Steel Reserve 211 High Gravity
The two eleven mark, based on the medieval symbol for steel, appears only on Steel Reserve(R) High Gravity lager. We use nearly twice the ingredients of many normal lagers & brew for over twice as long as many quality beers.
1.5
886 reviews
Milwaukee, United States
Community reviews
Its cheap, tastes like PBR, and will get you drunk quickly and cheaply.
Should I say anymore?
Pleasing at first but soon gets a bit more thick as you continue to slug it down. But overall the 24 .oz can will keep you seated a little longer before you chance another. At 8.1% alc./vol. it's a better bang for your buck than the more snootier big names. Good weekend lager for when you don't have any plans. Good buzz value...
Pours clear gold with a thick white head. Streams of carbonation. Sweet aroma, corn syrup? Taste is very light, sweet elements on the tongue. Palate is unremarkable with a slight malt note on the throat. Not terrible honestly.
a drink that is truly ferda
If you can't have/pay for an Imperial Stout this is an amazing replacement.
Here's the story:
We were in a road trip, desperated waiting for 3 weeks to get our van and about to cry, parked in a Walmart Parking lot. Suddengly my girlfriend went for beer and after following the homeless she got a 6 pack. And ....surprise! that was our favorite beer for the rest of our 6 month trip! It's amazing taste for that prize, there's nothing similar.
We praiced that beer a few times a week, now after a few year WE MISS it!
"Full strength, full flavor" from King Soopers. 24 oz. can, pours a pale, clear, straw color, with a fizzy, fleeting, white head. Corn syrup, dry grass, and caramel. Some rubber and banana taffy in the finish. Sweet and syrupy, with a mild, nondescript hop bite. Light body, with a slick, oily feel. This gets worse the more you drink. Quite poor.
Wednesday, December 26, 2018 8:33 PM
24 Once can poured to glass
Sight: Amber liquid, big white foam
Aroma: scent smell of grains
Taste: sweet, some bitterness
Mouth feel: very carbonated
Overall: good beer, repeat: yes look for: no
So do people now say “I’m buying a 42 and drinking it tonight.” Or would Sublime now have the song “42 Oz to Freedom”. Just asking. I acquired a Steel Reserve 211 42 oz in a plastic bottle for a cheap price at the neighborhood supermarket. Still no convincing reason why I take the malt liquor route when I do. Saying that, 211 is going to have a tall hill to climb behind OE 800. The requisite brown bag at hand I undo the cap. I take a smell for the heck of it. Hmm, malt liquor. And a drink. Actually not bad, grain, corn, water, no surprises. It lacks the little sweetness that 800 has but still decent in my book. 8.1% abv. Haters need to grade on the curve.
This is an excellent beer! Great quality and price!
Not nearly as bad as other reviewers make it out to be; ok, it's still too grassy, cold-brewed-for-lack-of-taste North American macro for its own good, but the malt and alcohol notes are there and there in force. On this side of the pond, perhaps as good as it gets at this price point and abv (24 oz/0.71L can, Middlesex Co, NJ)
With a name like “Steel Reserve” it’s not a surprise that this beer tasted like a chemical bath put into a steel container. Would rather have old English or Mickey’s than this masterpiece
I was honestly expecting way worse. It's a cheap lager with a surprising amount of body, which is good, because the normal cheap lager nonsense of "watery tastelessness" sends my sensory integration disorder into "NO NO NO NO NO NO" mode. The flavor is generally light, reminiscent of Rolling Rock (of all things) but with much more of a malt backbone that pulls it into the realm of sort of just... working.
This isn't good beer by any stretch of the imagination if you actually like beer. However, given that I can get like ten 24oz cans for as much as a 6x12 of actually enjoyable beer on top of high availability, this is easily topping my "get [redacted]faced cheap" list.
When I want to reek of all that is filth-ridden, unholy, forlorn, and despised in this world, I reach for a cold can of this vile poison. Skulls and cross-bone labelling would far better suit this abomination of a refreshment. This drink exudes pure evil in all its forms. It should not exist. In its seeking to hastily reduce men to criminally insane brutes, far worse is certainly achieved. I hate this drink with the fiery passion of ten-thousand burning suns.
24 ounce can into lager glass, best before 10/22/2018. Pours fairly crystal clear deep golden amber color with a 1 finger fairly dense and rocky white head with great retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of cracker, corn, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light honey/nutty, and mild herbal/grassy earthiness. A bit of fruity aromas, but not too overwhelming. Okay aromas with pale malt/corn and mild earthy hop notes; with decent strength. Taste of cracker, corn, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light honey/nutty, and mild herbal/grassy earthiness. Mild herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, corn, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light honey/nutty, and mild herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Nice robustness of pale malt/corn and mild earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance; and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Very clean on lager flavors, with minimal fruity notes present. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness and spicy alcohol. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bread, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Mildly increasing warmth of 8.1% after the finish. Overall this is a pretty good malt liquor. All around good robustness of pale malt/corn and mild earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink for the ABV; with the mildly bitter/drying finish. Clean and nicely rich barely/grain flavors, with mild earthy hop balance. Not overdone on corn adjuncts. A nicely enjoyable offering, and well made style example as expected.
