Crazy Stallion

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

Serve in Lager glass, Paper Bag, Shaker

Date: 02/10/2008
Mode: Can
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

Appearance: clear gold, fine white head, drippy streaks of lace,
Aroma: sweet corn aroma with light floral hops,
Flavor: light sweet grain flavor with a touch of corn, good earthy balance, light bitter finish,

Aroma: 3/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 7/20
Rating: 2/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: 4

Light amber colour...looks too drinkable to be a malt liquor. Cidery aroma is a nice start, but the body is light, and after a faint ciderraunch note it gets very watery. Too bland - it just doesn't have that "kick you in the nuts" character that I look for in a good malt liquor.

(Can, via Lumpy via Kevin) Pours a clear golden body with a small quickly diminishing white head. Nasal torching aroma of burnt plastic, sweet corn syrup, Peeps Easter candy, and a raunchy Taco Bueno garbage dumpster. I was asking myself, “what did I do to deserve this pleasure?...”. I had to work myself up some to dive in for a taste…but my drinking companion suggested it was not that bad. Found the flavor to be fairly bland with sweet malt, toasted grain, and bit of mineral with a somewhat dry finish.

Can 24 oz. Clear amber color with small white head that diminished quickly. Little to no aroma. Light body. Light flavor with small finish. Best features are cold and alcohol.

40 oz bottle. Golden colour, thin whtie head. Light corny aroma with some thin pale malt as well. Some appley cidery notes as well. Surprisingly clean. Thin bodied and a little sweet, but I put the 40 back with nary a grimace. As it warms, it still isn’t horrible. Very bland, but it gets you where you want to go.

Thanks for the can Kevin, not sure what I did to you to deserve this. Clear apple juice body with soda-like brown head, quickly diminishing. Nose is putrid spoiled apple cider, intensely heavy with earthy, dirty acetone and drying paint. Taste is no different - rotting red apples and corn phenols. Thin, syrupy texture.

UPDATED: JUN 10, 2010 Tall can that could easily be mistaken for a can or Arizona Iced Tea and purchased at a bodega. Pours pale straw color. Is viscous and tastes like syruppy fermented corn and skunk. The king of the cheap garbage beers I drank when I was 14.

Bottle from Capone’s. Pale gold color with splotchy whitish head. Corny, wet cardboardy, and metallic aroma, plus strong ethanol. Tastes somewhat pale malty, very corny, with some off metallic and thiol notes. I didn’t finish the 40...not even close.