Kaliber

Brewed by St. James’s Gate (Diageo)
Style: Low Alcohol
Dublin, Ireland

330 ml bottle. Golden and crystal clear. Medium-sized white fluffy head that clings to the glass. Nutty aroma with hints of paper. Fizzy texture. Grainy malt flavours with a papery aftertaste. Finish is super dry, but soft. Rather watery, but I like the dry flavours. Not too bad.

330 ml bottle. Brilliant pale copper. Low offwhite head. Limited but clean aroma of sweetish grainy malts. Fairly sweet and biscuity malt flavor with a slightly sour undertone. Minimal bittterness. Short, light malty ending.

Bottle, 2009 Ireland Fund of Canada’s St. Patrick’s Day luncheon. For an open bar event, the actual lunch part was pretty cheap on the beer, so Garthicus and I resorted to this. He even took one home for the other Toronto RB folks :) . Anyway, drunken memory rating: Orange pour, decent sized white head. Smells like cereal with some fruit mixed it. Taste is non existent - carbonated bready water. Ugh. Luckily the bar opened back up at the reception and we were ok again...

Reviewed 3/12/2009 (Tap @ Flying Saucer, Houston, TX): Pours a pretty clear orangish off-brown color body, with a small creamy off-white head. Funky aroma, some maltiness and some funk. Berry aroma. Blueberry. Strong ripe blueberry pancake smell. Tastes like blueberries, very carbonated. Thick carbonated taste, soda water harsh. Light sweet taste. Better than water? Maybe.

new style rate, coppery brown color with slight bright white head, aroma of malt and chex cereal, flavor is a big let down, very cardboard and mealy

No smell, no taste. Why is this a beer? I’ve had premiums that were better.... Rerate 7/30/09 smell is a souring aroma, not pleasant. Taste leaves a lot to be desired.

Dar amber color with a quick off white head, big grain husk tannic aroma, bitter, metallic. Taste is grainy, more bitter husks, tannic finish. More flavors than ODouls for sure, but it is so unpleasant I’d prefer the more tasteless stuff.

Light amber pour with pretty much no head. Tastes and smells like fermented apple juice and wet cardboard. Slightly metallic. Buttery. Maybe some weird corn syrup flavors. This is truly awful. Surely some of the other lighter N/A beers must taste better than this. Honestly one of the worst "beers" I’ve ever had.