Carling Black Label Extra Old Stock (O Keefe Extra Old Stock)

Brewed by Molson Breweries (MolsonCoors)
Style: Malt Liquor
Montreal, Canada

(Can 35,5 cl) Comes as "O’Keefe Extra Old Stock Malt Liquor". Decent golden colour with a white head. Aroma with some malt. Medium body, grainy and grassy malt feel and perhaps a vague trace of hops in the finish. A decent Pale lager, but not really much of a Malt Liquor. 040792

Having recently replaced the historic O’Keefe label with the house budget ubiquibrand Carling Black Label, Molson has given this beer a ridiculous, cumbersome, six word name. And yet, it will always be O’Keefe Extra Old Stock to pretty much any beer drinker in BC.

But marketing buffoonery aside, the beer itself is a greenish-golden lager with a creamed corn and acetaldehyde aroma. The flavour is similarly objectionable - creamed corn again punctuated by light ethanol notes, and dulled by a cloying sweetness that kicks in about halfway through. Sadly, where I want fusels I don’t get any, and there is no sewage or garbage to be found. Plus, just when I’m looking for more, I find I’ve already had 12 ounces and the can is empty, some 28 ounces shy of the appropriate serving size for such a beverage. From top to bottom, there’s just not much going right with this beer.

Pale golden colour, white fading head, fizzy corbonation. Faint malt aroma with some corn. Pretty bland flavour, musty taste and a metallic finish.

Aroma offers notes of corn and fruit. Clear golden colour with lasting white head. Fruity flavour is quite sweet but not offensive. Light body with moderate carbonation. Bottle. Entered from notes. Sampled back when this was being marketed briefly as EOS.

Bottled. Poured a clear, bright urine yellow with a decent cap of white head and some lacing. Nose was of a lot of corn... of the syrup and husk varieties... with sweet pale malts. Not really offensive, but not good. Corn syrup, sweet pale malts, and tingly alcohol provide the front of the flavor... on the back, unpleasant veggies and alcohol remain for a long and ugly finish. Carbonation was too high... light-bodied with alcohol highlights around the tongue. No good.

Middle of the road beer for the individual too lazy to seek anything better...

Thin aroma. Quickly dissipating head. Thin lacing. Crystal clear. Not bad for malt liquor. Maybe there isn't room in a 12oz can for the gasoline flavours you get with a 40oz. Light alcohol aftertaste makes up for the low ABV and gives you something to consider while drinking. Really just an average macro.