Keystone Premium

Keystone Premium is a high quality lager and member of the Keystone Family. Keystone Premium is 4.4% alcohol by volume and has 122 calories per 12-ounce serving.

1.2

215 reviews

Golden, United States

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1.2 A - Smells of yeast and dough. A - light gold with a frothy white head T - A bit sweet, but not much else P - Fizzy, with a light body. O - Great if you want to drink a lot of beers or your in a chugging compatition, but nothing to crave.

2.4 Keystone Premium has a very thick, quickly-dissipating, stark-white head and a pale straw appearance with a few bubbles streaming up and no lacing. The aroma is faint, to be sure, but a light grain and sweet smell can be detected with a deep inhalation. Taste is quite watery, but a tiny amount of grains, sweetness, and hop bitterness can be picked up with some patience. Mouthfeel is very watery, and Keystone Premium finishes crisp, refreshing (much like water), and dry. Overall, this is a low average offering from Molson-Coors. I can see why it’s not widely available. It’s tolerable. RJT

0.5 The beer is watery clear gold with not much of head unless you shake the can. the aroma is all skunk. The taste is the same but has a terrible aftertaste. The feel is all water and you can’t drink a lot of this no matter what.

1.3 Aroma of fermented lemonade mixed with whisky. Okay white head and gold body. Flavour is all lemon cleaner with a hint of grain. Has a weird and watery citrus aftertaste; it’s just crappy.

1.3 Single can from Canadian Superstore. Colour: Almost white. Nose: Bready, musty. Taste: Watery, thin, off-note, horrible.

1.6 Can. Pale yellow gold, white cap. Sweet grainy aroma and flavour, some metal. Insipid, watery palate. Why are they bringing this into Alberta?

0.9 Not much to it. Best drunk from the can. Aroma is dull and boring with a lot of filler. I don’t find the beer offensive, and If i was deep enough into a night of hard drinking i would gladly drink one. But I think one could do much better for $1/can beer.

1.9 500ml can. This is not a very defined lager with not much to characterize by way of body,aroma or head. Price posturing is the same as other mega lagers, yet you would be better off buying the other mega beers.

0.5 Premium??? Just looking over the pale lagers and seeing the ones I missed rating, wish I had not.......A pale gold color. Light foam head that goes fast.Aroma of wet grain and corn. Overly carbonated. A watery flavor of moldy grain or cereal. Not a nice taste.

0.9 12 oz can into English pint. Aroma of adjunct grain, cream corn, vomit, chemicals, a hint of metal. Pours yellow with a thick head with big bubbles; head diminishes in seconds, leaving no head or foam whatsoever. Flavor is beer-flavored seltzer water. Starts sweet and finishes slightly salty. Boring as any other macro lager. Highly carbonated; light bodied. Drinkable, but bland as all hell. At least it’s not disgusting like Grolsch, Moosehead, or Busch, my bottom three beers on this site. I was about to give it the same score as those beers, but this beer definitely tastes better than those. It’s serviceable, but it’s a poor and lame attempt at a budget beer by the folks at Coors.

1.5 Can (b/c it was the cheapest beer in the store). Drank it out of the can while watching The Big Lebowski. Perfect beer for that event. Light maly, lightly sweet, and a little too bubbly. it’s not good, but it works.

0.8 Pretty much nothing at all in this beer. Tried to get some character out of it, but it really is just carbonated water with alcohol. I suppose in that sense, they did a good job of hiding the alcohol?

2.4 The Holy Grail of all beers- quite possibly the rarest of all macro-lagers, requiring years (literally, years) of searching for it. The only reason for giving it all 1’s and 20 overall was from the thrill of the search and the excitement of finally finding it. This beer = Satan’s Urine. Why do you think it comes in a Red Can?

1.0 A completely hollow, soulless beer. But in an extremely bland and inoffensive way. Thee are no redeeming features to this beer, but at the same time, it lacks that typical Molson-contract-brew "Fresh bile and stale sewage" aftertaste I have rather come to expect. Almost completely tasteless, a BMC masterpiece!

0.6 Straw, grainy, metalliac flavors dominate with a watery alcohol laced aftertaste. Good ol’ college blackout beverage.

