Rockman High Gravity Lager

Brewed by Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. (Sapporo)
Style: Malt Liquor
Guelph, Canada

Light golden yellow color with a moderate off white head that dissipated rather quickly. White grape and bleu cheese aromas. Some hints of melon, fresh tanned leather and paint thinner. Sickening flavors of xylene and other fine chemicals. I’m finding it hard to find corn or grain in the few sips I’ve had. Some sweet grainy flavors now detected, but the alcohol flavors seem to take over as well. Some sake qualities are are also found. Is City Brewing using rice now? This was a decent brewery pre Bond. Now they make a few marginal lagers and a slough of garbage high octant malt liquors. I know they brew for the alcohol now, but for the love of Schultzie, why not make at least one decent brew again. I’d Like a Blatz Light Cream Ale please!

24 ounce can that I paid .99 too much for at the Woodman’s in Janesville, WI and enjoyed the hell out of with tiggmtl, Olivier_MTL and ClarkVV. Weak light straw with no head (yeah, bet you expected one)...very weak light corn nose but in the mouth the corn is just overwhelming, it’s like drinkin’ fresh corn syrupy that’s on its way to being whiskey but took a slight detour through grandpappy’s outhouse and into this can, to be poured out after a few grimaces and "not agains."

Very sweet aroma with mild graininess and some alcohol apparent. Clear apple juice coloured body becomes rapidly still after large white fully diminishing head subsides. Plenty of alcohol in the flavour that is dominated by a cloying sweetness with plenty of cooked corn. Medium body with moderate carbonation. Can savoured with ClarkVV and muzzlehatch.

Can (24oz). at Decemberfest 2006 - IPFreely’s bottle. Light bubbly yellow with a quick-diminishing white head. Shitty aroma of rotten banana, creamed corn and cheap alcohol. Taste - if possible, worse than the smell - artificial lemon juice, skanky corn, rice alcohol - the ugliness sticks to your tongue like epoxy. Horrid mouthfeel - watery, flat, solvent-like - bleaghhhh ... nasty, harsh cheap bum-juice.

Large can in the paper bag (brown).
Pours pale gold, low carbonation, smallish top.
Aroma: Stale air, alcohol, light wet (spoiled) grain, some fruity hints. (3- )
Flat, shallow, empty of any positive values. Watery with cheap alcoholic kick. If you dig deeper maybe you will find sour green apple somewhere inside. Maybe. Poor bastard brew.

24 oz can shared with Muzzlehatch and tiggmtl on 11/5/05. Small, rapidly dissipating white head atop an amber-yellow, fizzy, clear body with no lacing. Aroma of fresh, succulent corn syrup, creamed corn, candy corns, rock candy and table sugar, and stale grains, and alcohol, but actually not all that strong. Most of it is reserved for the flavor which begins with stale grains, alcohol and spoiled corn, while a syrupy, artificial candied sweetness builds up. Pretty much if you took a jar of maraschino cherries, took out all of the cherries and reduced the liquid to about half its original volume and then added that to the beer, that would be the flavor. A very candy-sweet, fake, syrupy, cloying flavor. Carbonation is high, but not as sharp as I might have expected while the mouthfeel is slick and syrupy with a fair amount of alcohol apparency and a light metallic note on the end.

Can shared with the gang at Decemberfest 2006 -- courtesy of IPFreely. Pours a clear pale gold with a small diminishing white head. Aroma of rice alcohol, sugar, arsehole and vegetables. Flavour’s watery and pretty much flavourless at first but then there’s a big boozy crappy finish. Light bodied. Fucking awful.

Funky corn smell, yellow, white head. Harsh alcohol taste, rough in the mouth, whew! Thank you IPFreely, curiously enough You haven’t rated it?