Carling Black Label Extra Old Stock (O Keefe Extra Old Stock)
Molson Coors Canada in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Lager - Malt Liquor Regular|
Score
4.51
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Had at the Black Mourning Light Festival in Edmonton, in 2016, when we played there. Poured a blonde colour with a white cap, average retention and creamy lacing. Typical Molson hops for aromas. Malty taste with hints of apples and a short aftertaste. The mouthfeel is a little crisp. I don't mind this brew, as the apples notes add to the typical Molson maltiness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 2.5
355 ml can. Pours an clear golden with light head. Aroma of light malts and hops and a bit of rubber. Crisp light malts. A little sour. A little bitter finish. Key is light and little. An historic Canadian beer meant for quaffing.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1
This was the original party beer of my youth and turned me off beer for many, many years. Smells of wet socks and vomit, lumberjack shirts, and stale nicotine smoke. Tastes like cardboard and wool. These days when out in the cabin I prefer turpentine.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
(Can 35,5 cl) Comes as "O’Keefe Extra Old Stock Malt Liquor". Decent golden colour with a white head. Aroma with some malt. Medium body, grainy and grassy malt feel and perhaps a vague trace of hops in the finish. A decent Pale lager, but not really much of a Malt Liquor. 040792
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1
Having recently replaced the historic O’Keefe label with the house budget ubiquibrand Carling Black Label, Molson has given this beer a ridiculous, cumbersome, six word name. And yet, it will always be O’Keefe Extra Old Stock to pretty much any beer drinker in BC.
But marketing buffoonery aside, the beer itself is a greenish-golden lager with a creamed corn and acetaldehyde aroma. The flavour is similarly objectionable - creamed corn again punctuated by light ethanol notes, and dulled by a cloying sweetness that kicks in about halfway through. Sadly, where I want fusels I don’t get any, and there is no sewage or garbage to be found. Plus, just when I’m looking for more, I find I’ve already had 12 ounces and the can is empty, some 28 ounces shy of the appropriate serving size for such a beverage. From top to bottom, there’s just not much going right with this beer. --- Beer merged from original tick of Molson Carling Black Label Extra Old Stock Strong on 20 Aug 2006 at 01:41 - Score: Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4. Original review text: I can’t believe I had to add this to rate it. That’s fucking awesome. I love obscure malt liquor. I also love how they think Main Street is too good for a brew like this. I had to go to New West just to find a forty of this fine beverage. Well, after that much effort you’re fucking right I’m going to finish this son of a beyotch.
But before I choke back forty long, painful ounces of malt liquor, I’m going to pour some out, as is tradition. If you’ve seen my carpet, or met the furry little puking machines I live with, you’ll know a little malt liquor on the floor isn’t going to do any harm. Having tried OE in a snifter, tulip and abbey glass and found all three to be wholly inadequate, I said fuck it and just used my ghetto-ass Nova Scotia mug for this one. It’s got a deep gold colour. The head foamed up big then died quick like the brother in a horror movie. The stench wasn’t so bad actually, a little pale malt, some grain, light alcohol. When tasting I often let a beer sit out for ten minutes or so before even taking a sip. You can’t do that with malt liquor, though, not so much because of the first sip but you need to work through a forty efficiently if the end is to be anything remotely tolerable. You could always put it back in the fridge I suppose but that’s a geek thing to do and if you’re getting geeky about malt liquor you’re an idiot (or a GABF judge, god have mercy on them). So yeah, there’s not much to this - it’s kind of fizzy in the finish, mild corn, grain, bit of alcohol but nothing fuselly. Reminds me of Crazy Horse in that it’s just too nice to be ghetto. Ghetto implies some sort of edge. This is like growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in Kerrisdale. And the ridiculously cumbersome name is no match for the awesomeness of Crazy Horse (any beer that gets sued for its name being offensive and has to change its name is cool in my book). Hey, am I the only one for whom a forty of malt liquor doesn’t seem like much booze at all? All those Unibroue 750s must be really affecting my tolerance levels.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Has a bit of a kick, and is lovingly referred to as Hi-test due to the extra 1/2%