Rainier Ale

Thanks goes out to riversideAK for this really cool 40, a big green bottle of ale. Code 04078 E60713. Looks like it should be hidden in a wrinkled brown paper bag, heheheh. Not the same rude aroma as the 40s I get around here, its olfactory is much cleaner and even almost pleasant, smell is sweeter than cream corn. Lots of continuous rolling carbonation within the glass once poured into my Bios sniffer. Taste is, woooooo, strong unrefined alky impact. Rather uncouth, somewhat like a high gravity beer or malt liquor from Melanie’s City Brewing. Coarse strong American lager flavors are startling findings. It says ale, but I have a hard time believing it. This stuff provides disturbing spatial dimension sensory experiences. It gets a little smoother after the first glass, probably because it’s numbing up my palate. Even with a sense of smoothness, rolling in like heavy fog, it remains ill tempered. Finish is big alarming alky malt liquor 7.3% shock which is buzzy, impolite and crude. You’d never drink a growler of this stuff! So this is what the west coast is all about, wew. Alex, I owe you one for this. Love it, just love it!! Quite an experience. There is a significant risk that drinken rainer ale may have unintended consenquences which could ultimately result in the destruction of our planet. I’m surprised those west coasters didn’t pass a tree hugging law about this stuff.

16oz can From BevMo! Carmel Mountain. Not half bad! The 7% was a nice touch.......

i remember my grandpa prune sitting around the camp fire drinking this stuff back when i was just a wee lad and god hadn’t invented micro-brews yet.
the 40 ouncer pours a clear pale yellow with a orange tint, lots of bubbles, small white head, lacing is present.
smell is faint, grainy, silage, plastic.
taste is grain, sweet malt, a semi-creamy texture, some citrus, ends sweet & a touch of sour.

"You’re down with a case of the blues, And you’ve got a face that refuses to smile. Here’s how you get up off the ground, You keep some Rainier Ale around, And every little old part of you will wail! Go get that Rainier Ale!!! This is the greatest ale, oh what can I tell you, honey?" God bless you, Pearl Bailey.

The green death! The comlete beer drinker-drunkards brew. A sickly sweet, high alcohol content ale with winey overtones. Ranier did always use a good amount of hops compared to most macros. A real "sport" would buy a case of quarts and two macho guys could never finish the case in one night. Usually involve the cops pouring the last two quarts down the storm drain while we cursed them roundly for their efforts. Ahh..the good old days.