Man .. I agree! A super cold Coors is sooo just good ! Definitely a summer time favorite. Founders solid gold lager is my absolute favorite summer beer but banquet is what I get more often... That said .. fuck Coors light ! Lol
Yeah, it had been quite a while since either of us had a Yuengling and usually straight out of the bottle so we weren't clued in to the color yet. It's definitely different from the rest in color and flavor profile. Thanks for watching! Cheers🍻
@@GJBedrin now, hold on a minute, I love Yuengling too but it’s a different animal. Plus I live in New Hampshire and it’s not impossible to find Yuengling, but it’s not as common. So I’m not going to go too far out of my way to look for it. Here in NH we have hundreds of local brewers, so I try to favor them when I’m looking for something more interesting.
Schlitz going back to their original recipe was one of the most exciting things to happen to macros in the last 20 years. In the sixties and early seventies, it was the most popular beer in the United States, leaving Bud at number two.
I'm glad to see the once mighty Schlitz beer is still going with their original recipe. With Budweiser's recent woes perhaps there's an opening for new Schlitz drinkers to give the brand a boost.
I look at beer the same way my favorite great uncle who was a WW2 vet looked at beer. Whatever is cold and whatever someone else is buying is fine with me.
I’m sorry but you’d drink free piss? Is that what you’re saying?? Sorry I was at a ball game and my tickets included beer. It was coors light. I walked around the corner and paid good money for real beer.
Just bought my first 12 pack of Coors Banquet after binge watching Yellowstone. This is my new favorite beer. Malty and slightly sweet. Much better than Coors Light.
My mom was a bartender/cocktail waitress her entire life. I grew up with so much free junk from distributors and about a million of those purple Crown Royal bags. But my prize possession was a wall-mounted Miller High Life sign that subtly lit my bedroom at night.
Best beer I ever had, was my first RED HORSE pulled out of a plastic garbage can, filled with ice. This nectar of the Gods was drank at the first bar I went into, after walking over the 💩river, on a BLISTERING HOT day, Olongapo City, Philippines, circa 1986! Oh, what a night to start a 96! Semper Fi!
Ha I love that song. That was one of my ma's favorites too. When I was still in high school, she's get her boiler maker goin on on the weekends (bc we lived in a dry county at the time), and she had tapes of all the greats, and she'd play em loud while she cooked and danced and would have me drink beers and shots with her and tell me about the good old country music n stuff, SRV, and the golden oldies too, etc... That one ALWAYS got played at the house 🤙🏻
Yuengling is by far the best. You can drink it all night long and not get tired of the taste. It also has the best color out of all of the other beers and stands out beautifully.
Before I moved from California to Washington state 50 years ago my beer of choice was Oly or Coors, back then you couldn’t buy Coors in Washington. My friends were all drinking Blitz Weinhart so I tried it for a while. The first Oly (canned) I bought here was terrible , I swear it tasted nothing like it did in California. I went to the brewery and sampled it there and it was great, they even had a dark Oly I really liked but I don’t think they marketed it. I don’t know what was wrong with the one I bought in the store here but I quit buying it . Today it’s PBR or Coooorrz.
I remember a management class discussing how Schlitz went from number 1 to couldn't give it away . A new CEO that knew nothing about brewing called in the brew masters because they couldn't keep up with orders .They explained to the CEO that brewing takes time and quality ingredients were limited . He said reduce brew time and use lower quality ingredients. They made skunk beer and most was returned .Schlitz went back to the old recipe but could not recover market share .
I remember when they changed the formula. They would have a taste challenge against other beers during the halftime of NFL games. I was in college at the time. My dad was a schlitz drinker and so was I. When we tasted the new schlitz we stopped drinking it. It was terrible. He switched to Miller and me to coors.
Bingo! In the 6o's Pabst and Schlitz, Falstaff, Coors, and Bud, all had the same, price points. Today you pay a premium for Coors, Bud, and Miller due to advertising costs.
A great video and I'm glad Pabst at least placed. When my dad was a young man drinking with friends, Pabst was his beer of choice. It was apparently the fuel for many a "colorful tales" of his youth. It holds a special place for me and it's one I always drink in his honor and memory. It is also a favorite of the "cheap beers". I would probably get Schlitz a lot as well except I have a hard time finding in my area.
I'm a coors banquet man You cannot beat a cold Yellow Jacket on a hot summer day And my dad was a Budweiser Drinker I believe he got introduced to it while he was in Vietnam
Yuengling is currently negotiating with a distributor in Wisconsin. Usually have a few when I'm in Alabama, Georgia and Texas. Although can't beat a Shiner Bock when in Texas. Usually a High Life in the bottle is my go to.
I remember that there was always a case of Schlitz in the back stairwell of my grandfather's house. He died in 1962. I don't know if it was a choice or if that was the only beer available in Sheboygan in the 1950s.
Seems like WW2 photos of GI’s drinking beer were overwhelmingly Schlitz. Growing up in the 50’s and 60’s most of my area taverns had Schlitz or Hamms signs hanging out front.
I didn't see this in comments at least near top of them. One of the biggest differences between Schlitz and other American beers is the grain that is used. They brewed with rice because near Milwaukee there were large areas with wild rice and it was cheap and easy to get. They meant to change back to the usuals but people liked it so much they kept it. Just one fun side note the beer factory that Lavern and Shirly worked at was called Shots Beer which was an homage to Schlitz.
Macro beer formulas have changed a lot over the years. Schlitz wrecked itself in the '70s with a formula update; the Schlitz in the test uses a 1960s recipe, so it naturally stands out. The Pabst of today is not the same as the Pabst I drank in the early '70s.
Yeah, no doubt none of them are the exact same as they started out in terms of ingredients and recipes. I wish I were able to taste how they were back in the day to compare 🍻
My best beer? Hands down. When I was about 14 years old, some of my friends and I went up on the roof of a random 5 floor apartment building one summer night. We found a red cooler on the roof with about 6 cans of Bud, in with the coldest possible water. A few few ice cubes were still keeping them frosty. It was a warm night, we were running around the nearby town like usual. Those beers were delicious! Cracklin cold! To this day, I'm 52, those cold beers were the best! It was like the scene in the Shawshank Redemption when they got the beers after tarring the roof! Incredible! 😃🙃🤤😎🤠🤯👆 Miss those days, lol!
Opening up a cool can of Schlitz with a church key, or K- Bar, after a night ambush patrol sealed my love of that beer forever. Few can imagine how good that beer tasted. Back in the world though, a good buddy from PA turned me on to Yuengling Lager, loved the taste, still do at 73.
