Camo Genuine Ale

Camo Beer Company
Brewed at City Brewery (Melanie Brewing Co)
Style: Malt Liquor
Las Vegas, Nevada USA

Serve in Lager glass, Paper Bag, Shaker

Heinous! I've discovered the world's worst beer! Bright yellow with big poofy white head. Alcohol-intensive aroma. Flavor is acidic and bitter (but not in the good way). Yech ...

Ok in search of that perfect beer...LOL just kidding.I have this awful habit of buying THE cheapest beer in sight..now and again..this was just one such occaison. Comes in a rather gaudy 24 oz can with all sorts of big claims on it"Special Reserve","Super premium" "Genuine Ale" etc etc. The appearance is off urine topped with a large but yet horrid looking head..chemical comes to mind..it goes down to almost zero in 30 secs. Smells like urone too..well maybe a wee bit like wet dog hair mixed with rubbing alcohol. Taste is saccharine sweet with an awful bitterness..then alcohol..unhidden. This stuff is the pits down there with Magnum 40..when will I ever learn..cheap does not always mean a good deal.

This stuff is digusting, flat out. It has one of the strangest and harshest aromas and taste. It is hard to explain but just imagine drinking liquid steel. It is definitely strong though.

Horrid! Forced me to make all kinds of strange faces in reaction to this putrid mess. Fuselly as all get out, vague sweetness, corny. Rough alcoholic finish. Gasoline, solvent, napalm in a can. Hop presence minimal to none. Hint of metallic taste, possibly from the can. One of the worst ever - but not completely ugly looking, gold color wasn't too pale.

Camo's got a malty, almost winey aroma. At 8.6%, it's almost like a blonde barleywine, only the flavor's pretty rough and there's lots of higher alcohols. Not a "rinser" but close.

UPDATED: FEB 19, 2009 I originally thought "CAMO" was short for camouflage, and expected the can to be wearing it. I was wrong. But after pouring this stuff into my New Belgium globe glass, I could barely see its clear straw color, so I guess it is somewhat relative. Head plumed at first, then the bubbles quickly popped away, leaving behind splotchy lace on the inside of the glass. It had an intense smell, like dusty cardboard box recently pulled from an attic. Oh, and you could easily light its alcohol notes with a cheap magnifying glass on a partly cloudy day (I have to question the mere 8.6% they claim). Strangely, the beer’s texture went back and forth from watery to syrupy, neither of which were all that great. Malts were extremely light and bland, with some corn-like nuances. At first, I thought the alcohol bite was smooth, but noticeable. As I kept drinking, it became more and more in the forefront. And then it became absolutely disgusting and repulsive, with intense rubbing alcohol notes that just wouldn’t go away. Just kept getting worse and worse. Major drain pour. About 19 ounces of the 24, to be exact.

Can. Head is initially average sized, frothy, white, mostly diminishing. Body is hazy medium yellow, light density of small/medium particles. Aroma is lightly malty (cereal), with a note of isopropyl alcohol, light note of DMS, hint of apple. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Light to medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation, moderately alcoholic. It tastes like...burrrrrningggggg! (Ralph Wiggum) When I was a wee lad, legend had it there was a local man that was such a pitiful alcoholic that he'd been known to resort to rubbing alcohol at one time or another. If only he'd known about Camo Genuine Ale, he would have spared most of the social stigma.

The initial taste isn't as bad as some malt liquors. But the aftertaste is horrible! Garbage and rot, with hints or shit in the palate. Thick and skanky. And you certainly don't feel very good the next day either.