Guest Post: Don from Beer and Whiskey Bros. Please visit and subscribe to their site!!!!

Let me first start off by saying that I did not buy this beer. It was a birthday gift as a part of a bunch of singles I was given by my sister-in-law. There, at least I think my man card is safe with that explanation. I wasn’t real excited about this brew, and I actually gave a lot of brews away that I received, because so many of them were very light lagers as part of some sort of international 10 pack that was put together by Cost Plus World Market. But this one looked at least a little interesting so I figured I would give it a try. Since I had been hanging on to it for about 6 months, it seemed that this particular “Sip with Us Saturday” would be the ideal time to crack it open and give it a try.

So to review like you do at THFB…

The Pour

It poured a golden orange with a pretty serious head on it, about two fingers when the photo was snapped, and it was almost a pure white color and had good retention and a lot of lacing from it left on the glass. Not overly complex but what do I expect for a Lager.

The Nose

Wow! The bottle says this is a lager with a Kiss of strawberry flavor. Well, you couldn’t tell it was just a kiss from the nose, this was more like heavy petting and foreplay. It actually smelled a lot like the shampoo my sister used to buy in the seventies. With a sickeningly sweet aroma of strawberry jam. I was leery. But I decided to carry on with the tasting and the review.

The Flavor

Well, you might expect what I’m going to say, but here goes. OK as for that Kiss of flavor, I’m sorry, this was full on intercourse! The strawberry flavor was so pronounced it was hard to tell I was drinking beer. The smell just enveloped my olfactory senses, and the flavor was almost a foregone conclusion. It was sweet like strawberry compote and the lager didn’t do anything to save the day. It was almost like someone put strawberry flavoring into a Budweiser, but I would have rather had a Budweiser. This stuff was vile and repulsive. Pete’s Wicked Strawberry Blonde Lager does for beer what Bartles and James did for Wine! This was a 12 ounce bottle and I drank about half of it before I couldn’t make myself drink any more. I kept trying it to see if there was something I was missing, some redeeming quality. I drank it slow, I drank it fast, I drank it cold, I drank it…Guulahh, warm. Nothing helped. I poured it out, and that was probably a mean thing to do to my poor sink.

Conclusion

Run away! Never, ever, ever, EVER buy this beer! I was trying to figure out who was their target audience, and near as I can tell it is toddlers, tweens, and teens. I suppose if you wanted to get a little kid into beer (not that anyone would ever want to do that) this would be the beer. Nuff Said!

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