I like the first ingredient on its ingredient list (yes I do read ingredient lists): Icelandic Water. The bottle claims that the brewhouse is located at the most geologically active area in Iceland.
The flavour starts with a sweet honey, and finishes with a bitter hoppiness. A milky texture loiters on the tongue just long enough to let the evergreen set in (my brother describes it as "grassy"). Hard not to like this one.
On Olvisholt Brugghus (from their clearly amateurish-looking website)
Olvisholt is located in the south west part of Iceland, in the middle of the most fertile agricultural area of the country. The Olvisholt farm has been a conventional sheep and dairy farm since Iceland was settled more than thousand years ago. Today we concentrate on beer only.
On Lager (from Wikipedia)
Lager (German: storage) is a type of beer made from malted barley that is brewed and stored at low temperatures. Pale lager is the most widely-consumed and commercially available style of beer in the world, and includes Budweiser. While cold storage of beer, "lagering", in caves for example, was a common practice throughout the medieval period, bottom-fermenting yeast seems to have emerged as a spontaneous mutation or hybridization in the period between Charlemagne and Napoleon.
The average lager in worldwide production is a pale lager in the Export or Pilsner styles.
Breweries now use the terms "lager" and "Pilsner" interchangeably, though pale lagers from Germany and the Czech Republic with the name Pilsner tend to have more evident noble hop aroma and dry finish than other pale lagers.
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