I'm gonna say 6% alcohol is a conservative number because I'm buzzing pretty good after 3 beers. It's somewhat highly carbonated, but that's necessarily a bad thing. The flavor is inoffensive, especially for a light beer. This beer was just put on sale, so it's fresh as can be and not at all skunky. I don't know what it'll taste like after it's been on the market for a while. Perhaps the neptune blue bottle color will help prevent light from making it go bad quickly.