Comically, a revered microbrewery decided to make a Steel Reserve clone, but use upscale ingredients like a restaurants in the Heights would, of course. And so you have “Flaked Maize” instead of the surplus corn that built the malt liquor industry.

As a malt liquor, it scores more highly than any of the industry stalwarts, but still leans toward the sweet side of things, despite having reduced the fermented-corpse-in-dumpster undertaste that most malt liquors smuggle into the background.

You could do worse, but this one is not to my taste, since it is too sweet despite having enough alcohol to start fights in the aisle of a major airline (before the 737 goes down of its own accord, having been made by union and H-1B labor).

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