It’s rapidly approaching a decade since the bottling lines of Brew Detroit began rattling, glass topped up with tasty craft beer. BD combines the old school skill and care of the artisan beer maker, with the present day scientific precision of controlled food safety. The result is that all beer leaving their facility is not only consistent and controlled, but delicious to boot. This is especially important since Brew Detroit juggles its time as not only a brewer of craft beer under their own label, but as a contract brewer for smaller operations around Michigan. Brew Detroit sports a taproom with all their best ready to be pulled and a cool pint slapped on the lumber. The Cerveza Delray is Mexican-lager style beer designed with some sweetness and evolving hop flavour. Crisp and clean, it’s a perfect beer for riding a patio on a Saturday afternoon. Serves well at 6°C and can cellar for up to a year.
Pours a bright, golden colour with medium carbonation and a fairly clear body. A thick, fizzy head out of the can calms down to a thin layer resting on top.
The slightly sweet malt rides the top of the aroma and can drown out the other qualities, but if you take your time and sniff deep, you’ll catch the slightly lemony zest of the hops.
The sweet malt combo up front - the combination used gives it the light, floral flavour of the pilsner, alongside the sweet caramel-like flavour of the Munich. As the initial taste kick warms on the tongue, the lemon flesh and zest comes up, tempering the sweetness and balancing the whole experience. Those two are nearly the whole show, fading slowly to a slightly dry finish and malty aftertaste.
Anything you’d want to eat from a Venice Beach food truck will do a good job - shrimp tacos, beef sliders, brick-oven thin crust pizza. Go nuts.