Get Low Mojito Takes the Cocktail Down to 2.5 Percent

Migration's low-ABV Get Low series takes on a cocktail. The newest pub release is a 2.5 percent lager with lime and mint, arriving the week summer runs out, which the brewery says is the point.

Style: Lager with Lime and Mint
Release Date: 2026-09-10
ABV: 2.5%
Migration Brewing (Portland, OR)

Migration Brewing's low-ABV series has spent its run on beers built to be drunk in quantity. The newest entry goes after a cocktail instead.

Get Low Mojito is a pub release running 2.5 percent, which the brewery labels a lager with lime and mint. Migration describes notes of lime and mint, says it drinks like a cool breeze, and calls it the perfect bookend to summer.

The timing supports that last part. It arrives in the second week of September, which in Portland is roughly when the case for a 2.5 percent lime drink starts to expire.

Mint is the detail worth pausing on. It turns up rarely in beer, and when it does it is usually in a stout, where chocolate malt can absorb it. On a pale lager there is nothing to hide behind - no roast, no real bitterness, very little body. That is either a problem or the entire design, and at this strength it reads as the design. A beer this light has room for a loud ingredient.

The strength is genuinely low. Session beers generally begin around 4 percent and most low-ABV lagers land near 3.5. At 2.5, Get Low Mojito sits well under that, which is what the series name has been promising all along.

It is pouring now at Migration's pubs.

Editor’s Take

Mint is the ingredient brewers tend to leave alone, and with cause. It is enormously assertive, it does not know how to be subtle, and used with anything less than a very light hand it turns a beer into something you would gargle. Which is why putting it on a 2.5 percent lager is the clever part rather than the risky part - there is almost nothing in a beer that light for the mint to fight with. No malt weight, no hop bitterness, no alcohol warmth. The lager gets out of the way and lets the lime and mint be the whole event.

The other joke, and I mean this admiringly, is that a mojito without rum is basically a limeade, and Migration has arrived at a drink weaker than the cocktail it is named after by a factor of about five. Naming the low-ABV series Get Low and then reaching for cocktails is a good instinct. Cocktails are where all the interesting flavors live, and the rum was never the reason anybody ordered one on a hot afternoon.

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