PBR and Old Style in bottles are both great to me... In the dead heat of summer I like the "miller killers" the 7 oz bottles, 3 chugs and gone - they never get cold lol..
@@Mike-jv4rz It was a lot of fun trying to open those pull-tabs in the Winter as teenagers. "Hey, Shake get us a screwdriver". I remember it very well. Half the time, before Shake returned with the screwdriver, our cans of Schlitz, or Pabst were pretty much frozen. Brings back great memories.
The ‘E’ in this study, the Narragansett Lager has been a favorite of mine for years! My personal choice for cheap beer. That’s just me, I honestly like it.
Past Blue Ribbon has been my everyday choice for decades. It is clean and fresh tasting, with no odor or aftertaste. It is the beer that I reach for to accompany every meal (except breakfast!😁) I buy thirty (30) cans at a time at Wal-mart for less per ounce than I can buy cola! When I want a beer that "eats like a meal," I reach for Samuel Adams Boston Lager. Held up to sunlight in a Pilsner glass, it shows its gorgeous rufous color. It also is clean tasting, but filled with about half a-dozen flavors, and as maker Jim Koch says, "a head so thick, you can float a bottle cap on it!" A bottle of "Sammy" is always a treat for the senses of every beer lover!
Schlitz is really great too. U want a beer that is miles better than Sam Adams, buy Wernesgruner at Aldi's. Sam Adams is terrible to me and blows it away!
@@Icarusvampire Thanks for the tip. Now that I have some quarters to get a shopping cart, I plan on shopping more often at Aldi. I am sorry that you don't appreciate Sam's. To each, his own! 😊
@@benjaminhawthorne1969I tried to like the Boston Lager but I just couldn't do it. It sat way too heavy and the hops were overbearing to the point that's almost all I could taste from start to finish. And I tend to lean towards heavier/darker beers anyways. Yuengling, Guinness, Bass, & Budweiser are my favorites. I do like me some dunkels, porters & stouts. Höfbrau, Weihenstephaner, & Von Hinken are excellent German brews as well. I think my go to is always Yuengling though. It's just so good lol
@@lowendfloridiancraka You have excellent taste, my friend. ☺ I agree that Sammy's is extremely hoppy. That makes it stand out to me as a rare treat. As I mentioned, it will NEVER be my everyday brew. I like many of those brews, however, although I am 50% Irish, I have never been able to get past the flat-chocolatey taste of Guiness. It simply is "not my thing." 😏
I can remember my dad drinking Schlitts, then Coors and even Michelob. He finally settled on Bud, then Bud light as he got into his 50s. I’m now going to be the same age as my dad when he went to be with our Lord and every year on his birthday I stop and grab a pepperoni pizza and a Bud. Personally, I enjoy craft beer, a good Belgian ale but my favorite beer at the moment since I live in Tokyo is Coedo White and Hitachino Nest, both Japanese craft beers. Seems a long way off but I can still remember my dad cracking open a Coors on a hot day after mowing the lawn in the 70s in Southern California and sharing a drink or two with me. Thanks for the memories.
Ah! Genesee, I remember it well, 10 cent a can. The cream ale was drinkable, but junk. The beer was worse. Upstate NY it was were I started drinking, but then the whole town was drunk. Nothing else to do.
@@billh.1940 Genny Cream Ale was my staple growing up in upstate NY until I was 20. I enlisted and was later stationed in Belgium has had introduction to real beer of the region. I've never gone back!
Rolling Rock is absolutely the best bang for your buck. It's not jaw dropping flavorful like some craft brews are, but it tastes just right, especially when you're thirsty and don't want a "sippin" beer anyway.
Yuengling only began brewing their flagship Lager in the 1980s. Their original beer is their Lord Chesterfield Ale, followed by their premium (pilsner) and porter varieties.
Haha, yeah honest ignorance I'm afraid. I don't think either of us had seen a Yuengling outside of the bottle or can, or at least not in a long time. Believe it or not, it got edited out when trimming down the time but I actually thought it could possibly be the Narragansett originally because I hadn't had that one outside of the can either.
It's important to remember that your grandparents would probably have only drank regional beers. Especially in the 40's and 50's since countywide distribution wasn't a huge thing. Yuengling is still only available in I think 15 states.
Yuengling has recently made a BIG change in distribution and is now available at least as far west as Kansas. By recently I mean last week, it was big news here. It's... okay. I too am a High Life from the bottle kind of guy.
I'm in my 60's and back in the day I enjoyed Schaefer Beer, unavailable in stores for quite sometime a friend of mine ordered me a case from the liquor store a few years ago and it was okay but not quite what I remembered. Came to find out it's under Pabst umbrella now. Miller High Life is my choice now for American Lager style. Moosehead, Molson Canadian, or LaBatt's Blue I enjoy too.
I agree. I find Hamm's to be very nice. Our local liqour store sells Hamm's in 30-packs. I do not know how well they sell, but I make sure to buy two a week so that they continue to stock to them. Currently I have a surplus of about 150 beers because I can not drink them as fast as I buy them. Whenever the liqour store does not have Hamm's in stock I buy Miller High Life. If for whatever reason they do not have either, or I am looking to save one dollar, I might buy Busch. Always in 30 packs to save money.
@@leviturner3265 We mostly drank Stroh's because that's what the older guys drank and they bought ours so...ok. Hamm's was another that brought back memories.
Just stumbled onto this video and man I'm so glad I did! You guys are hilarious! My personal all time favorite of these would have to be Miller High Life but after about 5 or 6, it would be pretty hard to decipher which one is which lol.
Hey guys, this was a fun video! I really enjoyed the blind tasting format. But you know what would have made it even better? Including some control tests and multiple tries of the same beer. That would have helped to make sure your results were more reliable and less influenced by random variation. Just a thought! Keep up the great work!
