Olde English 800

Brewed by Miller Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Malt Liquor
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Lager glass, Paper Bag, Shaker

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I’ve been pretty poor and wanted to get smashed with some buddies so I bought this. I drank half a 40 and got pretty screwed up but the buzz just doesn’t have the quality as a good Belgian...no, the buzz off this was cheap, dirty and left me wanting something better to drink. Next morning (aka now) I feel like shit.

A pre-game gift in a paper bag from my old college buddies before going out in a Manhattan. "Pours" a light, clear amber. The nose and flavor hold cooked broccoli, touches of caramel, metal, plastic, and cereal grain. The grain combined with the fairly high alcohol is what makes this pretty atrocious, but it’s by no means the worst brew I’ve consumed.

Everytime Menace to Society comes on the cable, I have to have two 24 oz cans of this on standby, along with my floppy slippers, NY Yankee hat and a hoodie.

OK. Big improvement over the cheap pale lagers. It has flavor, hard to describe but not offensive. Medium body appropriately carbonated. Alcohol not detected by senses, but halfway through makes itself well known. Overall, not bad, but not really something to write home about either. I would choose this over B/M/C lagers anytime.

The standard by which all common malt liquors are judged. If you were ever uneducated about beer, thought you were hard, didn’t have a lot of money, and wanted to get F’d up, you’ve probably tried OE, 8-ball. Piss yellow, kinda frothy, very heavy feel, and a sweet, corny flavor. If you are a real G, you are not reading this. If you are a weekend wannabe G, you suck for having to look this up and not trying it on your own. Beats the hell outta most malt liquors, but not an everyday beer for everyone.

pours amber yellow, small head, small CO2 with ringed retention. Strong sugary sweetness on the nose, not much else. Very strong malt flavour and not much else. Potent and unexciting. Long malted finish, low complexity. Can only be drunk chilled; when >12C, there is a really astringent roughness going down.

Tasted from tall-boy can into snifter. Poured a very pale yellow color with full white head which dissipated quickly leaving much lace. Aroma of pale malt, lots of corn, no hops, no yeast esters, but harsh alcohol. Flavor was worse, corny, soapy, watery and offensive. Just plain bad, even if it’s true there are far worse malt liquors.

My God. This truly is awful. To its favor, I’ve got to say I didn’t find it to be as offensive as Natty Ice. It’s not a good beer, alcoholic drink, thirst quencher, or even beverage, and you’ll probably hate yourself for drinking more of it than you should (i.e., anything at all), but it’s not vomitive as other stuff out there.

Golden clear pours with fading head. Aroma is pils malts, fruity hops and that’s about it. Pretty straight forward. Flavor is smooth malt flavors but very very bland. Not much flavor really at all other than some light pils and vegetable flavors. Not really that bad for what it is. I would rather drink this any day over Bud, Bud Light, Select, etc.

Looks like liquid copper in the bottle and on the pour. Liquor is quicker as they say, and this will not disappoint if that’s the goal. Must be a high dose of sugar since it pours like 50W motor oil.