Goebel

Pabst Brewing Company
Brewed at Miller Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Pale Lager
Woodridge, Illinois USA

My rating for Goebel reflects the beer by that name today. If I were rating the Goebel beer of the pre-1965 era, the rating would be very much higher. The modern Goebel still has a faint - very faint - resemblance to the old product (when it was an independent), but is basically mass-market ho-hum now. Sad - it was a dandy lager once upon a time. It even had a brief national vogue during the war years.

Goebel is not a bad beer for its type. I know a lot of people on here look at the low price and immediately label it as ’bad beer.’ What a shame that so many of us are narrow minded enough to believe that price has anything to do with the flavor and quality of a beer. Goebel admittedly is not as good as it once was under the Stroh umbrella. In fact, that’s what I’m rating here. I have yet to test any of the batches coming out of Miller. I don’t know if they’re using the old Goebel formula from Stroh (doubtful) or just putting Milwaukee’s Best into the cans. However, Goebel was always a good consistent tasting golden American-style lager. It’s certainly no worse than anything with a Bud, Coors or Miller label on it and the old stuff from Stroh was always superior to any Anheuser-Busch brand including Michelob. Great old brand name from old Detroit. They even had a brewery in California decades ago. I’d drink it for nostalgia’s sake. Glad to see it’s still around. Now it’s time to revive Pfeiffer for Detroit folks too.

So here’s the thing. When Pabst bought out Strohs it intended to kill many brands, including the Detroit area faves Black Label, Altes, Pfeiffer, and this one. But since Miller has so much capacity to brew for Pabst and since nostalgia for beer runs strong in Detroit - Goebel rides again (thanks proc for the tip). The stuff may not be my grandfather’s Goebels, but it has some weak semblance of malt, straining theough at the end like a constipated geezer. I had to buy a case of these, so if any of you are undergrads in need of a party, I’m giving them to my lil bros friends who’ll add them to the nat light keg at the party at Church and Prospect in Ann Arbor thursday night ...

at first i thought it was spoiled, but then i realized thats just how it really tastes

Good in the sauna. Comes in a 30- pack. Hence the yooper term ’tirty pack two track’

This is the cheapest and skunkiest beer i have ever seen, this is definitely a welfare recipients beer, could this compare to dog piss? Probably, if I knew what dog piss tasted like!!!

Just an average american lager without a big advertising budget.

this is as i remember it from way back, Goebel was absorbed by Stroh’s in the 70’s and the brewery was torn down, i don’t know what is left of the original but at it’s hey day it was not a bad beer