12oz bottle. This pours a very pale golden with a thin, white head. Nose was of skanky, dirty socks. Yuck! Taste was no better. Mouthfeel was thin and watery. Drain pour!
12oz can. Pours dark brown in color with brown foamy head. Aroma sweet, malty and some odd aroma. Taste watery, coffee, roasted malt, dark chocolate and some odd taste with dry finish. Did I mention an odd nose and taste, this is a drain pour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alla spina al Calanni Bar, incuriosito dal nome a me nuovo; quando me l’hanno servita nel bicchiere della Crystall ho intuito che si trattasse di una birra italiana. Solita lager da poco conto, un numero in più nel counter.
Brewed at BJ’s Chandler AZ
Arrives with no head to speak of, with a clear amber color and of course way to cold from both the frozen glass and the too cold tap. The aroma has notes of caramel, a touch of toast character towards the finish and even a bit of fruity hop / malt character to it (seems to produce a mix of berry and currant notes).
The beer is of course quite cold (despite efforts to warm the glass up to this point), which accents the lingering hop bite and a significantly herbal hop character (significant by Oktoberfest standards). There are some berry notes here in the flavor too; these seem hop derived, though they are certainly accentuated by the caramelized malt flavors also found in this beer. The malt has a light toastiness to it and even a touch of nuttiness, though the caramelized grain notes are the most significant malt component. This is nice and clean with a chewy malt heft that produces a touch of viscous character.
I like that this is a hop focused example of an Oktoberfest herbal / berry notes add a solid, extra dimension to the more typical malt character.
Big 16 oz can really seals the deal on class here. Pours a dubiously thin gold with a big sudsy head and boring aromas of grains and cheap booze. Maybe a bit of metal and grass in the aromas, too. Flavor is watery corn juice that has been left out to ferment for a few days. Fortunately I’m not picking up that lovely metal flavor as heavily as others. There is nothing too horrible with the flavor, but there’s nothing to get excited about either.
Wow. Just wow. This is bad. Bottle from Sam’s Quik Shop in Durham. Pure yellow pour with no head. The skunkiest beer I have encountered, ever. So strong it blew my mind. Also some sweet grainy notes. Taste is cloyingly sweet and grainy, very cereal like. Medium body. Non-alcoholic does not need to be this bad. There is no excuse.
Orange pour with pathetic head. A stinky, metallic/fish nose. Flavor is thick with some hops but little malt. Holy shit! I’m truly shocked at this. It’s bad. Really bad!
33 cl can at Skallerup Klit. Clear golden color, small white head. Aroma and flavor is thin, weak, boring and completely uninteresting. A waste of water and metal.
16 oz can - Quite possibly the worst stuff ever brewed. It has a chemical smell mixed with liquid detergent. The flavor is of corn water, sugar, and turpentine. You almost have to drink this stuff fast to get it down, I guess increasing the drunken effect.
From a 40 oz bottle. The body was dark gold with a long lasting bright white head. The aroma was glazed donuts with some corny booze. There was some nasty mold like character. The taste is like rotting chicken flesh and old mangoes pulled from yesterday’s trash. However, this is balanced with some moldy glazed donuts. Fusel alcohol ads a strong rubbing alcohol finish to this horrid experiment. Drink only as a challenge. Wow.
10/4/08:Bottle. Light brown body. Nose of Sherry cask. Oh dear God, this BW was TERRIBLE. Flavor is way wrong, rotten sherry cask and ick. I refuse to take another taste.
50 cl bottle at Skallerup Klit. Slightly cloudy amber color, disappering white head. Aroma is sourish with caramel malt. Flavor is also unpleasant sourish, sweetish malt. Oh dear...
Pours completely clear with little head. This beer is definitely not a "bad" beer, since it is almost completely tasteless, you can’t not knock it for being bad. This is a painless way to get drunk while hydrating at the same time.
Thanks to Yespr for a few sips from the bottle. Water-yellow body. To me this one taste like the soft drink called sprite. Plenty of lime and lemon and little of malt, hops and alcohol. (Copenhagen, 15.09.2008).
Can courtesy of and shared with heavy who found it in Albania (thanks!) Poured a pale golden body with some odd particle inside (what the...), medium sized thick white head. Sharp dusty nose... guess some hop is in there. Taste? Watery.... watery is an understatement. No. Saying that it being watery is an understatement is an understatement by itself. Water someone managed to taint with something. It’s not tainted all that badly though... it’s sweet, soapy (ok, that’s four of us that agree), some dust, some corn... later on a lemony acidity becomes somewhat dominant and that’s it. It’s not the foulest beer you’ll try but it’s possibly the most baffling. The particles that I really hope were proteins or something stuck on the bottom of the glass. Wow. Just wow. To top everything off, the can is an obvious Tuborg Green knockoff and it says "Pleasure is inside." Oooh yeah. Pleasure. Must be those particles.
Bottle at home ... Thanks to Fin for telling me about the Jet garage with 300 Uk ales... Light amber ... cigarett ash Nose ... smokey ashy malts ... little hop.... URGGG how very odd ..Not like anythng any one else describes
like club soda only with a slightly beer flavor ting. only mild corn and rice, not much else.
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…a strong malt flavour... maybe a little bigger than a standard English style, but reasonably close, and I didn’t mind. Some lingering toasty/burnt flavours... a nice bitter balance.
A nice, round body... good assertiveness in carbonation, holding lighter… -- Alraomon of South Street Absolution Ale
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