Steelback (I) Chain

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

Oh the putridicity that reeks out of the mind of D'Angelo. Somewhere among these beer examples I'll find the long lost D'Angelo apple juice. The appearance is thinly veiled as a pale yellow, carbonated beverage. Like Apple Juice! The odor and taste are both putrid and have very little resemblance to beer.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

After drinking their Link, I'll have this one (which is suppose to be the same beer, but with different ABV). From the first pour, it does look like Link. Golden-amber colour, with hardly any carbonation. The head on this one is bigger though, and the lace is the same. I am surprised at the aroma, as this one is lighter than the Link. Same boring mouthfeel, but maybe a tad less flat and watery. Same caramel and fruit taste (more on the banana side), but again, seems like lacking some kick for a 5.5% ABV. Other than a nice colour and a decent scent, not much here.

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

Well what do you know, another Steelback brew that tastes like brown sugar! I guess it's close to a European-style lager, which is how it advertises itself. It's brown like brown sugar too. Horrible vile stuff, but I'll drink it, cause I can't afford to pour it out.

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

Chain...huh? Locked in flavor eh? With luck we can keep it locked in and chained up like bad snow tires so no one gets hurt...Comes in a 355ml plastic twist cap pop bottle...label shrink wraped on the botle (like light would really damage this stuff). Pours a clear urine yellow...small white fizzy cap disappears almost instantly...fizzy soda-like carbonation. Aroma just screams "adjuncts"...corn predominates and alcohol. Mouth feel is fizzy and watery ..sweet, corny and the finish is raw...harsh with alcohol tones....this is green beer...not aged...high gravity brewed and cut, carbonated and bottled....pretty much the cheapest swill on the Canadian market. I bought this from the brewery and was actually surprised at what I saw (which is a new, state of the art, high volume, Fruit juice concentrate plant and high gravity adjunct brewery) I do however, hope they truck in the water from somewhere else because it's situated beside a dormant heavy water nuclear reactor at Bruce point..strange locale for a brewery to say the least...I suspect the real focus of this company isn't Canadian beer drinkers, and certainly not craft beer fanciers....perhaps it is the American low end market...flood the US side of the great lakes with adjunct brew and a marketing scheme premised on cheap high strength beer trading on a Canadian/high strength image/myth...look out old english 800...here comes Steel back....bottled heavy water from the Candu reactor at Douglas point.