BREWERY: Coors Brewing Company
STYLE: Ice Beer/Adjunct Lager
ABV: 5.9%
PURCHASE: 30-pack of 12-oz. cans, $11.99
SERVING: 12-oz. can, poured into pint glass. With a normal pour, an initial head of roughly three inches. A slow pour cut that in half, more or less. Surprisingly decent retention.
APPEARANCE: Adjunct straw, as I like to call it, with the usual white head. Prominent bubbling. Absolutely zero lacing on the first serving, then random splotches on the second, using the same glass.
BOUQUET: Ahhh . . . adjuncts. That unmistakable "wet sponge/clean metal" aroma. To be fair, I think I picked a note of grassy hops and perhaps a speck of yeast. Probably via chemical engineering.
PALATE: Middle-of-the-road body texture with carbonation that is not as forceful as you might expect. A fusel-alcohol nasal quality accompanies each sip. Straight-ahead and unwavering palate until the aftertaste, during which there is a slight uptick in yeast. So generic, in fact, that for all I know it was brewed from loaves of white bread. Goes down like a flat soft drink. A taste that is tolerable but nothing more; almost completely devoid of any real character.
MUSINGS AND METAPHORS: I get it now. Now I understand why the frat boys at Penn State chose Natty.
Because it's better than Keystone.
GRADE: F
Very thorough review. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteWell, as thorough as I could muster with a beer like this! Thanks for reading.
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