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RATINGS: 540   WEIGHTED AVG: 1.45   EST. CALORIES: 180   ABV: 6%
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For over 4 decades, Colt 45 Premium Malt Liquor has been the "class of all malt liquor brands". With its smooth and distinct flavor and historic affiliation with Billy Dee Williams, it has become an urban American icon. If you’re looking for a thick 40, or an ice cold shorty, Colt 45 is the malt liquor that works EVERYTIME!


2
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 7/20
frankenkitty (1953) - Oak Lawn, USA - APR 16, 2006
A memorable occasion calls for a memorable beer. This sucka pours pure yellow clarity with light carbonation and a creamy white head. Aromas of grass and minerals with alcohol under corn. Flavor gets better as it warms, starting with sugary corn syrup and a healthy amount of grass, no doubt preparing your palate for a blunt. Mouthfeel is milky smooth to the point where swigging off the 40 is like suckin’ off yo’ mama’s titty. Damn, tha’tz smooth. Spokesperson <a href=http://billydeecolt45.ytmnd.com/>Billy Dee Williams claims, "It works every time." I can’t figure out exactly what it works for... I just know that it does.

This brew is symbolically rated on Easter Sunday as RAYBOY01 and myself rise from the dark cave of drunkneness as Beer GODS. (And I pledged to my homeboy that the last one to go pours a malt likka on the other’s grave.)

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2.8
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
dekester1 (193) - Neenah, Wisconsin, USA - JAN 30, 2012
Poured a deep gold with a light head and lingering lace. Aroma was primarily of sweet malts - not bad. Taste was of malts and slight graininess with a light hop finish. Not great, but not terrible either. Palate was OK. Overall, a decent malt liquour by Miller for Pabst.

1.3
   AROMA 2/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 5/20
Niko100 (1082) - New York, USA - JAN 2, 2012
Pale straw color; Light to medium body; Aroma of malt, & light grain; Flavor of slight sweet malt, grain, and some corn syrup; Overall, not entirely terrible - drinkable.

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   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 5/20
wnoble (636) - French Lick, Indiana, USA - NOV 30, 2011
Pale and crystal clear. Head is prominent and somewhat lasting. Some extremely light flowery hops, medium light grain aroma, mild sulfur. Flavor is medium dry throughout and lend some corn like flavors and malts. Palate is crisp and medium light body especially for the highish ABV. really isn’t as bad as most people say. Not to say it’s a "good" beer by any means but isn’t any worse than Bud or Bud Light.

1.8
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 2/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 6/20
Big_Pete (22) - Missouri, USA - NOV 8, 2011
Must be drunk in a paper bag holding apparatus. Had a 40 of this from BJ’s. Taste was skunky, and was sticky on the toungue. Probably will have this in a can next time.

0.5
   AROMA 1/10   APPEARANCE 1/5   TASTE 1/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 1/20
Sammer (692) - Plano, Texas, USA - OCT 27, 2011
I don’t even really know what to say here. I drank this one many years ago and it tasted so bad, I must have blocked it out of my memory. At least I lived to tell.

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   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 8/20
GT2 (3414) - Washington DC, USA - OCT 24, 2011
16oz can courtesy of TheGriffin. The pour is a ... okay who am I kidding. Drank this from the can straight up. Very sugary, though not offensive, with some pretty intense sugary and apple and pear. Certainly not gross. Not sure where all the hate comes from, but just because it is served in a 40oz from a paper bag doesn’t mean it’s offensive. Got no brewing flaws from this one besides mild acetaldehyde. Not much fusel alcohol but some near cloying sweetness. I would reckon the 9% version would get to be quite fusel but at 6% this is pretty straightforward. Fizzy, bubbly palate.

1.1
   AROMA 2/10   APPEARANCE 1/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 4/20
nevets4433 (290) - - OCT 4, 2011
32 oz. bottle. Standard yellow swill. Huge bubbles with no head. Aroma is huge vegetal skunky nonsense. Lots of off alcohols and some huge stale grain notes. Taste is the same. This is bad, even for a malt liquor.

3.4
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 16/20
ChoppingMall (47) - Sleepy Hollow, Wisconsin, USA - SEP 15, 2011
This opened with a fierce crack and carbonated up nicely. Aroma of sweet corn, classic malt liquor smell. Slightly sweet on the palate, but not too sweet. Finishes with a nice fizzy zing and mild flavors of musty goat barn. It’s one of the better 40’s out there in my opinon. Pairs nicely with a frozen pizza. And what a great history of advertising this beer has, as its posterboy was once LANDO. I also remember a commercial where there’s some black dudes playing basketball and drinking cans of Colt 45, on a public basketball court in the park. Awesome. Works every time!


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