Mobius

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

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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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.

I almost feel bad for everyone I forced this upon at the Noog. Almost. The hue is a hazy straw color with a billowy and quickly receding white frothy head. …That almost sounds good…but instead of picturing a nice Saison (which I just made it sound like), picture a Saison with a cat’s head in it. That’s how attractive this beer is. The aroma is primarily and almost exclusively of a vitamin bottle. Plastic and all. Some adjuncty goodness lies beneath. The flavor is slightly (more than expected) sweet and the finish is quite drying with medicinal (non)qualities. Though, compared to the aroma, the flavor is rather bland (thank Eris). Mouthfeel is thin, fizzy and lifeless. Go figure. Urk. I suppose the upside to this beer is that…uh, nevermind.

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.

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.