Comments on: Steel Reserve

By: 211 Lover

211 Lover — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:47:01 +0000

Been drinking Steel Reserve since 2001. This stuff is pretty much all I drink. My gf thinks its disgusting, but she likes Pinot. I get in McLean, VA for $2.49 a 40oz at 7-11 or $7 a 12pk of 12oz’ers at Total Wine. Either way, it is the best way to get “that” kind of buzz. Just the sight of the 211 makes me happy. As I’ve been drinking it for a decade, it seems like normal beer to me now, but it is probably not for amateurs or light drinkers. 2x40oz and I’m straight. I must say, it does not make for a good chaser after chugging a bit of vodka…ugh!!

Stay thirsty my friends

By: Gulp

Gulp — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:37:29 +0000

The thing about Steel Reserve isn’t the 8.1 ABV, it’s the cheap ‘n nasty ingredients. Drinking the same amount of alcohol you are more likely to have a hangover on Steel Reserve.

It also has a nasty CORN taste to it, along with some spice I can’t put a finger on that is common in beer but not as much of it. I have to agree to drink it very, VERY cold. Until recently I could find 24 oz cans 2-for-$2.50 or 1-for-$1.50, but the price went up a few weeks ago and I don’t remember what it is now, maybe 2-for-$2.80 and 1-for-$1.60.

Anyway, I prefer something similar but a LOT smoother at only slightly higher price. Hurricane High Gravity /24oz can is $1.69 each.

However, some of you guys seem to be lightweights. 3, 16 oz cans getting you tore up for $3? A typical american beer is about 5% ABV, so Steel Reserve is 1.6X as potent. 3 x 16oz beers is 4 “drink” beers x 1.6 = quivalent of only 6.4 (12 oz. budweisers or whatever). Yes it’s enough to get all but a pretty large fellow (well over 200 lb) illegally intoxicated in most if not all US states, but hardly drunk enough that you realize it yourself.

By lightweight above I didn’t mean wimpy, I meant you don’t weigh much so it doesn’t take as much alcohol to get a buzz.

By: 211

211 — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:45:02 +0000

@cheryl leave ur info ;) lol

By: 211

211 — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:44:01 +0000

2 tall cans is my sleep remedy

By: J.Texas

J.Texas — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:15:50 +0000

4 forties are surely the right dose to a peaceful nights sleep!
FYI-just don’t mix with ANY cannabis!

By: chucky

chucky — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:50:07 +0000

I drink steel reserve all the time and i like the taste! I think most domestic beers taste watered down and cant even give me a buzz. I am a 320 pound samoan and that regular stuff sucks! 211 and 4 locos!!!! Lmao!

By: Strangebright

Strangebright — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:42:37 +0000

A friend of mine, a comrade in poverty, turned me on to this beer and OMG! This is a great beer! You have to be careful with it, that’s for sure. But after being introduced to Steel Reserve, I now regard almost every other beer as ridiculously over-priced.
The reviews I find on line make a big, negative to-do about its rather pungent whang. (Well, uh, did any of these guys ever drink a Heineken? I mean, wha-ang! And these same guys would never write a negative Heineken review!) Also, it’s “watery” consistency and the way the head isn’t so big and frothy and how it doesn’t just refuse to settle down. Well, truth be told, those thick-thick beers get on my nerves. I love a lot of taste, so I’ll put up with it, but let’s face it, some of them (like Guiness) as tasty as they are, are just plain “gloppy” going down. And you can only drink so much glop. One reason for the popularity of light beers, I’m convinced, is the easy, “watery” way they go down. This has the ease of drinkability of a light beer with more whallop than any other regular beer I have tried. (Ever. And I lived and drank in Europe for four years.)
As for the head, well, I burp enough, thanks! And I don’t need to wait for my delicious, easy-drinking beer to be ready to drink!
I just moved to a new state and discovered the 8.1% version for the first time tonight. I have had one 24-ouncer and am sitting here blissfully buzzed, thankful that I am neither bloated nor broke for this nice after-work hum.
This is amazingly good stuff!

By: benson

benson — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:12:00 +0000

STEEELS b1tch, here in VA theyre dirt cheap (1.99 for a 40!!) and thas alll you need really i mean sheeeeeitttttt i cant feel my face after a 24… ive been drinkin em since hi school and man aint nothin like em… earthquakes and bull ices are a little stronger but you cant find em in forties (round here) and honestly theres something about a steel buzz that has to be felt to be appreciated…

By: willemaket

willemaket — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 03:38:12 +0000

Give me a break! sam me clause 14.8 % made in switzerland also in the book of records!. Bar none

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:52:50 +0000

I love the taste of 211. Been drinking it since 2004.
My friends cant stand it and when they go to my fridge to pick up a beer while we are watching a hockey game or something like that they say “eew how can you drink this cow piss”. It usually takes me about 4 24oz to get pretty bounced so I have gotten used to it.
But I have pulled back from that I drink 1 to 2 anymore and than get a small bottle of Bacardi Gold and 2L of Pepsi for the rest of the night to relax on.
Not so much of a hangover and pain in the morning.
But I love 211′s flavor and I do love German beer.