Another beer from Carlsberg and it's labeled Malt Liquor. Malt Liquor is a title is normally reserved for cheap high proof drinks often fermented with corn and not barley. By law in malt liquor is defined as
"Malt Liquors" includes beer and shall be construed to mean any beverage obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of any infusion or decoction of barley, malt, hops or any other similar products, or any combination thereof, in water containing more than three and two-tenths percent of alcohol by weight.Other high proof beers avoid the title malt liquor by brewing to a style like barley wine or doppelbock.
The similar astringent smell is present with this Carlsberg as with yesterday's Carlsberg Beer. This beer is the familiar beer yellow color, but with a light haze. Not much foam but a good number of bubbles coming up from the bottom.
The harsh skunked taste is still there, I don't know if it is caused by the green glass or if it's in green glass because the beer is already skunked and it doesn't matter. There is a little malt sweetness to this beer that adds some flavor and makes this beer tolerable. There is also a strange after taste, a little like the skunk flavor with some lemon tart flavor.
Again I am not happy with this beer, it is better than yesterday's Carlsberg Beer, but it's not good. I'm only drinking it because I have it already and I can't turn down a beer in my quest for 365. Even if I can't turn it down I can at lest not finish it, thats one thing I can be happy about.
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They have to label their beer "Malt Liquor" to get it approved in certain US states.
Franziskaner Hefe has "malt liquor" in small print on its label here in Texas.
Thats what I first thought but most Belgium beers are high proof and they don't say Malt Liquor on them.
I drank a sixer of this at a party years ago and got deathly ill. beware of this crap
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