Camo Genuine Ale

Brewed by City Brewery (Melanie Brewing Co)
Style: Malt Liquor
La Crosse, Wisconsin USA

I used to live in Eastern Iowa, and I’d regularly travel through Cedar Rapids. One thing Cedar Rapids is known for is the large Quaker Oats plant in the midst of town, and one unfortunate side effect of this plant is a regular odor of sweet, sickly corn as corn syrup is molded into various forms of cereal. Depending on the direction of the wind, random parts of Cedar Rapids can be inundated with a stench of corn in the final throes of processing. Why do I mention this? Because the best way to describe the scent of this beer is if you were standing downwind when the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were suddenly and unexpectedly assaulted with a large quantity of napalm, sickly corn odor dying under a burning rain of chemicals. Add in the moldy, sticky head, the sweet corn and rubbing alcohol in the flavor, and the viscous and replusive palate, and there isn’t a drunkedness need on the planet worthy of this one. Pale yellow with a sticky, moldy white head. Nose smells like burning rubber and rotting corn.

Yellow WIth Some Head. Carbonated...Upon Close Proximity to Open Can, Realized My Ultimate Folly. Worst of the Three Camo’s... Just Plain Revolting...Horrible Ingredients Make This a Super Duper College Beer...1.84 Baby!

It says Special Reserve on the can, but if I thought what the non-Special Reserve stuff tastes like, I would probably have a brain aneurysm.

It’s malt liquor. Another cheap "cooking beer" that I have turned to. Not too putrid of a taste, sweet and smooth with only a little gagging. I think this stuff retails for about $1 for a 24 oz can.

This horrid beer was brewed by Satan himself. Marginally more tolerable than their lager, which still says nothing at all for it.

This is quite possibly the worst beer I have every had. Three of us had the misfortune of sampling this vile brew a few years back. We even buried one in the ground and dug it up a full year later and it didn’t faze the taste. Two of us almost threw up after the crack as the aroma hit our noses and it was commented that this beer was so bad that two of us had a hard time keeping it in our mouths long enough to even swallow it. And do not let this warm up while drinking as it only gets worse if that is even possible. Now in fairness I have tried it since and it was slightly better the second time but by no means a pleasant experience. Unless you are hard up for a quick buzz and short on cash I would avoid this swill at all costs.

24oz can. Golden pour, thin white fizz. Chopped onion aroma, it will make you cry. Sulfuric Acid presence?? Some corn, some apple. Flavor of sweet fruits, some apple juice. Brutal! 14 march 09

If there is one thing I have come to understand it’s that Camo beers suck. This one is no exception. Vile, vomit flavored, toxic water. Stay away!