Bowes Special 7 Double Dry

Brewed by Groupe Geloso
Style: Malt Liquor
Laval, Canada

Serve in Lager glass, Paper Bag, Shaker

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Boring gold with just a little bit of very white head on top... looks like any other macro lager. Soft aroma of hops and cardboard. Taste is fruity malts with a rice and alcohol finish. Slightly better than the worst, but not by much.

355ml can pours straw in color with a fast diminishing white head that leaves no lacing. Aroma is cheap grains and hops. Taste is metallic hop bitterness. Below average brew.

Originally rated April 2006. Pours a pale golden-yellow colour with a white frothy head. Heavy carbonated, keeping the retention in a good way, and leaving a nice amount of lace. The nose is chemically malted. Watery mouthfeel with a slightly dry finish. Taste of corn and mild grain malt, but mixed with a big metallic flavour. Not very appealing. Does seem to disappear after a while, but still....

Cannette 355 ml. Bouteille 341 ml. 5.6%. Couleur jaune dorée. Bière commerciale. Moins bonne que la Bowes lager régulière. Notes d’alcool. Comme bière pas chère on a vu pire.

***review from Aug 14, 2007***

Poured out a decent bright white cap with excellent retension and tons of lacing. I dumped it into an old tall mug and it seems to me that this glass keeps the brew bubbling non stop - I’ve noticed this before. Well, tough shit. In this glass, this is one good looking beer and I’m not getting another Special 7. Solid gold brew. The aroma is a soft sweetness with apples, weak barley malt and maybe a faint chemical smell...maybe. Normally with a budget beer I would not say that I want more aroma as usually it’s the opposite way around here. This stuff gets the job done when ice cold but it doesn’t take long for the crappiness to come out. Boring, plain and watered down with a unappealing bitterness. A touch sour and chemicals. Man, this stuff is still really cold and it just smashed itself into a wall - there is no way I let this warm up. Lots of bitterness. Mouthfeel is fairly smooth. Light bodied. Some of the aftertaste must be comming from the alcohol. Doesn’t mask the plastic bitterness at all. Thank God it’s so watery cause any ammount of flavour might cause my stomach to implode. Long lasting bitterness.

C’est difficile de faire pire coté gout. Son arome rapelle l’eau de la vaiselle. La finale avec extra alchol en arriere gout.

355ml can. Pours yellow/gold. Head is white but does not last. Sweet nose, corny malt. Flavour is grainy, corny sweetness, finishes with a bit of alcohol. Grainy, dry aftertaste. Medium body, prickly carbonation. Not that offensive, but hadrly recommended.

Light golden colour with little head. Aroma is like a damp wet towel with grass... lots of wet grass. Flavour is weak malty grainy beer. High in carbonation.

Bottle- Very pale yellow with a short lived diminishing white head. Corn and fusel aroma, wet paper, grains, and some sugar.Pretty sweet in the mouth, corn, and other grains. Sweet finish, quite prickly with the carbonation. Ok. Picked up in Gatineau on Jan 5th at a variety store.

De couleur jaune et transparente. Nez de grains de malt pâle, de maïs sucré avec de très faibles notes herbeuses (gazon mouillé) et métalliques. Mince en bouche avec un pétillement moyen-élevé et légèrement croustillant et une texture aqueuse. Goût de grains de malt pâle aux notes croustillantes lors de l’entrée en bouche suivi d’un de maïs bien sucré puis une finale sèche aux faibles notes amères de houblon herbeux et métalliques. Post-goût court et sec, aux faibles notes amères de houblon et de métal.