Olde English 800

Olde English 800 is one of America’s leading malt liquor brands. Commonly referred to as "OE800," it offers a smooth, rich taste with a slightly fruity aroma that is a favorite among malt liquor drinkers. Introduced in 1964, Olde English 800 was one of America’s original malt liquor brands. Olde English 800 enjoys a diverse consumer base that is linked together by an urban mind-set.

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694 reviews

Milwaukee, United States

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5.0 This fine beverage made me able to see through people’s clothes, gave me superb strength, let me see into the future and my penis grew 6 inches.

0.9 It's been a long while. Checking on things I haven't rated. This beer was both a bad decision to drink and a drink for which to make bad decisions, malty frightening corn.

4.1 Needless to say, it's not for your picky rich kids, great taste for its price, golden in color and best in glass bottle.

1.9 Can shared at Chriso’s and Ruth pre GBBF shindig, August 5, 2017. Light yellow pour, strong cardboard nose, corn. taste is sweetish, corny and boozy. Not completely undrinkable although close to that.

2.3 Bottle shared at Cotteridge convention 05/03/2016. Many thanks to MacBoost and team. A pale yellow liquid with a fine white head. Aromais worty, sugar liquid, papery, spicy pepper. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, thin malts, powdery, grainy, gababe. Palate is thin, dry, chalky, papery. Meh, bad.

3.1 This one is for the brothers who couldn’t be here with us. If you going to do a 40 you might as well do it right and this is it. Comes in a clear plastic bottle ( I liked the glass better), I unscrew the top, stick it in a brown bag and drink it that way. Color? Yellow. Head? You’ve got to be kidding. And I don’t smell it, I drink it. The taste has always been decent. Corn, doughy sort of and an interesting sweetish finish. Sometimes it isn’t the destination, it is the journey. Yeah, it pisses me off that when you do a rerate, RB makes you go to the back of the line time wise. So I’m giving up my 4/27/17 original date but what the hell. Things have changed. 8 Ball now is in a 42 oz bottle and sports a 7.5% abv. That means an approximate 25% increase in potency from my first rating while it retains easily the best taste of the big bottle malt liquors. Kick up the rating now and I’m happy about it in this long, hot summer of discontent.

1.4 32oz bottle. Pours an amber color with fizzy tan head. Super grainy and sweet aroma. Sickly sweet flavor. Light to medium bodied with a super sweet finish and flavor throughout. It’s like pretty much every malt liquor.

0.6 Canned. Pretty gross. Didn’t even bother to pour it. Lots of malt not much next.

1.1 Plastic bottle in New Orleans motel room. Pale yellow color, small white head. Aroma of pear, grain and alcohol. Light-bodied, watery. Pear, green apple in the flavor. No malts or hops found.

1.0 40 oz. glass bottle stolen from Chan Park’s Kwik-E in San Agosto, California. Poured into a Plastic Snoopy water bowl. Tastes like terrier, brass spoon, polyurethane and freebase residue. Slight notes of malty kibble and old peed linoleum subfloor. Big, stupid bubbles symbolize the loss of will to live. As it warms, don’t care anymore. Got to go buy a lottery ticket before 7 oclock. Definitely try if only to taste the dishonesty that exists between human beings.

1.0 Fowty. Yellow color. White foam. Skunk aroma. Metallic. Skunky flavor. Not pleasant. Worse as it warms.

4.0 Aroma - Sweet and somewhat over powering, some what of a fruity or expired fruit smell. Appearance - Good looking bottle. Sold in the big 40 Oz bottles because bulk is always cheaper. Taste - I drink this stuff warm as I do most beer. I find it honestly smoother and more flavourful that way. It has a clean, crisp taste and a smooth finish. Many will find the first 4 or 5 drinks will be a struggle, but after that it goes down nicely. Palate - Somewhat of a fruity, sugary taste while still keeping true to it’s golden colour. Overall - This always has been, and always will be my go to when i have enough money for it. It’s a treat that you splurge on when pay day comes around. Great beer, only downside is the aroma.

1.1 Wow! Just wow. So it actually looks like it might be refreshing if icy and cold but no. No, no, no! It pours a nice light golden color with a pure white head that has good retention....aaaand that’s where it ends. Zero flavor except maybe a little sweetness reminiscent of a cantaloupe. Has a body of a glass of water and an aroma of a stale band-aid. That’s all I’ve got but then again what else do you need to know!

