Blue Dry 8.1%
Labatt Brewing Company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Lager - Malt Liquor Regular|
Score
5.15
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
I have a sizeable 740 ml/25 oz can found at a bodega-style store in downtown Montreal. I follow the usual prep for a tasting in the style, paperware not glassware. Pull the tab and let it breathe a moment, the smell is mostly beer-like. I take a big drink. Really nothing to complain about here, there’s no odd or off-putting influences. Instead I get grain, a touch of lemons possibly, some corn, crackers, water and cardboard. Fairly bland actually. Many of the 40s crowd offer a better taste.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Originally rated October 2005. This Labatt malt liquor pours a pale golden colour from its 950mL can. Patchy lacing, foamy head. Loads of alcohol in the nose. Pretty smooth taste though. Mild sweetness with a corn finish. I still prefer the Mongoose, but this is not bad malt liquor.
Deanf (9781) reviewed Blue Dry 8.1% from Labatt Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5
Yes, this is another 1.18 litre monstrosity of a glass sculpture filled with Labatt’s finest. The bigger question being, of course, why they have so many varieties of this stuff? Have you ever met a chick at a backyard party who said "Oh, I don’t know, the ten percent is just too strong, I’d prefer to sip on the eight percent" and thus you go fish out the one-step-down Labatt of her choosing. No: in fact I’d imagine it’s just discerning homeless drunks who like to time their buzz that buys these things. So if you’re a ten sip guy, you get the ten percent; a fourteen sip guy, you get the eight percent. Ridiculous? Yes; but it’s the only explanation I can come up with. So, this one pours with a slightly darker gold than the others and that same ugly styrofoam-white head. The aroma is dirty armpits and cardboard. Flavour is rice wine and vodka; or just plain old ethanol alcohol if you will. Slightly alcoholic aftertaste. Not absolutely hideous, and it gets into your gut quickly so you can get plastered and do stupid things that your friends can take pictures of and post on facebook. Thus, it is not horrible as a "functional" beer, but seriously, it still really, really sucks.