Hurricane High Gravity Lager

Brewed by Anheuser-Busch InBev
Style: Malt Liquor
St. Louis, Missouri USA

I make take the occasional cheap shot at Bud and Busch, but this is what 99 cents will buy you. This stuff should be rated in the negative numbers, and a-b should give you money. This is prime for the corner alcoholic bum in your town.

This fine American lager has a pungent aroma of cafeteria catsup (ketchup). It appears eerily similar to wild Irish Rose. Appearance is average. The flavor is simply awful. Sugary, you can almost feel the hangover instantaneously. Palate? Let’s just say vomit inducing. Overall a fine gastronomic experience.

This and that other crap that Miller makes, you would always see the bums carrying out 5 or 6 of these in a plastic bag. Beer that’s good enough for the homeless. This smells like pure diesel fuel and and grain alcohol. Extremely high carbonation masking any flavor this would have, this has a seriously bad aftertaste. I cannot even finish but a couple of sips.

24 oz can via Safeway. Pours a clear amber with a tiny head. Nose is corn and fusel alc. Taste is like every other pale lager but with lots of fusel alcohol. Body is medium, carbonation is high which is a plus as it helps mask that alc.

24 oz can - I drank this one alongside a Rogue Dad’s Little Helper (their malt liquor) to compare the two and frankly to see if the craft brewer, Rogue, could do better with a style that’s best known for being a cheap alcohol delivery system. The Rogue was $6 for a 22oz bottle. This one was $1.19. It pours clear yellow with a one finger, fizzy white head. It has a light, grainy aroma and a grainy, sweet malt flavor with strong alcohol presence and a harsh palate. The finish is just plain rough. I got through maybe half of it before I gave up and dumped the rest.

pale yellow pour with a ring of white. heavy sweet malt scent. water on the palate and the malts are seriously jacked up.

Golden color, nice white head, actually leaves some lacing. Some corn and grain noticed in the smell, even some banana maybe, and a small hop presence. Taste starts out fairly clean but has a grainy and floral finish. Medium carbonation and medium bodied. I really expected this to suck, but I’m glad I tried it, it’s actually alright. This could get dangerous considering what you get for the price.

poured this into a glass to see what color it was and to get some aromas... after that it went straight into a funnel. clear gold with a small quickly dissipating white head. aroma of candy caramels, grassy hops and laundry detergent-like floral qualities (not that it’s a bad thing). tastes sweet...like lemon grass, grass, caramel and distinctly of cantaloupe. medium body is a bit acidic and prickly from the carbonation. not a particularly good ML...