Dang. Roger said he couldn't find any when he went around to a few stores in Georgia the other week. So hopefully they haven't stopped distributing here also. Thanks for watching 🍻
The most important was the arrival of huge waves of socialists. By 1850, they had established "The Communist Club," in NYC. (See - "Lincoln's Marxists," by Benson and Kennedy)
Just an interesting side note, Coors makes its big money with high-end ceramics for electronics, mostly as a defense contractor. The beer side of things acts mostly as a PR wing, though it's definitely a strong concern in its own right. In the early '90's I worked for a laser scribing firm, and a single Coors ceramic plate, about 4"x4", was about $100, and once it was scribed, punched, and snapped, was worth as much as $50K. Coors had the market cornered, and was the only manufacturer of the specific type of required, military-grade porcelain for certain defense contract circuit boards. The little firm I worked for (seven people) probably went through 200-300 plates per day, five days per week. (It took a lot of time to build up the power in the capacitor banks, and the system could only cut a half dozen or so pieces per cycle.) That's over $100,000/week that Coors got from us alone. (And we made about the same, I believe, after energy, equipment, payroll, and basic overhead. The two owners were raking it in.) (The most fun was the excimer laser, which could punch through a half inch of plate steel in under half a second. You'd do a x-ray resistant ceramic stencil first, and put that in the way of the excimer aperture and -- Flash! -- an 8"x8" area of steel plate would be cut into whatever shapes, to tolerances that could only be checked by electron microscope.)
Well boys here is a comment from the great white north. I'm about an hour drive to Port Huron Michigan and when we felt like being adventurous we would head across the border for some American beer. Which by the way I always liked and still do. My top three, Strohs, I truly miss it, Pabst I would call it my go to beer, and Miller High Life in the Bottle. Not just for breakfast anymore. Love the Video.
Back in the mid-late 70’s, my absolute favorite was Schlitz. Then the bottom fell out and it disappeared. Glad to see it is back and won the taste test among many laudable contenders. Being a west coast guy, Olympia, Hamm’s, and Lucky Lager were very popular too back in the day. Later, my friends in Baltimore swore by Carling Black Label but I found it to be average in taste sort of like PBR. Today, after a round of hot summer golf, I eagerly consume a draft of Yuengling (sp?). But, after today, I’m going to seek out Schlitz and see if it still has that magic for me. Thanks for your excellent video.
I live in a college student ghetto and, judging from the empty beer cans that decorate their yards, the youth generation appears to really like Miller Lite, Coors lite, and Keystone Lite.
I own some farmland and I clean up litter in the ditches every year and that's what I see also. I think the most exotic beer I ever found was a Corona.
Cheaper ingredients. In the 70s I talked to a master brewer and he said that Miller chose only the top quality ingredients. When the started genuine draft they actually started using hops flavoring instead of hops.
I'm a big craft brew guy (I enjoy porters, stouts, lactose-free fruit sours, and amber ales) but you'll catch me in my backyard multiple times a year with a bunch of miller high life bottles. I haven't ever tried a PBR or Schlitz, but I'll add it to my list this summer. Lived off Milwaukee's Best in college, not surprised that didnt make this show.
I grew up up in a Budweiser house when I was a kid. Next door neighbor drove a short order truck for Budweiser that wasn't locked up at night until some teenagers got in there and had a party! He knew right away something was wrong when he smelled the residue of cigs and weed in his truck. He locked it up after that!
@@MichaelWilson-sn1yo Kool, Mike. Now THAT'S how u get FREE BEER!!!!! RAID THE BEER TRUCK!!!!! 2 which I say "WINNER, WINNER!!!!!! LIQUID FUCKIN' DINNER!!!!!"
This is the first macro beer taste test I’ve seen that put Banquet as the worst. The others I saw were micro brewers tasting macro beers. And Coors and PBR both were favored
Yeah, it's very tough because honestly all of these except the Yuengling were very similar so at that point you're just picking out flavors you prefer and I guess Coors just isn't our profile.
Miller high life bottles give me nostalgia, those were the best to chug in competition with your buds .. secret trick you get a flexy straw bend around the rim use like a snorkel in a weird way and u can chug the whole thing 3 seconds flat as an amateur drinker 2 seconds with practice
When I want to take a break from craft beers, or when only macro american lager types are available, I go for Yuengling. They make a porter that isn't bad as well.
Most everybody drank Yuengling in Pennsylvania, at least when they went out to the local watering hole. It's quite good, but maybe more of a local pride thing. Funny how some of the regional beers had such a following in other places. Look at Coors and Shiner before they became available nationally.
I refer to these as bowling beers and honestly I hardly ever drink light American lagers. However have done a blind taste of them and miller was my top with colors as my second. The thing about coors is it gets skunky quite easily and my guess is the sample that was used here was skunked for those that don’t know what that is when a beer goes through a few temperature changes warm, cold, warm very cold and then served as it warms up again it gets really weird off flavor. Coors is notorious for getting skunky. Bud was my least favorite filled by pbr and Michelob was my third. I do like Narragansett and live in an area it’s distributed in but it was not part of my blind test.
I'm surprised my college favorite Old Milwaukee wasn't on the tasting row. It is similar to Schlitz and a cold bottle of OM was always a delight. Nowadays, I prefer Yuengling or something Canadian like a Molsen Export or Labatts. I avoid anything in a clear or green bottle as I do not like the skunkiness.
Rheingold Extra Dry! It was excellent when it was made in NY City. Then they closed that brewery sometime in the late 70's or early 80's maybe and it was made elsewhere for a while. Just wasn't the same.
Miller high Life in the bottle is always my go-to, the original Schlitz recipe is right up there and I'm glad they brought it back. It's just kind of hard to find where I live. Great show! This was a lot of fun. Thanks!
Entertaining and a fun activity. I’ve done that with bourbons. I’m going to copy y’all and do the same with beers! Cheers and greetings from Justin, TX!
I haven't had beer in years but I might try and pick up some Schlitz. I'm a history buff so I think it's neat that Papst brought back the original recipe.
I liked Genny Cream Ale in the returnable bottles, it had taste all its own. The older the bottles, the better the taste. When they discontinued the returnable bottles, it lost that taste. Can't drink it from cans.
I live in Chicago. I get Genny in 12packs for about $8. Would love to try bottles. I switch between High Life and PBR for everyday beer. The Genny is a smooth alternative.
Fun video! Back in high school in the 70’s Schlitz was my favorite beer, but it was a splurge at 1.29 We drank more the .99 beers Wiedemanns Ballantine Schmidt’s
Originally from RI. Growing up my father was a Gannsett drinker. He said the taste changed for the worse when they moved production out of state and stopped using the water from the Scituate Reservoir.
The best beer I ever had was an icy cold PBR after moving a friend into an upstairs apartment on a 100+ degree day.
Haha yes! That’s their ideal time and place for sure 🍻
Pretty much grew up on pbr. There price has gone way up.
Did it make you a little emotional? Cuz it made me emotional😂
Sorry it’s coors
Dude, ANY beer under those circumstances would be good!!!!
After a long hot day at the mill a coors banquet hits just right for me.
Budweiser was my favorite until they caved to “Woke Culture” now I drink PBR.
