Re: Swill List

Pabst Blue Ribbon. Apparently it is vogue with the hipster doofus set, but anyone with half a palet would stay clear of this swill.

--Dan E

Yep, that's what I read too. A double digit(?) increase in sales(2001 to

2002) and no one can explain it. I actually bought a "40" last week, just for nostalgic purposes mind you, and it didn't taste half bad. If micros & decent imports simply disappeared, I'd buy PBR over the Bud-Miller-Coors offerings. Thank goodness the eventuality will never see fruition!

Best regards, Bill

PS: That being said....I'm really happy about a case of Brooklyn Lager heading my way.

I should get around to trying that. No doubt it's a better warm weather beer than Brooklyn Black Chocolate stout!

For me, it's the cream of the crop of US Lagers.

Best regards, Bill

If it's a warm weather beer from Brooklyn you're looking for, keep an eye out also for their Brooklyner Weisse, now in bottles (previously a draft-only product, IIRC- and their website still implies the same). Weisse fanatics might quibble about it (as they do most US weisse) but I enjoyed the 6 pack I had recently...

Most mass marketed highly advertised U.S. beer is total crap. It doesn't have to have substanence, it will sell because it is popular. Speaking of popular, how about Coors light, or Bud? Nasty Nasty Nasty! Coors latest commercials tells you that if you serve Coors light, you will have wild sexy parties and a million friends dancing wildly. If I showed up at a party that had only Coors light to offer, I would question the company I was in. Bud has neat winter time commercials with horses and snow. What does this say about the taste of the beer? Doesn't matter, every trailer park swilling redneck will buy that shit up.

My swill list including all the lights of the following: Coors, Bud, Miller HL, MGD, Rolling Rock, PBR, Keystone. Old Milwaukee, Milwaukee's Best. And the king of nastiness, Colt 45.

Of course, no respectable swill list would be complete without a mention of South Africa's 'finest' - Castle Lager. Truly a hideous brew if ever there was one.]

Or Newcastle Brown? Why pay import price for something that tastes like overripe Old English malt liquor?!

Ben

Oh man, I used to live in Fogelsville PA, just down the street from the Schaeffer/Stroh brewery and had several uncles that worked there until the place fell on its ass.

Anyway, the place used to let them drink free beer on breaks until there started to be too many accidents, LOL. Then they could buy "seconds" cases for like $2 a case, which was great when my extended family had our picnics in Fogelsville.

They brewed all sorts of shit there, from Schaeffer, to Stroh's to Piels Real Crap, to Sam Adams! It all depended how long the shit stayed in the vat and the taste was predicatbly related to that variable.

I grimace at the thought of the many headaches I have had over those beers, LOL. When Sam Adams first came out he used to piss me off with his ignorant rantings about how his brew was comparable with the best in Europe. I, having spent the majority of my adult life overseas in various parts of the world, bought a case, and promptly poured it out, wrote the idiot a long and nasty letter and received two free cases by way of apology. Gave them to a friend, who got sick as a dog on them and wrote the guy...and so the vicious cycle began all over again!

Al

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US weisse) but I enjoyed

I just tried (and enjoyed) Brooklyner Weisse.

As obnoxiously as he could

Wow, Steve, you are just the consummate snob! You must really be a Master of the Obvious and NetGuru, for how else could we fail to notice your matchless wit, unfettered wisdom, and, dare we say it, your total lack of understanding for the spirit of my post.

Perhaps you might care to conduct aggregate intercourse at an astronomical object, or in layman's terms, although I'm sure they're too banal for your sophisticated intellect, "go take a flying f*ck at the stars."

Now, having said that, Sam Adams will alway remain piss in my book, and obviously you haven't traveled much out of your petty little world and experienced real beers, or you wouldn't be quoting other people's books on it. I would humbly suggest that perhaps Mr. jackson had not had the misfortune to sample the Sam Adams that I have.

I also apologize for misspelling Schaeffer. How that must have offended you. I presume you now have a flattening of your head that resembles where a comet might have struck the North Pole.

Get a life, little man!

Al

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Why the sermon? The point is, Stroh's, Schaeffer, Samuel Adams--to name a few--are garbage. The guy's relatives worked at the brewery--he has first hand knowledge of the quality of the "beer" that came from the place.

In the north east, Genesee Beer (Rochester, NY) tops the list of sewage, with Utica Club a close second. Then there is the standard "big name" American shit already mentioned.

Iron, Coors Lite, Bud and any fuzzy American lager.

I agree, the fuzzy ones are the worst! (Tho' it might just be the bar your drinking at doesn't do a good job keeping it's draft lines clean...)

I drank some Lucky Lager back in the 70's in Califhornier. If it's the same shit, well then....no comment.

Best regards, Bill

Newcastle Brown Ale is the pride-n-joy of all of us Geordie Boys. I had a Newky Brown screen saver on my computer when I was the Director of the MBA program, a small sign on one wall stating "Coors is not beer", and a framed copy of the Smirnoff ad stating "Accountancy was my life until I discovered Smirnoff's

SWILL - Billy Beer and almost everything else that comes out of the Pittsburgh Brewing Co., Jax - I heard they shut the brewery down, and there was a brewery in South Bend - I can't recell the name of the beer, but I spat it out.

Dick

I have to agree with you about Coors - I guess it was better in the 1970's.

I don't think Iron City from the Pittsburgh Brewing company is that bad. My father agrees with you that it is swill - he calls it Iron Shitty - lol

The beer you might be thinking about from South Bend was probably Drewry's. They've been out of business for over 30 years nows. I would have been too young to try it when they were still around.

I have tried a 30+ year old Drewry's Bock. It wasn't too bad - just don't pour it too fast.

Tom