January 31, 2007
It comes in a 12 oz brown bottle; on the label you have the picture of a black hawk along with the name of the beer on it. The neck label has a description of the beer along with the name of the brewing company. There really is nothing all that eye catching about the label. It does have a nice older look/design to it.
This beer pours a dark coffee color that light doesnÂ’t pass through. ItÂ’s not as dark as Guinness, but itÂ’s pretty close. There was a one-inch thick tan head that slowly turned into a ring around the glass. There is some lacing, but not a lot of it. The look of this beer is very enticing.
The smell is very appealing. It is a mixture of deep roasted chocolate malts, a touch of coffee, a dash of hops with a very mild and almost unnoticeable hint of cherry. The first whiff makes the taste buds stand up in anticipation. The taste is nothing less then spectacular. You can taste dry roasted malts with a coffee and chocolate blended accents. There is a good mix of hops that awaken the taste buds and makes this an exceptional beer.
It is a medium bodied beer with a nice dry finish. There is a slight creaminess to it. For Stout it was a little thin, itÂ’s not as thick as one would get from an Irish Stout. Still there is a nice texture to it.
I truly enjoyed this beer. ItÂ’s one of those that I can see myself craving or requesting if I go to a bar that stocks microbrews. Definitely worth a drink if you can find it. IÂ’m going to rate this 7 out of 10.
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January 24, 2007
Standard 12 oz brown bottle with a white and blue label. There is a snowman holding a pint on it, and the name of the beer. Along with the tag line, “Ale aged on Bourbon barrel oak and Vanilla beans.” Which I misread when I bought it, thinking it was aged IN a bourbon barrel, and I completely missed the part about vanilla beans. The neck label states, “Brewed with all-imported hops and aged on bourbon oak casks and whole Madagascar vanilla beans for a smooth, robust taste.” So they bottle the beer and lay it on top of a bourbon barrel filled with beans? Yes, I know they probably mean that the bottom of the tank they aged it in had floaty bits of barrel and vanilla beans in it.
When poured into a pint glass there is almost no head. What head that does form disappears quickly into a ring around the edge of the glass. There is no visible lacing. The color is a nice ruby color. It is a good-looking beer, very enticing.
It has a very sweet smell to it. It was a mix of Vanilla, bourbon and beer. The vanilla was so overpowering that it reminded me of a beer and vanilla ice cream milkshake. It was too sweet for a beer. The taste was overpowering vanilla. There were bourbon, oak and malt under tones to the vanilla, but it was difficult to separate. What bourbon flavor there was seemed almost artificial, like it was a chemical extract. The aftertaste is almost completely non-existent.
This is a light bodied beer. There is an above average amount of carbonation to it. Very typical of Anheuser-BuschÂ’s Budweiser line of beers.
I was very disappointed in this beer. People who want to drink beer, but want something sweet will like this. ItÂ’s just too sweet for my tastes. I like oak aged and malty beers, and this one did not live up to my expectations at all. IÂ’m going to give it a 3.5 out 10.
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January 17, 2007
It is in the standard 12 oz brown bottle. The label is quite interesting in that itÂ’s based on a Dutch wood carving of the 1800Â’s. Other then that the label has the standard information on it, nothing to really make me sit up and take notice.
Pouring the beer into a pint glass, it gives a nice inch thick head that fades at a decent rate. There really is no lacing on the glass to describe. The color is a cloudy golden yellow. You canÂ’t see through the glass, but light passes through easily enough.
Up until this point the beer seemed promising. Then I took a whiff, the first thing I smelled was liver. Folks, I kid you not; I thought I smelled liver. It was so predominant that I thought I might have some kind of liver residue from a liver dip my wife made, that I pulled out a virgin, untouched by anything other then sterile water glass and poured a new beer. The same thing happened. Even Ktreva smelled liver. After further examination, the scent is a mix of yeast, cloves and coriander. Due to the lambic style of the beer, it gives it a slightly musty scent as well. The beer tasted much like the scent, there were some malts, cloves and coriander, but it tasted like liverwurst. This is not a selling point in beers to me. I spent 15 minutes scouring the label and the box looking for the disclaimer. “PranQster is named that way as a joke because it tastes like liver! It’s great at parties and to unsuspecting friends to get them to drink this and see their reaction.” Unfortunately, they really want it to taste like this legitimately.
