Light copper pour with small, off-white head that doesn’t stick around. The aroma is caramel and sweet with just a hint of citrus. The flavor is all about sweet. Very little bitterness at the end. Creamy mouthfeel and little to moderate carbonation. This was way too sweet for an APA.

Nice old style label on this 12 oz brown bottle. Has a somewhat fruity aroma to it. Also, it has that typical background aroma I find in most City beers, cornish or industrial plastic. At first the pour is clear orangish yellow but after you roll the sludge off the bottom of the bottle it turn swirling cloudy. Has a white girdle around the inside of the glass for a head. Has some carbonation in there that causes a few streams of bubbles to be constantly rising. Flavor is sort of wheatish but there is also some coarse bitterness in there too. This again is something I find in most City brews no matter what the style. Not quite as good as I think a wheat should be. This could be a little more well behaved if it had some manners. Cannot detect any honey in there. Comes across a little strong on the alky side for a wheat. Mild to medium back of throat bitterness on the sides of my tongue. Not as good as many other american wheats I had.

12 oz can, looks just like the ice can but a little bit lighter blue. I’m not too excited about this because the big city ice and city lager were not really acceptable in flavor nor aroma. This stuff was 30 cents a can at Beer & Pop for less in Moon Twp. On the front of this can it says Big City Light Premium Lager. Lighter corn aroma than the regular lager as a matter of fact it may even smell a little sweet and metallic. When you pour it into your mug it has the ubiquitous gallant pale yellow american lager color and head. The head fades rapidly to yield a tea like froth on top. The taste of this is suspicious, its definitely more acceptable than the city lager and ice. Better behaved but not as well behaved as I would like for a good cheap lager. I’m hesitant to call this good but at least it is not annoying like the other city lagers. The carbonation is medium sparkling feels pretty good going down the back of the throat. More personality than most light lagers. It even seems a bit chewy! Finish has a very low bitterness that appears on the uvula but is not lingering. This is the best tasting and most acceptable city lager out of the three that I have had. However, this does not approach the taste of Schmidt’s, Carlsburg, Straub or Old German. Good price but there are other beers out there that taste a little better for the same price. I’m surprised this is a 3.4% beer, taste is more alky than that.

12 oz silver and blue can. Had this before and found it difficult to stomach. Cheap, 33 cents per can at the Beer 4 Less in Moon. Looks like any other pale yellow american lager. I really didn’t want to taste this but the opportunity presented itself. Pop the lid and you get a whiff of sweet hints, it is pretty strong, maybe sweet corn. Odd, but I think I smell raw meat, too! Then, when you pour it into the glass the smell gets a little like acrid rotten corn. Taste is a little unexpected for a lager but right up the alley for an ice or inexpensive malt liquor. Difficult to enjoy is an understatement. I guess I should be ashamed for rating such a brew. I see there are only 21 ratings posted. The taste is a little harder than one would expect, a little rocky, mind you. Coarse to say the least. That funky ring of a head shows itself every drink from the foam that rises within. Finish has little alcohol hiding ability. I have read other raters write about ’corn’ and this definately is more cornlike than any other beer I’ve rated. Would not care to purchase this again. Industrial beer that can do the expecting job if drunk quickly. Will not buy again, one of the worse economy beers I’ve tasted, and I am the economy beer expert. At first the corny smell and flavors are sweet and interestingly attractive - then it becomes almost vulgar. Somewhat similar on the taste scale as King lager from austrailia. Ice has become known in the lager arena to be higher in alky for the cheap american beers. High alky at the expense of a gentleman like lager taste.

Big City 12 0z can. I’ve had this many times before but this is not a memory rate. It is usually one of the cheapest beers you can buy around these parts. Pop the lid and get a slightly sour beery aroma. Pouring into the glass you see the customary clear pale yellow american beer color. Lots of streaming bubbles rising from the bottom of the glass and the head is whitish and thin. The flavor is a little different than you regular old pale yellow lager, industrial and finely metallic of sorts. There is a hint of sourness in there that cannot be described and it certainly does not add to the enjoyability of the brew. Lacing on the side of the glass after a few sips. That aroma keeps pecking at your nose every time you go to get a gulp. Very mild bitterness builds as the drinks go on. Though not real strong on the alky side it does have a cheap malt liquor feel on the palate. The flavor seems to have an aged feel, but not aged for the better. The flavor is not harsh but it does have hints of unrefined cheapness to it. The personality is not too laid back. Tho much carbonation is present in the glass, I do not detect excessive bubbliness during the drink. A beer with a unique cheap wine flavor that I don’t think I’ve had before. One pale lager that may be similar in flavor is Chinese Yanjing 11º Premium Extra, but this is more in your face with it’s industrial hints. The finish on this brew is odd to describe. Tho not really bitter and lingering there is a brackish scunner that can not be ignored. Seems a bit plasticky. Cannot hold a candle to the likes of Miller, carlsburg, rolling rock, lionshead or schmidts. A little too unrefined and rude for a pale lager, tho it is just a little better than King lager. This is a very poor representative of the economy beer style, taste is overall very coarse.

I can’t believe this graffiti-and-skyline can contains a beer so rare, so exclusive, that is has been rated only once. The body is so light I hesitate to describe its color, but know that it is as pale as a moderately-hydrated hiker’s urine. A sweet, corny aroma greets my nose hairs. Sweet, strange body, very thin and watery, nothing potent like I expected. Corn and water. Plastic. A must try for the cornchaser.

Beer #2 in my malt liquor reinitiation, following the incredible Laser ML. And, the picture lies, as Wild Cat now comes housed in a brown bottle, from which I drank. My overall impression is that there are better uses of corn, including tortillas, tamales, on-the-cob, and even ethanol. But skunks don’t get along too well with wild cats, so I didn’t find any of those.

A bizarre and obscure malt liquor. Drank it out of a can. It tastes quite sweet and has the horrible aftertaste of gasoline. Really, a horrible malt liquor. Tastes like I’m drinking beer spiked with the cheapest rum. Rubbish... well what do I expect from the makers of Camo and Four O.

24 oz. can, sold in Michigan as Big City Ice. Looks like yet another malt likker from the boyz in LaCroix. The usual sickly medicinal adjunct smell. A color only slightly darker than the usual pale lager. Pours a thin head than disappears immediately, successive pours will not raise it again. Total see-through look of heavy filtering and pasteurization. Taste seems intended to deliver even its minimal alcohol payload with the most effectiveness. Sweet, corny, full of fusels to set you up for a hangover, with no gratification before it.