Appearance: Pours out of the can with a nice white head that quickly dissipates. Bright straw yellow color, well-carbonated, crystal clear.
Aroma: Grainy/straw, with very slight hoppy citrus/elderberry
Flavor: Six row malt graininess married with light hops. Very well balanced.
Mouthfeel: Thin, dry and crisp. Carbonation invites a restorative burp.
Overall impression: The perfect summer beer. Try one straight out of the can on a river float trip, paired with a jalapeno cheddar dog grilled with yellow mustard. Only suggestion for improvement: Release a malt liquor stronger version in a 40 oz. bottle for sitting on the step outside the apartment.
I’ve been a fan of PBR since before the whole “trailer trash chic”/hipster movement grabbed a hold of it. I do appreciate that it has become more widely available in bars/clubs/restaurants, but I can’t say that it exactly lives up to all the recent buzz around it. I definitely like it a hell of a lot better than most BMC fare, and it is always welcome in my fridge, but I’ll take just about any craft lager/pilsner over PBR any day.
Correct. Pabst owns no breweries anymore, and contracts out the brewing of all the brands it owns, mostly to Miller/Coors.
Like many of the old school American beers, PBR was actually a pretty decent beer at one time and had a pretty good reputation and some character to back that up (their Bock beer was a favorite of mine in my college days).
When the Pabst brewery in Newark, NJ closed, a good friend of mine who worked there for many years moved on to a job at the nearby Anheuser Busch brewery. His take on it: “I used to work in a brewery. Now I work in a factory”
we would get the old milwaukee in college. it was cheaper to buy warm, and at least 6 would be gone before it would get cold in our fridge. but if you’re going to let a little thing like warm beer bother ya, … (rest unfit to publish) 8)
Amen brother. I have a standing offer of 4 bottles of Westy XII for 4 cases of Old Style, the only thing you have to pay for is the plane ticket to get out here.
When I was in college, it was cases of 16 oz bottles of Stroh’s - From One Beer Lover to Another! I believe it is now Miller brewed, too. I would choose something else these days.
