profile

How this beer tastes, mapped across 44 dimensions

crisp
87%
light
75%
refreshing
70%
smooth
63%
malty
55%
earthy
45%
sweet
38%
wheat
25%
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About Lager

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What is a Lager?

Euro Pale Lagers are clean, refreshing lagers with 4–5.5% ABV and IBU 10–25. Soft malt sweetness, light hop bitterness and high carbonation make them supremely drinkable.

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Serve & Enjoy

How to get the most out of Garden Lager

Serve at 4–7°C
Refrigerate, then rest 2 min

Serve well-chilled at 4–6°C. Carbonation and crispness are the main event — cold preserves both.

Stein
Recommended for this style

The sturdy German stein maintains temperature and keeps carbonation intact. Built for long, convivial drinking.

Store cold and drink fresh. Lagers are at their crispest within 3–4 months.

Tasting Notes

AI-generated sensory profile for Garden Lager

Appearance

Garden Lager presents a pale golden hue characteristic of a classic European lager, with excellent clarity achieved through extended cold conditioning. The beer displays bright luminosity with a fine, white head that settles to a delicate lace, supported by crisp carbonation that maintains presence throughout the glass.

pale goldencrystal clearfine white headbright

Aroma

The nose leads with subtle cereal and grain notes typical of precision lager brewing, complemented by gentle herbal and grassy hop character. A light, clean malt foundation provides a slightly sweet undertone without any harsh adjunct or yeast-driven qualities, inviting and approachable on first impression.

cereal maltherbal hopsgrassyclean

Taste

The palate opens crisp and refreshing with a light, smooth malt character that emphasizes grain and subtle sweetness. Mid-palate develops balanced European hop bitterness (18 IBU) providing structure without aggression, maintaining the beer's clean profile through a well-integrated flavor progression.

crisp maltbalanced bitternesssmoothrefreshing

Finish

The finish is notably dry and clean, with hop bitterness fading gracefully to leave no lingering sweetness or residual character. This crisp denouement reinforces the beer's precision engineering and everyday drinkability.

dry finishclean aftertastecrisp
81
hopIQ score
aroma
78
taste
82
appearance
84
finish
80
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