Romulan Ale

Formerly brewed at Cerveceria La Constancia (SABMiller)
Style: Pale Lager
San Salvador, El Salvador

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Star Trek geeks rejoice. This tastes like Miller light that has been dyed a vibrant blue. Very little aroma and a very slight, but again it is a vibrant blue. I have and this out a bottle and off of a tap at the now defunct Star Trek experience in Las Vegas. As far as beers go it rates very low, but for Star Trek fans it’s a solid 10, for nostalgic purposes.

The smell is corn, grainy, weird, wheat, floral, and yuck. The color is blue and the look is clear. The taste is weak, corn, and water. Bad stuff.

Bottle. Pours blue green with lighter blue head. Almost fluorescent. Nose/taste of sweet corn, sweet grain and toasted cereal grain. Body is paper thin. Interesting beer nonetheless.

Awesome bright blue with a hint of green, cool light blue head... Light nose, basically adjunct lager, light sweet grains a bit generic... Light sweet sugar water, grains, doesn’t taste like a whole lot but not offensive... Glad I got to see this in person, looks so cool

Ok, I admit it, I was a trekkie. Back in ’01 I went to Vegas, and had to go the "Star Trek Experience". While there, I proceeded to get hammered at "Quark’s Bar"- I purchased a 6 of the "Romulan Ale", and I must say...meh. It wasn’t unpleasant in any way, but it was average, and -oh- BLUE!- By the way, It makes one’s feces turn totally green- no kidding, if you drink enough, which may just be the incentive needed to try this! It was enough for me- 2 years later, I purchased 2 cases of this stuff, and had an awesome Bachelor Party for a co-worker (a old school nerd from the seventies!) Green poo all around!- Annyhoo, Don’t buy this expecting some fine, well crafted beverage, just because they got a licensing agreement. But it is better than Bud Lite, which, apparently, the baseline at most parties.- live Long and Priosper...no wait...that’s Vulcan...

Well it comes in a clear bottle, wasn’t skunked but all this really is is blue colored club soda so I’m pretty sure it can’t. Pours an exotic greenish blue with a puffy large neon blue head. Looks pretty cool. Tastes even more watery than american light lagers. It gave me a blue tongue and blue teeth. Vague sweetness in my burps. Just buy it and chug it for laughs, take a picture with it, add it to your bottle cap/bottle collection, just don’t try and savor its flavor.

It is what it is. I’m a big Star Trek fan, and this beer had huge potential to be awesome due to the quality artwork and packaging, but the beer was absolutely atrocious. I might venture to say it was one of the worst beers I’ve ever tasted. Thin, corny, skunky, watered-down. Looked cool, though.

12 ounce bottle from Tiffany’s in Kalamazoo and shared at the 12th Richmond Ratebeer Gathering on 9/18/10. Pours a blue-green mouthwash color with no head. Big skunky notes when the bottle opened. Aside from that, a fairly bland beery like note with earthy and tea notes. Some crayons also. The taste is generic beer, faint skunk, some pale maltiness. Typical pale, fizzy weak lager. I’d prefer the mouthwash.

10/23/10. 12oz bottle. Oh man... fake crazy clear blue color that reminds of the goo inside a stress ball or something, all under a fizzy light blue head... hmmm... Disgusting skunked aroma with some caramelly flavor and corny DMS. Sweet grainy and corny flavor with grass and hay. Meh.

dkachur @ 12th Richmond Gathering. What the hell... Green? The taste is slightly smoked and a bit sweet. Certainly doesn’t taste as weird as it looks, though not much better. A few smoked malts come through on the aftertaste. The body is extremely light. A very weak and strange beer.