Fat Cat Lager
The Fat Cat Beer Company

Fat Cat LagerFat Cat Lager
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The Fat Cat Beer Company
 
California, United States
Style:
Vienna Lager
ABV:
4.9%
Score:
73
Avg:
3.08 | pDev: 22.08%
Reviews:
43
Ratings:
74
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Jan 11, 2016
Added:
Aug 27, 2002
Wants:
  8
Gots:
  0
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Ratings by feloniousmonk:
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Reviewed by feloniousmonk from Minnesota

2.53/5  rDev -17.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
I do love the retro-design on the label of this thing, the classic-ly styled cartoon cat, complete with cigar...and yet I could tell it wasn't the sort of thing I wanted to spend my own money on. Luckily, a friend was so kind as to provide a can, and away we go...

Clear, pure yellow, huge head, a fluffy white pillow

Nose is typical, average lager-y smell, a little lemon-y, grainy, hints of corn...but sweet malt stands tallest in this saddle, when all is said and done.

Taste: not much. Mostly watery, thin bodied, with little finish. Flat and uncluttered by any flavor. Well, that's on first sip, let's give it another chance...

...light sweet malt presence, but little else. Wetness is all it can boast of, sorry to say. This won't scare away fans of other flat, boring beers, but those who yearn for more, don't bother.

I still like the can design, although it'd be nice if they had a good beer inside.
Oct 21, 2005
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.24 by MisledTitan from England

Jan 11, 2016
 
Rated: 3.25 by ShepardCommander from Virginia

May 16, 2015
 
Rated: 2.5 by SocalKicks from California

May 11, 2015
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Rated by HookemHoos from Virginia

1.13/5  rDev -63.3%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1.5
Just not a very well made beer.
Mar 27, 2015
 
Rated: 3.5 by bjouan from California

Dec 08, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by Ohsdrummer08 from California

Nov 18, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by sunny289 from California

Nov 13, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by wrightst from Maryland

Sep 11, 2014
 
Rated: 3.25 by AmitC from New York

Aug 14, 2014
 
Rated: 3.25 by hophugger from Virginia

Aug 10, 2014
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Reviewed by ordybill from Georgia

2.85/5  rDev -7.5%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Poured from a can into a pint glass, appearance is a murky golden shade with a thick head. Aroma was not great, had a yeasty odor. A light bodied flavor, similar to others in its category.
Aug 03, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by DuffDaddy from Florida

Jul 17, 2014
 
Rated: 2.5 by DES8888 from Ohio

Jul 12, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by dbrauneis from North Carolina

Jun 24, 2014
 
Rated: 2.25 by Hohnbaum from Kansas

Jun 15, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by michaelfcasey from New Jersey

Jun 08, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by itsscience from Florida

Oct 29, 2013
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

1.89/5  rDev -38.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2
355ml can, 5.2% ABV by the import label, from one of those shabby, dime-a-dozen liquor stores around town that scream out Minhas associations of some sort or another.

This beer pours a hazy, dark orangish apricot amber colour, with four rambunctious fingers of puffy, densely foamy, and even a bit creamy ecru head, which leaves a few random chunks of retarded sudsy cloud form lace around the glass as it rather quickly sinks away.

It smells of semi-sweet grainy pale malt, a bit of that high fructose corn syrup weirdness, artificial flavoured orange and banana marshmallow peanuts, and a certain, almost damned-near trademarked by now, plastic acetone essence. The taste is more of the same pre-established shit - corny, pale-malt adjacent graininess, a blended fruitiness quite unlikely found in nature, and even more unpleasant industrial plastic factory effluence. Hops? Yer at the wrong party, amigo.

The carbonation is pretty stilted, just a weak hum throughout, after that initial pourgasm maybe, the body a pithy, clammy piece of work, and smooth like your last buddy-buddy car salesman. It finishes off-dry, I guess, but I stopped thinking about this as beer a few sentences or so ago.

It would seem that this brand has gone through at least 2 contract brewers, so that would put them in their terrible twos, which is an apt metaphor for Minhas (at least the Wisconsin set at the present time). Here's hoping that this marketing company comes to their senses the next time around, for their sake.
Oct 26, 2013
 
Rated: 3.75 by Zach136 from Georgia

Oct 01, 2013
Fat Cat Lager from The Fat Cat Beer Company
Beer rating: 73 out of 100 with 74 ratings