Schnitzer Bräu from Schnitzer Bräu... from Germany!

Brewer: Schnitzer Bräu
Location: Offenburg, Baden, Germany
Name of Brew: Schnitzer Bräu or German-Hirse Lemon
Manufacturer's Description: "Blend of beer, alcoholic beverage, mixed with Lemon Limonade (45%), brewed with millet malt, glutenfree."
ABV: 2.8%

Colour
The original pour colour was shocking: cloudy, but not in the natural, organic turbidity way. Rather, the colour was an oddly bright yellow.

Head
There was a small hiss of gas when the cap was removed. Even less head when poured. Of the small amount of head that built, only a small ring around the edge of the glass stayed for longer than a few moments.

Aroma
The first whiff was of a light beer. Second of a thin, almost watery lager, with some sweetness added. From then on it smelled of a cheap, bottom of the keg summer beer that must be served with a citrus fruit salad in it to make it tolerable. But because it's summer, that keg bottom and two anti-scurvy fruits cost you three times more than it should.

Taste
Lemonade. It was beer mixed with lemonade. Nothing more to it, really. Not an exceptional lemonade or a notable beer. Tasted like a light lager mixed with made-from-frozen lemonade. It is the kind of flavour that comes of rationing alcohol as teenagers, where it's not the ABV per drink, but the total number of drinks that earn you clout as a "good drinker".

Overall
Because I rarely get to try different gluten free beers, I have a habit of grabbing a new one off the shelf and purchasing it. This one cost me $16.59 CND for six bottles. Six bottles of 2.8% beer, which was probably 5%, but because a jug of lemonade was dumped into it, has been thoroughly watered down into a bar-priced mixed drink.

I did not read the label to see what the ABV was or that it was full of lemonade. Mostly because it is a German made beer and the vast majority of the label is in German, with the small exception of some 1pt font around the neck. There is some English on the main label, which does clearly say "Organic and Gluten Free". The organic I'm not too concerned about; the gluten free is nice. And from millet!

It was drinkable, but it almost needs to be drank with something else or if you have to drive later. It is weak in alcohol content and taste. There was little beer flavour in it. Out of my gluten-free beer options, I'll be sticking to Bard's (coming in at $15.59 CND); cider is still my choice if I want drinkable and gluten free.