Olde English 800
Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Malt Liquor Regular|
Score
3.29
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Olde English 800 is one of America’s leading malt liquor brands. Commonly referred to as "OE800," it offers a smooth, rich taste with a slightly fruity aroma that is a favorite among malt liquor drinkers. Introduced in 1964, Olde English 800 was one of America’s original malt liquor brands. Olde English 800 enjoys a diverse consumer base that is linked together by an urban mind-set.
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3/10
Tried
on 14 Jan 2016
at 19:57
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
16oz can drunk 9/17/15 (assumedly relatively fresh).
Copper-orange liquid has a foamy off-white head that slowly recedes to ring. Filtered, highly clear and fizzy.
Standard malt liquor nose seems actually a touch softer/sweeter than your average sharp, stale/rotten/dms-ridden nose. Instead it’s mostly just heavy cereals, lots of corn, some vanillin and not too much else, including a surprising lack of anything terribly off-putting. I’m certainly not jumping for joy based on the nose, but I’m not disgusted by it, by any means.
The flavor, then, is rather sweet, though only minimally syrupy on account of an average attenuation and high level of carbonation. Lots of corn, cream, cherry-like esters and a touch of alcohol dryness/warmth on the finish. It’s not good and if you’re drinking this, I’ve got to ask why not just drink the same crappy lager in a lower alcohol form (unless you’re concurrently under a bridge smoking crack, in which case it’s understandable)? But as purely trying the beer to rate it, I’ve had much, much worse and it’s drinkable, even, if a bit sweet and oddly estery.
Copper-orange liquid has a foamy off-white head that slowly recedes to ring. Filtered, highly clear and fizzy.
Standard malt liquor nose seems actually a touch softer/sweeter than your average sharp, stale/rotten/dms-ridden nose. Instead it’s mostly just heavy cereals, lots of corn, some vanillin and not too much else, including a surprising lack of anything terribly off-putting. I’m certainly not jumping for joy based on the nose, but I’m not disgusted by it, by any means.
The flavor, then, is rather sweet, though only minimally syrupy on account of an average attenuation and high level of carbonation. Lots of corn, cream, cherry-like esters and a touch of alcohol dryness/warmth on the finish. It’s not good and if you’re drinking this, I’ve got to ask why not just drink the same crappy lager in a lower alcohol form (unless you’re concurrently under a bridge smoking crack, in which case it’s understandable)? But as purely trying the beer to rate it, I’ve had much, much worse and it’s drinkable, even, if a bit sweet and oddly estery.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Sep 2015
at 12:50
2.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
24 ounce can. Pale yellow gold color. Small bubbly white head. Grainy malt nose. Flavor is slightly vinous, with fruity metallic notes. Lots,of fizz and little flavor. Not good, but not as bad as I thought it would be.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jul 2015
at 22:26
1.3/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 1
Flavor 1
Texture 2
Overall 1
Doing this to get Malt Liquor. And as a joke. Should have become my rating #800. Skunky, corny, sugary, bad, weird. Not more to say. Oh boy.
Tried
on 10 Jun 2015
at 11:33
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 1.5
Can thanks to Musso. Pours a clear gold with small frothy white head. The aroma is corn malt. Similar flavor to nose, booze, metallic finish.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Apr 2015
at 14:29
2.5/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2
Not a bad malt liquor by any means. Reminds me of my younger summers skating the days away. Corn, sugar and rice all the way. Drink fast.
Tried
on 08 Mar 2015
at 01:16
2.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 1.5
Backlog. Pours pale yellow. Nose/taste of skunk and bad malt. Metallic. Lighter medium bodied.
Tried
on 01 Jan 2015
at 22:12
2.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 1
Texture 2
Overall 2.5
From Jul 2008
This poured a clear bright yellow with a quickly disappearing head of foam.
Cornish notes dominate the nose and overall it has that sweet smell that is typical for the style.
The corn is in the taste and there's some bitterness there but when I finish a sip, I'm left with a rather nasty taste in my mouth.
The body is as thin as one can get and I find it really hard to continue with the session, even without taking the abv in the equation. I'm just glad I'm drinking this *cold*. Not worth a retry....ever!!
This poured a clear bright yellow with a quickly disappearing head of foam.
Cornish notes dominate the nose and overall it has that sweet smell that is typical for the style.
The corn is in the taste and there's some bitterness there but when I finish a sip, I'm left with a rather nasty taste in my mouth.
The body is as thin as one can get and I find it really hard to continue with the session, even without taking the abv in the equation. I'm just glad I'm drinking this *cold*. Not worth a retry....ever!!
Tried
from Can
on 19 Aug 2014
at 16:53
2.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Ah, the punishment continues.
Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a clear yellow color with a film of a bubbly head that dissipated and didn’t allow any lacing anywhere.
The smell was basically grainy, sweet and boozy.
The taste was basically the same.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body. Sessionable? Not really, as there was just too much boozy grainy sweet sugar in the way.
Overall, another malt liquor I didn’t really enjoy. I’ll keep trying this style to try to understand but don’t ask when that’ll happen.
Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a clear yellow color with a film of a bubbly head that dissipated and didn’t allow any lacing anywhere.
The smell was basically grainy, sweet and boozy.
The taste was basically the same.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body. Sessionable? Not really, as there was just too much boozy grainy sweet sugar in the way.
Overall, another malt liquor I didn’t really enjoy. I’ll keep trying this style to try to understand but don’t ask when that’ll happen.
Tried
on 30 Jul 2014
at 00:20
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 1.5
40 oz. bottle. Clear piss yellow, no head. Aroma is rice, nothing else. Flavor is well... Nothing. Absolutely nothing. When warm it has the same rice flavor I smelled when it was cold. Yes, why anybody rates malt Liquors is hard to know. Clearly I’m doing this to bump up my numbers in the style category. Stupid
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2014
at 14:52