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I really only wanted to review this because of the small conversation that my review of the 'regular' Founding Father's lager provoked. Pour is typical. Color looks pale golden, and comes with a head that dies almost immediately to leave virtually...
12 oz can, many thanks to Kevin for the chance to try this American classic. Pour gives lots of typical, American Adjunct Lager classic traits, but the body is a quite strange glassy affair with alarming clarity. As is son often the case the beer...
12 oz single from Kevin, thanks mate. Pour offers a slightly hazed yellow body and an aggressive dispensing yields a pretty decent head if truth be told. Obviously little retention and/or lace, but not bad considering everything. Nose and tastes do...
A "Super-Premium" beer no less! What could possibly go wrong?! Having spent a large portion of my first 35 years of life in Indian restaurants, I though that I had seen most of the Indian based adjunct lagers that one could be exposed to, but this...
12 oz can, many thanks go out to Kevin for the chance to try this one. Can and the brand make this look like a real retro beer - America in the 50's and 60's is the feel I get from it. Pour is a very pale golden hue with a large, frothy head. The...
12 oz can, many thanks to Kevin for the chance to try this. The pour produces an almost transparent lemon yellow color, a highly carbonated but a typically poorly retained head and not much lace. Frankly it screams American adjunct lager which I...
12 oz can courtesy of Kevin - thanks again! Orangey, yellow pour with some pretty fierce carbonation. The head that forms initially is very high, fluffy and white. It fades quickly though to give nothing more than a tiny film on the surface of the...
Trader Joe's purchase as a single, 12 oz can. Given this stuff is about $3 a sixer I guess this cost around $0.50. Still struggles a little on the value! Water-like pour with a only hints of color, carbonation, head, lace or retention. Carbonation...
12 oz, single can, Trader Joe's, Sandy Springs, Atlanta, GA, USA. Golden body on the pour (nice) but with a seemingly very low carbonation. Head is quite big at first but fades badly to give no retention and no lace. 6.2% is an interesting level of...
22 oz bottle from Kenny Road Market, Columbus, OH, USA. $5.49. The label on the bottle is obviously amateurish which is probably a combination of deliberate style and cost consideration. Either way it looks like it was done by a freshman art class....
Can from Arbor Place Beverage's bargain cart - 75 cents for the privilege! Took my own regular advice and paired this with a decent curry from The Viceroy. Despite some pretentious suggestions about IPAs and the like being paired with curry, after...
12oz single from Mac's in Atlanta, GA, USA as part of their $8.99 mixed sixer. Pour is a darker golden color than the BA designated style might suggest. Head and lace are also superior than a normal macro lager. Definitely more bitterness in the...
Interestingly enough this is not only "Premium lager quality", but it is also an "Island style lager"! WOW! OK, golden urine appearance that is well carbonated but produces a terrible head and no lace. What a shocker! I smell nothing. The taste is...
Well, it is what it is. Keep expectations low and you'll not be disappointed IMO. Purchased as a single from Total Wine in Kennesaw, GA, USA. $1.99 I think. 375 mL bottle, semi-stubbie appearance. I like the label and colors. Drank a lot of Tooheys...
This is a great example of why I feel the need to walk into nearly every single beer retail outlet that I ever pass - you just never, ever know what might be in there! Picked this can (as pictured on BA) up for 50 cents at Track One between East...
$0.99 as a single from Green's on Buford, Atlanta, GA, USA. EXACTLY as expected. Golden yellow appearance, fading head, no lace. Cooked veggies, corn additions, NOT clean and a thin mouthfeel complete the macro lager experience. NOT good and quite...
Oil Can as a single from The Wine Shop, Johnson Ferry Road, Marietta, GA, USA. Amber body with some decent carbonation, small head and some pretty good lace. Good clarity, this is not a bad looking beer at all. Nose is a bit worrying - has that...
A nasty, nasty concoction sampled in, of all places, the old Drakes Bar in the old Rougemont Hotel (now the Exeter Thistle) in Exeter, Devon, England. Nothing to report here other than a urine colored, corn and adjunct driven lager that even lacked...
