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Molson Ice
Molson Coors Canada
- From:
- Molson Coors Canada
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Adjunct Lager
Ranked #253 - ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- 60
Ranked #28,465 - Avg:
- 2.52 | pDev: 27.38%
- Reviews:
- 190
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 11, 2023
- Added:
- Oct 03, 2001
- Wants:
- 6
- Gots:
- 91
No description / notes.
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Ratings by BuckeyeNation:
Reviewed by BuckeyeNation from Iowa
1.72/5 rDev -31.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 1.5
1.72/5 rDev -31.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 1.5
Bright amber-gold with a sparse cloud of dust-like particles floating within. The off-white head of frothy foam lasts for a good bit and throws up thick strands of meandering lace. Molsen Ice is an improvement on the typical macro lager appearance, for which it deserves some small measure of credit.
Eau de skunk assauted me when the crown was cracked, but has now faded to some degree. If I get my nose anywhere near the glass there are still olfactory echoes of skunk, but they're now mixed with the more usual sour grain-musty hop aromas. My wife, who has an especially sensitive sense of smell, has just wandered into the room and has decided that this beer smells like 'body odor'.
It isn't quite offensive on the palate, but it's very, very close. On first blush, Ice seems too low on flavor to get into too much trouble, but rather than quickly fading, the flavor lingers just long enough to deliver a pungent, sharply bitter noble hop payload. The more I drink it, the less I like it. After another few mouthfuls, I've changed my mind. It is offensive.
The body might be a tad more hefty than the style average, but it's still only medium in a general sense. As alluded to above, a body that keeps this beer in contact with the taste buds for a longer period of time isn't necessarily a good thing. The best that I can say about the carbonation is that it's unobtrusive. Really though, does it matter? This isn't good beer no matter how livable the mouthfeel.
The brewery says that Molson Ice is "America's #1 imported Ice Beer". Think about that for a minute. What other countries, besides the U.S. and Canada, even brew such a thing as an Ice Beer? It's all hype anyway; a macro lager is a macro lager is a macro lager. This is an especially bad version though, so I guess that there are degrees of badness.
Dec 05, 2004Eau de skunk assauted me when the crown was cracked, but has now faded to some degree. If I get my nose anywhere near the glass there are still olfactory echoes of skunk, but they're now mixed with the more usual sour grain-musty hop aromas. My wife, who has an especially sensitive sense of smell, has just wandered into the room and has decided that this beer smells like 'body odor'.
It isn't quite offensive on the palate, but it's very, very close. On first blush, Ice seems too low on flavor to get into too much trouble, but rather than quickly fading, the flavor lingers just long enough to deliver a pungent, sharply bitter noble hop payload. The more I drink it, the less I like it. After another few mouthfuls, I've changed my mind. It is offensive.
The body might be a tad more hefty than the style average, but it's still only medium in a general sense. As alluded to above, a body that keeps this beer in contact with the taste buds for a longer period of time isn't necessarily a good thing. The best that I can say about the carbonation is that it's unobtrusive. Really though, does it matter? This isn't good beer no matter how livable the mouthfeel.
The brewery says that Molson Ice is "America's #1 imported Ice Beer". Think about that for a minute. What other countries, besides the U.S. and Canada, even brew such a thing as an Ice Beer? It's all hype anyway; a macro lager is a macro lager is a macro lager. This is an especially bad version though, so I guess that there are degrees of badness.
More User Ratings:
Rated by Ggallin from New Hampshire
3.75/5 rDev +48.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +48.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Molson ice is twice as nice like Dangerfield compared to Dice.
Update 8/23: Poems are lame, people who write the same.
May 24, 2023Update 8/23: Poems are lame, people who write the same.
Reviewed by datstankadank from New Jersey
3.2/5 rDev +27%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.2/5 rDev +27%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Remember grabbin these babies out of a 12 pack for my pops back in the 90's. Green bottle, black and silver logo then more akin to a molson XXX of today. Having with lunch, pours a decent lasting white head, smell doesnt give much of anything untypical of the style. Taste is clean enough, brewed in golden, co for the states version im trying. Decent enough.
Feb 19, 2023Reviewed by edthehead from Maryland
3.11/5 rDev +23.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
3.11/5 rDev +23.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
Bottle pour into a tulip glass.
Yellow golden appearance with a foamy white head. Grass, malt, metal. Medium to light body, medium carbonation, crisp finish.
Aug 20, 2022Yellow golden appearance with a foamy white head. Grass, malt, metal. Medium to light body, medium carbonation, crisp finish.
Rated by Mindcrime1000 from South Dakota
2.85/5 rDev +13.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
2.85/5 rDev +13.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
An okay AAL from north of the border.
Jan 29, 2022Rated by flgimp from Pennsylvania
3.81/5 rDev +51.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev +51.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Good for a mass produced beer
Dec 07, 2021Reviewed by WaterBoar from Pennsylvania
3/5 rDev +19%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev +19%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
This is the perfect beer of Hockey season! You want a cold beer for fall after Oktoberfest is over and you are short on cash but need to get blasted, this is your Canadian Knight in shinning armor. 5.7% ABV and a 6 pack, made by Coors now, so it has that rocky mountain Golden Colorado water flavor, good malt, and freeze method to make it smooth. The drink-ability of this beer is superb for college kids, but the snobs after they get married and become hobbyists will turn their noses up to this. I happen to like this beer and will give it a 3/5. This beer is not trying to be best in show, this beer is trying to be that college buddy that wants your hockey team to win, tell a funny joke and check in on you when you are in need.
Sep 17, 2021Reviewed by Tripel_Threat from Michigan
3.77/5 rDev +49.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +49.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Quite a nice AAL. Bought a double deuce for beer butt chicken; poured about 6 oz into a can for cooking and the rest into a wheat ale glass. Clear, golden and with a fizzy head that didn't last long. Big corny and grain aromas. Nice smooth flavor, more corn, grain, white bread, a just a bit of a floral hop finish. Much better than expected. Although, as a lifelong Michigander it should not have taken until today for me to try it.
May 04, 2020
Molson Ice from Molson Coors Canada
Beer rating:
60 out of
100 with
534 ratings
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