Rainier

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

Missed out on the opportunity to have a Rainier while in Seattle a couple years ago but did snag a 24oz can at a really crappy dive bar during a trip to Boise. Just another crummy adjunct lager--nothing special but worth the tick to say I tried it.

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

The epitome of cheap, nasty swill... not since the days of Natty Light have I tasted something so vile and disgusting - and sadly, I assumed it would be pretty bad, but figured that if I could see Rainier, I should at least try a Rainier. Grass and corn aroma, clear pale (pee) yellow. quickly disappearing head. Highly carbonated.

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

Made Becks Sapphire seem like a mellow well crafted lager in comparison. Hot, prickly, flavors of corn and alcohol. Really really not good...really. I feel like such a whore.

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

Pours gold with a firm soapy fizzy head with very good retention and little lace. The aroma consisted of corn, with a bit of fusel alcohol/malt liquor booze smell. The taste was light corn flavour, mild booze. There are some good bready notes and even a hint of hops. The mouthfeel was surprisingly very smooth and not boozy at all. Clean, very good.

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

No, this is like Busch beer, only worse, although 1's and negative scores cannot be used. The flavor was weak, and so was the aroma. Busch wins over this, and that's not saying much.

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Thanks to riversideAK for this 24 oz white can beauty! I asked for some pale lager from the west coast and he sent it, boy did he send it! In my big 24 oz mug, I poured a big pale yellow ubiquitous american beer. Some carbonation is visible within. Aroma is not offensive, just rather clean, sterile, beery and possibly a little sweet. After drinking the Rainier Ale, I was hoping for something a little more palatable and I was correct. Taste is typical big pale lager at first bordering on offensive, but not quite getting there. I’m not sure the taste is from the the Yakima Valley hops as stated on the front of the can, or not. HAs a little more personality than yer mild cheap lagers but is not quite as offensive as many of the poorly made lagers such as the ones that come from City Brewing. Taste seems to grow on you after afew big slugs. Has an old iron well water flavor continuosly in the background. Reminds me of the water I used to drink out of an old handpump well in the lot next to my house when I was a kid. Seems rather friendly towards the end but once in a while, my palate gets shocked back into cheap beer reality. Finish is short but a mundane non offensive feeling lingers on the back of the throat. Big thanks to Alex, YOU ROCK!

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

Sooo Busch beer or Rainier for fishing? we went with this Rainier and it was a not bad choice for the price of 6X16 cans. Not big on flavor and thats fine, there also wasnt anything at all nasty about this like Miller's own label and most macros. Still swill basically, and it good at that!

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

not expecing that this would have been pretty good! for a swill~! it remindes me of a coors light or coors, but with a little pumpkin spice to it~. you can definitly taste the pale part of it~! a little naturey too~!

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

This is not the same Rainier I had in Seattle many years ago. The gauntlet of the Stroh-Pabst-Miller purchases has done something to the unique clean taste of this beer... it was a pale, tart, well hopped standard US lager without a lot of adjuncts. The Rainier I had in Glacier Park yesterday was weak tasting and the tart hop quality was nearly undetectable plus I detected something like a phenolic sour apple taste that probably came from rice sugars in the fermentation. The aroma was weak....what a let down. I had been looking forward to this trip to the western US to reacquaint myself with their old standards (like Olympia, rainier Coors etc) and this was a foreboding start. All in all this New Rainier is probably one of the better US standards but it certainly has lost it's distinct flavor character since Miller bought the brand.

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

this ain't the worst so it won't get 2's. just a below average macro swill that tastes like all the rest they try to pass off up here. from a canadian perspective, any beer that only comes in cans for$7.75 a six(trust me that's cheap for up here), well you new what you were getting into. still, i'd put this a slight bit higher than schlitz or genesee.