This is a medium bodied beer that has a slight carbonation bite. There is a coating of the mouth that makes the liver taste stick around for a while. It also is kind of unpleasant in the aftertaste.
If you couldnÂ’t tell, I did not like this beer. I like liver, I like beerÂ… but the two should never meet in one product. Just because IÂ’m slightly nauseated by the fact that I drank three bottles of it to give this review, IÂ’m going to have to give it a 2 out of 10.
This really is a joke waiting to happen.
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January 10, 2007
Sadly enough it comes in a green glass bottle. That means it allows light through and can damage the beer on the inside if it’s over exposed. The bottle has the name of the beer cast into it. There is a foil neck label. The front label has the name of the beer, where it’s brewed and a faux wax seal that says something in what I’m assuming is Czech. On the back label it has all the normal information as well as a story about the beer, “Pilsner Urquell is truly original. Before 1842 beers were often dark and cloudy, until our visionary brewmaster in Pilsen, Czech created the world’s first golden beer. This revolutionary breakthrough delivered an intensely rewarding taste and the original golden pilsner beer.” Hey, if they say so, who am I to argue?
True to the description this is a clear golden yellow beer. When originally poured there was a one-inch head on it that quickly disappeared. There is no lacing on the glass to note.
It has a very enticing aroma to it. A mixture of mild malts and hops. There is a sweet grassy scent with a nice accent of bread. (Not yeast). On the tongue it has a light malt flavor mixed with a pleasant hoppy bitterness that isnÂ’t distracting. The taste is crisp and clean.
This is a light bodied beer. There is a slight bite on the tongue and a nice level of carbonation. Very pleasant to drink.
This beer pleasantly surprised me. I didnÂ’t think I would like it, but itÂ’s really not bad. It does have a light beer taste and feel to it, but not a bad light beer. IÂ’m going to give this beer a 6 out of 10.
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January 03, 2007
It came in a 24 ounce silver can. On the front it has the name in black on a white back ground along with many other things. It advertises that it is 8.1% alcohol by volume. This can is so busy itÂ’s hard to describe. It has information all over it telling about the beer and the meaning of the name. Realistically, if someone was going to honestly buy this beer for anything other then to either try it or play a prank on someone else, they are not going to read that much on the label.
The color is a golden amber color. ItÂ’s clear, with no sign of cloudiness or distortion. To be honest it looks like urine. You can see light and images through it easily. It pours a thick one-inch white head that quickly disappears. There is no lacing and it barely has a film on it.
The stink of this beer reminds me of some friends from college apartment, a strong scent of stale beer and rot. Not as much the rot as the stale beer. You can smell some malts, but not a hint of hops. There is also a hint of rancidness to it. Unfortunately the smell was setting up the taste. I could taste stale malts and alcohol. At 8.1% Alcohol by Volume, that doesnÂ’t surprise me. There was a hint of sweetness to it, but the alcohol overpowered it. For the love of all that is good and holy, do not let this beer get warm. Once it gets warm, itÂ’s probably one of the vilest things you can drink.
It is a light bodied beer. There is a very thin feel in the mouth, not that you want it to linger there to long. There is too much carbonation. It bites the tongue and causes you to continuously burp, which makes you taste it again.
IÂ’m not sure at what point my brain decided it hated me, but the fact it let me buy this beer pretty much tells me it does. Lets look at the signs; 24 ounces of beer for under a buck, itÂ’s a high gravity lager, 8.1% alcohol by volume and finally the fact that it was 24 ounces of beer for under a dollar! It was absolutely horrible I give it a 2 out of 10.
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