Posted on 07/03/2013 10:48:03 AM PDT by mojito
I realize you're going to spend Independence Day happily drinking whatever cold adult beverage you're served, because you're polite and you're an alcoholic. And I trust you'll have a fine old time no matter what you drink. But that doesn't mean America's sh**brews are all the same. The list below breaks down 36 of them, from worst to least-worst.
36. Keystone. This is the worst beer currently sold on American soil. It sits behind chilled glass in a convenience-store fridge like a dumb rebuke to the explosion of American beer variety all around it. In 1978 there were 89 breweries in the U.S.; today there are more than 2,400, and most of the new ones are better than most of the old ones. In 2013 craft beer is no longer the exclusive domain of West Coast weirdos and psychotic woodsmen. These fine days you can score Samuel Adams or Sierra Nevada at the least ambitious of convenience stores and Dogfish Head 90 Minute on the least reliable of trains. And then there is Keystone, which first appeared to the world in 1989, in Chico, Calif., home of the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. Keystone separates itself from the rest of the crap pack by augmenting the typical stale/sour flavor profile with notes of brown bananas and green armpits. Keystone is worse than Heineken and murder.
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At least he didn’t include Vitamin I. (Iron City for you out of towners).
Utica Club was actually pretty decent (and cheap, which of course matters a great deal when you're a student), and they also made a Bock beer in the spring (dark, malty and surprisingly good).
These days, I brew my own, and yield about two cases or so from $35 worth of fresh ingredients.
Leave us accountants alone. :>)
The Grain Belt I remember was nasty stuff that my friends often referred to as bib overall beer or farmer's beer. It was the typical tap beer you would find in small town bars in South Dakota back in the 1970s.
Greasy beer? Rubbery slickness? Leaves your tongue feeling like third-day deli ham? WTF??!!
Any list claiming Miller Lite is better than Yuengling is crap. Miller Lite taste like s*&t!!
I could have sworn it was made by Utica Club, but, from Wikipedia, "Billy Beer... first made in the United States of America in July 1977, by the Falls City Brewing Company. ...The beer was produced by Cold Spring Brewing, West End Brewing, and Pearl Brewing Company."
Miss Lillian was right to say that she should have remained a virgin.
But he did and he ranked Iron City above Yuengling!
Try a chilled Bavarian hefeweizen on a hot day. Glorious.
Greasy, rubbery slickness are all compliments for a beer born in Detroit.
Except for the gas.
Room clearing and eye watering.
We all attributed it to his choice of beverage.
(Grabs Bell's Midwestern Pale Ale)
Unlike Coors Light, at least Miller Lite tastes like something.
We typically bought Utica Club in those plastic beer balls. I think it was equal to 2-3 cases of 12 oz bottles. We drank a few of those in college.
I never like Genny Cream. However, Genesee regular beer cam in 16 oz bottles. It was actually a pretty good beer and a good deal.
In western NY we mostly drank Labattes(the importer is in Buffalo and is was cheap)or Ol’ Vienna. OV splits were very popular, especially at The Brick Bar in Buffalo on Monday nights.
Did you grow up in western NY ?
I grew up in Orchard Park(Buffalo Bills home) and went to school at SUNY Morrisville and SUNY Syracuse.
I’ve had IC on occasion. It’s not too bad, but it does rather taste like the can it is in. Which for something named Iron City is sort of appropriate.
Admittedly it's not a fair sample, owing to the general uncleanliness of the bar facilities and the ambient temperature in the terminal, which usually hovers around 106ºF, as the air conditioning hasn't worked there since the late '60s.
But the beer is cold and the servers are usually cute girls in black midriffs and not too hard to look at if you can get past the back tattoos. Generally, I find the beer to be a little thin, sour-tasting, and yeasty. And coincidentally, the men's rooms at PIA smell just the same way.
Amen. My first beer was a Miller (regular)...I didn't touch another beer for five years. Ick.
No need to turn beer snob on anyone with beer like this around. Wonderful, kinda like what Coors was back in the old days before the brand was ruined by that court ruling - except better, frankly.
Great great great beer. The only thing on earth to drink while enjoying a real cheesesteak.
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