Great Western Gold Strong

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

Swill.
Dumped in to glass. Made lots of rocky white foam which died shortly after. Standard lager gold with ok effervecance. This crap is teetering between horrid swill and acceptable swill. DRINK IT COLD AND QUICKLY!! Aroma comes across early on as low quality stinky malts and such but does gain a bit more of a sweetness within minutes of the pour but still maintains that poor mix of both. Nothing too offending though. As for the taste - grain and malts, sweetness and obvious alcohol on every chug. Most sips are decent enough but then you get hit by the alcohol. Leaves an unpleasant taste in the mouth. Light medium bodied with a thick viscous impression in the aftertaste. Notable bitterness, especially mid-sip. Excessive alcohol taste. This stuff is made for people who look for pennies in conveniece store parking lots to chug ice cold and then puke after funnelling 12 cans in 19 seconds. I'm slamming it so hard because the description at the top of this page claim "GOLD medal winner in the Midwest Brewer's Festival, 2000". Uh, ok then. Maybe it's only competitor was a can of varsol. To rate this really bad is probally an injustice. I recommend to myself that I have a swill-off with local liver-bashers to determine what discount canned lager is truly king for the less fortunate. Hey!!!!! Right on the can - "Return for refund". Hell yea! I'm gonna get my $1.49 back!!!!

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Not as bad as I originally expected. It is a very tolerable beer for those who have no other income except for welfare checks. I may decide to buy it again when I inevitablely lose my job.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

I picked up a case of this last night, I didnt even know about it until then and I guess all you can say is that it's no better then any malt out there... it competes alot with Molson Dry and I apretiate the 6.5% on the beer so you get drunker faster and drink less of it.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 10 | Overall: 10

This was my first foray into Malt Liquor. This was sold in Ontario from circa 1996-1999. Came in old-style 2 rows of 6 case at first, then switched to the more traditonal 3x4. The bottles were a little more stubby too. Anyway, I remember this beer fondly, and was very disappointed when they stopped selling it here; at the time I think strong beers could only be packaged a certain way, as at the time we used to get Colt 45 and Mongoose in 12 pack bottles too. This beer was to me what a malt liqupr should taste like, not like these 8-10% beers. Very comparable to Mickey's. Drink real cold.