Pabst Blue Ribbon

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

16 oz can. Has that macro cheap-adjunct shit smell. Pours a thick head which dissipates in about a minute to a thin collar of foam. Nice lacing. Tastes of cereal grains. Starts semi-sweet, finishes slightly bitter. Body is thin, lots of carbonation. Better than Bud, but it’s just not very good. I’ll drink it if I’m in the mood to get mindlessly drunk up camping or around the table playing drinking games, but that’s about all it’s good for. I don’t understand why this beer is seeing a resurgance in popularity in the U.S. It’s brainless beer. It’s the Paris Hilton of beer. I don’t get it.

Yellow pour, bland cardboard aroma. Flavor is a bit grassy and papery with some sweet corny notes as well. This stuff has a tendency to give me a serious stomach ache.

Draft at the local steakhouse. Pale gold with a thin fizzy head. sweet and buttery. no finish other than blah. Why did I have two?

A - Cardboard. Corny malt and grain. Maybe some grassy hay and dough. Fizzy yellow profile. A - Very light, almost urine pale-yellow into Surly pint. White head that recedes into nothing on top. F - Malt and grain midway. Again with the cardboard and dough. Sweet. Corn and honey. Metallic. P - One of the more poundable macros in my book. Nicely carbonated mouth. Pretty watery thin, with a slight tingle that finishes well. O - Drinkable. Non-offensive. Not good, especially flavorful, or unique. Par for the Pale Lager course. Still don’t know why 3Fs, and probably many other micro pubs, keep this on list in the cooler. Kitchy? Probably the best $4 you could spend on a 6 pack of canned micro, though. Really leaves me wishing America had fallen in love with the STOUT or IPA instead of the lager in 1893. If anyone gets drunk and invents a time machine, send me a message.

Golden yellow pour, either all head or no head. Corny aroma and taste with lots of fizzies but patriotic. Great label on cans and great for $1 pitchers.

24 oz can. Pours golden with some head that quickly dissipates. Has a unique velvet mouthfeel with a malty taste (much better than the adjunct taste of other pale lagers). This was my value party beer of choice in college, and still is today. It is the best $8 12 pack around.

1. From the Can at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 25/09/2009 Hoppy aroma. Clear golden coloured floral and hoppy with a crisp and slightly dry malt finish. 2. 355ml Can at the Shag Lounge, Denver 28/09/2009 Some hop aroma. Clear golden coloured and smooth on the palate with a crisp and dry malt finish. 3. On Tap at the Shag Lounge, Denver 28/09/2009 Some hop aroma. Golden coloured and floral with a crisp and dry malt finish.