Kaliber

Brewed by St. James’s Gate (Diageo)
Style: Low Alcohol
Dublin, Ireland

Tap @ Fox Tavern, Burgos. Aroma has rubber or phenolic esters and cardboard. Flavour has some malts. No hops. Watery. Very little carbonation. Not nice.

Bottle. Nasty nose, grass with grainy, husky malt and stale, moldy bread. And corn. With a little cookie dust. Dark brownish golden with a light white head. Metallic taste with graininess even in the spritely carbonation. Malt is sagging and lifeless, overall taste is dull and depressed. Light body has just a trace of bitterness and sourness. Please, give me water instead. Or nothing.

Presentation: It was poured from a brown 12oz bottle into a little dimpled Guinness mug. Appearance: The body had a nice light honey color with a small creamy off white colored head. The head fades quickly leaving nothing behind. Smell: Its aroma was light and some buttery, sweet and bready notes. Taste/Mouth feel: It has a light body and a thin watery texture with odd buttery and grainy flavored malt. Also there is a mild and bland over cooked hop flavor that sneaks into the finish. The carbonation is lifeless and almost flat. Notes: Overall it had more beer flavor than I expected (similar to a weak watered down English Bitter) but I still wouldn’t seek this one out.

I did try to give this the benefit of the doubt, I really did try and be objective. Ok first the aroma. That was the worst, maybe of all time it smell like rancid cream corn juice, tomato juice?, yes very puzzling, and cracker jacks? I’m puzzled. Apperance was a lite amber with no head what so ever. It’s flavor tasted of extremely watered down V8 and what I imagine cracker jack syrup combined tastes like. It’s a total drain pour. I did not like nary a morsel of it. It’s not the low alcohol, its the product, absolute filth.

Can. Small head with short duration. Color is pale yellow. Aroma and taste are mainly water - hardly anything in here that reminds me of beer.

[1656-20080903] 12floz bottle. Honey sweet flowers aroma has notes of raisin. Clear, dark orange body with a quick white foamy head. Honey and dandelions flavour is mostly honeyed raisins and corn grains. Light body. Seems well-made but not enjoyable with its super honey.
<i>(@ Skagway brewpub; Skagway, AK)</i>

Light amber, malty, little nutty, little caramel, funky, skunky, cardboard, dry.

Thanks to Fidel for providing a style that I need to rate. Now I don’t have to buy a 6 pack! Very attractive pour of golden caramel and very thin off white head. The nose isn’t to good, with some malt and cardboard. The flavor is about the same. Glad I got that over with.