Bytemesis (16229) reviewed Haywards 5000 from Shaw Wallace 12 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
Bottle. Now this is a winner! Pours crystal clear golden yellow with a small fizzy white head that dissipates quickly leaving OK lacing. Aroma is holy corn syrup, batman, plus grain. Flavor is the same, corny and soda-like, medium sweet and little bitterness. Light body and low remaining carbonation. Full yuck.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1
Bottle. Perfume and barley malt aroma. Golden yellow with minimal head. Lemon and very light barley malt flavor. Unless I go to India and the choice is this or dysentery, don’t think I be drinking this again.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
Bottle: Pours clear, bubbled gold with a small white head. Wet cardboard, wet old grain. Corn syrup, cardboard, paper, mushy grain taste. Watery and just plain awful. 2.5 million cases a year, eh?...that’s just.....sad.
Mansquito (19100) reviewed Haywards 5000 from Shaw Wallace 12 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Namaste, Arvada bottle: Pours clear orange with a small white head. Aroma is nail polish, malt liquor, and adjuncts. Yum. Taste is sweet, lightly boozed, corny. This is malt liquor, but really not all that horrible, given the high abv. Good thing to drink on Christmas Day when only Indian and Chinese restaurants are open.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1
Bottle poured into a shaker. Rating 2100 here we go! Pours a dark gold with no head. Like a massively dehydrated piss first thing in the morning after a blackout-heavy night of drinking. Aroma is just god-awful. Like wet cardboard that a bum has been living in for months with is dead pet skunk. Maybe a hint of county fair cotton candy that the carnie slept in the night before. Taste is just as bad. The same skunk/wet bum cardboard/cotton candy but with the addition of some dead fish that leaches have been suckling on for a week. Texture is weak as balls too. Watered down water. Overall, awful. I’ve had some bad beers but this is the worst yet. There is not a single redeeming quality to be found here. Complete and utter crap. EDIT: just saw this, the best by date was July 1 of 2009. All I know is I will not be seeking this out again to re-rate.
jmagnus87 (3289) reviewed Haywards 5000 from Shaw Wallace 12 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle poured into a snifter. Pours a clear pale gold with minimal head. Aroma of corn and grains with a hint of skunky. Taste is medium sweet. Corn and grains with minimal skunk. Light bodied with a slightly sticky texture. Lively carbonation and a longer than expected finish. Overall, not bad. Nothing I would seek out but I’ll enjoy the bottle I have.
bb (18428) reviewed Haywards 5000 from Shaw Wallace 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Golden beer with a whitish head. Malt and light grass aroma. Sweet malt and earth flavor. Medium bodied. Sweet malt and earth linger with light caramel.
LeninCat (7983) reviewed Haywards 5000 from Shaw Wallace 12 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Bottle @ home, fucken a bronus courtesy of BlackIPA. Cheers bro! Pours a clear yellow appearance with a thin, disappearing white head. Big metallic, corny, grainy, boozy, light apple aroma. Watery yet tangy apple, chewy corn candy, metallic, herbal flavor. Not good.
pictoman (9684) reviewed Haywards 5000 from Shaw Wallace 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Poured from 330mL bottle. Clear straw yellow with white head. Grainy yeast aroma with mild skunk. Taste is a sweet cereal (like cheerios with added sugar). Light body.
DSG (25977) reviewed Haywards 5000 from Shaw Wallace 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at Ariel’s place. Thanks Tom L. Clear golden. Aroma of acetone and a bit of DMS. Sweet flavor, a bit honey-ish, with a bit of graininess, acetone and alcohol. Light-bodied. Yuck.