Big City Ice
City Brewing Company

When people ask me, "what's the worst beer you've ever had?", I immediately respond with this bad boy, Big City Ice. A couple of college buddies and I split a 30 rack for $6 ($2 each), and took it home for what we thought was going to be an excellent night of drinking a high value American beer. Boy, were we wrong. The first round we cracked were warm and I described it as drinking liquid roast beef. My friend disagreed, swearing it was more like drinking an old tennis shoe. My other friend was without words.

Wanting to be fair to ol' BCI, we threw some in the ice box and pulled them out when they were nice and cold. SAME.EXACT.RESULT. We probably drank a total of 5 beers between the three of us. The next day, we were heading out of town and put the remaining 25 beers in our neighbor's fridge, figuring he'd be stoked at getting free beer! While we were on the bus out of town, the neighbor calls and when I pick up, the first thing he says to me is "why would you do this to me?"

Folks, this beer is so bad, you cannot give it away to a broke college kid who never said "no" to a drink in his life. Try it once to see if you live and can tell the boastful tale, but that's it.

I am trying a Rockdale Ice and this is a close to that beer as I could find. Same brewery, makes sense to me.
Clear gold with one finger of white head that leaves in a hurry. Nice sheets of lace make up for it some.
Smell is grains some other typical ice beer smells. Nothing nasty.
Taste is like most beers of this style. Grains sweet no bitterness to report.
Mouthfeel is light to medium with strong carbonation. The finish is wet and lightly sweet.
Overall not retched but not great. The can date said best by Dec. 6, 2018. So it has 10 more months before old? From a 24 ounce can from Walmart.

Pours a crystal clear golden yellow. looks like it's crazy watered down. Fizz and bubbles spritzing everywhere. after about two seconds, the bone white head disappears to absolutely nothing. I don't think this beer was meant to be seen out of the can.

The smell is very faint. some hays, grasses, corn, white bread, floral hops. not gross!

Again, like the smell, faint flavors of cereals and breads. surprisingly, I can't pick up any of that Ice they were talking about. again, not gross!

This is so watery that it's bizzare. They almost didn't make this gut retching. With a few minor improvements (look and feel) they could really polish this adjunct turd. I would definitely get this over the regular.

Poured from a 12 oz. can. Has a golden color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is very mild, some malts. Taste is also mild but refreshing, some malts and corn. Feels light in the mouth and has decent drinkability. Overall nothing special about this beer except for the price, $3.25 a six pack in PA.

TZhis can poured pale "urine" yellow. The color looks like my piss after numerous beers. Nice fluffy white head, but it didn't last long. No lacing to speak of.

Aroma was of something artifical. Not sure what. Maybe charlei and the Chocolate Factory???

The flavor was sinkeningly sweet. Far worse than the cheapest Baltic beer I have ever had. I couldn't get anything but chemically sweet. Perpahs they are using Nutrasweet to brew this lager?

Clarity is perfect. Looks like water only slightly yellow.

Drinkability... bet you can't drink one!

Pale yellow colored beer with a rapidly fading head.Not much to say in the aroma.Taste is very sweet.It looks like this beer changed breweries from the time I got this can until now.I would say this is pretty average.The usual bbq or watching sunday football beer.For 11 dollars a case I really wasn't expecting to be overwhelmed.

The side of the can denoted that it was brewed by Hat Trick, Inc. of LaCrosse, WI. I was really surprised not to see it in the data base, but so be it.

First, the nose was redolent of sulfur and it was evident as soon as I cracked the top. I got 1.5 fingers' worth of fluffy, bone-white head out of my pour, but it did not stick around long, ending in a white ring around the top of the beer.The color was a pale yellow with NE-plus clarity. It was like using X-Ray Spex to look across the room. The mouthfeel was thin-to-medium with a sweet, sugary flavor on the tongue. The finish was like artificially flavored raspberry or strawberry candy, but with slight metallic undertones. Woof. It was not as bad as that can of Tuborg last night, but not by much. I am beginning to doubt my sanity in this can undertaking. It seems like there is a lot of sub-par beer being foisted on people in the form of cans. I will press on!