United Nations of Beer

Mickeys beer

by Seamus Vaughan
(Beer Delegate, ON, Canada)

Mickey's beer

Today's beer of choice, which I will inevitably get to, is Mickey's. But first, my roommate Ty, that was supposed to be staying for the summer, spontaneously decided to leave, for good, this past week.

The rather abrupt decision put the house into a tailspin. We needed to have one last hurrah! None of us had any money, so we took back empties, tried some credit cards (which surprisingly didn't work), tried to pawn some movies and so on. But the world appeared to be against Ty's last stand.

But then in a pinch, we found 40$ under Ty's mattress. Apparently he had been making extra money as a midnight cowboy. Regardless of where it came from, we ran off to the beer store like kids for candy.

We were looking for something out of the ordinary when I was struck by the most ordinary box ever; a plain cardboard box with a plain green typeface; Mickey's beer. I remembered seeing this beer online noted as the frat boy's beer, like the low price wasn't advertising enough!Continues below

We opened the box and inside were twelve green glass grenades filled with Mickey's beer. Each bottle was emblazoned with what looks like a fighting hornet. The hornet has to do with the buzz you get, or maybe the sting in the morning... but there was only one way to find out.

Mickey's beer is 5.6% abv, which qualifies it as a malt liquor in the USA. 5.6% is nothing compared to the 8.0% abv of an Old English, so we figured we could skip out on food and spend more money on beer.

We picked up a 24 and hurried home to find out what the frat boy buzz was all about. Upon cracking open the first stubby bottle, I found interesting riddles on the interior of the cap, which perplexed us more and more as the night went on.

However, it was the source of some entertainment. Mickey's beer was much easier to drink than any malt liquor I had previously tried and I'm assuming that it had something to do with the alcohol content. It is clean like Corona, yet it's bitter. But the aftertaste was not as pleasant.

All-in-all, it's pretty good stuff! Preferably it should be chilled as much as possible: the warmer bottles were extremely skunky. Mickey's beer went down very smoothly as we prepped ourselves on the porch for the last night on the town. It turned out there was a huge house party going on and some friends came by in a pickup truck and threw us in the truck bed.

Twenty minutes into the party and neither of us remember a thing. Apparently that extra 0.6% in Mickey's beer makes a hell of a lot of difference. From what we have heard we went out in a blaze of glory.

We woke up another roommate, Mark, around 6am to the noise of Ty puking on the lawn while I was jumping around and belligerently screaming "I win!"

I have never been so wrong. Ty didn't recover for two days and thus the moving process was delayed. We decided it was best to forgo Moving Party 2 and he was successfully moved out by the end of the week.

Mickey's beer, or fine malt liquor, if you prefer, gave us the final frat party we were looking for at an exceptional price, with a satisfactory taste and a horrible following day.