4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
16oz can from Total Wine in Spokane
Pours clear straw yellow with a small white head, some lacing. Aroma is sweet malts, corn and honey. Taste is sweet malts, grainy with a mild bitter citrus in the finish. First time I’ve had this in years (since it was brewed in WA), I remember it being much better than this.
Pours clear straw yellow with a small white head, some lacing. Aroma is sweet malts, corn and honey. Taste is sweet malts, grainy with a mild bitter citrus in the finish. First time I’ve had this in years (since it was brewed in WA), I remember it being much better than this.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2013
at 20:28
3.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 4
Originally rated June 2005. Mountain fresh taste since 1878... written on the can. Sounds good. Clear golden colour with clean malt scent. Not much retention in the head, but lace is found. After breathing, the malt is no longer felt through the nose, but a wiff of alcohol. Not much in the taste as well. Smooth, clean and slight malt. Hardly any bitterness. Not much found in this beer.... a slight notch over Coors light... but with a 5.9% ABV.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Feb 2012
at 22:48
4/10
Tried
on 16 Sep 2011
at 17:21
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
16 oz can a gift from Odeed. Sure doesn’t look like the old Rainier "Green Death" from the early 70’s from the old Blitz-Weinhard guys that I often drank in college.! Nose a combo of malt and ricy pastiness, light alcohol and a hint of bubblegum.Clear gold with a big, lightly lacing, pale yellow head. Flavor is light caramel with a hint of alcohol like it has a touch of a cheap sake mixed in. Finish a touch of alcohol warmth. Not nearly as offensive to drink as most macro stuff even though this is a Miller brew.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Feb 2010
at 16:40
2.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 1
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 1.5
12 oz can. Initial aroma is of skunk and corn gone bad. These bad smells go away once it settles for a bit, leaving an unremarkable macro aroma. Surprisingly it pours a thick head which lasts longer than any other macro I’ve reviewed so far. [sidenote] Speaking of which, it wasn’t too long ago this wasn’t a macro! It was brewed in the Pacific Northwest, not by fucking Miller. Must everything they touch turn to shit??
Tried
from Can
on 19 Sep 2009
at 02:24
2.1/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 1.5
Tin. Poured pale yellow with fast dissipating head. Not much aroma, but what was wasn’t unpleasant. Flat, bland uninteresting flavour. No finish, none, niks, zero. Tis cheap, but unless the water is undrinkable, not good cheap
Tried
on 30 Mar 2009
at 23:49
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
12 oz bottle enjoyed with dinner at the Hungry Bear Cafe in Forks, Washington on the way home from Rialto Beach. Pour is clear pale golden with a one inch white head. Aroma of some sweet grain (corn, likely) a bit of malt, not much else. Taste is more of the sweet corn, better body and maltiness than a typical macro, but still very much that type of beer. The corn comes through in the after taste. Overall a decent Pale Lager, not much more or less.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2008
at 13:05
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Thanks to riversideAK for this 24 oz white can beauty! I asked for some pale lager from the west coast and he sent it, boy did he send it! In my big 24 oz mug, I poured a big pale yellow ubiquitous american beer. Some carbonation is visible within. Aroma is not offensive, just rather clean, sterile, beery and possibly a little sweet. After drinking the Rainier Ale, I was hoping for something a little more palatable and I was correct. Taste is typical big pale lager at first bordering on offensive, but not quite getting there. I’m not sure the taste is from the the Yakima Valley hops as stated on the front of the can, or not. HAs a little more personality than yer mild cheap lagers but is not quite as offensive as many of the poorly made lagers such as the ones that come from City Brewing. Taste seems to grow on you after afew big slugs. Has an old iron well water flavor continuosly in the background. Reminds me of the water I used to drink out of an old handpump well in the lot next to my house when I was a kid. Seems rather friendly towards the end but once in a while, my palate gets shocked back into cheap beer reality. Finish is short but a mundane non offensive feeling lingers on the back of the throat. Big thanks to Alex, YOU ROCK!
Tried
from Can
on 09 Jul 2008
at 06:49
3.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Thanks goes out to riversideAK for this really cool 40, a big green bottle of ale. Code 04078 E60713. Looks like it should be hidden in a wrinkled brown paper bag, heheheh. Not the same rude aroma as the 40s I get around here, its olfactory is much cleaner and even almost pleasant, smell is sweeter than cream corn. Lots of continuous rolling carbonation within the glass once poured into my Bios sniffer. Taste is, woooooo, strong unrefined alky impact. Rather uncouth, somewhat like a high gravity beer or malt liquor from Melanie’s City Brewing. Coarse strong American lager flavors are startling findings. It says ale, but I have a hard time believing it. This stuff provides disturbing spatial dimension sensory experiences. It gets a little smoother after the first glass, probably because it’s numbing up my palate. Even with a sense of smoothness, rolling in like heavy fog, it remains ill tempered. Finish is big alarming alky malt liquor 7.3% shock which is buzzy, impolite and crude. You’d never drink a growler of this stuff! So this is what the west coast is all about, wew. Alex, I owe you one for this. Love it, just love it!! Quite an experience. There is a significant risk that drinken rainer ale may have unintended consenquences which could ultimately result in the destruction of our planet. I’m surprised those west coasters didn’t pass a tree hugging law about this stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2008
at 08:19
2.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
16 oz. Can: Reluctantly sampled the remainder from a black-and-tan that I also was "fortunate enough" to sample. Pours bright gold with a white head and very active bubbles. Looks alive. Nose is watery, grain, and malty. Taste is very smooth, yet features no real flavor. Water that may or may not have been beer 8 or 9 filtrations ago...
Tried
from Can
on 16 Aug 2007
at 23:12