Big Bear

Pabst Brewing Company
Brewed at Miller Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Malt Liquor
Woodridge, Illinois USA

Serve in Lager glass, Paper Bag, Shaker

40oz bottle from some store in the middle of nowhere Michigan, consumed out of a paper bag in the backseat of a car on 6/2/06. Deeply golden, with strong amber tints, really speaking to the heavy amount of corn syrup in it. Though I did not decant it, the head foamed up quite nicely in the bottle, very white and fluffy, with fair retention (no lacing). Ahem....The nose is a stale barley aroma, much like budweiser, without any note of hops. Highly cerealic graininess, though mushy and doused in corn syrup. Some very light crisp lager yeast notes are slighly redeeming. DMS is heavy from the outset though, with light rancid cabbage and huge amounts of black/white pepper. Sweetness, however, does not overwhelm, dosent have that typical medicinal/cough syrupiness. The flavor, at first, seems passable for a malt liquor, with a decent amount of real malt flavor, certainly bolstered by some biproducts of corn syrup fermentation, which, while not exactly pleasant, are acceptable for the style (plastic, light powderiness and vanilla). Everything goes right out the window, however, when you arrive at the finish, which is just a mouthfull of boiled yams, cabbage and stale, rancid corn. Huge DMS, alcohol and plastic, with a light stinging sensation makes you sorry that you ever took a sip. Just hugely chemical in nature and truly disgusting. Mouthfeel is highly carbonated, though less syrupy than many. Still, plenty of sugars make it through.

40oz bottle shared by ClarkVV. Looks to be a syrupy flat copper color with a small white head. nose is corn and syrup and corn syrup. Flavor is wet cardboard soem corn syrup and some grossness.

This was God aweful (is there any malt liquor that isn’t?). It was only redeemed by the circumstance under which it was consumed: Tyler Durden and I filled our go-cups with this and headed out onto Whyte Avenue after the Oilers beat Anaheim to win the Western Conference and advance to the Stanley Cup final. A perfect nasty-ass beer for the occasion!

(bottle - 40 oz) Transparent yellow color with a nice and fizzy white head. Aroma is very odd. It seems to be a mix of grains, corn, and alcohol. Kind of bad smelling. Taste is like your typical malt liquor. Sweet and alcoholic with a corn middle and a watery finish. Not as bad as some I’ve had though. The taste doesn’t linger.

This is better than budweiser. It stinks, it’s piss yellow and it’s way too carbonated. But it doesn’t taste as bad as bud.

Pours a fizzy crisp golden yellow. Aromas of corn, minor hopping, and not much else. Flavor is bland american lager with almost no hops. Is ther any difference between this and St. Ides/Olde English/Bull??? Taste like the same beer to me.

Golden,nice looking,but thats where the good points stop. Gets a 3 for appearance. Aroma is of oil and grease. Flavor is something I dont want to discuss. Palate is not good,-1233 on that.Overall, this fucking sucks!

Well, as with most of the Malt Liquor kind, this has a golden dehydrated urine look to it. The aroma is quite foul as it is composed of rotting corn and some other unmentionables. The flavor on the other makes up for it. It does not make you want to vurp the same way the nose does. It does have that sour corn flavor, but it is in a good way I guess. There isn’t really that malt liquor bite at the end that I was expecting, which isn’t altogether missed. All in all this is not too bad of a malt liquor. It almost got me arrested though. Damned Oregon cops!