Molson Ice - Molson Coors Canada

northyorksammy

Ontario (Canada)

1.88/5  rDev -26.6%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

Better than average Molson. The beer to have when there is no good beers because the host is an ignoramous on beer. The ice is a gimmick, but if you serve it exceptionally cold, it taste a tad like vodka left in the freezer. And that's the best I can say about it.

Serving type: bottle

12-18-2003 04:16:43 | More by northyorksammy

BuckeyeNation

Iowa

1.7/5  rDev -33.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 1.5

Bright amber-gold with a sparse cloud of dust-like particles floating within. The off-white head of frothy foam lasts for a good bit and throws up thick strands of meandering lace. Molsen Ice is an improvement on the typical macro lager appearance, for which it deserves some small measure of credit.

Eau de skunk assauted me when the crown was cracked, but has now faded to some degree. If I get my nose anywhere near the glass there are still olfactory echoes of skunk, but they're now mixed with the more usual sour grain-musty hop aromas. My wife, who has an especially sensitive sense of smell, has just wandered into the room and has decided that this beer smells like 'body odor'.

It isn't quite offensive on the palate, but it's very, very close. On first blush, Ice seems too low on flavor to get into too much trouble, but rather than quickly fading, the flavor lingers just long enough to deliver a pungent, sharply bitter noble hop payload. The more I drink it, the less I like it. After another few mouthfuls, I've changed my mind. It is offensive.

The body might be a tad more hefty than the style average, but it's still only medium in a general sense. As alluded to above, a body that keeps this beer in contact with the taste buds for a longer period of time isn't necessarily a good thing. The best that I can say about the carbonation is that it's unobtrusive. Really though, does it matter? This isn't good beer no matter how livable the mouthfeel.

The brewery says that Molson Ice is "America's #1 imported Ice Beer". Think about that for a minute. What other countries, besides the U.S. and Canada, even brew such a thing as an Ice Beer? It's all hype anyway; a macro lager is a macro lager is a macro lager. This is an especially bad version though, so I guess that there are degrees of badness.

Serving type: bottle

12-05-2004 20:07:46 | More by BuckeyeNation

mikesgroove

South Carolina

3/5  rDev +17.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

one of the last of the night for me, i decided to make it a twofer with the canadian lagers tonight. served cold and poured into a pint glass, consumed on 08/24/2010.

really not a terrible pour as the light golden color comes through very nicely and cleanly. small head of white dances on the top of the glass for a few moments and does leave a decent amount of lacing around the glass.

aroma is mixed grains, lightly sweet malts and a touch of some interesting little earthy notes. definitely more of a profile then what i was expecting for sure. clean, crisp and decent going down it seemed to work for me on several levels.

overall not a bad macro i have to admit, would not mind it again,

Serving type: bottle

08-25-2010 01:29:44 | More by mikesgroove

ChainGangGuy

Georgia

2.45/5  rDev -4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5

Appearance: Pours out a simple lager appearance -- clear, yellow-hued body with a tight, sudsy, though lasting white head.

Smell: Lightly sweet-scented, faintest hint of exceptionally pale maltiness with a hint of mealy grain. It's not particularly inviting, I must say.

Taste: Lightly sweet mix of adjuncts and ultra pale malts, with a slightly coarse, husky graininess to it. Bit of powdered sugar on the tip of the tongue. Very minute hint of bitterness, though no real hop flavors to be had. Dry, crisp finish with that grainy hint lingering in the mouth.

Mouthfeel: Light-bodied. Medium carbonation.

Drinkability: Not nearly as smooth as I'd hoped for. Started off "eh" but ended up closer to "bleh" by the time I'd reached the end of these twelve ounces. If you must, drink it cold and drink it fast.

Serving type: bottle

03-28-2010 18:12:19 | More by ChainGangGuy

BEERchitect

Kentucky

2.53/5  rDev -1.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

In comparison to Molson's Lager, this one is a little stronger in sweet malts and a little harsh with the hopping. Hops get dangerously close to light-struck. Flavors are rich, but a noticably grainy, vegitol, and bite-ey. Has almost a baking-soda finish as the beer qualities relax and the harshness and husky bitterness increases. Still, a worth-while attempt, but the higher alcohol is not worth it.

