$2.15 bottle from Parkhurst Wine Shop at Rainbow Hill. I don't recall ever seeing this before... not that I go out of my way to look for Beck's. Nifty black bottle that I'll keep just for the color. Pours golden with a dusting of a head, lots of floaters. Aroma is awful: sweet corn juice and something similar to licorice... really, after smelling this I don't have any urge to drink it - something completely offends my sense of smell here. Flavor isn't AS bad as the nose, but it's unpleasant. Sweet corn syrup, brown leaf, more corn syrup. This is bad. Flat too, almost no carbonation. It's going in the compost pile... I hope the worms forgive me.

This review was imported from my RateBeer ratings.

12 oz. bottle. Pours golden yellow and incredibly clear, with a small, white foam head that dissipates quickly. Aromas of caramel, bread, and honey. Taste is slightly sweet with a just a hint of bitterness in the finish. There’s really not much in the way of unique flavors to identify. My best interpretation would be that it tastes like a very weak ginger ale that’s only been lightly sweetened. On the tongue, it feels thin with a light body.

Overall, it’s drinkable, and that’s about it, as there’s absolutely nothing to get excited about. There’s a reason why the store had these on a buy-one-get-one-free special, and now I know that reason.

0,33 l bottle, bought and drunk in Vegas, cause not available on the german market. Is ist so bad? Let´s try it. Clear golden in the glass, small head. Some strange hop elements with flat malt on the nose. Taste is like an average lager with a little bit extra musty malt and some elements of additional hop. Okay, no need to get it in my home area.

20th May 2015: got to admit I thought I was buying an imported German product, very disappointed when I got the six pack back to my daughters to find it’s an AB brew. Anyway I haven’t even opened the 1st 12oz bottle yet, so here goes, a live tasting. Poured into a Corsendonk badged stemmed tulip glass it looks fine. Clear, clean, bright and golden, the head a white foam blanket. Let’s have a smell: not a lot going on in my nose, certainly no ’Sapphire Hop’ action, more like a wet cardboard box that had melted frozen sweet corn inside it last week. The taste is both metallic and grainy, the dust from the maltings, canned. Not too my liking at all. Would I have been so critical if it had been an import? I like to think so, but most likely not. I has quenched my thirst but I do not really want anymore of the six pack: hope my son-in-law like it better than me. Otherwise it will be drank with a curry, which might suit it.

16 oz can after an afternoon of painting. Looks innocent enough, pale yellow with a decent head. Thin watery mouthfeel, grainy corn and hints of metal. Even for a macro this isn’t that good.

12oz bottle pours out a pale straw topped with a small white head. Nose straw cereal corn and wet grass. Taste is as the nose with the malts leading the way a odd after taste.

Reviewed from notes.
I poured this into a pilsener and a pint glass.
The appearance was mostly clear with a delicate haze to it and fast rising carbonation was seen filling the one finger white foamy head that ended up dieing within about a minute. Once the head died, there was barely any lacing and it was really stringy.
The smell was basically over-cooked caramel malts, kinda reminiscent of someone leaving their baking bread in the oven too long, but not long enough for it char up.
The taste was basically the same with that same over-cooked caramel aftertaste with a dry finish.
On the palate, it sat fairly light to almost a medium on the body with a decent sessionable quality about it. The carbonation is somewhat smooth, and I would say is decent for the style.
Overall, one I would come back to, probably not as I really didn’t appreciate the smell and taste too much.

bottle - Clear gold pour, smells of grainy malt. It has a sweet, grainy flavor with maybe, just maybe a touch of caramel. Light bodied. It’s better than a regular Bud but there’s nothing worth paying extra for here.