@@josephkaple8923been drinking miller high life and never regretted this Upgrade 👍
Easily the best beer
Man .. I agree! A super cold Coors is sooo just good ! Definitely a summer time favorite. Founders solid gold lager is my absolute favorite summer beer but banquet is what I get more often... That said .. fuck Coors light ! Lol
Amen
I couldn't agree more on Miller high Life being a different beer from bottle to can. I too land in the bottle camp
You are correct.
Absolutely
I am Bottle though a tall 16 oz can is almost a bottle. Of Cheap beers it is my second choice over Coors and third is Rolling Rock.
Agree. @@caseysmith544
It ended up being his least favorite 😂
I could identify the Yuengling just from the color alone
Yeah, it had been quite a while since either of us had a Yuengling and usually straight out of the bottle so we weren't clued in to the color yet. It's definitely different from the rest in color and flavor profile. Thanks for watching! Cheers🍻
You ate right. Some local microbrews are red, but not the major labels.
Absolutely. Yuengling is definitely the standout here. Easy to pick out in this group
1st American MICRO Brew LOL
Black & Tan is my favorite
In this category, nothing beats the Coors Original Banquet beer - IN A BOTTLE!!
I love how the bottle is a totally different shape too
Ice cold banquet in a bottle is a religious experience
There ain't no way anyone is picking Coors over yuengling... That's like picking Wendy's over a real burger
@@GJBedrin now, hold on a minute, I love Yuengling too but it’s a different animal. Plus I live in New Hampshire and it’s not impossible to find Yuengling, but it’s not as common. So I’m not going to go too far out of my way to look for it. Here in NH we have hundreds of local brewers, so I try to favor them when I’m looking for something more interesting.
@GJBedrin you ain't lyin cuz. I could probably single handedly keep Yuengling in business with as much as I love their beers lol
Schlitz going back to their original recipe was one of the most exciting things to happen to macros in the last 20 years. In the sixties and early seventies, it was the most popular beer in the United States, leaving Bud at number two.
Apparently they had to recreate it since the original recipe was lost. They interviewed old brewmasters.
We didn't even call it Schlitz. We used to call it beer and it was understood that beer meant Schlitz.
I'm glad to see the once mighty Schlitz beer is still going with their original recipe. With Budweiser's recent woes perhaps there's an opening for new Schlitz drinkers to give the brand a boost.
Schlitz wins just because it is the most fun to say, especially after 8 of them.
@@joebauers3746 Yes, once you were full of Schlitz
I look at beer the same way my favorite great uncle who was a WW2 vet looked at beer. Whatever is cold and whatever someone else is buying is fine with me.
Cheers to that 🍻
Absolutely!
I’m sorry but you’d drink free piss? Is that what you’re saying??
Sorry I was at a ball game and my tickets included beer. It was coors light.
I walked around the corner and paid good money for real beer.
Your Uncle was a very wise man.😊
@kcstott My god, you have no clue how much of a pretentious douche you sound like with that comment, do you.
Coors Banquet over all of these. Has never changed.
Just bought my first 12 pack of Coors Banquet after binge watching Yellowstone. This is my new favorite beer. Malty and slightly sweet. Much better than Coors Light.
My Dad always drank Hamms, advertised during his beloved Cubs games!
Hamms is still a good tasting brew. Like all of them chill to the max.
Can’t beat hamms from a keg.
Still in parts of the USA find Hamms.
Hamm's is the Mountain Dew of beers very sweet and very little carbonation
@@corysather6640- Hamm's kind of has a sweet, weird taste to it.
My buddies Dad worked at Schiltz in Milwaukee back in the day. Glad Pabst brought it back in small batches. Good stuff.
You need to be able to cleanse the palette between beers. The previous beer(s) will drastically affect the flavor of subsequent beers tested.
My Nana used to drink 'Gansett tallboys back in the day. I still remember them in the fridge when I was a kid...
My mom was a bartender/cocktail waitress her entire life. I grew up with so much free junk from distributors and about a million of those purple Crown Royal bags. But my prize possession was a wall-mounted Miller High Life sign that subtly lit my bedroom at night.
When in the Marine Corps, we declared Pabst Blue Ribbon, "America's beer." 34 years later, PBR is still my go to beer
All day
When I was in Lejeune, we would go to the beach shop at Onslow Beach and get Milwaukee's Beast 😊
@@jackharle1251 yessss, Onslow beach and the Beast! many times!
Semper Fi. I was stationed at Camp Pendleton and did some time in the reserves.
Best beer I ever had, was my first RED HORSE pulled out of a plastic garbage can, filled with ice. This nectar of the Gods was drank at the first bar I went into, after walking over the 💩river, on a BLISTERING HOT day, Olongapo City, Philippines, circa 1986! Oh, what a night to start a 96! Semper Fi!
And if you drink enough of them, they all get prettier at closing time.
🎶 "The girls all get prettier at closing time, cause they all begin to look like movie stars." 🎶
But so do us fat, ugly guy's. Good time is had by all.
Ha I love that song. That was one of my ma's favorites too. When I was still in high school, she's get her boiler maker goin on on the weekends (bc we lived in a dry county at the time), and she had tapes of all the greats, and she'd play em loud while she cooked and danced and would have me drink beers and shots with her and tell me about the good old country music n stuff, SRV, and the golden oldies too, etc... That one ALWAYS got played at the house 🤙🏻
@@BillBraskyy 👍
Coors is great. Don't know what his problem is.
Out of these I'd have to go Yuengling, but Old Style is my #1
Old Style is a great beer.
No Style!
Dog Style is an ok beer
Yuengling is by far the best. You can drink it all night long and not get tired of the taste. It also has the best color out of all of the other beers and stands out beautifully.
Agree so sad it’s not available everywhere
No yeungling in my state sadly
They caught a worker pissing into the beer recently.
Where did you find that information?@@smileymalaise
Grew up on this stuff. Took a break for a decade but recently came back home to lager. 😂
my grandfather's beer was olympia , wish that beer was still available and part of your list for nostalgia , great topic video guys
Before I moved from California to Washington state 50 years ago my beer of choice was Oly or Coors, back then you couldn’t buy Coors in Washington. My friends were all drinking Blitz Weinhart so I tried it for a while. The first Oly (canned) I bought here was terrible , I swear it tasted nothing like it did in California. I went to the brewery and sampled it there and it was great, they even had a dark Oly I really liked but I don’t think they marketed it. I don’t know what was wrong with the one I bought in the store here but I quit buying it . Today it’s PBR or Coooorrz.