Serving type: bottle

09-26-2005 13:35:51 | More by BEERchitect

NeroFiddled

Pennsylvania

3.1/5  rDev +21.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

Clear. Very nice yellowish gold color. Topped by a creamy white head that holds well. The aroma is limited but reveals a very lightly fruity, softly grainy malt. The body is medium with a fine, moderate carbonation. The mouthfeel is lightly crisp. The flavor offers far more character than the aroma suggests with a fruity, sweetish & grainy malt that's backed by a gently crisp & lightly spicy hoppiness. Although the alcohol is only 5.6% by volume, it's slightly noticeable. Combined with the fruitiness, my guess would be that they're fermenting this lager fairly warm (over 60F). It finishes fairly short and dry. An unremarkable, fairly basic beer that has a bit of malt & hop character and an easy drinkability.

Serving type: can

09-28-2002 17:24:37 | More by NeroFiddled

TMoney2591

Illinois

2.68/5  rDev +4.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5

Served in a Lagunitas mason jar.

Let's rock some ice, folks! This stuff pours a clear pale straw topped by a half-finger of short-lived off-white foam. The nose comprises sweet corn, mineral water, sweet flowers, and a kiss of wheat. The taste holds notes of hard water, light tin, funky wheat, light powdered sugar, and mild corn. There's an off taste in there somewhere (it moves around, all Heisenbergian and whatnot). The body is pretty light, with a moderate carbonation and a watery feel. Overall, a kinda sad little beer, but one that thankfully isn't entirely offensive.

Serving type: bottle

11-23-2012 21:30:43 | More by TMoney2591

WesWes

New York

2.83/5  rDev +10.5%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5

The beer pours a pale gold color with a towering white head that slowly fades to lacing. The aroma is average. It has a dry, pilsner malt and adjunct scent along with little to no hop aroma. The taste is average as well. It has a clean pilsner malt and adjunct taste with a super dry finish. It's easy drinking, but lacking any real character. The mouthfeel is fine. It is a low bodied beer with good carbonation. This is your standard "ice" brewed lager. It's crisp and clean and devoid of any real beer taste.

Serving type: can

07-30-2009 21:48:50 | More by WesWes

zeff80

Missouri

2.55/5  rDev -0.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

A - Poured out a clear, fizzy, straw yellow color with a fizzy, white, one-finger head that dissipates very quickly and left no lace.

S - It smelled of corn, caramel and not much else.

T - It tasted of corn, caramel malt and some grassy bitterness. Fairly sweet, too.

M - It was very crisp and sharp on the tongue. A light bodied lager.

D - This is okay. If I were to ever go ice fishing in Canada, I could see myself taking some of this.

Serving type: bottle

06-13-2009 01:56:33 | More by zeff80

TheManiacalOne

Rhode Island

1.1/5  rDev -57%
look: 2 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1

Poured from a 12oz bottle into a pilsener glass.

A: The beer is a pale gold color with a thin white head that fades at a decent rate and leaves a thin lace on the glass.

S: The aroma is very pungent and metallic with corn, some malt and a little bit of hops.

T: The flavor starts out with the typical macro malt and adjunct sweetness that fades quickly. There’s a slight hops presence, which is better than most macros, but there’s also a weird bite to it that makes the taste unpleasant.

M: Crisp but not very smooth, light-to-medium body, high carbonation, dry finish.

D: Not too tasty, but it at least it isn’t filling. If I’m forced to drink a beer in this style, it wouldn’t be this one if I had another choice.

Serving type: bottle

03-08-2007 03:46:36 | More by TheManiacalOne

Knapp85

Pennsylvania

3/5  rDev +17.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Molson Ice poured out like most lagers do. It has a standard yellow color, very clear. With a white head on top. The head fades and leave you with just a glass of yellow liquid. The smell has some of the traditional lager aromas, they're a little funky and had some grassy notes. The taste is of light malts and a little hop bitterness. Nothing to really write home about here, just an average brew.

Serving type: bottle

05-13-2011 03:02:43 | More by Knapp85

jwc215

New Jersey

2.55/5  rDev -0.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3

24 oz. can:

Pours straw yellow with a sizeable, well-retained head for the style.

It has the typical, sweet, "macro" smell.

