Brew City Ice (Big City Ice)

Brewed by City Brewery (Melanie Brewing Co)
Style: Pale Lager
La Crosse, Wisconsin USA

Straw color with a rather large and lasting white head. Minimal nose, with some scents of corn flour paste and touch of herbal hops. Rather dull feel, but nothing too offensive. Sweet grain and corn flavors. Some white grape and mild alcohol also in the mix. I think I detected a bit of malt for fleeting moment in the linger between quaffs, but far to brief to be memorable. I like tiggmtl comment of an inoffensive alcohol delivery system, but I do find a few things less than inoffensive.

Can 16 OZ. from Belmont Beverage in Fort Wayne, IN. Light amber pour with an average frothy white head that diminished slowly. Light grainy aroma. Light body with a thin texture. Light sweet flavor with a short finish. Cold wet alcohol with little character.

16 oz can quaffed studiously while playing intently at Trivial Pursuit with tiggmtl and ClarkVV. Pale gold with a bit of lasting head...simple, light stale corn nose...fairly clean and drinkable body, very bland and sweet with no hops but not at all offensive. Lightly bad.

The body is light gold with a short lived white head. The aroma is corn flakes with some moss and dirt. The taste has cardboard and some plastic. There is also a hint of hay. A dry finish. Not undrinkable, but devoid of hops or malt character.

Well that sure is a fine looking can of beer. Big too. And full of all the bubbly sweetness that creamed corn has to offer in a beer... Mild, sweet creamed corn aroma is simple and inoffensive. Clear golden body is topped by a fizzy but lasting cover of white head. Corn flavour is mild in the sweet and lightly grainy flavour. Light body with strong pointy carbonation that prickles the tongue. While it’s by no means good beer, it is, I suppose an inoffensive alcohol delivery system. Can sampled with ClarkVV and muzzlehatch.

This canned brew labelled Big CIty Ice and believed to be the Brew City Ice in the same can with the same artwork poured a large sized head of foamy finely szed mostly lasting bubbles that left behind a transparent soflty catrbonated weak yellow colored body and a fair lacing. The aroma can be smelled form a distance with slightly off malty notes. The mouth feel is initially smooth with a middle that comes on a little stonger tingly and OK then finishes with a mellow malt hop note. The flavor is mild with malt hop and some compexity but rather plain in nature. The ICE quality is definitely there.

Pale yellow color. Slight aroma of apples. Tastes like an old barn with hay from a few decades ago lining the floor.

16oz can pleasantly shared with Muzzlehatch and tiggmtl on 11/6/05. Smells of mineral water, light grains, dry corn-like notes and that lovely papery note so common in these quality lagers. Typical pale yellow pour, bubbly with a thin white head that recedes to a ring with no lacing. Flavor is surprisingly drinkable. Watery and very flavorless, with light hints of grains, but no stale or heavy corn syrup notes/alcohol/plastic/paper or anything of that sort. Just watered down grains. No hops apparency, no yeast apparency, very light body. Not what I’d expect from an ice beer, which are usually more red, with noxious "caramel" flavors and plenty of alcohol. Mouthfeel is fizzy, but not sharp or terribly overcarbonated. It settles out to a fairly watery consistency, actually.