I remember a management class discussing how Schlitz went from number 1 to couldn't give it away . A new CEO that knew nothing about brewing called in the brew masters because they couldn't keep up with orders .They explained to the CEO that brewing takes time and quality ingredients were limited . He said reduce brew time and use lower quality ingredients. They made skunk beer and most was returned .Schlitz went back to the old recipe but could not recover market share .
I remember when they changed the formula. They would have a taste challenge against other beers during the halftime of NFL games. I was in college at the time. My dad was a schlitz drinker and so was I. When we tasted the new schlitz we stopped drinking it. It was terrible. He switched to Miller and me to coors.
The Great Grandson heir of Schlitz was an idiot and turned a goldmine into bankruptcy
wish someone would bring back Falstaff.
I think Pabst owns Fallstaff.
Yuengling in a bottle is so much better. I guess everybody's tastebuds are different. The only beer with flavor out of the beers you had there was Y.
Yuengling is best on tap.
It’s good on tap but most beer tastes better on tap.
Cans > bottles
@kentmarsh6442 never had it on tap but I do love it in the bottle.
Just got back from a week of racing/camping down here in Florida and Yuengling kept us happily hydrated! Very good stuff.
Pabst and Schlitz were popular even into the 1980s before massive advertising and light beers took over.
Bingo! In the 6o's Pabst and Schlitz, Falstaff, Coors, and Bud, all had the same, price points. Today you pay a premium for Coors, Bud, and Miller due to advertising costs.
A great video and I'm glad Pabst at least placed.
When my dad was a young man drinking with friends, Pabst was his beer of choice. It was apparently the fuel for many a "colorful tales" of his youth. It holds a special place for me and it's one I always drink in his honor and memory. It is also a favorite of the "cheap beers". I would probably get Schlitz a lot as well except I have a hard time finding in my area.
No surprise Schlitz is the best beer, and my favorite with Hamm's being in second place
I'm a coors banquet man You cannot beat a cold Yellow Jacket on a hot summer day And my dad was a Budweiser Drinker I believe he got introduced to it while he was in Vietnam
Nothing beats a cold lager, and there's only one true lager there
Yuengling is currently negotiating with a distributor in Wisconsin. Usually have a few when I'm in Alabama, Georgia and Texas. Although can't beat a Shiner Bock when in Texas. Usually a High Life in the bottle is my go to.
Shiner Premium is a great lager. (And Texas is a great state!)
Wish I could get some in WA
I remember that there was always a case of Schlitz in the back stairwell of my grandfather's house. He died in 1962. I don't know if it was a choice or if that was the only beer available in Sheboygan in the 1950s.
My Dad and uncles all drank Schlitz when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s , I'm sure my first sip of beer was a Schlitz .
Seems like WW2 photos of GI’s drinking beer were overwhelmingly Schlitz. Growing up in the 50’s and 60’s most of my area taverns had Schlitz or Hamms signs hanging out front.
I didn't see this in comments at least near top of them. One of the biggest differences between Schlitz and other American beers is the grain that is used. They brewed with rice because near Milwaukee there were large areas with wild rice and it was cheap and easy to get. They meant to change back to the usuals but people liked it so much they kept it. Just one fun side note the beer factory that Lavern and Shirly worked at was called Shots Beer which was an homage to Schlitz.
Ha! Very interesting. I know rice is very commonly used today but must have been an interesting change back in the day. Thanks for highlighting that!
Genesee (Rochester NY) would be a good candidate for this test. Brewery has been around since 1878!
I remember having a sip of my Dad’s Genny Cream Ale when I was about 5 years as old in the late ‘70s!
Cream ale out of bottle is delicious
Genesee also brews the standard 'Gansett lager under contract, with only the seasonal Narragansett beers being made in Rhode Island.
Macro beer formulas have changed a lot over the years. Schlitz wrecked itself in the '70s with a formula update; the Schlitz in the test uses a 1960s recipe, so it naturally stands out. The Pabst of today is not the same as the Pabst I drank in the early '70s.
Yeah, no doubt none of them are the exact same as they started out in terms of ingredients and recipes. I wish I were able to taste how they were back in the day to compare 🍻
Pabst was mild back in 1970s -- and a HUGE brand
Where can you FIND Schlitz with the 1960 recipe?
@@Poughdg yes where do you find this beer?
My best beer? Hands down. When I was about 14 years old, some of my friends and I went up on the roof of a random 5 floor apartment building one summer night. We found a red cooler on the roof with about 6 cans of Bud, in with the coldest possible water. A few few ice cubes were still keeping them frosty. It was a warm night, we were running around the nearby town like usual. Those beers were delicious! Cracklin cold! To this day, I'm 52, those cold beers were the best! It was like the scene in the Shawshank Redemption when they got the beers after tarring the roof! Incredible! 😃🙃🤤😎🤠🤯👆 Miss those days, lol!
😂 that’s awesome. They definitely have their time and place 🍻
Opening up a cool can of Schlitz with a church key, or K- Bar, after a night ambush patrol sealed my love of that beer forever. Few can imagine how good that beer tasted. Back in the world though, a good buddy from PA turned me on to Yuengling Lager, loved the taste, still do at 73.
Meister Brau!!! That was my high school beer. I also remember my grandmother drinking Olympia beer.
Oly was great, but it had to be ice cold.
@@gertifity4868I miss Oly. I used to work at a Binnys in Chicago & we sold it. Is Olympia still in production? I remember orange cans.
I'm a Pabst man, however, I truly miss the Coors Extra Gold. Shame they discontinued it.
PBR and Old Style in bottles are both great to me...
In the dead heat of summer I like the "miller killers" the 7 oz bottles, 3 chugs and gone - they never get cold lol..
@@Mike-jv4rz It was a lot of fun trying to open those pull-tabs in the Winter as teenagers. "Hey, Shake get us a screwdriver". I remember it very well. Half the time, before Shake returned with the screwdriver, our cans of Schlitz, or Pabst were pretty much frozen. Brings back great memories.
@@marcstevens8576 Pull tabs- lol
Now that's a blast from the past 👍
Drank a bunch and forgot about the Extra Gold. From the wayback files.
Damn right!My staple beer for a long time
The ‘E’ in this study, the Narragansett Lager has been a favorite of mine for years! My personal choice for cheap beer. That’s just me, I honestly like it.
It really is a nice one. I have been ordering it at concerts lately. Cheers! - Craig
They sell that as premium beer where I live
Same! I had one with dinner tonight and after work it hits the spot nice
Still love Narragansett. They make one called Fresh Catch which is delicious
Good cheap beer. Prefer it in bottles. Quint's beer of choice.
