Colt 45 Double Malt Liquor
Pabst Brewing Company

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From:
Pabst Brewing Company
 
Texas, United States
Style:
Malt Liquor
Ranked #15
ABV:
5.61%
Score:
66
Ranked #28,289
Avg:
2.66 | pDev: 31.58%
Reviews:
25
Ratings:
75
Status:
Active
Rated:
Sep 24, 2022
Added:
Jul 31, 2002
Wants:
  11
Gots:
  10
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Ratings by TonyY:
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Rated by TonyY from New York

2/5  rDev -24.8%

Sep 21, 2013
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Reviewed by chum_husk from Minnesota

2.49/5  rDev -6.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 2.5
Didn't realize this 'double malt' was a different brew

Nice looking, clear yellow with lacing on the glass. Extremely corny, there's also a pronounced garbage juice aroma and flavor. Just very heavy on the bready malt and burned corn. Would do in a pinch, but there are much better 40s than this
Sep 24, 2022
 
Rated: 3.28 by MatthewJW from Wisconsin

Apr 18, 2021
 
Rated: 2.75 by Velivolus1 from Vermont

Aug 03, 2020
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Reviewed by cardfan212 from Minnesota

2.79/5  rDev +4.9%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
Drank from a 40 ounce glass bottle. Scores are based on the style.

Look - A clear golden liquid shines through the clear glass. The logo isn't anything crazy, but it's simple and effective. Not that different from regular Colt 45, so you have to be specifically looking for it to not be accidentally confused.

Smell - Slight air of pleasant mild sweet bread and corn. The typical malt liquor scents, just not as bombastic.

Taste - Very similar to the smell. Pretty standard, nothing new but nothing bad.

Feel - Slightly thinner body than I'd like with slightly too much carbonation. The alcohol is also weirdly noticeable for its relatively low percentage.

Overall - Nothing revolutionary or game changing for a malt liquor. Better than regular Colt 45 though.
Apr 14, 2019
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Reviewed by Drak-Nib from Nebraska

2.75/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Tasted as part of my plan to try everything commonly sold at the average gas station. Not too bad. I'm curious to see how bad the high gravity version tastes, but this is smooth. Doesn't seem powerful. Fun for a fling. 2011/05/29
Nov 13, 2018
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Reviewed by OldSchoolMike from North Carolina

2.23/5  rDev -16.2%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Tried this during my second stint in grad school (since I more or less drank myself out of the first) when high ABV beer became legal here about twelve years ago. Not a good experience, though I did finally get my (useless) M.A.
Dec 13, 2017
 
Rated: 2.29 by BenHoppy from Michigan

Nov 18, 2017
 
Rated: 1.34 by fthegiants from California

May 25, 2017
 
Rated: 2.52 by SaisonRichBiere from Michigan

Apr 10, 2017
 
Rated: 2.43 by zaraspook from Illinois

Dec 20, 2016
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Reviewed by anfield86 from New Jersey

3.55/5  rDev +33.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Finally found the elusive Colt 45 double malt. Found it at Weis supermarket in Lansdale, PA. Bottle is dated 1/18/16 so I hope it's a bottle date

L- typical crystal clear golden comple. Thick white head. A standard looking malt liquor

S- cooked corn and rice, a bit of grain and alcohol. again, pretty typical stuff.

T- similar to the nose. lots of corn flavor. a bit of rice. Lots of adjunct and malt flavor throughout. Slightly dry finish. It's basically a sweeter version of colt 45.

F- full mouthfeel, slightly dry finish. good for the style

O- a good malt liquor but not much better than regular colt 45. To be honest I think I prefer the original formula. Recommended
Jun 22, 2016
 
Rated: 2 by SMH_NWI from Texas

Feb 28, 2016
 
Rated: 3 by Josholson666 from Minnesota

Nov 18, 2015
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Reviewed by puboflyons from New Hampshire

2.73/5  rDev +2.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
From the 40! Poured into a glass. Sampled on May 1, 2015. This will be review based on expectations of the style not on the fact that it is a mass-produced malt liquor. There is absolutely no reason to review this as a craft beer.