Other than some bland, non-descript balance to the sweetness, there's virtually no taste. Well, there is some cardboard-ish taste. The alcohol might lend some more sweetness, but alcohol itself is vertually undectible. So's the overall flavor, though.

It has the typical light-body of a macro.

Drinkable if you want a super-bland beer. I suppose there are some out there that think this gives you an extra "kick". It's only .6% more than a typical macro, with the same (lack of?) flavor. Whatever...

Serving type: bottle

05-08-2008 03:16:38 | More by jwc215

biboergosum

Alberta (Canada)

2.88/5  rDev +12.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

One of the weirder things in my experience, is seeing "Imported" stamped on a bottle of Molson freaking Canadian, when I find myself across the 49th. Even more so, is me dropping a buck-fiddy, just to see what the those outside my country are seeing that we aren't...

This beer pours a clear, pale straw colour, with two fingers of foamy white head, which rapidly diminishes to a thin cap, leaving nothing but some slinking suds around the glass. It smells of mild white grain, and weedy, skunky hops. The taste is sweet corn grain, some glycerine, and mild weedy hops. The carbonation is average, the body medium weight, oily, and kind of cloying. It finishes sweet, and warm, but clean - no boozy edge.

For the style, not too shabby. None of the negative aspects are very prominent, the extra bit of alcohol behaves itself, and if you like corn, that's what you do get here, in spades. Wow, strains of homerism, anyone...?

Serving type: bottle

08-22-2010 01:27:21 | More by biboergosum

WVbeergeek

Ohio

2.05/5  rDev -19.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

Pours a fizzy yellow beer, bright golden clear body with large fizzy white head dwindles quickly leaving fine bubbled sparse lacing. Aroma has cooked veggies with light cereal notes no actual hop components going on here. Flavor is pretty weak watery, cooked veggies metallic waves of grain. Pretty rediculous flavored American corn and rice ridden product. Mouthfeel is fizzy and light watery bodied, even from an ice beer. Not the worst canned beer, that would be Carling Black Label. Completely unremarkable brew from America's oldest brewery.

Serving type: can

07-11-2009 16:02:59 | More by WVbeergeek

Wasatch

Utah

2.4/5  rDev -6.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

Pours a golden yellow color, some carbonation, small head, some lacing afterwards. The scent is kinda skunky, but not to bad. Some malts and citrus. The taste is sweet and malty, and a dry finish. Light-Medium body. Drinkable, I like this brew much better than the Golden.

Serving type: bottle

01-22-2006 16:18:06 | More by Wasatch

jdhilt

New Hampshire

1.9/5  rDev -25.8%
look: 3 | smell: 1 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2

A vertical pour will give you a 5-finger white head that fades quickly to a ring but it does leave a good lace. Clear, very pale amber color. Light carbonation and very light bodied. Nose is skunky. Starts slightly sweet but both the malt and hops are very light, there's no beef to this beer. $1.50 for a 12oz from Colonial Spirits Acton, Ma.

Serving type: bottle

06-07-2005 01:37:15 | More by jdhilt

Jason

Massachusetts

2.98/5  rDev +16.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

Thin lace with good clarity. A bit more harsh from what I remember. Mild solvent alcohol in the nose and flavour. Thin on the malt with little hop to balance though being on the dry side it is not too bad. There are cheaper $$$ ice beers that taste the same.

Serving type: bottle

06-10-2002 06:55:20 | More by Jason

Billolick

New York

2.45/5  rDev -4.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 3

Poured very light, very clear, very minimal head and no lacing. Just the faintist wiff of malt in the nose. Watery, lame, a waste of good water. What else can be said of this nasty brew. To bad Molson doesnt brew a classsier product. This stuff is ok to boil some Brats in. Good for a very hot humid day while pushing the mower. Besides that pass it by. Buy some craft brew.

Serving type: bottle

02-06-2005 20:39:40 | More by Billolick

Beerandraiderfan

Nevada

2.43/5  rDev -5.1%
look: 1.75 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

Pours an ugly aal color, but with a little more darkness and depth to the yellow color, probably because of the lesser water content caused by the 'icing' of the beer. Aroma is wickedly alcoholic. Seriously, you'd think this is 8%abv+ if it was a blind aroma sniffing competition. Sometimes the skunky aroma helps, because it obscures the alcohol.

