St. Ides High Gravity Malt Liquor
St. Ides High Gravity Premium Malt Liquor is the brand of choice with the new generation of malt liquor drinkers. With its high quality, high strength flavor, St. Ides compliments the lifestyle of the fast paced, urban, edgy malt liquor drinker of today.
1.6
200 reviews
Irwindale, United States
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You got my number Pabst: the fast paced, edgy, urban malt liquor drinker of today. Very sugary malt smell, appealingly skunky somehow. Looks like any lager around, so no points lost there. Taste is over the top alcohol sweetness, makes Steel Reserve seem like Icehouse. Okay, that’s hyperbole but all these apples fell from the same tree anyhow. Feels rough at first, but as you die a little inside it becomes very smooth, especially the finish. A world class bad beer.
22oz bottle from Krampus via BoostIPA, get you girl sick quicker with St. Ides malt liquor, pours a clear golden/orange with a small white head. Aroma of corn, grain, with a sturdy malt presence. Slight corn and malt sweetness falling off into a bitter card board nothingness. Not bad really, I used to drink 40’s of this here and there when I was in school.
22 oz clear bottle shows a watered down piss hue. major metalic corn nose. taste is pure metal. high boost, pure shit.
40oz bottle from 101 bottles of beer in Kent, OH. Can’t find this in VA anymore. One of the better HG malt liquors. Wife didn’t mind it.
24oz can from the dumpiest liquor store near my house. Pours clear golden with low carbonation, medium white foam. Okay retention. Soapy lacing. Nose is college party the day after. Sugary, sticky, corn and rice. Yellow apple and perhaps some baked cinnamon apple as well. Not too offensive. Taste is blood metallic, sharply cloying sugar, thick apple, more blood iron content metallic. Oh barf.
40 oz bottle. pours orange with a very nice white head, last a long time. aroma is slight orange with lots of sweet corn syrup. the abv is hidden well on this it taste like sweet honey nut cherrios very bubbly.
One of the Best Malt Liquors ever Miss it. Was told not being sold anymore. Why?
16 ounce can from Amity Wines, New Haven, purveyors of a wide selection of finely crafted malt liquor. Pours a clear golden color with a moderate creamy white head. Decent head retention. The aroma is clay more than anything with some tart corn and husky grain. The taste is corn, some of it green, grain finish, green apple. Medium bodied, fairly smooth.
24 oz can to pint (shared with the Mrs.). Looks fine; a transparent gold with white head. Smells cheap; corn, fermenting apples, and fuel. Tastes like it smells with a below average mouthfeel. Garbaaje.
4/26/13. 40oz bottle thanks to Unclerudy. I traded him Hunahpu’s for this shit. Yeah, eat me. Clear nasty golden amber pour with a small fizzy off-white head that’s gone fast. Corn, apples, burnt caramel, and rocket fuel all around, mixed with a touch of garbage and stomach acid. Pour some out for my homie ASR.
Bought from town. Pours clear copper orange with a fluffy off-white head. Smells and tastes metallic, and of seawater, brick clay, and LME. Meh, but drinkable.
The name St. Ides comes from the less common St. Ita, a female saint in the Irish tradition, and perhaps only trumped by St. Brigid in regards to well-known female Irish saints. St. Brendan, the namesake for countless "Irish" pubs, asked Ita about the things that God most loves. According to legend, Ita’s reply was "A pure heart with faith in God; a simple, spiritual life; and generous acts of charity." Seeing that I had just missed St. Ita’s feast day (January 15) I went ahead and sought out this far less sanctified concoction, and found it at the local Liquor Barn. The soundtrack for this evening is Miles Davis’ "On The Corner" album, and it conjures up images of the gritty urban underbelly, not unlike parts of downtown Louisville. It also makes me think of real saints- those who reach out with works of mercy and compassion, instead of pointlessly arguing on Ratebeer as I often do. Really, the world hungers for these people, while at the same time wasting their lives arguing on the internet. Many of us should be ashamed. The "Crooked I" is pretty nasty stuff- quite grainy and sorghum sweet; sharp alcohol that vastly resembles bad rum or rubbing alcohol (same difference). The finish is tangy and reminiscent of paint thinner. Rough.
Bottle. Skunky grainy malt and fusel aroma. Golden yellow with small head. Sweet grainy barley malt flavor - slight fusel alcohol finish. Probably benefiting from the crappiness of the other malt liquors I just tried.
Bottle. Skunky grainy aroma. Skunkiness cleared a bit as it aired. Clear gold with a small white head. Sweet corn syrup malt flavor. At least it doesn’t have the harsh fusel flavor of the last four malt liquors I just tried.
