Mobius

Formerly brewed at Thomas Creek Brewery
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Greenville, South Carolina USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

this is a pretty strange brew. Tap pour at madra rua, charleston s.c. I’ve had it a few times prior with varying results. Great on a hot summer day at events. I’ve drank it all night and felt great the next day. Crazy brew. Pours yellow. Somewhat flat. I’ve tried hard to define the taste but all I can come up with is a slight bubble gum taste...you know, like bubble gum that has been chewed a lot and has no taste left. Some dandelion too. Somewhat sticky. A fun brew for the summer if you’re into getting smashed with no hangover but otherwise pretty unremarkable. Mixed with Guinness makes an Irish Mo’.

Columbia, SC - Total Wines - 12 oz green bottle. Light golden - urine sample-like cloudy with a faint frothy head. Faint aroma of soggy cereal. No real discernible flavor. Maybe a trace of corn, faint traces of day old chewing gum. Artificial mouthfeel. Not worth the $1.49 i paid for it.

Bottle, brought by NachlamSie. It pours a really weird greenish yellow, but with a very attractive tall, white head, I must admit. The aroma is pretty weird... skunky at first, but it goes away quickly; then it is weak but very herbal and medicinal. The flavor is very sweet, then comes hay, then comes the weird herbs and medicine that come across in the nose. The finish is chalky and leaves an aftertaste that is definitely ginseng. This beer wasn’t a very good idea. I don’t find it as undrinkable as the past raters, but I can tell you that I will probably not finish this bottle and I will definitely not drink it again.

UPDATED: JUL 4, 2008 Bottle courtesy by NachlamSie. Well, we’ll see if it’s courteous once I start this rating. Lets first start with the bottle. I was given a half-full bottle of this by NachlamSie. I’m assuming the first half was consumed by muenster before I arrived to check this out. I was told it wasn’t sitting long at all. This is a bad sign, though. He didn’t even finish the entire 12 ounce bottle. Okay, so, I pick up this green bottle and read the label. "Lager with Taurine, Ginseng, and Caffeine." "Oh god," was my reaction. I have just read the bottom part, "Life’s more fun when you’re awake." We’ll find out. I’ve already poured this beverage and it looks like any other piss lager. I would go into more detail but it’s not worth it. Everyone knows what a Bud looks at pour. Anyway, at pour I could instantly smell skunk. I shall now lean over the glass for a more intensive aroma test. ...mmm, more skunk. I can even smell the rubber tires that ended that skunk’s life as well as the grass that surrounds that road. My curiosity causes me to desire to drink this beverage knowing full and well that this is going to be dreadful. Here we go... wow this is... weird. It’s not as bad as I expected after NachlamSie expressed how bad this was. It’s still bad. It has tons of funk tastes with tons of corn and mold. The finish contains a weird bitterness. Oh god, why am I still drinking this. It’s grotesque but too weird for me to not stop drinking it. It’s like double-taking a smelly gym bag. You just have to do it knowing that the next time you put your nostrils near that bag it’ll be as wretched as before. Not the worst beer I’ve had, but it’s up there... or... down there. "Life’s more fun when you’re awake." Drinking this would make you want to pass out. I’ve still not come across anything as grotesque as the Motts Clamato Red Eye, but this comes pretty close. This was definitely not out of courtesy, NachlamSie.

The aroma is medicinal with no apparent beer elements. The appearance is pale gold with a huge head. The flavor is nasty like the aroma. The palate is thin. This is quite honestly the worst beer I have had to date.

Bottle. Burnt rubber/creasote aroma - only the slightest hint of malt. Golden yellow color wiht small head. Rubber and ginseng flavor - no sweetness. I’m not a huge fan of ginseng to begin with but would have welcomed it here over the vile rubber smell and taste.

first of all, if you are into really good beers (you wouldn’t be on this site otherwise) don’t bother with this one. however if a beer with caffeine and ginseng sounds good to you, i would recommend it. i figured that it would taste like a concoction of natural light and mountain dew, but i was pleasantly surprised when it tasted like a becks light. like i said, not great.

UPDATED: OCT 31, 2007 Bottle. I’m very surprised to see this is rated so high after my encounter with this hideous beast. It pours a very hazy peach color with a soapy white head. The stench, oh, the stench. It’s not the worst smelling beer ever, mainly because I did have to hold the glass two inches or closer to my nose to bring tears to my eyes. This foul liquid reeks of skunk with chalk, rubber, medicine, and hints of pineapple in a fumbling mess. This is really rank. Now, I’m supposed to put this crap in my mouth? I guess so. This tastes very stale with artificial flavors abound. Reminds me of a multivitamin tablet covered in mold which provides an unpleasant biterness which can only make me think of items that should be inedible. I took four or five sips to try come up with anything other than medicine, mold, or chalk. To my dismay 80% or more of this "beer" remained in the glass after my sampling. Shortly thereafter, it went down the drain. ------ 31, 2007] What a great beer for Halloween because this scares the piss out of me. I willfully sought this beast out again because my buddies could not understand how bad this is without actually trying it. Upon purchase, the manager tried to give me the rest of the 5 bottles at a discount because he wanted rid of them. I politely declined and he ended up giving me another one for free anyway. Hah. Joke’s on me. So, I open up the bottle and instantly detect skunk spray. A pour reveals a semi-cloudy pale yellow with a small head. It actually looks all right. I want to give it a 2 in appearance. I mean, I generally try to be objective and fair in my ratings. I gave St. Pauli Girl Dark a 3 or 4 for appearance because it actually looks pretty good. But no, this beer does not even deserve fairness or sympathy of any kind. It doesn’t even deserve the most basic gesture of good will or positive critiquing. The stench is very harsh. Skunk right up front and once I almost get adjusted to that I detect creosote, plastic, and a waste bin. Nothing that I should put in my mouth comes to mind, no item that might be deemed ingestible. The flavor is savage and unforgiving in its merciless rape on my palate. It tastes much like vitamins. Not chewable vitamins, but the kind you are supposed to pop in your mouth and swallow whole before you can taste it. There’s a bitterness that develops on the palate which is similar to that piece of bread that’s been sitting on the counter long enough to get fuzzy. The taste is sticky and persistent. I refuse to believe people actually drink this. Mobius is not a good idea.