Garage Beer

[HeroHog]

2 words: Schaefer Light

[WLJ]

I was wondering if anyone remembers that plain white generic beer can back in the day back in #15

[K Frame]

I was wondering if anyone remembers that plain white generic beer can back in the day back in #15

Yep, I remember seeing it, along with generic cigarettes.

I really liked the boxes of generic mac and cheese and scalloped potatoes.

[Ben]

A couple of the local microbrews are going to the white can thing as a shtick. You can buy a six pack of white cans that just say "pub beer".

[RocketMan]

My "cheap" beer today is Yuengling - $19.99/case of 24 bottles at Wally Mart. I don't recall seeing Hamm's locally.

This self-admitted beer snob finds Yuengling to be a surprisingly good lager.  I drink it all the time.  They make a good black and tan, as well.

[HankB]

This self-admitted beer snob finds Yuengling to be a surprisingly good lager.  I drink it all the time.  They make a good black and tan, as well.

I like Yuengling. It just came to TX in the last year or two, but varieties are limited to Lager, Golden pilsner, some "light" beer, and most recently Oktoberfest. Usually I like the seasonal Oktoberfest beers so maybe I was expecting too much, but Yuengling's was only "OK" ( ) and not really worth buying again instead of the lager.

Hoping to see their Black & Tan eventually since I tend to like dark beers like Shiner's Bohemian Black Lager.

[zxcvbob]

I like Yuengling and I buy it when I'm in Texas.  It's not available in MN yet.

BTW, try adding a shot of Campari, a squeeze of lemon, and maybe an ice cube to a 12 oz cheap beer (like Busch Ice, Natty Ice, or Hamm's)  It changes to to something similar to an Aperol Spritz but less girly. It's good at the end of a hot day.  Too strong to drink while you're mowing, especially if you use "ice" beer.

[WLJ]

This self-admitted beer snob finds Yuengling to be a surprisingly good lager.  I drink it all the time.  They make a good black and tan, as well.

I pick some up at Sam's from time to time.

[K Frame]

I absolutely can't stand Yuengling.

[WLJ]

I absolutely can't stand Yuengling.

[RocketMan]

I absolutely can't stand Yuengling.

As has been said, there's no accounting for taste.   

[Declaration Day]

I just bought a 30-pack of Hamms for $17 plus tax.  Natty and Busch were more expensive but I don't remember how much

Natty is $18.48 / 30 pack at Walmart here (it just went up everywhere locally)  I used to usually get it at the corner party store on the edge of my neighborhood out of convenience. It was $2 more per case there, but now it's almost $6 more, so I find myself stopping at Walmart more often now; it's a half mile from where I work.

[HankB]

I absolutely can't stand Yuengling.

Let me guess - your favorites are Schlitz and Old Milwaukee.

And you really miss Billy Beer.

[K Frame]

Let me guess - your favorites are Schlitz and Old Milwaukee.

And you really miss Billy Beer.

I grew up less than 50 miles from Yuengling brewery when it, and Rolling Rock both, were considered low-rent local beers, good to buy if you didn't have much money and needed change back.

Neither one of those is all that special but for one thing, and it's not their recipe...

It's the marketing campaigns that turned them into hip, trendy, accessories for the up and coming man bun crowd.

[Devonai]

Oh, another reason I like many of the "lawnmower beers" is that besides tasting just fine, they are a low ABV. I am getting sick and tired of all the craft brewers big and small trying to see how high of an ABV beer they can make.

If I want a high alcohol content, I'll grab the whiskey bottle. If I want something refreshing on a hot Summer day, I'd like to not have one bottle of it put me on my ass.

I, for one, love a high ABV stout. Alesmith's Speedway Stout (12% ABV) is my pretty-much-every-day choice. However, it's my only daily drink. My stomach can't tolerate any more than that any more. I also can't tolerate hard alcohol in any form or quantity any more, even as a mixer. 21-year-old me would weep.

[Ben]

I, for one, love a high ABV stout. Alesmith's Speedway Stout (12% ABV) is my pretty-much-every-day choice. However, it's my only daily drink. My stomach can't tolerate any more than that any more. I also can't tolerate hard alcohol in any form or quantity any more, even as a mixer. 21-year-old me would weep.

I love a good stout, but I'm generally done with one or I get loopy. 

I love milk stout, but it is incredibly hard to find around here.

[Bogie]

There are probably a dozen GOOD micros within a five mile radius of my hooptie haus...
 
I like good beers for some occasions... And I'll pick something depending on which pub I'm in too... One place actually stocked Natty Light for me - it's a damn fine diet beer, and I prefer it to the other low carb offerings.
 
I don't like green-bottle Yuengling. The black and tan, however, rocks.

[JTHunter]

Have any of you ever tried the "ice" beers?  The only name I can remember now is Keyestone Ice as it has been 2-3 years since I have bought any beer (I prefer wines).

[zxcvbob]

Have any of you ever tried the "ice" beers?  The only name I can remember now is Keyestone Ice as it has been 2-3 years since I have bought any beer (I prefer wines).

Yes, I buy it sometimes.  It's just a more alcoholic version (5.5 to 5.9%) of their regular beer.  It's not particularly good, but it's not bad either.

[Boomhauer]

Dos Equis is my beer of choice. Cost effective, good taste, widely available and you get a big honking ice cold two pint mug at the Mexican restaurants for $5. Sometimes in Mexico you can get it for a dollar a bottle.

I don’t like the microbrews and such because to me a lot of them taste overly bitter almost soap like

[RoadKingLarry]

Dos Equis is my beer of choice. Cost effective, good taste, widely available and you get a big honking ice cold two pint mug at the Mexican restaurants for $5. Sometimes in Mexico you can get it for a dollar a bottle.

I don’t like the microbrews and such because to me a lot of them taste overly bitter almost soap like

https://babylonbee.com/news/popular-new-craft-ipa-just-bottle-of-pine-sol

[Bogie]

There was a huge IPA fad, which turned a lot of folks off of micros... You don't need ALL the hops...

[Ben]

There was a huge IPA fad, which turned a lot of folks off of micros... You don't need ALL the hops...

I know there are guys here that like hoppy beers, and they have educated me in the past that hoppy doesn't always mean bitter, but I have not yet found a microbrew that was +hoppy and -bitter.

I hate hops. I despise hops. Not just because of the super duper quadruple hoppy IPAs all the Portland and Seattle microbreweries are putting out, but because these jackasses are all moving to my part of Idaho with their millions of dollars, starting new microbreweries in Boise, and are buying and converting pasture and row crop land to hops fields. We have hops fields coming out of our ears here, and they're destroying wildlife habitat. You can't throw a rock without hitting a hops field. I hate hops.

[RocketMan]

Beer snob that I am, I like a good IPA.  In fact, I haven't had too many that I didn't like.  Probably because they match my personality.   

[K Frame]

I, also, am not a huge fan of hoppy beers. A bit, fine, but when it gets to talking about kilos of hops per quart of beer.... nah.

There's one that a friend of mine turned me on to a couple of years ago -- Dogfish Head Sea Quench. It's a sour beer, quite tart, and in the summer, exceptionally refreshing.