Tap Room No. 21 – Moe’s Backroom Lager
So I went to the grocery store today and decided that since I write a beer blog, why not buy some beer? Makes sense, right? I thought so too. Anyway this place didn't have a very good selection, but they still had some stuff I hadn't had before. So after a few minutes of browsing, I settled on Moe's Backroom Lager by Tap Room No 21. Why did I decide to go with this particular brand? Well for one, the top of the bottle has a little tag line about celebrating the repeal of prohibition in 1933, and I thought hell, prohibition must have sucked. I'm glad I didn't have to go through it. Maybe I'll buy this beer.
But anyway, on to the tasting.
The most noticeable thing about this beer by far is the odor. Not in a bad way, mind you. It actually smells like a hard cider, or maybe even a bit like a sweet white wine. So with my mouth watering in anticipation of a full spectrum of sweet and spicy flavors I took my first sip, and was immediately let down. I was really hoping to break my recent string of bad reviews, but I guess I shouldn't have left it to chance. This beer sucks. Plain and simple. This is the manifestation of piss poor American beer. It's weak, watery and all around flavorless. Perhaps it really is a throw back to what people brewed in backrooms during prohibition; making beer with whatever they could find. Adding in cheap hops and supplementing with rice and anything else they could find that ferments. I can't even finish this stuff. I'm gonna go dump it out and get something to clear that taste out of my mouth. This stuff gets a 0.5
Shame on you, Tap Room No. 21
