Axe Head Malt Liquor
Minhas Craft Brewery

24 oz. can pours a clear dark golden with average white head that doesn't last very long. Amazingly, it leaves good lacing in a pint glass. Aroma has corn syrup, caramel, sour apples, and a high school chemistry lab. Taste is on the sweet side, with alcohol quite well hidden for 11%. Body is light, without too much carbonation. It is much easier to start drinking this when cold than to attempt finishing it when it has warmed up.

Minhas "Craft" is to breweries what Edward D Wood Jr. was to cinema directors. The product is so bad and so low budget that it is almost enjoyable for its infamy. Axehead might be to Minhas what Plan 9 from Outer Space was to Ed Wood. If you don't think in analogies, you can at least understand that this one was created for the competition for the biggest buzz in a big $2 can.

 

(24 oz can, code 17 067 21; purchased cold at Liquor Barn... split-poured between a glass mug and a Trillium tulip)

L: mild-moderately cloudy, amber liquid, lots of speckled sediment, which stays suspended as if in aspic... impressively cottony, chunky, off-white foam, sticking all over the (mug) glass, keeps a cap too

S: spicy, apple or apple-pie (cocktail) like esters/phenols; underlying doughy malt; ultra light beam of booze; altogether not too dissimilar from an imported, industrial Belgian tripel (and I've smelt worse with some of them)

T: on the palate, it's clearly a high-octane, rich-malty, pale malt liquor; the clove and old bubblegum spice is certainly interesting and does add a lil fancy flourish... mild-moderate spent-yeasty, nutty note pervades, which probably isn't there in a fresh can, but is certainly an unwelcome flavor stain here, though decidedly not off-putting... freshness flaw aside, the underlying pale malt base has an appealingly subtle, cereal-doughy character, rich and smooth; delicate apple-y note carries over; the booze is mellow, with a soft twang to it

F: silky-foamy texture, delicate chew to its light, but plush body; alcohol bite and warmth nearly non-existent... I'd liken it to the feel of a Vitus (weizenbock) - very nice!

O: overall, not bad at all... but if I was to try another can of this age, I'd drink it teeth-rattlin' cold, probably from the can... I would grab this again, even drink it from a glass, but it's gotta be newborn (1422)

Crystal clear, golden colored ale. CO2 presents with the typical large bubbles of artifical carbonation. Head is bubbly and doesn't last very long.

The aroma is oddly sweet. Sort of a sickly, corn sweetness.

The flavor is vaguely unpleasant. The mouthfeel is slick and oily, large bubbles of CO2 rolling clumsily across the tongue. Sickly sweet flavor is coupled with an odd harshness. The finish is dry, the whole thing fighting itself.

Nice beer very potent this beer is for men with hair on there chest nice feeling I perfer it with ice so it's extra cold

Drank from a 40 ounce glass bottle. Scores are based on the style.

Look - A nice clip art style logo. Dark brown glass prevents you from seeing the goodies inside. Not really great, but not awful.

Smell - Surprisingly pleasant smelling. A nice rich sweet malty aroma. Reminds me of a brown ale, bock, or some other sort of real beer.

Taste - Much like the smell, this is surprisingly good. Rich and full bodied with just the slightest alcohol astringency. No noticeable offputting fusel flavors.

Feel - Decently creamy and smooth. The 11% does have some burn going down though.

Overall - The highest percentage malt liquor I've had, but it drinks easier than some that are half the percentage. Surprisingly good and like a real beer. I wish it was lower alcohol, I'd keep this around as a mainstay beer with its cheap price and good flavor.

The did a decent job at masking the 11% abv with this sickly sweet concoction. And, that's about where the positive traits end.

It doesn't hit me as hard as an 11% beverage of the 40oz persuasion should, either. I suspect the aforementioned sweetness competes with the alcohol absorption, mimicking the effects of eating before drink. You'll still get to Destination: Shitfaceia, just not as fast or hard as one would expect.

Probably best to select your post-drunk meal and masturbate before consumption, lest erectile dysfunction and retardation set in. You're desperate enough- at least engage in some quality porn you can still remember.

Oh God, Help me... I sorry I am just taking a few sips of this Axe Head Beer. Have you ever gotten strep and got prescribed that awful shitty brown red liquid syrup? Well this is the beer version. Enjoy, Drink up Big Boy !

Look: Well F it If I'm going to be a little generous somewhere I may as well say Uh it looked like a Beer that wasn't going to taste the way that it did.

Smell: I recoiled.

Taste: Never again,,, Take one sip youll go EUGHHHHHHHH thats the flavor THATS THE TASTE "EEUGHHHHHHH"

Feel: Depressed.

 

staggeringly awful. but when I lived in alberta this was the best price to alcohol content around.

Best beer for getting drunk cheap! Love it!

 

Initially poured from 40 into a pint glass (just because I sorta feel I have too…), but then drank the rest from the bottle as it actually should taken down.

Appearance – The beer pours a golden straw color with a tiny fizzy white head. The head fades very fast to leave a hint of foam on the sides of the glass.

Smell – The aroma of the brew is strongest of a mix of corn, hot booze, and a little bit of caramel.