Taste, one of the very, very few beers I'd say to drink very cold. It tastes like alcohol! The warmer it gets, the more this aspect gets played up in the mouthfeel. Carbonation is a little high, thankfully, but it doesn't do enough to trick me into thinking its well hopped or isn't a little thin malt wise to the fusel like alcohol heat. When they are skunky, it actually tastes better.

Its kinda harsh, but sometimes that's what you're looking for.

Serving type: bottle

05-22-2013 16:55:57 | More by Beerandraiderfan

Rifugium

Pennsylvania

1.45/5  rDev -43.4%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 2 | feel: 1 | overall: 1

First had: ?

Somehow, this is better than other Molson products. Not that I drink it, but I used to back in the day. Pours a pale golden-yellow with a fizzy white head that doesn't linger long. Light aroma of sweet malts and corn, some grain. Sweetness mainly in the taste, fading to a bit of what could almost be hop bitterness. Very light bodied and not very drinkable, but a tiny step above other TV ad T&A beers.

Serving type: bottle

05-22-2011 03:02:05 | More by Rifugium

beerthulhu

New Jersey

1.88/5  rDev -26.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5

A: Poured a crystal clear macro-gold with a ½ finger fizzy sudsy white head that left a sparse layering. Visible carbonation was very light.

S: almost non existent and very faint with at best, light buttered grains. Nothing to smell here move along.

T: sweet buttered corn with a light dry hay and herbal hopping. A light sour grassiness is found on the finish while the overall flavor was unimpressive to say the least. Not much to go on here as well.

M: light, watery, typical macro with a light fizziness around the tongues edges while leaving a dry grassy fade.

D: Drinkability, no thanks. Not very good or likely will re-visit. Avoid and don't bother.

Serving type: can

07-31-2008 23:18:29 | More by beerthulhu

woodychandler

Pennsylvania

2.08/5  rDev -18.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

As CANada prepares to face off against Slovakia tonight, I CAN prepare by opening a CAN of Molson Ice and I promise not to drink it at center ice while smoking a cigar or drinking champagne, either. Oh, those crazy CANadian women!

I certainly got a nice big two fingers' worth of head off of the pour! It looked like a puffy pillow laying atop the golden yellow beer with NE-quality clarity. The nose was not good, evincing a metallic tang along with cereal adjuncts and a light lager sweetness. Oof. Mouthfeel was on the thin side with a light sweetness on the tongue. I just feel like I am trapped on a treadmill at times. I could cut and paste many of my previous reviews of AmeriCAN Adjunct Lagers and only feel the slightest pangs of guilt. Regardless, it was pretty weak in terms of flavor and that same buyer's remorse continued well into the finish. This was really boring! So far, Molson Golden has been the winner in the family.

Serving type: can

02-27-2010 02:17:13 | More by woodychandler

Brad007

Vermont

2.9/5  rDev +13.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5

Color is golden yellow with a nice head that fades quick though. Aroma is decent and malty for a macro lager. Taste is much of the same except that there's some bitterness and a bit of a bite in the back of the throat. Goes down smooth though with some adjunct taste, possibly corn. Inoffensive, strong and not too bad for a macro lager. I would give it a fair rating much like I gave Molson Canadian.

Serving type: can

08-01-2007 02:14:14 | More by Brad007

Dogbrick

Ohio

2/5  rDev -21.9%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

I used to like this beer in college, but it seems to be skunky more often than not. Not worth the risk, even though it is a smooth clean beer on it's "good" days.

Serving type: bottle

06-25-2002 14:50:41 | More by Dogbrick

RoyalT

Ohio

3/5  rDev +17.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Appearance – Very light yellow in color with some tiny effervescent bubbles and a head that actually showed a bit of retention.

Smell – The smooth grain aroma seems to be sans the funk, which is always good for a Pale Lager sold in a green bottle.

Taste – The grain is smooth, comparatively speaking, and the finishing sweetness is typical of the style.

Mouthfeel – This one lacks the good carbonation of the Canadian Lager, and it is not as smooth.

Drinkability – This wasn’t bad, but the “ice” treatment of this lager didn’t help the beer at all and only gave it a 0.6 increase in ABV.

Serving type: bottle

02-07-2004 01:34:30 | More by RoyalT