Bowes Dry Treebu

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

One of the more obscure beers that I snagged from the Foam On The Brain (homebrew club) meeting/X-mas Party last night -- courtesy of Bill S., who in turn snagged this while helping out at the World Beer Conference a few months ago. So, with that rather truncated trip from Quebec to my beer fridge, should I expect this beer to kick my ass five ways to Friday? Perhaps not. But it would be nice to at least have a beer that doesn't more-or-less suck ass, eh...?

4.9%ABV. Label features silhouetted figures, doing some sort of dance or celebration. Freakishly reminds me of the gawd-awful "Mad Max: Beyond The Thunderdome" kids.

Rather dull and murky looking, esp. for a Lager. Head? None to speak of. Even less active carbonation. Not so good so far...

Aroma? Reminds me why I hate Big Rock beers so much. Ugh.

Oh boy. Here we go. On to the flavor profile of this dud. Even getting past the dull-as-lukewarm-dishwater oxidized elements in this beer, I have to tend to think that even fresh it'd be a boring-as-hell beer. Extremely "mushy" and mealy in the mouth -- very empty and flacid, all around.

Bill and I were talking about the swag that the WBC volunteers end up sifting though, and how many end up with a "grab bag" box full of stuff, for later "cherry-picking" and trading. Since hindsight is of course 20-20, I would have advised that nobody grab this turkey. But that's not the way it works, and sometimes you strike gold, and sometimes you get shite. This beer, unfortunately, falls into the later category.

With the distinct lack of reviews of this beer, one can only hope that it has been discontinued. `Cause there's only one place where the remaining two-thirds glassful of this is going to go, and that's down the drain, s'il vous plaît....

Music: Nitzer Ebb's "Ebbhead"
//TB

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 2 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

Bottle: Aroma is lightly skunk and strong corn syrup diluted in water. Bad enough as it is, it gets really bad when it warms since the corn syrup just gets more discernable. Bad discount beer and not much else to say about that one.