Taste – The taste begins much less boozy then I was anticipating from the nose with it being mostly of a corn taste mixed with some sweetness of corn syrup and caramel. As the taste advances some of the sweetness fades all while the corniness gets stronger and is joined by some musty tastes. Toward the end some of the booze hits the tongue, but overall remains rather light (for a malt at 11% abv.) and ends up leaving one with a stale corn taste to linger on the tongue.

Mouthfeel - The body of the brew is on the slightly more watery side with a carbonation level that is rather high. For the high gravity malt liquor the feel is spot on and helps to create a more easy drinking brew overall.

Overall – For an 11% malt I was expecting a booze bomb, but really it was not all that hot. It certainly was more easy drinking then I was anticipating.

I really hate having to give this a negative review, the Minhas Brewery probably did try so I will try to be constructive, and I don't think my beer is spoiled, but it is kind of revolting compared to competing tallboys.

When I pour it, it is about the color of a dehydrated piss (fair enough, what lager isn't?), there is almost no head as it dissipates in a nanosecond.

The smell is reminiscent of malt vinegar and thus smells more stale than it really is.

The taste is also kind of vinegar. Perhaps the brewery is letting too much oxygen in early on in the brewing process? I don't know where people are detecting hints of nuts and fruits, I can see maybe green apple, but I think that may be more due to the resulting tartness (and not a hoppy tartness) than actual apples being used. I am sure that it is not stale, but it isn't very pleasant (compared to competing products, there are cheap "high gravity(alcohol)" beers that I do like).

The feel of the beer is strong, bitter (in an astringent vinegar way, not a hops way), and hot, like siphoning gasoline if gasoline had a good amount of carbonation. The liquid itself is as thin as water.

The alcohol content hits like a few shots of tequila (I forced myself to drink this in case it's an "acquired taste" thing) but if you can afford to get decent tequila, pass on this beer.

I wouldn't buy this again but if I someone offered it to me I would make sure that was ice cold and chug it like I would a gatorade after exercise. I made the mistake of sipping this slowly enough for the chill to fade, not exactly the best way to consume a lager, especially not this one...


It's not liquid evil, but I had far better options to choose from and am glad that I only bought one of these...

It is still far superior in taste to the Steven Seagal energy drink.

This beer was purchased at the Minhas brewery, after listening to an hour of propaganda about the quality ingredients and care that goes into their brewing process. Poured from a 24 oz. can. Has a golden color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is green apples, burnt tobacco. Taste is green apples, alcohol, gasoline, cigarette ash, more alcohol. Feels light and putrid in the mouth and overall is a disgrace of a "beer".

Served ice cold.

A 3 finger head forms and a slightly swirly honey colored body forms. 90% transparent. Head leaves a ring on top.

The aroma is melted plastic, wet moldy potatoes, toffee, baked grain, honey, & orange peel. This is met with a harsh metallic antiseptic note.

Taste is um....disgustingly complex. Or complexly disgusting. Like clinical depression. A sickly sweet banana bread/peel starts it off, followed by vinegar and fructose (think of ketchup), and an uncanny resemblance to a shot of cheap vodka finishing out the profile. Some lingering soppy brown bread crusts and more vodka. This is seriously bad.

The feel may even be worse, with a stinging carbonation, and a dry alcohol finish that actually chaps the throat and makes me raspy. RASPY. And suddenly, now I'm getting heartburn. I want to vote this category negative. Mods...?

Overall, this is one of the most disgusting beers on the face of this planet. I should have never trusted the mohawk guy. I think this was brewed with vodka. Or else vodka was added afterwards. It's like horrid, putrid, expired Hurricane mixed with several glugs of McCormick's or Skol. It's what a soul-less one night stand tastes like.

Hatred and depression do not even begin to define the way I feel about this beer.

Hairspray-like alcohol, old, brown banana, slight caramel and unbelievably sweetness. Not the worst malt liquor, but its certainly fight hard for the title.

 

24 oz can into a wine glass. Pinkies out.

Appearance: Pours a clear golden color. The head is a finger high and white in shade. Retention isn't very special, but hey it's 11%. Some specks of lacing are left on the glass. (3.75)

Smell: Huge, massive sugar notes are coming through. I'm also picking up some sherry oxidation, paired with some booziness. The alcohol comes through the more it opens up - ergo, drink it cold. It smells mediocre rather than hateful, I must say... (2.75)

Taste: Big sweetness comes out first, bringing notes of apple, caramel, and nuttiness. The finish is very boozy, natch. Holy crap, is it boozy. Not likable by any means. One good note about this malt likka are the restrained adjuncts - it tastes more like a bad strong ale than a bad malt likka. The shittiness of this beer sneaks up on me, rather than hitting me like a sack of bricks. (1.25)

Mouthfeel: Big, heavy, sweet, and massive. And ridiculously boozy, too. At least something like Steel Reserve can be willed down easily. This almost seems under-carbonated for a malt likka, too. Just a total chore to drink. (1.5)

Overall: Yep, it sucks ass. Which begs the question, why did I buy this beer? Total bile fascination, that's why. Well, I'm here to tell you guys: drink something else. SNPA, Guinness, Stella Artois, Steel Reserve, anything. I guarantee it will be better than this crap. Next! (1.5)

1.75/5: What the hell is wrong with me, intentionally buying bad beer?