2.3 32-ounce container. Pours surprisingly light and sparkly. Babycham-esque. Toasty grainy scent. Not much. Taste also not much. Sweet and not too offensive but quite artificial. Weirdly astringent taste in the finish. Necco wafers and eggy bread in the aftertaste. Not impossibly awful but fairly pitiful.

2.0 That label doe. hey man, you cant go wrong buying a couple 40s every once in a while. just saying.

1.0 Pale yellow orange, small white head. Aroma corn and alcohol. Sweet taste with gasoline. Not much to say here.

0.5 Haven’t tasted this ’beer’ since the mid 70’s. Once was enough! I still have nightmares. If you know anyone who likes this beer, stay away from them, they’re probably dangerous.

1.0 3 or so oz sample from a 24oz can, while waiting in line at Perennial for a Side Project release. This beer takes all the offensive flavors typically found in macro lagers, the flavors that are typically subdued and are undetected when you drink ice cold as encouraged, and amplifies them. This is a beer for someone who really likes the way warm Busch tastes, but wants much more of that awful flavor in their face, at a more drinkable temperature. It’s every bit as bad as anyone has ever claimed it to be.

2.0 Appearance: Clear golden, some white head. Aroma: Malt, sweetness. Taste: Light malts, artificial, light sweetness. Cheap. Bought: Drinks of the World (Online), 709 ml can, CHF 6.80 Info: 18/6-2016, BB: 8/8-2016

1.8 Clear 22oz bottle shared at Cotteridge II as Olde English 800. Many thanks to MacBoost and the West Mild-lands crew for this one. Clear yellow, still, small foamy white head. Aroma is corn, rug, malt sugars. Body is light, tingly carbonation. Taste is cardboard, corn, pale biscuit. Pretty insipid. Yep, not great. (1.8)

2.0 Bottle split at CCii, thanks to Bootsy, Sraky and RTV in some form of triste, 05/03/16. Pale golden blonde with a moderate off white covering. Nose is straw, grain, paper, cereals. Taste comprises light caramel wafer, grain, straw, pale malt. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. So so affair ... wat is the point of a Malt Licker without the boost?

0.8 40’s and blunts, kid! College made us do strange things... like drink this. Oddly enough, I could probably down one just for nostalgia. No longer the go-to!

1.7 Originally rated on 5/29/08. Ah 8-ball, those were the days.. Havent had this one in several years, anyway a stickey sweet aroma and taste of malts pretty much sums it up, one of the better malt liqors. It is what it is- a cheap quick buzz, although i always prefered st. ides to o.e

2.4 Pours a clear pale golden with a fairly robust white head. Aroma is boiled cereal and a bit of hops. Taste is sweet pale malt, corn and just a tad of hops. Not the best, but not the worst.

2.6 Cotteridge Convention II. Bottle trade with Macboost, cheers Shawn. Golden beer. Aroma of alcohol and pale malts. Taste is sweetcorn and pale malts. Not bad.

2.1 tried at cotteridge 2. yellow golden with a white head. aroma and taste are sweet corn syrup.

2.6 Bottle at CWC II supplied by MacBoost; clear golden yellow pour with a big white head, corn syrup aroma, taste has very sweet malts with some fruity finish.

2.7 Cotteridge 2 tasting. Clear gold. Lasting white head. terrible cereal aroma. It’s got that European strong lager flavour. Malty syrup. Not terrible.

1.8 Deep golden, with a smooth fine poring head. Aromas of sweet bread, malt, barnyard-dust develop. Soft carbonation, slick with a light-medium body. Mainly sweet with a touch of bitterness on the roof of the palate. Sweet medium finish. Not much to it, really.

2.1 Drank from the 32 OZ bottle (without the paper bag). Aroma- not a pleasant aroma, mostly stale corn and wet grass. Appearance- crystal light golden color with lots of carbonation. Taste- really! It is made to impair and not to impress your taste buds. Overall- this is not a good beer and it isn’t even a good malt liquor. Colt 45, Magnum and Private Stock are a lot better than this.