Looks like Good Times
Jimmy and Robert reminisced and lamented “Good times, bad times, you know I’ve had my share.” But Tom had some good advice, “Remember all the good ones, forget about the bad.” * Our philosophy at COMDB is it’s always a good time to have a good time. In fact, in our opinion most times it’s never a better time to have a good time. Of course, it was the Bard who told us that timing is everything, ** so on this scorcher of a summer sun on the Sahara kind of day it seemed like the timing was right for a light refreshing glass of Good Times.
Counterpart serves up these Good Times with a twist, a lager with some NZ Pacifica hops should make for an interesting departure from the ordinary. ***
A golden clear pour, headless but as they say, time and tide won’t wait for a cranky old man, so I better drink up. **** The aroma is mild (not light) malt. First taste is a nicely flavoured malt body with a bit of a backend bite, which makes for different and refreshing. It has a Pilsner like finish, very dry, almost approaching acerbic. They call this a lager, but a Pilsner is a lager, although not all lagers are Pilsners, but this one could be.
Easy drinking with a feisty finish which added to the refreshing. I like that this light is full flavoured with some bite. The Pacifica hops have added some backend bittering, an aggressive finish for a light beer.
An easy drinking light with bit of a bite that’s just right.
*Editor’s Comment: From the 1969 Led Zeppelin song “Good Times, Bad Times”, and from the 1988 song “Good Times” by Tom Cochrane.
**Editor’s Comment: The phrase “timing is everything” first appeared in print in Shakespeare’s 1599 play “Julius Caesar”.
***Editor’s Comment: Pacifica Hops are grown in New Zealand and are known for their citrus and floral flavours, and bittering properties.
****Editor’s Comment: I will give our Reviewer the benefit of the doubt and assume he has paraphrased, as opposed to butchered, the old saying “time and tide wait for no man”. Although it is an ancient saying it is often credited to Chaucer who put it into writing in 1395 in his “Prologue to a Clerk’s Tale”.
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