Hello one and all, so we begin another day, another tallboy can. Today’s brew is part of Steel Reserve, their Triple Export which is Steel Brewery’s attempt at a high end beer. Located in Milwaukee (I’m starting to see a pattern here) this brew isn’t UNION BREWED, so if you’re a card carrying union supporter, check your next tallboy can to see if you’re helping out your fellow blue collar worker. Now the fact that this comes in a tallboy would make it seem unlikely to be a “high-end” beer but I have a four pack of over-sized New Belgium cans in my beer pantry (yes I have a beer pantry, move on) and I’m sure I’d get no argument for most of you, if not all, that New Belgium isn’t a high-end beer maker. So let move on the next (dis)qualifier for a high-end beer: ingredients. Well, Steel Reserve boasts about having used the “finest malted barley and selected hops…in the world” to make this brew, that maybe the case but that undercurrent of bad alcohol permeates this beer with it’s vile flavor and actually ruins what would be a decent beer. The beer pours very well with abundance of carbonation and the head that sticks around for a while through the drinking process. As with all tallboys, a nose of bread is the most powerful thing you smell, though it within itself is barely there. Taste has a good front-end of malts, but that gives way to the aforementioned bad alcohol that gives a bad aftertaste and lingers on the back of the tongue. Would could have been the first decent beer this month is ruined by bad alcohol, but at least there was no bitter beer face involved. Wonder where the triple export title comes from? No clue on my end. Any ideas?
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