0.9 355ml can. Can said 4.9% abv, this version was made under license by Molson for Canadian sale. Pale yellow, fizzy head. Grainy scent. Not much flavour, light grains. No finish, just water. Light body, medium carbonation. No real offensive flavours, rather this beer just lacks flavour. Pretty much exactly what I was expecting.

1.0 (can - 12 oz) Pale yellow with lots of carbonation but no head. Aroma is stale grass, dry corn, and metal flakes. Overly sweet and malty at the beginning but then nothing. Flavor all but disappears and leaves a lightly bitter hint of seltzer. Like drinking carbonated apple juice that’s been watered down.

1.6 I expected this beer to be a total disaster. It wasn’t. It wasn’t a Koenig Pils, but it wasn’t Colt 45 either! Very clear yellow in color, quite pale. Very light malt/hop nose. No real head to speak of; it’s there, then it’s not - much like a soda. Very light body, light flavor, but surprisingly balanced and yes... smooth. I know I am gonna take a lot of heat for this, but at the age of 54 and having travelled extensivley, I’ve drank a lot of beer; good and bad.I’ve even written a couple of freelance articles for "All About Beer, back in the day when the Bosak’s owned the magazine. So, I know my beer. OK, here’s where I take the heat... Coors when it was a "mystique" beer back in the 70’s, was lightly flavored, and light in color. To me, despite it’s reputation, it tasted like spring water with some hops in it. I think this beer - Keystone - tastes an awful lot like it. That is to say, it doesn’t taste like Coors does now, but it reminds me of the first Coors I had in 1974. Nothing to get excited about, but not terrible.

1.2 This isn’t a good beer. Average for the kind it is... far from premium. Its slight better then piss aka keystone light.

0.5 Read the description for what’s in store. They brag about the 4.8abv and 122 calories. What about the fuckin beer? Crap, shit, poop, any other words I can’t think of just add them in.

1.0 Well, this is what Keystone was holding back. This is the super special beer in their line up. It doesn’t smell or taste... whatever.

1.2 Can. This is truly a novelty item in Florida- brought back from a friend that was roadtripping California. He brought this back instead of Lost Abbey. Anyways, pours a clear yellow with a white, soda head that lasts for about two seconds. No lacing. Sweet aroma of white sugar, candy, cereal, straw. Taste is sweet candies, some stale cereal, hay, lemon. It is pretty much the taste of Keystone Light plus all the unnecessary calories.

0.6 Overall Impression: Bad, awful, or just plain crap, depending on your choice of phrasing...

0.9 (I just couldn’t resist picking this up so I could complete the Keystone trifecta. Hadn’t seen this one in a long time, so I decided to get it once I came across it at the store.) Pours almost clear - just a slight yellow tint. Head is huge and foamy, then recedes to nothing. Aroma is bunk as expected, weak, cheap lager smell. Flavor is just a little sweet, no other perceptible flavors. Mouthfeel is completely watery and dead. Overall, poor.

4.5 Oh the Premium... Its pale yellow complexion screams of quality. I’ve been trying to get my hands on one of these red devils for a while now, and finally found a 12 pack when I went camping. Nothing goes down smoother than Coors’s original salute to Pennsylvania when you’re out on a fishing boat. May I also suggest the Light and Ice versions.

0.5 Pretty much looks, smells and tastes exactly like every other macrobrewed pale lager. Pretty much pure piss in a can. Drink accordingly.

0.6 Watery, bland, boring. Its basically exactly what youre expecting the second you pick up a can of this stuff. Not really offensive but certainly not good. Taste pretty much the same as keystone light.

1.5 There is literally NO taste for this whatsoever. I had several different people try it and talk about the taste; no one could come up with a description. It defies the laws of man.

0.7 Another shitty beer that’s the same as all other shitty beer. Seriously, just drink cheap liquor if your only goal is to get wasted. This one is really the same as the rest of the "Keystone" bunch (which is NOT from Pennsylvania), maybe even a little more offensive with more tin and chemical flavors.

1.2 Meh. More Surprised that I actually found this than anything. But if you must drink Keystone, stick to light.