Heilemans Old Style

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

Okay, so this is cheapo-mass produced crap. Tastes like corn, and lots of it. Otherwise thin. It is surely a midwestern beer at its core. :) But at least a corn flavor is not a BAD flavor, just very ordinary. As far as pale american lagers go, you can do a LOT worse.

Every day is opening day. :) Dear god, I hate beer snobs. Not everyone wants to drink an IPA or a Stout that you can cut with a knife and fork and make a meal out of. And not all cheap American lagers suck. Pabst (NOT Miller) has turned around all of their labels. STFU, sit down, and enjoy. Is it a craft beer? Nope. Is it eminently drinkable? duuuuuuuhhhhh...

Pt 5 of a dirt beer tasting. All ratings are relative. 12oz can. Tasted 3/24/08. Filtered and pale yellow. Slight adjuncty nose. Similar flaovrs, yet totally dulled. 4th out of 5. Defintely not getting it again.

When I lived in Chicago and went to see the Cubs at Wrigley Field, the vendors sold Old Sytle or Bud, no choice on a hot day at the park, I would have walked all the way to the other side of Wrigley to get this and avoid the zero rated Bud. I always wished Wrigley would wake up and sell better beer, but this does with the small choices. If anyone from Chicago who goes to see Chicago’s team can up date me it rather or not Wrigley has improved their beer choices let me know, I may visit the old home next year. Old Style taste ok with ball park hotdogs or peanuts.

Nothing special about this beer. Designed purely for getting straight up nasty on. It’s great or is it horrible? It doesn’t taste like a good beer. It’s not a good beer. Sure tastes like a fucking beer though!! Best served ice cold in a large glass pitcher at your local dive.

I haven’t as yet had the privledge of sampling this superb lager, but I have seen it savored in a movie at a dinner scene, which made it look pretty decent. The film is Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, and the scene which I recall is when Henry, his roomate and fellow scumbag Otis, and Otis’ (actually very nice) sister are finishing up a supurb fish dinner. The scene starts with some song by an unknown band which goes, "IIIII’ve got my FINGERS ON IT"..then the music is subdued, and we see the camera pan out, revealing the broiled fish, with what looks like some potatoes and some sort of vegetable (broccoli?). Henry is rolling a cigarette (possibly pot, as Otis sometimes sells it) and they are all sipping on Old Styles. After Henry introduces Otis to the wonderful world of murder (killing a couple of ladies of the night, and dumping their bodies in a dumpster), he first comforts Otis with some fries; then when they get home, he offers Otis more comforting words ("You didn’t have no choice here, either."), he asks Otis if he wants a beer; Otis replies in the affirmative, then Henry quickly returns with a can of Old Style - Henry first takes a sip himself before he hands it over, explaining "There was only one left". It seems that not even a notorious serial killer can resist this one - I’d sure like to try it - with some fish & potatoes...however I’ll pass on the murder as I’m ethically opposed to it.

12 oz can. Has a light yellow color to it and a thin head. The beer is somewhat watery and goes down very easy. For the price it’s not a bad beer and is a good beer to get drunk on.

this is truely an old friend indeed,what i like about this sight is you will find 20 to 30 dudes who will rate this as the greatest beer in the world is that before or after they drink the whole case in one night. great version of a forced feed american crap beer. fight for the right to drink real beer