Four O

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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Tall boy can. Pours a light straw color with some white head. Aroma of alcohol, corn, and green apple. Taste is bland and rather unpleasant - dusty, sweet and corny. It is, however, remarkably smooth when very cold and at 10% will get you drunk good and quick. Its $1.29 price also gives it a few points...

Can. Gold with a white head. Sweet corny and lightly boozy. Not good at all.

Besides having an offensive, "ghetto" can design, this cough syrup concoction is incredibly bad. At first when I drank it (poured from a 24 oz. can), I thought it was just sort of chemical and bad, then, when I was nauseous for the next 24 hours (I guess one hour of sickness per ounce), then I knew this filth was super-low quality. It does have a creamy, off-white head and a clear golden color, with lots of ragged lacing. Carbonation is pretty high. There’s a strong apple aroma and some grain can be detected. The taste is highly sweet and fruity, with some alcohol sting to it. Mouth-feel is rather heavy, and Four O finishes wet and sloppy. About an hour after finishing the 24 ounces, then the upset stomach kicked in. Oh! Beer NEVER makes me sick, so this slop must really be some awful stuff. Stay away from this! Four O Street Legal Malt Liquor is NOT available in Louisiana (thankfully). I bought it on a road trip in Trevose, PA. RJT

Thanks to the Cheeseman. Well, at least it is better than Earthquake. Pretty much exactly what you would expect, though. High octane corn syrup. Pretty bad, but there are worse things out there to drink.

Four O @RichmondX Gathering Thanks dkachur-24oz can-pours a foamy white head and yellow color. Aroma is sweet grain. Taste is sweet grain, chemical, some hops.

Cloudy yellow pour. With paper and corn on the nose. Flavor mirrors nose and this one is thin and watery. not much

24oz can, courtesy CheeseMan. Well, here goes nothin! The pour yields a clear, medium golden hued body. A thin off-white film coast the surface, leaving sugary, spotted lace on the glass. The aroma shows loads of sweet corn grain in the malt base, with notes of old, chewed bubblegum, dirty water, and butter. Flavors mainly follow suit, again showing a monster sweet corn element and loads of dirty grain. It’s so damn sugary, it almost hurts your teeth. Despite its saccharine nature, the palate is relatively thin, sporting light carbonation. This stuff is pretty vile, though it’s not the worst malt liquor I’ve had.

Can at the 10th Richmond RateBeer Gathering courtesy of dkachur on 01/16/2010. Clear pale golden body with a large frothy white head. Sweet rice and grainy malt aroma. Sweet rice and grainy malt flavor, overly sweet. Medium light body with high carbonation.

Longneck 40 oz. bottle. While I drank most of it straight from the bottle, I did pour a sample into a glass to look at. Golden in color, pure white foam. It has some what of a fruity/bum wine punch to the aroma. Flavor is somewhat the same, quite astringent in finish. This thing really ppacks a punch too.

Bottle, this is straight up gangsta beer, ya hurr. Pours a pale golden body with white head. Grain etoh, hay, white sugar, and butter. A lightly fruity sweet etoh warming with some grain hay and chewy resins. Not horrendous i suppose.

Pours a bright mostly clear golden yellow with low carbonation and fizzy soda head. Aroma is corn sugar sweetness, grits, toast, sweet candy sugar, and DMS. Flavor is cabbage adn creamed corn but very sweet due to the high grav- light metallic, strong off honey sweet twang- white wine and corn grits. Ok for a couple sips, then drain pour. Ugh.