Past Blue Ribbon has been my everyday choice for decades. It is clean and fresh tasting, with no odor or aftertaste. It is the beer that I reach for to accompany every meal (except breakfast!😁)
I buy thirty (30) cans at a time at Wal-mart for less per ounce than I can buy cola!
When I want a beer that "eats like a meal," I reach for Samuel Adams Boston Lager. Held up to sunlight in a Pilsner glass, it shows its gorgeous rufous color. It also is clean tasting, but filled with about half a-dozen flavors, and as maker Jim Koch says, "a head so thick, you can float a bottle cap on it!"
A bottle of "Sammy" is always a treat for the senses of every beer lover!
I'm a brewer at a craft brewery in NY and pbr is my #1 macro lager as well. The price is great, it has some nice hop character, it's not flavorless.
Schlitz is really great too. U want a beer that is miles better than Sam Adams, buy Wernesgruner at Aldi's. Sam Adams is terrible to me and blows it away!
@@Icarusvampire Thanks for the tip. Now that I have some quarters to get a shopping cart, I plan on shopping more often at Aldi. I am sorry that you don't appreciate Sam's. To each, his own! 😊
@@benjaminhawthorne1969I tried to like the Boston Lager but I just couldn't do it. It sat way too heavy and the hops were overbearing to the point that's almost all I could taste from start to finish. And I tend to lean towards heavier/darker beers anyways. Yuengling, Guinness, Bass, & Budweiser are my favorites. I do like me some dunkels, porters & stouts. Höfbrau, Weihenstephaner, & Von Hinken are excellent German brews as well. I think my go to is always Yuengling though. It's just so good lol
@@lowendfloridiancraka You have excellent taste, my friend. ☺
I agree that Sammy's is extremely hoppy. That makes it stand out to me as a rare treat. As I mentioned, it will NEVER be my everyday brew.
I like many of those brews, however, although I am 50% Irish, I have never been able to get past the flat-chocolatey taste of Guiness. It simply is "not my thing." 😏
I can remember my dad drinking Schlitts, then Coors and even Michelob. He finally settled on Bud, then Bud light as he got into his 50s. I’m now going to be the same age as my dad when he went to be with our Lord and every year on his birthday I stop and grab a pepperoni pizza and a Bud. Personally, I enjoy craft beer, a good Belgian ale but my favorite beer at the moment since I live in Tokyo is Coedo White and Hitachino Nest, both Japanese craft beers. Seems a long way off but I can still remember my dad cracking open a Coors on a hot day after mowing the lawn in the 70s in Southern California and sharing a drink or two with me. Thanks for the memories.
Totally agree in that we also mostly drink craft beer. Love Belgians. Glad it brought back some memories though. Thanks for watching, cheers!
Take Yuengling to your families and friends out west. They can’t get it out there and LOVE it!
The Black and Tan is heaven in a glass.
I'm from PA and live in Idaho. Brother'n'law borough out four cases. Fully agree.
I live 15 miles from the Yuengling brewery and you couldn't pay me to drink that piss
Found this in PA. at race love it since then.
@@Whats-It-To-Ya And the color blue sucks. Thanks for your opinion.
The Narragansett is a contract beer as well. If you look at the can it says brewed in Rochester, NY. So basically you’re drinking a Genesee Beer.
Well the brewery may be owned by Genesee, but they're using the Narragansett recipe.
Speaking of Genessee, where do they place?
FIFCO --- Genesee has been absorbed by them.
Ah! Genesee, I remember it well, 10 cent a can. The cream ale was drinkable, but junk. The beer was worse.
Upstate NY it was were I started drinking, but then the whole town was drunk. Nothing else to do.
@@billh.1940 Genny Cream Ale was my staple growing up in upstate NY until I was 20. I enlisted and was later stationed in Belgium has had introduction to real beer of the region. I've never gone back!
My top is Rolling Rock but number two is a Miller High Life in a bottle .
Rolling Rock is absolutely the best bang for your buck. It's not jaw dropping flavorful like some craft brews are, but it tastes just right, especially when you're thirsty and don't want a "sippin" beer anyway.
Second this
Yuengling only began brewing their flagship Lager in the 1980s. Their original beer is their Lord Chesterfield Ale, followed by their premium (pilsner) and porter varieties.
I love how the Yuengling stands out so obviously.
..and yet they acted like they had NO idea what beee it was!🙄🙄🙄
**beer
Haha, yeah honest ignorance I'm afraid. I don't think either of us had seen a Yuengling outside of the bottle or can, or at least not in a long time. Believe it or not, it got edited out when trimming down the time but I actually thought it could possibly be the Narragansett originally because I hadn't had that one outside of the can either.
@@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539 Thanks for the reply, fellas. Enjoy the videos. This one was quite fun.
It's important to remember that your grandparents would probably have only drank regional beers. Especially in the 40's and 50's since countywide distribution wasn't a huge thing. Yuengling is still only available in I think 15 states.
Yuengling has recently made a BIG change in distribution and is now available at least as far west as Kansas. By recently I mean last week, it was big news here. It's... okay. I too am a High Life from the bottle kind of guy.
Great point 🍻
I'm in my 60's and back in the day I enjoyed Schaefer Beer, unavailable in stores for quite sometime a friend of mine ordered me a case from the liquor store a few years ago and it was okay but not quite what I remembered. Came to find out it's under Pabst umbrella now. Miller High Life is my choice now for American Lager style. Moosehead, Molson Canadian, or LaBatt's Blue I enjoy too.
I picked Schlitz right at the start, but Hamm's should of been a part of the test, these two beers are great.
Stroh’s also. Both might be tough to find. I live in an urban area and can find Hamm’s at the mega liquor stores.
Yeah, Hamm's and Old Style seem to the be two most popular in this style that we can't get in our market here in Atlanta 🍻
I agree. I find Hamm's to be very nice. Our local liqour store sells Hamm's in 30-packs. I do not know how well they sell, but I make sure to buy two a week so that they continue to stock to them. Currently I have a surplus of about 150 beers because I can not drink them as fast as I buy them.
Whenever the liqour store does not have Hamm's in stock I buy Miller High Life. If for whatever reason they do not have either, or I am looking to save one dollar, I might buy Busch. Always in 30 packs to save money.
@@leviturner3265 We mostly drank Stroh's because that's what the older guys drank and they bought ours so...ok. Hamm's was another that brought back memories.
@@leviturner3265 You are beer stocked for the apocalypse.
