opinion of pabst blue ribbon

I finally tried it last year and I thought it was plumb nasty. Thin, sweet, no malt or hop taste. Since I am 35 I don't really connect with all the nostalgia that this beer generates and since I have a bit of a brain I don't hop on the trendy bandwagon of the tattooed set who thinks drinking this is somehow anti-corporate.

When I want cheap beer I'll hit the Yard House for $2.50 happy hour pints and drink Anderson Valley IPA.

May I ask - what do you like about it?

_Randal

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Use to drink PBR a lot when I was younger. We would mix it with tomato juice and add a little salt. Pretty tasty.

bluestringer

Locally, when I want a cheap beer(for home consumption) I'm quite pleased to pick up some JW Dundee Pale Ale.

It's not bad for a light beer, but if you have access to Leinenkugel's you will probably like that better.

B.S., Pabst, Schwabenbrau, homemade brews, they are all good, if you are a true beer lover or drinker.

I disagree. There are beers or beer styles that one simply doesn't like, and then are simply bad beers. I've had flawed, bad beer brewed at home and by professional brewers. Didn't we have a term for the concept that all beers are good?

Keep an eye out: the Pale Bock is returning, and you DEFINITELY want to get some of that.

Yeah... []ism, wasn't it?

I think it had more to do with a purple dinosaur character popular with the wee tykes: beer Barneys. "I love Pabst, it loves meeeeee..."

You can improve just about any industromacroswill by making a michelada out of it, but that doesn't make the megalager intrinsically better.

I'd rather start with a decent beer and work my way out from there. Even a michelada is better when made with Negra Modelo instead of the likes of PBR.

Nope. A true beer lover knows the difference between well-made and crap. Infected beer, beer with off-flavors, weak flabby gassy swill; there's plenty out there that's just plain bad. By refusing to make the distinction between GOOD and SHITE, you play into the hands of those who sacrifice quality for profit, ultimately making it harder for the brewers who honestly strive for excellence to survive.

Eh. There are some styles that simply don't wind my crank (for instance, dunkelweizen). And there are beers out there, including in styles I like, that are objectively objectionable. Beer is not brewed in Lake Wobegone, and cannot possibly be all good (or above average).

On the OP, for what it is, I actually find PBR to be better than a lot of the more popular examples of that style of beer. Well, I did half a dozen or so years ago, when it was a regular feature at our softball games. PBR changes brewers more often than Carmen Electra changes boyfriends, so who knows what it's like now.

-Steve

I think I will leave it up to the over 6000 beer lover that went to our beer festival of all the beer that was left over I think that PBR won the prize, we had a shit lode

I disagree. All beers are good, bad or not, don't matter, lessen one of'em got poison in it.

Bullcrap!

Pabst in a case bottle is a great summer bear for when you are thirsty.

Dan

The logic of that statement is stunning.

You know what? You want to drink a horribly infected beer, or one that's cloyingly underattenuated, or heavily astringent, or been sitting out in the sun for three days, be my guess. I'm going to stick to beers that are actually good.

-Steve

It' seems to me that the people who like PBR don't know beer....... it's definatley one of the worlds worst....