mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:
Raptor wrote:
A few days ago I bought some beer that was on sale and I'd never had it before.
Labatt Prohibition Series Bourbon Barrel Ale.
It's awful!!
At first impression it has a flavor of cheap beer quickly followed by an alarmingly sh***y chemically flavor that tastes like toilet bowl cleaner smells. It's actually much worse than that. It's supposed to have a bourbony flavor but nothing in it reminds me of bourbon in the least. I poured the whole six pack down the kitchen sink. Luckily I had better beer than that on hand that i could drink instead.
That's macrobrew for you. Not that I'm entirely against macrobrews, but anytime they try to do something more complex than a lager or a light ale, they tend to screw it up. It still amazes me that Rickard's Red is as good as it is considering it's made by Molson. Most of the time it's a pretty good beer, not terribly complex, but it definitely has more body than a macrobrew lager. Unfortunately, I've encountered a few batches that have just tasted terrible.
Actually I like some microbrews but Labatt is not a microbrewery. This particular swill (actually, calling it swill is way too generous) is some kind of specialty brew along the lines of Sam Adams Winter Lager to name one example. SA Winter Lager is actually a decent brew that I like.
I've had Labatt Blue and it was at least drinkable and not too bad. This toxic waste they call Bourbon Barrel Ale is by far the worse beverage of any kind I have ever tried. The taste was absolutely hideous and has left an impression in my mind that will take a while to overwrite.
I guess it could possibly be some old s**t that has gone bad from being stored long term in some non-climatically controlled warehouse but I've tried other old beer that had gone bad but it was nothing like what I'm talking about here.
I thought about saving it for this summer to use as a lawn spray for bugs but I'm not that cruel even to bugs. It would probably kill my lawn and leave it totally barren for at least the next 1000 years, anyway.
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