Pineapple Earthquake High Gravity Lager (10%)
City Brewing Company

Poured from a can into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a fluorescent yellow color with a tiny fizzy head of yellow foam. The head fades super-fast, leaving almost no lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The nose is strongest of a pineapple candy like smell mixed with a bit of grain and mustiness.
Taste – The taste starts out with a super sweet artificial, candy-like, pineapple flavor matched with some malt and light grain. At the same time there is a bit of a paper taste mixed with some flavors of rock sugar and vodka. Surprisingly the alcohol is hidden very well. While very sweet upfront, the sweet gets even stronger at the end, leaving one with a somewhat cloyingly sweet artificial pineapple taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – For a 10 % abv brew the body is thin with a carbonation level that is on the slightly higher side. For the artificial pineapple and slightly off flavors, the feel is good, making it more palatable, but that said, for a 10 % abv brew, it makes it more dangerous.
Overall – Way too sweet for my taste. If you want to get messed up, something super sweet, and want something for a low price, then this is an option, albeit, not the best option…

It wasn't without some trepidation and reluctance I forked over the $2.19 USD plus tax for Pineapple Earthquake at my local gas station, but I reckoned if ever there was a day to endeavour to finish a can of artificial pineapple flavoured malt liquor, surely that day was meant to be a Thanksgiving spent alone.

"Premium malt beverage with artificial flavor and FD&C Yellow #5." 10% ABV. Just looking at that ingredient breakdown, I can tell this one is going to be rough...

APPEARANCE: Pours a sort of vile lemon lime yellow....think Diet Mountain Dew. Has that sort of slimy look to it. The yellow food coloring is doing its job, and I'm none too keen on the job done.

Zero head.

More soda-redolent in appearance than beer-like. It does appear well carbonated, to its credit.

Not looking forward to trying this one, lads.

AROMA: Artificial pineapple flavour/sticky pineapple syrup. Off-brand lemon lime soda. There's a definite syrupy sort of dollar store Mountain Dew ersatz cola aroma here. Promises a sickly syrupy sweet brew with a barely tamped-down booziness. I mean, what did I bloody expect?

TASTE & TEXTURE: Oh boy. My fears are realized in its taste and texture...sort of that devil's marriage of slimy viscous spritzily carbonated malt liquor that just sits on the tongue (and in the gut) with overtly artificial sickly sweet flavours. Zaps the palate a bit with its sugar, booze, and cola-like artificiality.

Saccharine to a fault. ("Cloying" sounds too fancy a term for such a bargain bin effort of a beer.)

I don't know that I've experienced pineapple any less genuine in flavour than it is here. Borderline chemical in taste...think pineapple flavouring straight from the evil corporate American food lab.

Overcarbonated. Unrefreshing, Warmly boozy. Sugary in feel as in taste. A hangover in a can, to be sure.

OVERALL: Doesn't unseat Mickey's as my go-to budget malt liquor, but this is another tool for the homeless boozer to add to her/his repertoire.

It might pair well with squirrel half cooked over a garbage bin fire in an alleyway as a means of warding off the cold, but then again I'd just as soon advise selecting ordinary Earthquake over this pineapple variant. It might also be a decent choice for the (hopefully narrow) demographic of young men who lived in their parent's basement and enjoyed Mountain Dew but were then booted out and forced into homelessness but still want a taste of the old life with a bit of booze to take the sting out of living in squalor.

I'll try to finish the can in good faith, but I may need my housemate to leave the loo available for my vomit spewage and the more I drink this the more I'm reminded I need to go ahead and schedule my next dental appointment.

I won't comment on how to make this beer better because that ship sailed (and sank), but if City Brewing is looking to make it even worse, may I humbly suggest dumping artificial coconut flavoring in there with the artificial pineapple and then marketing the sad result as a pina colada malt liquor?

F / AVOID

Earthquake Pineapple has no head of foam nor lacing, but it does have a clear, greenish-yellow appearance, with bubble streams. The aroma is of strong pineapple Jolly Rancher. The flavor is similar, with tart and sweet qualities. Earthquake Pineapple is heavy bodied and has a sticky, candy mouthfeel. There is an oddly-drying finish (HFCS?).

RJT

Look : The look when opened is a nuclear like glowing gold with particles of foam that subside fairly quickly

Smell : Like off brand pineapple soda but still is a decent smell

Taste : Very overly sweet pineapple with traces of non-overpowering malt alcohol taste but enjoyable.

Overall : To me this Malt Liquor is better than the regular earthquake in my opinion due to the pineapple taste it's a great bargain buy for enjoying the weekend with some horror movies!

Poured from a 23.5 oz. can. Has an atomic yellow color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of pineapple soda. Taste is syrupy sugars, gagingly sweet, some pineapple and alcohol. Feels light bodied in the mouth and overall, way to sweet for me. As a type two diabetic, I drank 10 ounces or so, the rest was given to my son.

Clear glowing gold with two fingers of white head that goes away quickly. No lacing.
Smell is candy like pineapple.
Taste is candy sweet pineapple.
Mouthfeel is light to medium with strong carbonation. Finish is semi dry and sweet.
Overall it may be worse than the regular Earthquake but the strange sweet artificial pineapple is strong and hides any beer like qualities. Whew!