Steel Reserve 211 High Gravity
Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Malt Liquor Regular|
Score
3.79
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The two eleven mark, based on the medieval symbol for steel, appears only on Steel Reserve(R) High Gravity lager. We use nearly twice the ingredients of many normal lagers & brew for over twice as long as many quality beers.
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3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 2.5
Not as terrible as some malt liquors but still terrible. Faintly drinkable. Sour straw and old moldy lime. Pours dark golden with decent head. Sweet and cloying boozy finish with some metallic tinge. Can.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Mar 2026
at 23:12
3.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 2.5
Can. Not bad for malt liquor. Actually tastes more like a cheap lager than a malt liquor. I don’t really taste the alcohol. Great for a quick cheap buzz.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Mar 2025
at 05:17
2.1/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 2.5
have not tried in many years - definitely high powered juice - meant to dull senses.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2024
at 13:51
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Golden, clear body, with a small, white head. Aroma of grains, sweet malts, slight citrus. Tastes quite similar, but sweeter. Medium mouthfeel, with a quite lively carbonation. Finishes quite sweet, malty, slightly hoppy. Actually quite solid, better than expected. Alcohol is well hidden. 6 / 4 / 6 / 3 / 12
Tried
on 12 Jul 2024
at 12:26
5.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 5
Overall 5
0,473l can at Nicos place. yellow clear color, small white head. smells liqueurish, caramel, light toffee. Ok smell. full body, soft carbonation. tastes caramel, tad boozy, corn sirup, earthy. finishes lightly sweet with notes of caramel and corn sirup. Not that great
7, 5.5, 5.5, 4, 4
7, 5.5, 5.5, 4, 4
Tried
from Can
on 10 Mar 2024
at 10:41
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
42oz plastic bottle with screw off (and back on) cap from Fred Meyer. Pours out a medium golden with frothy, short lived head. malty, grainy, adjuncts aroma. Corn, lots of corn. Taste is sweet, malty, corn with a thick, syrupy feel. Minot hopb bite at the finish along with some tracecs of ABV. Not horrible. There are far worse malt liquors in Eastern Europe.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2022
at 01:25
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Pours out of a 42oz plastic twist off cap bottle, awesome. Nose is sweet malts some grain. Taste is more of the sweet grain malts not that bad actually.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2022
at 20:36
3.5/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 4
Pours clear gold with a thick white head. Streams of carbonation. Sweet aroma, corn syrup? Taste is very light, sweet elements on the tongue. Palate is unremarkable with a slight malt note on the throat. Not terrible honestly.
Tried
on 01 Mar 2019
at 02:38
3.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Full strength, full flavor from King Soopers. 24 oz. can, pours a pale, clear, straw color, with a fizzy, fleeting, white head. Corn syrup, dry grass, and caramel. Some rubber and banana taffy in the finish. Sweet and syrupy, with a mild, nondescript hop bite. Light body, with a slick, oily feel. This gets worse the more you drink. Quite poor.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Jan 2019
at 15:20
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
So do people now say “I’m buying a 42 and drinking it tonight.” Or would Sublime now have the song “42 Oz to Freedom”. Just asking. I acquired a Steel Reserve 211 42 oz in a plastic bottle for a cheap price at the neighborhood supermarket. Still no convincing reason why I take the malt liquor route when I do. Saying that, 211 is going to have a tall hill to climb behind OE 800. The requisite brown bag at hand I undo the cap. I take a smell for the heck of it. Hmm, malt liquor. And a drink. Actually not bad, grain, corn, water, no surprises. It lacks the little sweetness that 800 has but still decent in my book. 8.1% abv. Haters need to grade on the curve.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2018
at 23:02