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More times than I can count during my time in San Francisco the debate would start up about what the best malt liquor was. Invariably, I would declare Steel Reserve as the best, while Elbert would profess to the quality and taste of St.Ides, and Joh666n would stubbornly stick with his OE. Well I am not sure who originally had the idea, but I have been giving credit to Joh666n, to resolve the issues once and for all by having a malt liquor tasting where all the flavors and answers would be resolved. So to avoid boring you let’s get to the details.

Saturday July 22, 2006 in Elbert’s apartment we partook of what should become a periodic event, a malt liquor tasting. Participants were: Ajay, Elbert, Joh666n, J4, and Mamie. Note Mamie didn’t complete the tasting survey form. Malt liquors in the order tasted: Olde English High Gravity, King Cobra, St.Ides, Olde English 800, Mickey’s, and Steel Reserve. Additional notes: it was not a blind tasting and the order was selected from a hat.

Name	OE High Gravity	King Cobra	St.Ides	OE 800	Mickey's	Steel Reserve
Ajay	3	3.5	3.5	3	2.5	3
Elbert	3	4	5	3.5	3	1
Joh666n	5	2	3	5	2	1
J4	2	4	2	4	3	1
Average	3.3	3.4	3.4	3.9	2.6	1.5

Of course there were comments too.

Name	OE High Gravity	King Cobra	St.Ides	OE 800	Mickey's	Steel Reserve
Ajay	strong alcohol taste, not sweet	crisp, clean, Budweiser-ish	fullness, after taste a little scary	after taste but not as strong as St.Ides	odd taste	strong
Elbert	charcoal filtered	so fresh and so clean, clean			light	wrongg - elbert didn't score SR so I gave it a score of 1
Joh666n	ice cold and smooth	Bud Light comes to mind	dirty	I love it!	Bud Light folks	ASS - Joh666n drew an extended middle finger as well
J4	bitter after taste, gave me the shakes	easier to drink, can drink it on a good day	erm .... cringing, eyes shut	smoother than the rest, sweet	neutral taste, no taste, no after taste, won't kill me	ur...r..., HIGH GRAVITY ... LIKE A ROCK

And of course there were pixs.

The malt liquors	The participants
The art of the pour	Joh66n and his OE HG

The rest of the pictures are here. enjoy!