Ballantine XXX Ale

Pabst Brewing Company
Brewed at Miller Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Woodridge, Illinois USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Bottle. White very small head that mostly diminished with no lacing, minimal carbonation, transparent, and a pale yellow hue. Nose was corn, some hops and some skunkiness thrown in. Flavor was somewhat sweet, hoppy but not overly so, and corn. Slightly tingly mouthfeel. Light body. It is what it is.

Can. Bizarre aroma of tin and rotting corn - like opening an old can of Green Giant. Golden yellow with moderate head. Thank God it doesn’t taste like it smells - sweet bariey and corn but hard to get past that stench - possibly an old can but am afraid to try again.

I can’t find anything offensive about this brew. Not special for an ale, and tastes more like a macro-brew lager, but it is very drinkable. A little sweet, not especially hoppy (though it is there), and not much to look at, but at least it is not over-carbonated and has a fairly clean finish. Favorable compared to Bud, Busch, MGD, etc.. If I were a millionare I’d never buy this again, but being that I’m not I might try it again, as it is available and cheap. I still wish Yuengling were available here, since then I’d never have to "settle" for variety over known quality.

12 oz green bottle, twist off cap to smell a little skunk. But, when you pour it into your mug it is a slight wheatish. The flavor is a bit rough considering it claims to be americas largest selling ale, is that true? Seems, from my experiences it cannot be true. The taste sensation is a bit offensive, with hints of astringentness. Not as behaved as I would like, perhaps gentleman like qualities are those of a lager and this claims to be ale. So the only other golden ale that I drank before this was Kochs Golden Anniversary. I don’t know how this could fall into the same style. I’m pretty sure that Kochs is a lager of some sort, I’ll have to check. Not bad but the finish leaves some smoothness to be desired. Kochs is 30 cents a can and I paid 2$ for this. This certainly has no gag reflex to it as Kochs does.

Bottle Code 136 6 B2P 18:31

Pours pale golden with light effervescence under a creamy white head leaving moderate lace... without today’s good mood, an appearance that would rate a "3". Green-bottle skunk fades to grasses and pale malt with a Noble hop sharpness & some rough alcohol notes. My good mood fades. Flavor mimmicks the aroma with a Pilsenerish feel to it. All in all, rather nice for an inexpensive, Miller-brewed ale.

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I first saw this beer in forty form, but haven’t had the chance to taste in until my father unwittingly purchased a case of this. I must have mocked him for 10 minutes before I actually tried the beer. For an ale it was bad. Drinkable... I guess, but bad. There are way worse beers out there, but this watery ale, without much noticable flavour is certainly not amongst the better. And it is true, as another reviewer mentioned, this tastes more like a lager than an ale (maybe it is actually a lager in disguise?).

Pours a light golden with a small, rapidly diminsihing, white head. The aroma is grainy with no noticible hop or malt. The flavor is grainy and light with a thin body and a finish that is mild.

Smells a little bitter and skunky unfortunately... Light golden body with just about no head. Somewhat sweet, just a hint of hops, but slighly skunky. Fairly light in body. Not that good, but I think I got a bad bottle. I’ll have to revise my review