Silver Springs Classic Lager
Something Brewing

Not sure how I missed reviewing this one previously. I had a 6 pack of cans for fellow can collectors, and of course one for Woody and the CANquest. They have a new 8-pack format, so had to get a couple cans with the new 8 Pack label for traders (luckily I could get singles).

Yellow, apple juice looking liquid with a bit of white head (no retention, more just fizzy bubbles). Smells of corn, vegetables, maybe some grass. Sweet flavor, artificially sweet. Slightly sour bite to finish, and left on the tongue. Mouthfeel was light, with lots of carbonation sting.
at $7.49 / 8 pack of cans, I guess you get what you pay for.

355ml can. Sold in 8-packs in these parts; this yet remains to be seen as a good or a bad thing.

This beer pours a hazy, weirdly cloudy, and very pale yellow colour, with one finger of thinly foamy off-white head, which leaves damned near nil in terms of what the kids are calling 'lace'.

It smells of plastic package wrapping melted into a grainy corn mash malt, assaulted in its own right by a skunked grassy essence that belies any relation to hops. The taste doesn't stray too far from the source - corny, rice-borne grainy malt, a suckling petrochemical prominence, and a more reserved dead earth, dead flower, dead leaf - well you grok what I'm sayin' - something.

The bubbles are actually rather sedate, but not yet out of it - they sass up at times, messing somewhat with an otherwise (and relatively) inoffensive medium-shy body, and smooth enough, style-wise. It finishes off-dry, the zombie malt and south of heaven otherness (hops? bloody unlikely) tarrying to and fro.

'The cheapest 8-pack' on Alberta shelves. Sure, and not the worst of the lot, so, win-win, right? No. Unless you hold your nose, dull your senses (I know of one effective way) and go to town with the other seven siblings of this spawn of the unholy, please spend your 8 bucks and change on some TNT instead (it's dynamite!).

You CAN quibble that Silver Springs Classic Lager exists in the database, but then I CAN counter that it is listed under Backwoods Imports of Calgary, Alberta, CANada and my CAN is clearly marked as "Drummond Brewing Company Ltd. of Red Deer, Alberta, CANada" and so I see it as fair game for inclusion in The CANQuest (TM). Also, I will happily upload a picture for inclusion, which I could not do in good conscience for a retired beer from another company. CAN you dig it?

The CAN identifies it as "The Five Star Beer", but out of how many?

Following the Crack & Glug, I had a finger of foamy bone-white head with moderate retention. Color was a washed-out pale yellow with NE-quality clarity. Nose smelled heavily of corn along with a light lager-like sweetness. Oh well, more of the samey-same. Mouthfeel was medium with a vegetal flavor in the mouth. Again, this is to be expected. I have CANsumed enough of this style not be disappointed or especially happy. It is what it is, to use an overworn cliche. Finish was slightly sweet, not overpowering or even notable. It just ... was. Five stars out of ten, IMHO. Not cooler worthy or even recommended for anyone other than fellow CANQuesters.