Earthquake High Gravity Lager

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

Serve in Lager glass, Paper Bag, Shaker

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Holy crap. This was some rough swill. I bought a tall boy of it for $.99 just for the rating. Horrible corn alcohol smell and taste. You take a few drinks of this and you feel like doing something stupid and/or illegal. Terrible.

Light pour with some nasty, astringent sweetness and plenty of nickel nastiness. Gross.

A golden color with a white head as expected. The aroma is harsh with some 2 day old sweet corn, fingernail polish, and hay. The flavor is really sweet with more sweet corn, apple sauce, and Karo syrup. The alcohol is actually fairly well hidden but it doesn’t detract from the funky corn sweetness of this. Overall you can do worse with malt liquors but still not good.

Pours a pale yellow color. Smell is very faint, some alcohol. Taste is green apples, alcohol, more green apples. Overall a low quality beer.

Huh, who knew this can for RBSH2 would also be a tick?

5/2/12. 24oz can (uggggh). Pours a clear golden with a thick, fluffy white head that’s gone instantly but laces in surprising consistent rings. Horrid, HORRID aroma that reminds me of cheap vodka mixed with rocket fuel and... and... I don’t even know - vomit, pennies, and garbage. Sickeningly sweet corny flavor with a big dose of vomit filled with chewed up apples and pennies - despite this, it’s not nearly as horrid as the aroma. Wow, GT2, thanks for making this a task - NOT.

aroma, not good, like rubbing alcohol, color, golen hue?, in can, taste, ooooo, the front end slaps you and the backend burns like rubbing alcohol, really tasted somewhat like rubbing alcohol smells, overall, I wont buy again, wanted to try now I say Bye!

Wax-dipped can, 2011 vintage. Pours a solid cheddar orange with a nice, frothy white head. Aroma is raspberry Isopryl alcohol and fermented honey and apple. Reminds me of jet fuel even though, to my knowledge, I’ve never smelled jet fuel. Flavor is alcohol-soaked corn flakes with over-ripened apple chunks. Watery mouthfeel. My dear Lord, this stuff is rancid; it’s sucking me into a vortex of sadness and stink.

EARTHQUAKE! 24 oz can. Is it a bad thing that I got excited when I saw this can? Clear gold pour, white head. Smells like rancid malts and sweetness. Very sugary, even the cheap malt is hard to taste, it’s more like fermented sugar water. Maybe I drink too many big beers, but the abv is hard to detect especially for 12%. It’s good homeless food.

24 oz. can from a giant mug. Pours a deep, clear golden color with a tall white head that actually leaves lacing but fizzes away rapidly. Aroma has tons of odd sweet notes - some odd apple notes - and a ton of booze. Taste is unbearably bad. Huge bad corn syrup notes with a rubbing alcohol finish. This stuff is disgusting. Huge vegetal notes and tons of booze. A definite drain pour. This stuff is bad - even for a malt liquor.

24 oz. bottle from Woodman’s. Oh boy. I just can’t turn down a $.99 bottle of delicious malt liquor can I? Perhaps the least rancid of our malt liquor tasting. Awesome name. My Golden Retriever drank it, that’s pretty cool.