Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
Brand of choice! Didn’t say that on my 24 oz. can. Did this one in an Ar-Men pilsner glass. Poured brassy gold with a nice white head (it even laced a little). Aroma is something between fusil oil, mosquito lotion, and malt. Medium body with creamy carbonation. Almost chewy. The flavor is oily malt. There is minimal bitter (I think). Finish leaves an oily coating, and there is definitely heat. Not too bad for the macro approach; didn’t make me nauseous.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1.5
Ubiquitous color and appearance of pale yellow american lager. Sparkles nicely in the glass. Typical cheap american lager aroma. Taste is better than Zaibo, that is fer sure. Taste is fairly strong and almost in your face. Fusel with aromatic volatile vapors getting up my nose. Average cheap american malt liqour. Some burning sensations in my gut. Barely any carbonation. Will not buy again, satisfies my dreadful curiosity. Rather coarse and rude on the finiah.
shrubber (15840) reviewed St. Ides Special Brew - Berry from St. Ides 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
Bottle (22oz - Berry). Sour raspberry aroma. Violet color with minimal head. Super sweet berry flavor - extremely cloying, like snowcone syrup. No beer characteristics at all - a sugary nightmare which is most likely what Miller was trying to accomplish anyway. The beerworld’s equivalent to MD20/20 (Mad Dog). This stuff has to cause the world’s worst hangover.
shrubber (15840) reviewed St. Ides Special Brew - Passion from St. Ides 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
22oz bottle. Sweet passion fruit/guava aroma. Hazy orange-yellow with no head. Very sweet passionfruit flavor - no malt, no hops, not even fusels. LIke drinking a fruit juice mix. I can see how this is popular with people who just want to get drunk but has absolutely NO beer characteristics at all. Hate to steal someone else’s description but ROGUE nailed it - this is fermented Snapple. And I think the description meant to say complements (as in completes) versus compliments (praises) but then again...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
(Can 71 cl) Pours a clear, pilsener golden with a white head leaving some lacework. Sweet aroma of corn. Medium body, completely dominated by alcohol - actually this has more the feel of a cheap Scotch (the whisky, not the beer...) 190307
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5
The bottle that I purchased said this was 8.2 percent alcohol rather than 8, so I am not sure if there is variation or an error. Regardless, this is pretty vile stuff. On par with 211 in terms of crappiness. Even after a night of drinking a lot of malt liquor, this stuff was hard to down. I just tried it for the novelty and I now realize that it was only barely worth it.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed St. Ides Special Brew - Berry from St. Ides 22 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
I am just going to admit that I had this, for rating's sake, I will say that it fails miserably in all categories, and then move on before memories of this horrid alcopop make me get nautious.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed St. Ides Special Brew - Passion from St. Ides 22 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
Wow, Let's slightly alter the artificial flavors we use to make this sickeningly sweet flavor taste like some other nasty fake fruit. It's like making a batch of koolaid with 3 times the amount of sugar and then pouring some colt 45 in to it. . .
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
Mmmmm. Nothing quite says vomit like a nice big flavor of grainy, syrupy cloyingly and sickeningly sweet sugar and artificial flavors with an extra dose of nasty rubbing alcohol.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5
It might be the best malt liquor I've had, its so hard to really compare within that style. Whew - at least they've done a respectable job at presenting a high gravity lager in a relatively clean fashion thats not too gross to drink. Yellow gold color, with a yellow tinge that is almost artificial looking. Might they have used food coloring to attain desired appearance? Surprisingly a full creamy head with excellent retention and lacing. Strong grainy and alcoholic aroma. Butter and corn in the flavor (but not buttered corn). Smooth but not overly sweet when cold, but if you don't drink it down fast (and 40oz is alot of this to drink fast), its gonna warm up on you and the corny sweetness becomes unbearable. Strong alcohol presence in the finish, slight burning. Indistinct ale-like qualities. In the end too sweet to finish.