Single, 12oz bottle, Jax, Sandy Springs, Atlanta, GA, USA. Perhaps a little lighter and cloudier than your standard crystal clear macro pour, but much the same in all other respects. Brief, highly carbonated head, gone in seconds, no lace. A very...
Actually pretty nasty. Having had a whole bunch of GOOD experiences at around $1 a single form Trader Joe's, this was the first serious letdown. Head on the pour is good, but it fades just about as fast as I can remember for ANY beer. Gone...
On-tap, $3.25 Taco Mac, Douglasville, GA, USA.I think I last drank this at The Maple Leaf in Covent Garden - MEMORIES! WOW, that brings back MANY, MANY HAPPY days! What to say? Not much. Light yellow pour (could be any macro in the world), some...
12 oz single, Mac's downtown, Atlanta, GA, USA. Well, what do you expect? Uttterly bland with virtually no taste at all. In its favor there was a decent head that lingered much longer than I expected. Some scant lace and an ultra clear, very, very...
12 oz single bottle, attractive black, white and yellow design with Elephant motive on the label. Extraordinarily pale yellow body, and after a large head from the pour, this fades to almost nothing. Some small amount of lace left behind. Typical...
Pour provides a big, fluffy pillow like head that is rather attractive. Decent density too. Some half decent lacing as well - of course this all fades very quickly to not much at all. The body is a sort of weird macro lager/Hefe misty combination....
Thanks to SilentSabre for the opportunity to try this beer. 12 oz single bottle. Very fizzy pour indeed. Noisy effervesence. Large, light head disappears very quickly to reveal a typical macro pour. Light and golden body with rising bubbles. Stacks...
650 ml brown tapered bottle with foil on the neck and cap and Indian accented label. High carbonation on the pour, with a really noisy, fizzy head. Some minimal retention and a *tiny* bit of lacing. Outside of that, this is essentially a...
Typical, crystal clear light golden pour that could be any one of 10,000 beers, but still doesn't look horrible. Low carbonation leads to a quickly disappearing head and no lacing - again, utterly typical. Aroma is the adjunct, sweet grain and the...
Very pale straw color with a complete lack of body and character. This horribly watery beer is exactly what you'd expect. On the plus side there is no skunk and it is refreshing in the way that water is, but outside of that, no taste, no body and...
Well, it is what it is, and nothing else. I drank this stuff from the bottle (which tells its own story) and I would advise you to do the same. Pouring into a glass would only disappoint. This is not the most offensive macro on the face of the...
This is pretty much as pale as it gets. Hydrated urine look, fizzy head that disappears immediately and a little lacing. Massive corn and alcohol aroma. Mouthfeel? Well, it's carbonated water isn't it? Warming alcohol is the overpowering "taste",...
Rolling Rock is one of those beers that I'm going to reach for ONLY as a result of being in a bar when the selection is nothing more than macro swill fare. OK, so fair enough, we know what we're getting here, an ultra bland macro with little or no...
Almost colorless, with a hint of extremely diluted golden color when poured into a pilsner glass. Aroma is difficult to pin down, but it reminds me of the days when I was working in bars and I would go in on a Sunday morning to start the cleaning...
Above average looking (at least for the 45 seconds or so that the head lasts), aroma of sweet alcohol and a slightly stale cereal. No lacing, some bubbles rising in the glass. Some skunk in the aroma too. Taste is fairly straightforward, clean with...
Not bad for what it is. I think that (along with Bud light) this may be the beer that has the least amount of color that I have ever encountered. It really does look like "frightened water". The usual silly, wispy head that instantly disappears...
Surprisingly drinkable. I was expecting the usual adjunct macro swill, but got a half-decent, creamy sweet lager that looked attractive and drank easy. Some hint of grain in the nose, but not too much and it passed the skunk test! Some creaminess...
Very light and predictabley disappointing. Pale straw pour with a wispy, thin head that didn't hang around for long. Corny and grainy with little or no malt detectable, but some bitterness in the finish. Pretty clean - that's on the upside, but...
Very, very simple, non-descript and instantly forgetable. My wife picked this up and said, "This is the kind of beer I like, not as strong as the stuff you usually drink". That says it all. Simply put, another adjunct macro lager with nothing to...
