Rediscovered PABST

pisswater

Schlitz is better.

So, do you really think Miller (you know, the mainstream brewery which brews Pabst's beer) brews 2 different batches of beer with different recipes- one for the 24 oz. cans and the other for 12 oz. bottles and cans?

Pabst is heavier and higher in alcohol than Guinness stout.

You want good inexpensive beer stop drinking that fermented corn syrup and try getting some growlers from a local brewery for those baseball/basketball games.

_Randal

Funny that you should mention growlers. Years ago, they were all the rage here in Casper. One local liquor store had ~12 taps, and I did the growler thing(and the Party Pig thing) often and with gusto. Then that suddenly went away. :^(

About 2 weeks ago, I went to the Lander bar which serves the fine beers of Snake River, Lander branch and I left with 2 growlers of their really nice On Belay IPA and buying the beer and the jugs cost 12 bucks each. Refills are just 7 bucks!! Good incentive to go back, for sure. I actually got to sample a lot of their beers: Cowpoke Pilsner: light but refreshing Pingora Porter: This is a *Damn* good porter!(Old Chic just started carrying this on tap) An ~8.5% BWSA whose name escapes me: Pretty flavourful but not that impressive for the style.(My bartender said a previous version was 11%ish) Jack Mormon Pale Ale: Had this in Casper before and it's an average rendition of the style.

Best regards, Bill

No it isn't.

Yeah, I have. And I had a similar reaction.

Disclaimer: Pabst is an American style Pilsner. If you don't like this style of beer, you won't like Pabst, so don't bother telling us it is crap.

But if you do drink the occasional American style Pilsner, you might give Pabst a try. It has a really nice spicy component that the others lack. I liked it. You may or may not.

I'm into Pale Ale's myself, so I usually don't drink Pabst. But if I were at an establishment that offered the popular American Pilsners plus Pabst, I'd pick the Pabst hands down, and enjoy it.

-Howard

My guess is the volume somehow affects the flavor while it sits inside the can. I noticed large bottles of Becks and Guinness taste different than 12-oz bottles, too. In Beck's case, the larger bottles taste okay but not the smaller bottles. Maybe they get skunked easier during shipping. I don't know. With Guinness, they're both good, but slightly different. Bud tastes the same either way (to me).

I don't think they use different recipes. I think it's in the bottling process. Maybe more air gets in it or they inject it with carbon dioxide or something.

If there was live yeast in the beer, I'd buy this. For a pasteurized pale lager, I'm not buying it.

In the case of Guinness you are probably talking about beers brewed at different locations. IIRC, the small bottles are coming from Canada, the big ones from Ireland...? Or maybe you're comparing the widget bottles vs. the Extra Stout?

well, did they taste like skunk? I doubt they get skunked during shipping, being probably closed up in a case and in a dark truck or ship.

There is a greater possibility of oxidation flavors in the smaller bottles in the sense that the ratio of surface area exposed to air in the headspace relative to volume of beer in the container is larger for the small bottles.

However, for fresh examples, there shouldn't be any oxidation flavors. I somehow doubt you've done a sufficiently large sampling from the 2 different package sizes to make an authoritative claim of a difference.

I'm not sure surface area would be a factor, given the relatively large time of contact, the jostling during packaging and transport, etc. If anything would be different between sizes of containers it'd be total O2 versus volume, and I don't know the numbers on that. And that's all assuming the bottling process introduces significant (in terms of oxidation potential) O2.

I do agree with that conclusion.

you are hardly a troll,just lame

I have never been, am not now, nor shall I ever be a troll!

piddie

but you are Lame, thanks! That did help.