Black Bull
Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. in Guelph, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Lager - Malt Liquor Regular|
Score
5.88
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
I have a 710 ml can found at a convenience store in downtown Montreal back in September. A side note, RateBeer appears to be a goner so I'm trying to get ratings done in my preferred styles and that includes malt liquors so here I go with Black Bull. The can is properly attired in the best paper available before I lift the tab. The general beer/malt liquor smell with grain and perhaps a bit of citrus. I give the brew some credit with my first taste, it is similar to OE 800. Sweet corn, water, candy, a touch of vanilla, bread and maybe some lemon. All this wrapped around 10%, 8 Ball should be so fortunate. Plenty to appreciate in this sampling including some wide ranging nostalgia.
Deanf (9781) reviewed Black Bull from Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Oh yaaa babee! In fact, I had avoided this during my days in Montréal since there were so many other favourable brews to sample there, and once on a snowey day of "janvier" I had found an emptied vessel of this amongst the snow-bound playgrounds of "le plateau" en Montréal.... but somehow, years later, I’m a few thousand kilometres away in Yellowknife and I find this gargantuan alcoholic monster at the local liquor store. These are simply rare expériences few and far between to be experienced! So, it pours into a hotel waterglass and has a surprisingly reliable bleach-white head and golden body. The aroma is cider. Pure cider - indeed it’s probably a mix of fusel alcohol, but it’s in fact a great cider aroma and if one was not expecting anything else, Monsieur Bull de noir would deliver in the cider department. The flavour - oh wow. It’s tinniness with this horrible aftertaste of tin and water. How’mever, as far as a brew like this goes, it’s pretty darned good - the flavour is unintrusive, even appetizing with the cider notes, and it goes down easy. It gets several extra points for its lack of total awfulness and I’d dare say that if one is among the streets of Montréal with a few bucks in their hand hoping to get wasted, this would be a solid choice. For connoissseurs indeed it is not, but this will get you f****ed up proper without much fuss. And for that, I commend their brewers. In not too many words.