24 oz single can from Atlas Wine & Spirits. Clear golden colored appearance with a small fizzy white head and active carbonation. Aroma of malt syrup, mild grains and light alcohol. Similar flavor, adding a moderate grainy sweetness with a touch of bitterness. Medium body with a slight watery feel and a lingering malt liquor finish. Overall, BOOST.
I have been drinking this for a couple of decades. It is by far the best popcorn beer ever. It is the No 1 beer for emergency ward visits. They used to make a Margarita flavored beer, just add a shot of Tequila and it was superb. If you are not a professional drinker, you may get a hangover. Cheers
one dollar for a tall boy that you can sip on and feel refreshed over two hours or slam in 2 minutes and feel great. I don't know why all the beer snobs need their beer to taste like a pound of hops and be called "barley wine" instead of "malt liquor" to admit it's okay.
does not have a lot of flavor or complexity but it is pleasant to drink and gets the job done.
The only good thing here is the fact that it's a cheap way to get trashed. Compared to some alternatives out there, I'm looking at you Hamm's, this is perfectly serviceable. The smell, look, and taste all put you in the mindset of poverty, but at least you shouldn't be sober long enough to dwell on it.
You know I'm desperate when I resort to drinking things like this, but it seems that InBev owns all the bars in Kauai, so this is it. Can from ABC Wailua consumed at my AirBnB. Clear yellow color big fluffy white head. Sweet cereal aroma. Taste is watery yet boozy cheerios.
Can from MacBoost the biggest bender in Rochester during Chelada welfare session; clear amber pour with a thin white head, aroma has sweet malts, taste has works well with the Bingo Hame putrid garbage vibe, excellent stuff.
Can thanks to Macboost from 'merica and shared with RichtheVillan @the Chelada welfare session. Amber beer with mall head. Aroma of malts and boiled sweets. Taste is ghetto malts, glue sniffers bag and stale welfare vouchers. Love it. Big want for me. Cheers Mac.
Aroma of rotting cabbage, cardboard, paint thinner. At least it has some modest head and a golden body with lots of soda pop carbonation. The flavour is corn and rice adjuncts but when drank cold the alochol is hard to pinpoint. The silver lining in this otherwisen train wreck, quite frankly.
garbage taste hurts stomach, but its a good cheap beer with plenty of alcohal good for alcoholics and the cans are extra large which are good for the homeless. over all good for drunks bad for peeps who like beer. guaranteed ulcer and floating liver if you drink this beer daily. You must hate yourself if you buy this garbage from the gas station. But there's a market for it, those guys that stop at the gas station after work and buy 2 drink quickly so they can tolerate there wives and dull the pain of there crappy lives and get through one more day. Then the next night on way home from stop at gas station and do it all over again.. 😷
From old tasting notes. Bright yellow gold color. Small bubbles lead to a brief white head. No bouquet. Sweet grapefruit peel malt flavor. Dryish hop finish. Meh!
Bière blonde de 8.1 % d’alcool. Elle possède un col très minime au versement. Elle possède un odorat de bière commerciale, un nez fade et amer. Elle possède un goût légèrement sucré, mais également fade. Il manque un petit quelque chose pour donner du punch, mais correct. Une bière traditionnelle.
caramel, caramel, coffee, herbs, dough, alcohol,
This is a beer that a true American would enjoy. I used to work at a premium stake house in the south and let me tell you folks, i’d prefer this beer over any wine. If you don’t like getting your nails dirty, this beer ain’t for you. This beer is for men that sweat 50 hours a week. Yes I used to work in a restaurant in my teens, but that was before I was 18. I’m a mechanic by trade. My fellow American men, this beer is for you. Screw those snots jobs. Merica!!!!
Aroma is that of cereal, with a grassy odor, the color is clear golden with a minimal head. taste is bitter and is dulled as you drink more of the beer, apparently the new drug of choice for the alcoholic, cheap high for sure, therefore it falls into a dismal category for me, like the bum of the street with hos/her dulled senses, I prefer a european beer with some class
Pours clear yellow, big almost white head. Aroma is Apple corn. Taste is thin malt, sweetish, apples, alcohol. Not as vile as I expected.
First time I had it years ago it was the worst. Not as bad as the first time, corn, malts and a creeping nasty alcohol. Passable.