Country Club Malt Liquor

Pabst Brewing Company
Brewed at Miller Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Malt Liquor
Woodridge, Illinois USA

Nostalgia review: Back in the 1960’s this was a sought-after exsperience. It was sold in little 8 oz. (?) cans and was reputed to be higher alcohol content than all but Colt 45. I remember it as being sweet kind of winey in flavor with little or no hops. It went down easy and after a sixer you were feeling no pain. A whole six-pack went easily into a golf bag for some fun on the links. My game usually was done by the seventh hole.

I remember drinking this beer in 1982 when I was stationed at Ft.Hood,TX. You couldn’t drink (3)16ozs or you would be on your butt

My housemate bought me this because it was literally the cheapest beer per ounce at Safeway. Appearance is like post-asparagus urine. A slimy white froth sits atop the column of liquid. Doesn’t smell really like anything, maybe a bit mealy and corn syrupy. Taste is pretty clean but still unappealing. Standard malt liquor corn sweetness with no hops whatsoever. Towards the end it degrades into basically sugary spritzer water. Mouthfeel is too carbonated, paper thin, dirty. This gave me a headache. Even for novelty’s sake I won’t be drinking this again.

This was a surprise, good tasting and very good-looking. It’s standard gold but with a medium, dense white head that shrinks very slowly to a smaller permanent head and it leaves beautiful, rich, long-lasting lacing in even rings down the glass. The aroma is the weak point: grain but with hints of alcohol & dry dog food (the stuff that smells all right, ot the nasty stuff), so that it’s not very good, but it’s ok and not off-putting. The taste is much better, a pleasant basic lager taste but with good sweet-bitter balance, decent fullness, a well-rounded grain and even light nut flavour and a light, crisp apple cider finish, all with a light alcoholic warmth. It is light but smooth, tasty, with persistent flavour and easy to drink while it looks beautiful. For the price, this is hard to beat.

Yes, it will get you drunk. The thing is that it doesn’t taste THAT bad. It’s sweet. Very sweet. My only serious problems is that it only tastes like sweet. That and that the can/bottle design looks like I should be drinking it in a low class strip club, then picking it up on the way back to my trailer so that me and my buddies could get smashed watching somebody try to start their car. It’s just not me.

40oz. Quite the king of malt liquors. Pretty gross to start off with, but if its cold its drinkable. As you get to the end of the 40, it starts to warm up and become quite disgusting, but hopefully you’re a bit drunk by that point and flavor isn’t an important aspect of drinking anymore.

Oh my god! I couldn’t believe they still made this stuff. Very clear, too sweet and bland tasting. It’s really gross.

Qt. bottle. Light aroma of pale malt and alcohol. Brassy gold color with a decent white head that laced slightly. Thin body; moderate carbonation. The flavor is sweet malt, zero bitter. It is not sickenly alcoholic, not stirring nausea. May be one of the less obnoxious malt liquors. Hard for me to drink decades ago; no point for me to drink today. D.P. Not cause it’s all that bad, it’s just not worth the brain cell loss and calory gain.