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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Bump! I mean Burp!
Olympia was another of the great beers before Coors was forced to preserve their beer so it could be shipped on trains and trucks beyond the then locations at the limit of freshness.
Dixie Beer, UGH! Bought it once and threw it away. Worst beer I ever tasted.
To answer your question, though, I went to college at Colgate, which isn't too far from Morrisville, as I'm sure you know.
Back in the day, my friends would buy Lite because it went down fast. I was buying Schlitz. That was before their infamous parallel formula and marketing disasters.
An outfit from New Jersey bought it, moved the brewery to their home base and now makes it from the same recycled urine which New Jerseyians commonly drink.
What? No Ballantine?
I do have some year old aged St. Arnold's Divine Reserve #12 (a little under a year at this point, I liked the flavor better when it was 6 months old, but that maybe because too much sediment got in my glass in my recent sample).
This beer was inspired by David Rogers’ winning entry in the 2011 Big Batch Brew Bash homebrew competition. The color is orangy amber with a light, creamy head. The nose has rich malt notes and a little alcohol that combines with a spicy hop note to create a complex bouquet. The taste has a spicy, malty beginning that smoothes out into a creamy middle and a warming finish. While this beer is enjoyable now, it is designed to be aged and will shine after a year or more in the bottle. This will allow sherry flavors to develop as the alcohol oxidizes. It is also important to allow this beer to warm up so that all of the flavors emerge and round out the high alcohol level.We did not filter this beer. When pouring we recommend decanting it, carefully pouring the first 10 or 11 ounces without allowing the sediment to enter the glass. If you want, you can pour the bottom of the bottle into a separate glass, but you will discover that the decanted beer is a little brighter in flavor.
Vital Statistics:Reserve No. 12: Old Ale
Cases Made: 3,201 (cases of 12 oz. bottles)
682 (cases of 22 oz. bottles)
Kegs Made: 88 ½ bbls, 90 1/6 bbl, 20 casks
Date Brewed: May 16, 2012
Date Bottled: July 20, 2012
Original Gravity: 1.090
Final Gravity: 1.018
Alcohol: 10% ABV
IBU: 50
The production run sold out in about a day.
Sorry... I'm getting a little choked up...
Especially the Black & Tan.
I believe it was called “Brew 102” as supposedly it was perfected on the 102nd brewing.
More like some eastern liberal faggot's opinion:
If you base your beer choices on the CEO's politics—and I suppose you might as well—then you probably have an opinion on Head Pete in Charge's staunch conservatism, as well as the company's scummy labor history.
Obviously a liberal.
Last summer, I went out for a 6 pack, picked up Flying dog’s Raging Bitch, telling the clerk my wife sent me out for beer, and did he think that was OK. Lost on him.
As I told that story to the extended family at the cookout, I pulled out an Arrogant Bastard from the fridge, and told the gathering that this is what she picked out for me.
“#1 pick is Grain Belt”
I have drank it. You could get an 8-pack for the same price of a 6-pack of Strohs. Horrible stuff, the choice of alcoholics in the mid west.
Nice.
I’d just like to point out, FWIW, that I am not named for the beer. I had never heard of it until a San Diego based FReeper enlightened me.
The specs on St. Arnold’s sound like those of a Belgian Ale or barley wine, both of which can be successfully aged in the bottle (and as suggested should be drunk at a cool room temperature). I do remember seeing cans of Gilley’s some years back in Texas - seem to recall it was brewed by Pearl.
been a long time Fungi, thanks
That was Brew 102. Got lost on the L.A. freeways many moons ago and I ended up driving past that Brew102 building 4 times. Ah those were the days. LOL
He has Miller light at #6? Seriously?
This guy doesn’t know what the heck he’s talking about. Miller light tastes like dung.
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I think that means 6th worst.
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