Just stumbled onto this video and man I'm so glad I did! You guys are hilarious! My personal all time favorite of these would have to be Miller High Life but after about 5 or 6, it would be pretty hard to decipher which one is which lol.
Thanks James! Happy to hear you found us and are enjoying it. Keep your eyes peeled for a follow up video in the next week or two 😉🍻
Hey guys, this was a fun video! I really enjoyed
the blind tasting format. But you know what
would have made it even better? Including
some control tests and multiple tries of the
same beer. That would have helped to make
sure your results were more reliable and
less influenced by random variation. Just a
thought! Keep up the great work!
Should have had Strohs and Old Style in there.
Totally enjoyed this....good times, Schlitz rules. Too bad it's not in NC anymore...
Apparently you can't get it in Kansas any more either.
Dang. Roger said he couldn't find any when he went around to a few stores in Georgia the other week. So hopefully they haven't stopped distributing here also. Thanks for watching 🍻
It's amazing how big an impact the revolutions of 1848 in central Europe had on American culture.
Great point!
The most important was the arrival of huge waves of socialists. By 1850, they had established "The Communist Club," in NYC. (See - "Lincoln's Marxists," by Benson and Kennedy)
Just an interesting side note, Coors makes its big money with high-end ceramics for electronics, mostly as a defense contractor. The beer side of things acts mostly as a PR wing, though it's definitely a strong concern in its own right. In the early '90's I worked for a laser scribing firm, and a single Coors ceramic plate, about 4"x4", was about $100, and once it was scribed, punched, and snapped, was worth as much as $50K. Coors had the market cornered, and was the only manufacturer of the specific type of required, military-grade porcelain for certain defense contract circuit boards. The little firm I worked for (seven people) probably went through 200-300 plates per day, five days per week. (It took a lot of time to build up the power in the capacitor banks, and the system could only cut a half dozen or so pieces per cycle.) That's over $100,000/week that Coors got from us alone. (And we made about the same, I believe, after energy, equipment, payroll, and basic overhead. The two owners were raking it in.)
(The most fun was the excimer laser, which could punch through a half inch of plate steel in under half a second. You'd do a x-ray resistant ceramic stencil first, and put that in the way of the excimer aperture and -- Flash! -- an 8"x8" area of steel plate would be cut into whatever shapes, to tolerances that could only be checked by electron microscope.)
I honestly had no idea! That's super interesting man
Making a comment so I don't forget this. Never knew, very interesting.
@@gamemeister27 Agreed great info...
Yeah, CoorsTek makes some really nice precision squares and other metrology equipment too. Big $$
Miller-Coors is owned by Molson out of Canada. All they make is beer.
That Miller High Life sign on the shelf though. I miss seeing that so much from my childhood as it was hanging in the garage. It was mesmerizing.
The champagne of bottled beers.
Horrible beer
MGD in a bottle is great
Hell...I didn't know they even made Schlitz any more!
Pbr brews it along with other old time locality beers. Schlitz is honestly amazing.
I’m sitting here with a glass of Hamms, laughing at these guys!
As a kid from Rhode Island, we had Narragansett, Miller short bottles and bootlegged Coors in my parents house.
Great interesting video. My 1 is Coors banquet and 2 MHL.
They were all good. Tough tasting them side by side like that. Thanks for watching! Cheers 🍻
Well boys here is a comment from the great white north. I'm about an hour drive to Port Huron Michigan and when we felt like being adventurous we would head across the border for some American beer. Which by the way I always liked and still do. My top three, Strohs, I truly miss it, Pabst I would call it my go to beer, and Miller High Life in the Bottle. Not just for breakfast anymore. Love the Video.
Ah, very nice, thanks! We also have a video with some Canadian beers coming soon.
Really great video! Love the vibe of the discussion, feels relaxed yet lively.
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Thanks for watching and subscribing. Cheers! 🍻
Back in the mid-late 70’s, my absolute favorite was Schlitz. Then the bottom fell out and it disappeared. Glad to see it is back and won the taste test among many laudable contenders. Being a west coast guy, Olympia, Hamm’s, and Lucky Lager were very popular too back in the day. Later, my friends in Baltimore swore by Carling Black Label but I found it to be average in taste sort of like PBR. Today, after a round of hot summer golf, I eagerly consume a draft of Yuengling (sp?). But, after today, I’m going to seek out Schlitz and see if it still has that magic for me. Thanks for your excellent video.
I live in a college student ghetto and, judging from the empty beer cans that decorate their yards, the youth generation appears to really like Miller Lite, Coors lite, and Keystone Lite.
Those poor bastards hahahaha. I have a feeling we will do a light beer blind battle at some point.
I drank a lot of Keystone light and Keystone ice in college because a 30 pack was just under $10
Xer here. We drank those as well plus PBR and Lucky Laghard (lager) not just for the irony but they were dirt cheap, too.
I own some farmland and I clean up litter in the ditches every year and that's what I see also. I think the most exotic beer I ever found was a Corona.
@@LuckyBastardProd Can confirm. Shaeffer's too. (The punk house beer of choice!)
At the end of the day, you drank more Yuengling than the others
Wow. Surprised. Gonna have to try Schlitz. My long time fave Yuengling. Can’t abide Bud or PBR.
PBR was rough when I was 18ish. It's is really good to me now and my go to. Coors and Miller High life are a couple favorites too,
Now if they can only bring Stroh's copper kettle fire brewed beer back.
and get it back in Detroit
Old style
@@csnide6702 If it's good enough for Clem Snide, it's good enough for me.
@@brent69 Heileman's Old Style was HUGE in Chicago area - for a long time !
And Alex ....
I live in NC, when my friends and i used to go to Virginia to get Coirs light because it was illeagal in NC, the alcohol content was to high.
Miller High Life has changed since the 70's. Seems like it has too much foaming agents that stick to the glass.
Cheaper ingredients. In the 70s I talked to a master brewer and he said that Miller chose only the top quality ingredients. When the started genuine draft they actually started using hops flavoring instead of hops.
@@greybone777 never cared for the GD for the same reason. I wish I could get Shlitz in northwest florida
Looks like my beer fridge!Just need Old Style, Hamm’s, Busch, Stag, Grain Belt, Iron City, Molson Canadian, Michelob Golden Draft and Natural Ice.
I'm a big craft brew guy (I enjoy porters, stouts, lactose-free fruit sours, and amber ales) but you'll catch me in my backyard multiple times a year with a bunch of miller high life bottles. I haven't ever tried a PBR or Schlitz, but I'll add it to my list this summer. Lived off Milwaukee's Best in college, not surprised that didnt make this show.
