Molson Calgary

Formerly brewed at Molson Breweries (MolsonCoors)
Style: Pale Lager
Montreal, Canada

Ahhhh…fond memories of Calgary export beer. It was a true western dry lager made with specially malted conquest barley malt and hops from BC…It was crisp, tart and finished dry…a wonderful delight to cut the bald-ass prairie dust otta your throat on a hot summer day spent traveling to the stampede…..But I say “WAS” because it is no more…Molson’s closed the Calgary brewery and I fear the recipe for Cal-EX went south. This beer has the familiar trademark of the buffalo head in the horseshoe but that is where the resemblance ends. I was shocked when I saw this beer I thought was extinct sitting on a shelf in a Saskatchewan beer store …so I bought a 12. It certainly isn’t Calgary Ex the way I remember it . This beer is far too sweet and missing the distinct hop tartness and dry finish that Cal-EX was renown for. Poured a medium straw color. Small cap that laced out nicely no strong aromas…slight wisp of sweet grains. Started peppery from the carbonation then a sweetness wrecks the hop balance and the body goes thin and malty with a musty bready finish….not Cal-EX…but some kind of Molson mega brewed pale lager with no character.

Funny that a beer named after my city can’t even be purchased here. Poured with a fizzy head that quickly dissapeared. Lots of carbonation. Golden yellow in color. Tastes like every other Molson product.

Unavailable in Calgary…Indie staple in Saskatoon…this illustrious example of Prairie distributing genius is sold to unwitting Saskatchewanites as the “real deal” Alberta beer. The only “real deal” about this beer is that you can’t buy it in Calgary...and it could have about 6 different labels on the outside and no one would be the wiser. This is the most generic tasting beer I think I have ever tasted.

Nice looking bottle and logo but diappointing beer. Overcarbonated pale yellow pour with typical canadian ale/lager taste, but more watery and thin.

scent similar to regular Molson Canadian, has a golden yellow colour with small white head that dies out pretty quick. Has a very dry, wheat taste. goes down rather smooth though. will not buy again.

I used to drink this in University. Using tomato juice to make the beer last longer on a student’s budget the tomato juice in a Calgary produced the best mushroom cloud when being poured into the glass. Kind of a shame that you have to go to Saskatchewan to buy a beer named Calgary. Is it the same beer. Hard to say 20 years later, but I hope not since my memory is better than the taste. Looks, tastes and smells like a generic Molson beer.

(Bottle) Found this beer in Assinaboia, Saskatchewan. Pours a ginger ale coloured body and a medium, white head. Hyper-carbonated. Grassy nose. Fizzy, lemony flavour. Poor...

Pours golden yellow, Almost no head.Sweet corny aroma. very fresh, But a bit too corny tasting. Pretty standard boaring canadian mass produced Lager. It is kind of odd that you Can’t buy the beer called Calgary in Calgary, or anywhere in alberta for that matter, However, I don’t really feel all that cheated that we can’t buy it here.