Icehouse

Brewed by Miller Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Pale Lager
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

Pale, golden yellow with light streams of effervescence and a one-inch, white, foamy head that fades to nothingness. Everything you hate about BMC including dusty DMS, corn, adjuncts, et. al. Has a hit of alcohol... not as much as you’d expect from an ice beer, but more ramped up than a traditional macro. Slogan reads, "Smooth, Never Watered-Down Taste."  I would have preferred a thinner taste than this sickly, corn/alcohol concoction that hangs instead of dissipates.

Icehouse was fine in my college days when I sought out cheap beers to get drunk on, but it holds no place in my life now (except as a cheap "tick" in my battle against "he-who-shall-remain-nameless"... who recently accused ME of <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/corona-light/743 his standards, yet scroll down and you will find his rating of Icehouse on Jan. 24 < src=http://www.ratebeer.com/images/smilies/10.gif& />
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Can you say hangover??? I will not ever drink this again. I can drink cheap, but this is not a beer that will make me feel good during the night, let alone the morning or even afternoon after.

Date: June 08, 2011
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
Appearance: clear gold, frothy white head, streaks of lace
Aroma: light cereal aroma, light sulphur
Flavor: sweet cereal flavor, light mustyness, lots of balancing bitterness, long bitter finish
Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 9/20
Rating: 2.4/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4

I was anxious to try this, because it seemed an interesting marketing concept. However, it was just another bland lager!

Not me personally, but a guy I know devoured this stuff in high school. Totally was not me because I would never partake in underage drinking. You know it is bad when you go off to college and say eh Icehouse that is what high school kids drink so I am done with that.

100th Pale Lager rating (I knew this day would come). 16 oz can poured a clear yellow with a lasting white head. Aromas of corn, straw and light graininess. Palate was light bodied and crisp. Flavors of white bread, light corn and light straw with a crisp clean finish.

12 oz. bottle. Sweet corn aroma. Taste is essentially stock pale lager but has a little extra sweetness, probably attributable to the fact that some of the water has been "iced" off. Overall tolerable and sessionable with a little extra ABV.

Poured from 24 oz can into nonic glass - Look, maybe I made the mistake of having a giant bottle of Duvel before this, but this is water! I can’t detect anything! Is this water with ethanol added separately?

Pours a light yellow with a thin white head. Light aroma with hints of hops and straw. Flavor is a weak that’s grassy. Crisp but a little bit of an alcholic aftertaste.