Haywards 5000 Super Premium Beer
Shaw Wallace & Company Ltd.

Haywards 5000 Super Premium BeerHaywards 5000 Super Premium Beer
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From:
Shaw Wallace & Company Ltd.
 
India
Style:
Malt Liquor
Ranked #9
ABV:
7%
Score:
65
Ranked #28,294
Avg:
2.72 | pDev: 24.26%
Reviews:
70
Ratings:
146
Status:
Active
Rated:
Feb 16, 2024
Added:
Nov 30, 2002
Wants:
  4
Gots:
  20
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Rated: 3.24 by Hazey92 from New York

Feb 16, 2024
 
Rated: 3.75 by paulish from New York

Jun 18, 2023
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Rated by Dalkri from Massachusetts

2/5  rDev -26.5%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Very bland and papery with a strange salted pretzel finish.
Jan 16, 2023
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Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois

3.73/5  rDev +37.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Clear golden pour with a white cap. Aromas of booze and base malt with slight euro eccentricities, sweet corn, peach and apple. Taste is actually not bad, especially for style: peach and sliced clementine, apple, malt liquor base malt and light booze, hint of key lime, big sweet corn. Feel is light and high in carbonation, has booziness but more refined than expected. Paired well with chicken 65. The wife loved it
Sep 28, 2022
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Reviewed by RichardLeahy from Australia

2.28/5  rDev -16.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.25
L. Slightly murky golden yellow, fluffy white head that doesn't last and leaves little tracing. Looks appropriate. S. I have a limited sense of smell and get very little off this. Maybe a touch of sweet grain, others have noted a metallic hint and there is certainly something behind the up front sweetness. T. Sweetish grain, although not as strong as some members note. I could definitely taste the alcohol and it doesn't help adding a slightly pungent note. F. Feels okay while drinking, light, drinkable and a touch of carbonation. O. In good conscience I couldn't give it more than 2.5. Interesting to see and try but not much else to commend it.
Jun 03, 2021
 
Rated: 1.81 by Jaasoares from Virginia

Jun 28, 2020
 
Rated: 2.66 by Chilmer from Iowa

May 25, 2018
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Reviewed by Shigata-ichikuchi from California

1.97/5  rDev -27.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
In my ongoing quest for a not-sweet lager with ABV over 8%, I decided to slum it with this 7% swill out of curiosity. This is a shiddy, shiddy beer with nothing to offer. Color is off, like it was squeezed from a wet cardboard box. Smells like barfed up Frosted Flakes, and the flavor delivers on that promise. Sweet and reprehensible. The alcohol flavor and the cool label on the bottle are its only redeemable qualities. I rarely pour beer down the sink hole, but there this one went. Insert some nonsense here about time spent traveling in India, and watch the score for this bile water magically increase.
Oct 14, 2017
 
Rated: 2.78 by UCLABrewN84 from California

Aug 21, 2017
 
Rated: 2.08 by akkrocka from Wisconsin

Apr 09, 2017
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Rated by Summerteeth from Massachusetts

1.28/5  rDev -52.9%
look: 3 | smell: 1.25 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1
This shit sucks.
Feb 09, 2017
 
Rated: 2.5 by Knapp85 from Pennsylvania

Dec 26, 2016
 
Rated: 3.01 by Stofko1992 from Pennsylvania

Dec 26, 2016
 
Rated: 2.68 by Taphouse_Traveler from Florida

Aug 26, 2016
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Reviewed by scooob from Kentucky

3.08/5  rDev +13.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
This is basically just malt liquor. But it's the best of the limited choices at my favorite Indian restaurant. Sipping it while eating some delicious Chicken Korma and naan, it does the trick just fine. If I'm paying $6.50 for a 650ml Indian beer, I at least want to get a little buzz out of it, so the 7% ABV here checks that box. With strong-flavored food, a lighter-flavored beer can be quite complementary. I wouldn't seek this out on its own merits, but pour it down the sink like some of you have threatened? That's just cray-cray.
Aug 20, 2016
 
Rated: 1.96 by nmann08 from Virginia

Jul 10, 2016
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Reviewed by dcotom from Iowa

2.47/5  rDev -9.2%
look: 4 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Nice appearance, golden coppery color with a two-finger white head that left a bit of streaky lacing. There was an odd metallic thing going on with the aroma, and this stuff tasted like sweet corn soda. Alcohol was almost undetectable. BA classifies this as an American Malt Liquor. I classify it as undrinkable.
Jun 22, 2016
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Reviewed by RonaldTheriot from Louisiana

4.08/5  rDev +50%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Haywards 5000 has a thin, white head, a clear, yellow-gold appearance, tiny, white sediment specks, throughout, and some sheet lacing left on the glass. The aroma is of honey-topped white bread, green apple, white bread crust, malt, golden raisin, and rice pudding. Taste is of those elements, with sharp alcohol notes (think of V.S. brandy), some grain husk, honey, corn, and a touch of low-level, rounding hop bitterness. Mouthfeel is medium,and Haywards 5000 finishes crisp and enjoyable.

RJT
May 28, 2016
 
Rated: 2.03 by connecticutpoet from Connecticut

Mar 17, 2016
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Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois

2.56/5  rDev -5.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
This is my first review in the BA style called American Malt Liquor.
One and done.
This beer was bought by SAB Miller because it presumably had penetrated the market share of a nation of 1 billion people (even though they don't drink much beer.)
They deserve better.
I hope someone opens a craft brewery in India and saves those innocent people from this stuff.

This is the only beer from India listed in the "1001" beers. While the series tries to be global, the editors should have searched India for something better than this.
Mar 10, 2016
Haywards 5000 Super Premium Beer from Shaw Wallace & Company Ltd.
Beer rating: 65 out of 100 with 146 ratings