Blue Ice Beer

Brewed by San Miguel Brewery (Hong Kong)
Style: European Strong Lager
New Territories, Hong Kong

Pull top can.. neat. Got this is Hong Kong and smuggled it back in my luggage. Not worth writing appearance or flavors. The cool thing about this beer is its one of the worlds worst European Strong Lagers. Still, its pretty decent. Nothing offensive, actually a bit sugary.. and it tastes way better than most ice beers in the USA.

Can. Pours a clear yellow gold body. Aroma is malt and sugar. The taste is smooth malt, but not offensive at all.

Good looking with a good head. Almost tasteless, very watery and with almost no aroma. This one was bought as a 640ml bootle in Hong Kong.

Blue Ice Beer is a fun beer to order at a sushi bar, but nothing more. There is very little taste in this watery european strong ale.

Produced by S. Miguel Thailand, at least my can... Gushing (!) to huge, very dense white head, leaving lace over golden beer. Surprisingly, very outspoken fruity aroma’s, if quite volatile: (canned) pineapple, peaches. Definitely something funky-fruity, suggesting sourness - too strange for words... Blue Ice??? Solvent flavour, wood extract, again pineapple (ester). It’s got something wine-like, like in old, oxydized wines, NOT oxydized malts or beer. But of course pretty pale, near insipid, certainly as long as ice-cold. Light, near watery, just that strange back-flavour hanging around in the palate. After some time, traces of alcoholwarming. CAN it be true? DID I find the first international mega-lager that really got infected? Whatever, I’d give my left hand, what the exact component is that I perceive - it’s the one that lends aroma to old gueuze, but also old burgundy wine. Jeez.

Sampled on Flashy’s tour of LA, New Zealand and Hong Kong of September/October 2007 - An awful lager. This had absoltely no taste at all. That’s it.

I was marooned in KL with a wierd engligh bloke and an even wierder dutch fella....i initially thought they were mad for likeing this seemingly tasteless beer....then i tried it....ahh the days went bay in a pleasant drunken haze and i have blue ice to thank for this!! THANK YOU!