$3.75 for the "draft style" can at Taco Mac, Douglasville, GA, USA. Brewed in England under license from Murphy's. Imported to the USA. Good clean looking appearance with a nice "lace" aka "a nitro foam head that sticks to the glass" with jet black body. Head is thin. Smell is non-descript to me with a feint, sweet alcohol aroma. Taste is dry and smooth with very, very little taste. Thin mouthfeel and very easy to drink, but this is an extremely ordinary offering in the can. Much better on...
Notes on beers served in the format
nitro-can
Tetley’s English Ale
$5.99, four-pack, Corks, Marietta/Smyrna, GA. It looks good and you can drink a lot of this stuff, but the nitro cans (smoothflow) are simply a pale shadow of real Tetley's. I am biased, because after you drunk the real stuff only yards from the brewery in Leeds pubs, you are unlikely to be impressed by a nitro-can clone. It's such a shame that a great beer and a great brewery feels the commercial pressure to go down this route to produce beers that are simply inferior to their roots. Quite...
Abbot Ale
Another example of a super keg beer being completely neutralized by putting in a nitro-can. The stuff in the can is virtually unrecognizable in experience to the original, which in this case is a step back. OK - what can you say about these nitro brews? They all pour to give beautiful, perfectly formed pints, they are all super-smooth and they are all really drinkable (like milkshakes), but so what? All the character of the Abbot is lost in this commercialization process. Shame. There is still...
Wexford Irish Cream Ale
The points for appearance, mouthfeel and drinkability (all 4.0) for this brew are almost always the same for these "creamy" nitro-can ales. Unfortunately they are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between, and are becomingly increasingly bland - Wexford Cream Ale was no exception. It pours a slightly cloudy pale orange color, but soon clears to give the typical nitro-can, creamy topped, appetizing look. The smoothness of these beers in general makes them highly drinkable (in terms...
Boddingtons Pub Ale
$7.09 for 4 pack Publix supermarket, Carrollton, GA. Pours a pale orange color with a somewhat transparent look. The head works very well in the nitro can, being produced consistently and instantly. It remains in the glass all the way to the bottom of the beer and even persists after the beer has been consumed as a layer at the bottom of the glass. The brew itself, whilst average in most respects, is incredibly drinkable. A creamy experience, with a bitter aftertaste are the highlights. Very,...