Straw yellow, highly carbonated pour with tremendous puffy white head. Looks like it should.

Aroma of boiled pale malts, corn, grass, but low booze factor. But I cannot distinguish anything that separates this out from the regular Colt 45.

Actually the body is around medium.

The taste is full of corn, rice, adjuncts, and pale malts. Clean, crisp mildly sweet finish. For the style it is done right.
May 01, 2015
 
Rated: 2.73 by ramrod666 from Pennsylvania

Apr 22, 2015
 
Rated: 2.62 by misternebbie from Pennsylvania

Feb 01, 2015
 
Rated: 3.5 by cpolking from Iowa

Nov 01, 2014
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Reviewed by hoptheology from California

3.09/5  rDev +16.2%
...I went to high school in a small town of about 600 people. Our school was practically the best at every sport except for volleyball. Football was one of those sports and I was generally second string, playing a lineman to crush the competition and protect the QB. After we destroyed the teams on our home field, we would celebrate by going to "somebody's" house (whoever had a house whose parents were gone), get sloshed, create beer pyramids, and make out in closets with all the cheerleaders. Often times the girls would drink Sublime (remember that? Do they even make that anymore?) and the guys would drink the cheapest, nastiest swill we could get our hands on. Oftentimes I'd work the concessions for girls' volleyball games (yeah, who cared anyways?) and earn about $25 a week, and sell band bootleg stuff on eBay (back when it was practically new and I could get away with it as a minor, among other things ;-) ). So we'd usually have a guy do a beer run and pick us up whatever we could afford. The night I'll never forget is the night I had $10 to blow and I said, "Gumps, get me whatever this will buy and will get me messed up." So he came back with two Hurricanes and two Colt 45's - both 40 oz A-bombs. My friend Bemis and I split them between each other. I hated the Hurricane so I drank the Colt 45. I puked green, got grounded, and woke up half naked in my own bed not knowing how I got there. Now tonight, I am going to revisit that memory with beer advocacy in mind...

Appearance (3.75) : For a buck twenty five, this beer has a pretty decent fluffy head. It's about three fingers and leaves some great lacing on the glass as it recedes and has a pillowy top. It's one of the better heads I've seen in a cheap lager. The body is a pale straw color, and about as clear as water, no surprise there.

Aroma (3.75) : WHAT??? This smells decent! It's actually got hop aroma amidst the barley malt and light corn notes. Yes, I can smell the hop. Very much like a more top tier lager. That's great news! Slightly twiggy or leafy as well.

Taste (3) : BUT.... Funky is the word. It's got this sticky, old stale lucky charms feel to it and tastes like sugared corn water. It's got some faint barley notes, but it's mostly cereal and corn. Actually, sweat socks come to mind. Yep. A little bit of that, too. At the end you can taste burnt alcohol.

The can seems to bypass all of that character though...which, yeah, most people ain't gonna pour this thing, so when you're drinking it out of the can it's an incredibly average barley malt, cereal, and water flavor.

Mouthfeel (2.75) : As I said, it's a bit sticky on the palate, and it's watery. I'd say creamy, but I don't think that's the word. It's very lightly carbonated in the glass, but yeah, it ain't creamy. Too light bodied for that.

Overall (3.09) : Hey, it ain't gross. I think a person can do better than this (like High Life or Natural Ice) but they can do a lot worse. Out of the can it's average, out of the glass it's a little more classy but more of the funk comes out, so then you decide to drink it from the can again.

Thanks Colt 45 for taking me back down memory lane (sort of). You aren't half bad, but you got a long way to go, son...
Oct 27, 2014
 
Rated: 2 by rabbitguy from Illinois

Oct 11, 2014
Colt 45 Double Malt Liquor from Pabst Brewing Company
Beer rating: 66 out of 100 with 75 ratings