D'Ice
Faubourg Brewing Company
- From:
- Faubourg Brewing Company
- Louisiana, United States
- Style:
- American Adjunct Lager
- ABV:
- 5.9%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.63 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 26, 2020
- Added:
- Jul 26, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.63/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
2.63/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
"Ice brewed beer." 5.9% ABV. A sixer of 16 fl oz pull-tab cans ran me a mere $3.99 USD plus tax at Total Wine & More in Metairie, LA.
HEAD: ~1cm of off-white foam vanishes within seconds...this has shit head retention.
BODY: Clear obviously filtered yellow-copper with obvious chill haze throughout. Could be more vibrant with better clarity.
Appears aptly carbonated despite its poor head retention.
AROMA: Honeyed sweetness. 6-row malted barley. Malt syrup, maybe some corn adjunct...this aroma seems more in line with a malt liquor than anything else.
Lacks any overt hop aromatics or yeasty notes. I find no off-flavours, but this aroma does suggest an off-puttingly syrupy sticky brew without much flavour.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Taste matches the aroma, with an emphasis on honeyed malt and 6-row. No hop flavour is present at all beyond maybe a blip of generic floral hop character. I think I taste some corn/maize, but the malt extract flavour at the core of the beer drowns out all else.
It's a bit syrupy and even a bit oily...like someone dropped some cooking oil in a Budweiser or something. Coating to the point it feels a bit artificial. Unnaturally butter smooth. Wet. Glides on the palate, preventing its flavours from really landing with any impact. Tastes shallow as a result, lacking any real depth of flavour.
It's not watery or thin, and it's not as syrupy/heavy as many budget malt liquors out there, but it lacks the crisp clean mouthfeel of other better ice beers, which are admittedly thinner and more overcarbonated, but at least they're refreshing and easy drinking. This is just too thick to be a good budget crusher.
OVERALL: About what I expected given its ~$4 for 96 oz of this swill. It's a shrug of a budget brew, as insipid as it is affordable. If I'm buying budget, I'd sooner pick up Michelob Lager, Gennessee Cream Ale, Schlitz Gusto, or hell even Miller High Life depending on my mood, but I do think it's probably better than many of the malt liquors, adjunct lagers, and other ice beers it competes with.
C- (2.63) / BELOW AVERAGE
Jul 26, 2020HEAD: ~1cm of off-white foam vanishes within seconds...this has shit head retention.
BODY: Clear obviously filtered yellow-copper with obvious chill haze throughout. Could be more vibrant with better clarity.
Appears aptly carbonated despite its poor head retention.
AROMA: Honeyed sweetness. 6-row malted barley. Malt syrup, maybe some corn adjunct...this aroma seems more in line with a malt liquor than anything else.
Lacks any overt hop aromatics or yeasty notes. I find no off-flavours, but this aroma does suggest an off-puttingly syrupy sticky brew without much flavour.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Taste matches the aroma, with an emphasis on honeyed malt and 6-row. No hop flavour is present at all beyond maybe a blip of generic floral hop character. I think I taste some corn/maize, but the malt extract flavour at the core of the beer drowns out all else.
It's a bit syrupy and even a bit oily...like someone dropped some cooking oil in a Budweiser or something. Coating to the point it feels a bit artificial. Unnaturally butter smooth. Wet. Glides on the palate, preventing its flavours from really landing with any impact. Tastes shallow as a result, lacking any real depth of flavour.
It's not watery or thin, and it's not as syrupy/heavy as many budget malt liquors out there, but it lacks the crisp clean mouthfeel of other better ice beers, which are admittedly thinner and more overcarbonated, but at least they're refreshing and easy drinking. This is just too thick to be a good budget crusher.
OVERALL: About what I expected given its ~$4 for 96 oz of this swill. It's a shrug of a budget brew, as insipid as it is affordable. If I'm buying budget, I'd sooner pick up Michelob Lager, Gennessee Cream Ale, Schlitz Gusto, or hell even Miller High Life depending on my mood, but I do think it's probably better than many of the malt liquors, adjunct lagers, and other ice beers it competes with.
C- (2.63) / BELOW AVERAGE
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