The Bar Towel

I can't begin to comprehend how this even comes close to deserving the kind of reviews it gets. This isn't good beer.

2.46/5 rDev -39.6% look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.5 Deep copper. Small and short-lived beige head, decent lace. Sharp, boozy aroma with light raisin and toffee notes. Tastes mildly sweet with notes of caramel, raisin, and dried cherry. Mild bitterness in the finish. ...

One Muskoka brewer has success with interesingly flavoured Belgian blonde, and now the other Muskoka brewer follows suit. Interesting. ^ only 12 bucks too! :wink: Probably decent and outrageously overpriced like their Porter. The cost/value relationship just isn't their for me when it comes to this...

One Muskoka brewer has success with interesingly flavoured Belgian blonde, and now the other Muskoka brewer follows suit. Interesting.

Carling Ice 2.38/5 rDev -13.8% look: 2.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.25 Gold colour, small but tightly formed white head. Poor retention and lace. "Beery" aroma with a solvent note. Mildly sweet with doughy and corn cereal notes. Slight alcohol sharpness in the f...

Old Milwaukee Ice 2.38/5 rDev 0% look: 3.75 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.5 Pale straw colour. Fluffy white head, moderately retentive. Leaves collars of lace on the glass. Like Old Milwaukee Original, this is an attractive looking AAL. Boiled corn/vegetables and white bread...

Busch Ice 1.85/5 rDev +5.7% look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2 Golden body, pours without forming a proper head, no lace. Faint corn cereal and green apple aroma. Doughy malt and corn syrup flavour, with a moderately strong green apple character. Alcohol is a tiny bit harsh, ...

I'm dreading the Ice beers. Cryo-concentration of off-flavours. Sounds lovely!

Truthfully, I kind of like that mild breakfast cereal thing I get from some of these brews. Corn isn't a bad taste. Breakfast cereal isn't a bad taste. It's only full-on corn syrup or boiled corn/cabbage type flavours that bother me, like in the Yankee Jim. The thing is, many beers of this type also...

Busch Beer 2.35/5 rDev +18.7% look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2 Pale straw. Small and poorly retained white head. Mild "beery" aroma. Like carbonated water lightly infused with corn cereal, mildly sweet, with a hint of green apple. Light-bodied and highly carbo...

Old Milwaukee 2.84/5 rDev +18.3% look: 4 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75 Straw gold body with lots of apparent carbonation. It's large white head is tightly formed and surprisingly retentive. It even leaves large patches of lace on the walls of my glass. Old Milwaukee is actua...

Malcolm wrote:

liamt07 wrote:Why even bother putting this up? Everyone already knew.

I didn't, but I could've guessed. Still, I got a laugh reading it. But didn't Gary cover these mediocre offerings at some point?!

I wasn't even trying to be funny, really. I was trying to play it straight.

Why even bother putting this up? Everyone already knew. I'm going to be putting up bottom-quality beer reviews all week. Got Carling Ice, Old Mil, Old Mil Ice, Busch, and Busch Ice sitting in the fridge. I expect the Carling Ice to be the only one to give this a run for its money in terms of awfuln...

I think it looks like the opposite of cool. I would never buy that glass. Falls in line with DFH's mantra though - gimmicky. What's gimmicky about their core line-up? 60 Minute is a by-the-numbers AIPA, and 90 Minute is a decent DIPA (though a little on the malty side for many palates). Burton Bato...

Yankee Jim Silver Reserve 1.6/5 rDev -0.6% look: 3.5 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 1 Golden colour and brilliant clarity with loads of visible carbonation. Large meringue-like head, good retention, no lace. Boiled corn aroma with hints of bread dough and buttery diacetyl. Malt for...