I'm assuming that the designation of Marzen/Oktoberfest is simply a mistake, and that this is what it appears to be, purely and simply a macro adjunct lager? (If it looks like a duck...). If not, please enlighten me. <EDIT: 03/10/05 - Jason...
Very odd looking beer that appeared like an extremely weak, insipid looking cross-breed of a wheat beer and a macro lager. There was also some yeasty sediment in the pour that refused to settle down, making lots of odd swirling motions in the glass...
$1.99, 24 oz Can, Gas Station purchase. As time goes by I really have no idea how one is supposed to distinguish between these North American, macro, adjunct lagers. If it were a blind tasting I doubt, even as an experienced drinker, that I would...
Bottle, $3.75, Buffalo Wings Bar & Grill, Douglasville, GA, USA. I probably haven't drunk any Red Stripe for the best part of 10 years, and from what I've read since, and what I remembered from back then, I was expecting very little. In fact, I was...
Frankly, I think it depends on what you're expecting and the context of your consumption what you might write about this beer. If you're looking for something cold, clean and refreshing then you could do much worse. If you're looking for anyhting...
$7.99, 12 pack, Kroger Supermarket, Thornton Road, Atlanta, GA. $4.99 for the 6 pack at Hop City, Atlanta, GA, USA. PBR - a legend? Well, its reputation clearly goes before it, and helps it get reviewed in a generally far more favorable light than...
Of the scores of garbage adjunct macro lagers, this is one of the more drinkable and less offensive. It actually looks pretty good. It had some seriously deep color (relatively) and pours with a decent head and some lacing. After that it's pretty...
Really just noting this for my consumption log rather than a review. I honestly have no idea whether I would be able to tell this beer from Miller Lite, Bud, Bud Light, Coors or any one of a hundred other macros. What can you say? Typical golden...
I feel as though it is difficult to be incredibly objective about this beer simply because of its place on the North American macro stage, but here goes ... The standard appearance and aroma from a macro lager, a little skunky, pale yellow fizz...
Not bad, I've had worse, fairly typical for an Indian lager. This is reminiscent of your standard macro, but with a little drier, harder bite. I like it as long as it's very well chilled and I'm eating with it. I've drunk a lot of this stuff with...
$4.15 for six-pack, Save-Rite supermarket, Villa Rica, GA, USA. On the plus side, $4.15 for a six-pack, you know what you're getting - not much, but it doesn't pretend to be much. You are also getting 5.00% ABV. On the down side, well - pours like...
The usual report on this kind of stuff. Pours pale yellow, fizzy head that disappears quickly, is thin in the mouth and generally forgettable. Mine tasted slightly metallic and infinitely better after three or four bottles, with lime added, in the...
To me this is no worse or better than it pretends to be. It's North American macro lager, so what do you expect? Like all of these brews, it's pale, pours with a lot of carbonation that disappears instantly to leave no head and no lacing,...
This is as about as bland a beer as one could imagine. Having said that it does have a distinct advantage over it's northern cousins in that it is fairly inoffensive. Most of the American macro lagers lack a cleanliness, and you often get really...
16oz six pack, Publix Supermarket, Villa Rica, GA, $4.79. Schlitz. Not being an American, or growing up with this beer I can't really comment on its legendary status, but I hear it is a classic. My wife tells me her father used to drink this when...
Pictured Curly's, Fort Wayne 09.08.23 Six Pack of 16oz cans, less than $5, Publix supermarket, Villa Rica, GA. Six Pack of 12oz Bottles, 3.89, Green's Beverage, Ponce de Leon, Atlanta, GA. Very strange review this one. Essentially Miller High Life,...
OK, make no mistake this is a fairly low quality beer, but it doesn't really pretend to be much else. It's simply a mexican lager that you're going to drink and enjoy when it's really hot or when you are eating spicy food. It's got to be...
Very suprised to find this at a small package store in a very Hispanic part of Atlanta. I got into a conversation with the Cuban owner of the store who informed me that it was legal to sell this stuff, since despite the map of Cuba on the label, it...
Reviewing the pint can, "The Big Blue". Poured with a large frothy head that disappeared instantly to reveal a lemon colored solution. The overwhelming experience of taste, aroma and aftertaste is alcohol. I found it very difficult to distinguish...