Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Sampled from a 12 oz can this beer poured a bright yellow-gold color with a large yellow-white head. The aroma was sour, tangy, corny and industrial. The flavor was tangy, corny and industrial with a long corny finish. Bland.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
I bought this many times before I was a ratebeerian, however, this brew is rated as I drink. This is the economy beer of the Golden Ale/Blonde Ale style, it is hard to believe this is not a pale lager. Cost is 30 cents per can when purchased in a case JR’s Beer Warehouse in Rochester. Date code on attractive gold and red can is 1888, aged well. I see it won the Great American Beer award sometime in the past. Ubiquitous pale yellow American lager beer color. Lots of continuous streams of carbonation rising within. Replenishing white head that is about 1/8 inch thick. Aroma is sorta clean yeasty with corn background. Taste is typical lager, perhaps a bit course. Has a unique industrial flavor, common with cheaper pale yellow lagers. Not much different than all those other pale yellow lagers. Interesting how this compares to Hereford & Hops Whitetail Ale and Ballantine XXX Ale which are also in this style category. This may be better that both just slightly but at least it is on par. Save your cash, if you like those other two beers you should give this a whirl. Hereford and hops may be just a tad better as far as flavor goes. Finish is creamy-ish and can be dealt with to a certain extent. Not sure if this would qualify as a lawn mowing beer, but it is cheap, hence my namesake. No hints of hops and is a little corny on the finish but it is not quite as bad as those Big City Brews.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
wow this stuff is cheap, and remeber it won a gold medal in 4000 BC so it must be good. . .
Stale aroma of cheap liquor, and an artificial corn syrup sweetness. No head, yellow-toned color. Flavor is boldly adjunct ridden, with a stale malt flavor of massive cereal grain use. Body is light, fizzy, unnatural. Stale aftertaste.