What you will find below

The listings below will include the name of the beer, my numerical ranking based upon my own scale of 0.1 to 10.0, and a little of my personal thoughts about each beer.

K beers

Kara-bu Ale

7.2

Strong like a heavy porter or light stout with a little more fizz than I feel is needed. Fermented with raspberries which gives this beer a fruity taste and smell, but not an overly sweet taste and smell. If this drink had less carbonation, I would score it higher. Made by H. C. Berger Brewing Company of Ft. Collins, Colorado.

Katahdin Golden Beer

6.4

A pale ale-type beer with a little bitterness and a slight hint of sourness in the aftertaste. Goes down smooth. I’ve heard this beer is made like a pilsener, but its taste and color are more like that of a pale ale. There is a map on the bottom of this six-pack’s cardboard carrier showing how to get to the brewery of the Casco Bay Brewing Company. In fact, lots of beer companies are adding interesting stuff to the bottom of their carriers.

Katahdin Pale Ale

7.8

Casco Bay Brewing Company of Portland, Maine supplies this fine drink. According to the bottle, katahdin is a Native-American word for “great mountain.” This brew is a strong pale ale and it’s wet and bitter. Pretty smooth but not for beginners. A great all-around taste. Good with a meal or for just drinking.

Katahdin Red Ale

7.1

A little stronger than a pale ale, but has that sort of texture, color and feel to it. This is what most of those premium “red” beers try to be. Gets stronger as it goes down.

Katahdin Stout

8.1

Stouts should be served fairly warm because it increases the taste and the pleasure. This stout is no different. This drink is reminiscent of Guinness Extra Stout, for those who would like a comparison. A very sturdy drink with the right amount of bitter for a stout.

Keystone Dry

1.8

Did someone put out their cigarette in my drink? Oh, that’s how this brew is supposed to taste. Honestly, it’s not quite that bad, but it’s not far from it. Fairly smooth with a sour taste.

Keystone Light

1.7

This sour, fizzy substance is called beer by its brewers, Adolph Coors Co. Don’t drink this. It won’t kill, but it might just maim.

Keystone Premium

2.0

“Premium” must be a word in beer language that means “cheap and tasteless” since so many bad brews have the word either on the label or in some logo or jingle. This is no different. This drink is wet and easy on the throat. Vaguely reminiscent of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Killarney’s Red Lager

3.8

This liquid refreshment is Anheuser-Busch’s very late attempt to market a red beer. I don’t know why they even bothered since this beer didn’t come out until early 2001 and by then the first recent serious U.S. beer craze was long dead by at least three years (if not even longer). Anyway, it’s a little sweet at first and wet, kind of like a brown ale. Non-beer snobs will think it’s something different. I don’t expect this brew to be around very many years, so try it when you can, I guess. Can you tell this beer doesn’t excite me?

Killian’s Irish Honey

6.5

As expected, this beer has a slight sweet taste to it. This beer goes down smooth and pretty wet. There’s a little fizz but not enough to be annoying. Killian’s Irish Honey is owned by the Adolph Coors Co.

Killian’s Irish Red

6.7

Killian’s Irish Red is owned by the Adolph Coors Co. This beer has a smooth taste from beginning to end. A very good beer, especially when you consider the price. If you are drinking Budweiser or Miller, you should be drinking this instead because you can get it for roughly the same price in bottles.

King & Barnes Festive Ale

6.5

Of King & Barnes Ltd. of Horsham, England. A sturdy enough drink with a slightly sweet maple flavor. Would make a good winter brew slightly warmed. Too much fizz. January 28, 2003 update: This brewery has closed. What a shame. Another one bites the dust.

King Cobra

1.6

There is little flavor in this malt liquor from Anheuser Busch, but it goes down smooth. Don’t waste your money on this liquid. It’s barely beer.

Kingfisher

4.5

The American United Breweries of Dallas, Texas, has been making this beer since 1857. Pretty wet with little fizz and that’s about the best that can be said. This isn’t an awful beer, it’s just not a very good one.

Konig-Pilsener

4.4

Lots of carbonation here and a wet sweetness. Nothing real special. There’s better beers from Germany.

Kozel

8.4

Brewed in the Czech Republic (as of October 1998 – the place could be named something entirely different by the time you read this). Has a smooth caramel flavor that isn’t overly strong but not too weak either. Not the best-tasting beer in the world, but pretty darn good. Pretty smooth and very wet. Has a creamy texture as it goes down that is a bit confusing because you expect this beer to be fizzy due to its taste. Beer snobs will find this an interesting and different treat. Just when I thought I’d tasted it all …

Krakus Beer

5.1

Krakus is brewed and bottled in Zywiec, Poland, by Zywiec Brewery. The taste is weak at first, but grows the more you drink. Not an exceptional beer, but worth drinking in hot weather. There is just a touch of carbonation at first, but it grows to the point of slightly annoying.

Quote from W. C. Fields

A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.

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