Love Banquet! Wanna try the extra gold if it comes back!
I live in Golden CO so hard not to pick the best looking can by far in my opinion (and a decent cheap beer as well), Coors Banquet.
I’d love to see you do a battle of all of the bud beers including Michelob, Busch, Natural and see what the main differences are.
I grew up up in a Budweiser house when I was a kid. Next door neighbor drove a short order truck for Budweiser that wasn't locked up at night until some teenagers got in there and had a party! He knew right away something was wrong when he smelled the residue of cigs and weed in his truck. He locked it up after that!
You know why they use horses in their advertising, don't you???
Great idea! We will definitely keep that one in mind 🍻
@@MichaelWilson-sn1yo Kool, Mike. Now THAT'S how u get FREE BEER!!!!! RAID THE BEER TRUCK!!!!! 2 which I say "WINNER, WINNER!!!!!! LIQUID FUCKIN' DINNER!!!!!"
Michelob was a treat growing up. Can’t find it in NY anymore. Loved that beer
This is the first macro beer taste test I’ve seen that put Banquet as the worst. The others I saw were micro brewers tasting macro beers. And Coors and PBR both were favored
Yeah, it's very tough because honestly all of these except the Yuengling were very similar so at that point you're just picking out flavors you prefer and I guess Coors just isn't our profile.
Miller high life bottles give me nostalgia, those were the best to chug in competition with your buds .. secret trick you get a flexy straw bend around the rim use like a snorkel in a weird way and u can chug the whole thing 3 seconds flat as an amateur drinker 2 seconds with practice
🤣 niiice party trick pro-tip there 🍻
Used to love Schlitz in the 80's and 90's. It was really hard to get here in the UK along with Michelob. Tend to drink Bud now.
In beer taste testing, the taste gets better the more you drunk.
I rotate between Hamms, PBR, Highlife, Old Style and Coors. After 20 years of mostly craft brew, ive gone back to my roots.
Yuengling has always been better than the rest.
its trash
When I want to take a break from craft beers, or when only macro american lager types are available, I go for Yuengling. They make a porter that isn't bad as well.
Picked it out right away.
My friends and family out west always require me to bring a case of Yuengling on my trips.
Most everybody drank Yuengling in Pennsylvania, at least when they went out to the local watering hole. It's quite good, but maybe more of a local pride thing. Funny how some of the regional beers had such a following in other places. Look at Coors and Shiner before they became available nationally.
I refer to these as bowling beers and honestly I hardly ever drink light American lagers. However have done a blind taste of them and miller was my top with colors as my second. The thing about coors is it gets skunky quite easily and my guess is the sample that was used here was skunked for those that don’t know what that is when a beer goes through a few temperature changes warm, cold, warm very cold and then served as it warms up again it gets really weird off flavor. Coors is notorious for getting skunky. Bud was my least favorite filled by pbr and Michelob was my third. I do like Narragansett and live in an area it’s distributed in but it was not part of my blind test.
Of those tested, my favorites are Yuengling, Schilz, and Pabst. Do they even make Blatz anymore?
Yes they do! I am from Wisconsin and it is here
Sure , but you find it only in the very large liquor stores
I'm surprised my college favorite Old Milwaukee wasn't on the tasting row. It is similar to Schlitz and a cold bottle of OM was always a delight. Nowadays, I prefer Yuengling or something Canadian like a Molsen Export or Labatts. I avoid anything in a clear or green bottle as I do not like the skunkiness.
I wish they had a Schmidt's of Philadelphia beer available .
Being from long island my grand parents. Didn't drink any of that. It was Rheingold and gin sometimes whiskey. Upstate it turned to Genny Cream Ale.
Rheingold Extra Dry! It was excellent when it was made in NY City. Then they closed that brewery sometime in the late 70's or early 80's maybe and it was made elsewhere for a while. Just wasn't the same.
Shaeffer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one
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One of the greatest ad slogans of all time.
Some advertising exec pitching that in today's politically correct world would be fired on the spot😄
Because they used to be the cheapest beer in the store. You always knew who drank Schaefer the next day.
I'm liking on Coors Banquet. Have a 12 in the fridge now.
Miller high Life in the bottle is always my go-to, the original Schlitz recipe is right up there and I'm glad they brought it back. It's just kind of hard to find where I live. Great show! This was a lot of fun. Thanks!
Awesome, glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching. Cheers🍻
Entertaining and a fun activity. I’ve done that with bourbons. I’m going to copy y’all and do the same with beers! Cheers and greetings from Justin, TX!
I haven't had beer in years but I might try and pick up some Schlitz. I'm a history buff so I think it's neat that Papst brought back the original recipe.
Beer drinker for many years!! Of all the ones you tried and I had them all Yuengling is by far the best! Just an outstanding beer and my go to choice!
I liked Genny Cream Ale in the returnable bottles, it had taste all its own. The older the bottles, the better the taste. When they discontinued the returnable bottles, it lost that taste. Can't drink it from cans.
I live in Chicago. I get Genny in 12packs for about $8. Would love to try bottles. I switch between High Life and PBR for everyday beer. The Genny is a smooth alternative.
My dad always had a quarter keg of Genny Cream in the Beermiester when I was a kid.
Fun video! Back in high school in the 70’s Schlitz was my favorite beer, but it was a splurge at 1.29
We drank more the .99 beers
Wiedemanns
Ballantine
Schmidt’s
Out of all those bad beers, I would go PBR all day every day on a hot summer day.
Grain Belt still going well in upper Midwest. First thing i do when I visit is buy a 12 pack in bottles. Very very good beer.
Yuengling Traditional Lager is the best of the lot.
When I worked in construction, a Coors banquet tall boy at the end of work was the nectar of the gods.
Fun fact: Narragansett is actually brewed at the Genesee brewing company in upstate New York. I recommend the Genesee cream ale!
I’ve had that cream ale before and liked it just fine but it’s been several years since I’ve seen it here in Georgia 🍻
Right now, Genny is making Winter Bock available. I haven't had it in years, but I'm sure it's not the same.
Genny Cream Ale was the college beer of choice, back in my day.
@@AppalachianTemplar Yep, 16 oz Genny pounders.
Ice cold Miller in the bottle is the best! Classic Schlitz is a close 2nd.
I like the Coors Original but it sure does put the weight on me lol.
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Slightly higher alcohol % and more carbs but, it is my favorite.
Originally from RI. Growing up my father was a Gannsett drinker. He said the taste changed for the worse when they moved production out of state and stopped using the water from the Scituate Reservoir.