24 ounce on the walk home from work. Probably an 8/10 on the swill and took me about a 5 block walk to drink it. Definitely walking a bit weird up the stairs after this one so probably 7/10 on the buzz but probably 9/10 if it was a 40. Drank good.
40 pours bubbly clear gold with weak white head. The aroma delivers sugary sweetness sliding into apple juice, powdered sugar and not too much notice of the ABV. The ABV is actually pretty well hidden. The taste is sugary and then gets estery with apples before a moderate level of semi harsh booziness surfaces into the finish. All in all not too horrible.
Clear gold, swigged it right outta the mongo bottle. I poured a bit in a cup to smell it...corn, sweet malt, more corn. Flavor is sweet corn, lots of grainy malt. Bad, but amazingly not as bad as I thought.
Even when I was 16 and drank malt liquor on a regular basis, I could never finish a 40 of this vile shit without vomiting. Worse than Steel Reserve, Olde English, King Cobra, and the others. That isn’t easy.
40 ounce bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a medium white head. The aroma is corn and sweetness with some light dirtiness. A fairly clean corn and adjunct flavor with light odd oiliness. Not horrific. Not good. Finishes with glue and sweet corn.
Wow... I picked this up to check into a malt liquor. And hopefully this is not representative of the genre.
It smells like beer, which is its best point. It tastes like how your mouth tastes after you vomited after eating something sweet. It’s creepily sweet and kinda makes me want to ralph.
Aroma is not half bad.
Tastes like apple skin and high school.
Finish is dreadful.
Used to drink that from 40 oz clear bottle when I was a kid. You cant go wrong with this beer if your goal is to be drunk. Not recommended for others purposes.
Pours gold with a white head. Smells like corn, metal and wet grains. Taste like corn, hay, metal, and the alcohol burns the tongue. It’ll get you drunk cheap, but it might not be pleasant.
Originally rated June 2005. The white head from this malt liquor is big, foamy and long lasting. The nose is over-average strong too. Lots of alcohol at first, then some decent malt. Not actually bad, but different in taste. Kind of corn with alcohol. Smooth finish. Slight fruit is found in the aftertaste. Mostly bananas. Not bad at all, but prefer the Mongoose.
Forty. Pale yellow with a medium/large white foamy head. Aromas of sweet apple, mild urine, and stale hops. The flavor here is similar, with sweet malt present initially and fading toward a more bitter adjunct finish, dosed with alcohol. Medium/high carbonation, and watery. As others say, the alcohol isn’t really that noticeable. Also helps that I pounded it in under a minute, I’m sure. [835]
Forty; there’s something abot how the bubbles surge and form a small head when a malt liquor is cracked open; it’s more like a soda than a beer; pours crystal clear dark gold, eggy white head; stale apple juice, corn, honey and sugar; kind of like carbonated apple juice; and that’s how it kind of tastes to me too; even handed flavors and drinks very smooth, esp. for coming in at over 8%; mix of sugary pears and apples
somebitch! this is a hell of a good beer! this puts the drunk on in a hurry. i know all you already know that this is a premuim brew, all natural and shit. I like this beer. Already got 2 cases of empties on the side of my trailer to take back jes as soon as goddamn narna gets home with the car
Pure gangsta--nuf said. I’m pretty sure St. Ides is made up of the beer Pabst spills on the floor. These were a staple item of college-level binge drinking. Often after purchasing, one questions whether or not they have some sort of drinking problem. This is simply because St. Ides is a raw, kick-to-the-back-of-the-throat kind of beverage that no normal human with standards and moral fiber would be willing to lower themselves to drinking. We’d by cases (12 foe-tees per case) of this stuff in school--big mistake. I played Edward 40-hands with two of these puppies before--bigger mistake. Drank 2 in under an hour, long story short, wound up in jail--biggest mistake!
I still would recommend St. Ides--have our Rap forefathers led us wrong before?
24 oz can. Sweet malts, sugary, horse shit, and corn. The abv is well hidden, which is nice. Not among the best malt liquors, but pretty good considering the abv.
bought this in this weird gas station on the way back from a beer tasting, i was absolutely tossed when i bought it and when i woke up the next morning- i found this in my travel cooler and really had to think where the hell it came from- then i noticed the $20 worth of pork rinds in my room and things started to click .. . Pours a gold bar yellow, light headring .. smell of corn, farmer breath, and old coins .. . pretty smooth for 8%, and doesn’t really have that malt liquor kick back you find in some of the shittier lickas.. . . A decent malt liqour that, honestly, i would buy if i suddenly became homeless .. . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqnWyG9jxcs