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.

Bottled. Pale yellow, small fizzy head. Light corn aroma and flavour. Sweet and light bodied with rounded mouthfeel and honeyish finish. No surprises here...

A golden beer with a white head. The aroma is malty, but with clear notes of corn, which gives the flavor a sour cornyness, but fortunately the end is slightly hoppy.

I get frightened by the label, that tells me, that it has "no aftertaste" - how can you use this as a sales argument? A beer is supposed to have an aftertaste - I definately want one in my beer - and it better be good. The beer is yellow with a small white head. The aroma is grainy and corny. The flavor is sweet grainy and slightly corny - and as it says on the label, it has absolutely no aftertaste - it simple vanishes.

In Montreal Airport as the last beer to cap off a fantastic week at RBSG - I needed to use my last CAD, and had just enough for this. The color is red and it has a small beige head. The aroma is slightly sour combined with notes of berries. The flavor is very sour, but still with some notes of berries, and a dry end. I wonder if brewing cereal has been used in this one.

Tasted from the bottle at a joint specializing in cardboard pizza at 4am on a Montreal Saturday morning.
This beer apparently has fans, and isn’t despised by beer geeks. Wow. Okay. Well, I found it to be typical grainy macro swill with a Union Made aroma. Overcarbonated, without malt or hops. Sub-par, even as Molson budget brands go.

A Saskatchewan regional beer that’s been moved into Ontario to compete in the discount market. Straw colour. Creamed corn and vague hop in the slightly metallic aroma. Fairly clean flavour with hints of bread and fruity hop notes. Even the finish has a faint hop note amidst the wetness.

So let me see if I’ve got this straight. Calgary Beer is made in Edmonton, and only sold in Saskatchewan? Golden-straw colour. Has that distinctive ’union made’ aroma of cooked apples and fusel alcohol. Quick, watery palate is merciful, showing more cooked apple, a hint of spice and very faint malt but less fusel. This would make a good retrobeer.

(Bottle 34,1 cl) Nice, deep golden colour with a small, creamy head. Has the typical, slightly sticky sweetness that usually indicates the use of corn. A hint of malt in the nose and a faint whisper of hops in the finish. Standard pale lager but OK as such. 240505

2005 bottle at Mondial, 6/4/2005. Red raspberry-tinged orange-copper body. Fizzy and has an off-white head that quickly dissipates to nothing. Aroma of plastic, raspberry jam (sugary and fake), caramel, umm sugar. Flavor is VERY sweet and syrupy, with raspberries and plasticy notes. Sickly sugary, cloying and difficult to drink. Might as well just throw this crap in with alcopops and be rid of it. Though to be fair, I did think this one was a bit better than B to the E. I’m pretty excited to try Shock! Medium body, heavily overcarbonated. Molson mixed with redbull mixed with a boatload of sugar and fake raspberry syrup.