Labatt Sterling

Brewed by Labatt Breweries (InBev)
Style: Pale Lager
London, Canada

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

Very pale yellow. Adjuncty aroma. Extremely watery. Absolutely tasteless. Virtually impossible to write anything about this…it’s fucking abysmal, I can say that.

I had the good (or bad) fortune of having someone from the campus newspaper bring me and some friends a sample of each of the new low carb beer available in Canada (Thanks Marina). This one looks like piss, tastes like piss, I think it might have been piss. Pale yellow under white head. No obvious hops, faint malty smell and taste. As with the others, if you're watching your weight, avoid these and stick to gin.

Looks like you-know-what. No head. Some malt, higher than their average taste. Carbonation not hops. Was watery, but not the most watery I’ have had. Then again, it was a hot day

Draft. I walked off the field after my softball game focusing on the nice catch in the outfield and the looks of surprise on the opposing teams faces as I cranked the ball over their heads past the path. Then I rewarded myself with this low carb new rating at the pub. Tasted watered down, but the flavour was comparable to to most other macros. If your that concerned about your diet, why are you drinking beer at all? Or maybe you should have one GOOD beer and not six medicore ones. I have had it now, now I can never have it again. Woohoo!

Faint yeast dough aroma. Light , strong mineral water accents , very light beer . Thin texture .It is very drinkable - so is mineral water . Hard to believe this is 4 % beer. Drinks like it was 6-7 Plato beer . Taste as directed.

Bottle (341ml). Lord bless the LCBO singles bin. Looks like ginger ale with a small freakishly white diminishing toxic waste head (gets 2 pts for bubbles). MDS nailed this one - vaguely of stale apple juice, then mostly like water that’s been in a brand new cheap garden hose in the sun all day. Yuch. Tastes exactly the same - PVC, pool water, tonic water - this is beer? Mouthfeel fizzy, sharp, chemically. I guess this is sugary - mostly it’s toxic. Avoid unless you need the rating. Off to rinse my mouth several times.

It gets an extra mark only because it is somewhat better than Sleeman's clear but this still does not resemble beer. Drainpour. Bottle.

This was the weirdest thing-- it looks like a decent pale lager in that it is a fairly deep golden colour, but there is absolutely no flavour to this at all. None. I can’t even say that it tastes "weak", because that implies there is a base flavour to be weakened, when in fact there is no flavour at all. Weird in a bad way.