Blatz

Pabst Brewing Company
Brewed at Miller Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Pale Lager
Woodridge, Illinois USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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LMAO at this being brought as a good joke at the O-town throwdown. Skanky, grainy and plain old nasty. Best of the joke beers though.

Plain, but okay. A good, standard "old man beer" if ever there was one. Folks I know classify this with brews like PBR, Stroh’s, and Schlitz - decent, basic beers that are affordable, "taste like beer," and are better than malt liquors or crap like bud lite. Unoffensive but not tasteless - you get a touch of malt and a hint of hops to go with your corn/adjunct. If one were to rate all American-style macros, this would likely be somewhere in the type third or quarter. A problem is that it is only available here in 15-packs of cans.

So this is a thing now. I haven’t seen this in Chicago yet, so I’m guessing it’s some initiative to introduce more sub brands to the market. It’s a bit more expensive than PBR, but on tap for about $2. It’s fairly innocuous: mild straw and vinyl taste. Quite unforgettable. Cheap. Lots of sugar corn flavor.

Aroma of overcooked vegetables. Check. Weak piss yellow sickly hue. Check weak slightly semi-so sweet corny body with a dirty clumsy finish. Check. You are holding a Blatz. So sorry.

Can at Reggie’s. Another of the old school, granddad brands. Pale yellow with a dissipating head. Nose is corny and generic, but in a good way. Reminds me of the smell of ’beer.’ On taste, pretty robust flavor profile, soft pils notes and some maize. Soft bitterness. Nothing showy, but not bad at all.

I have good memories of drinking this from my grandfather’s glass. It had a beautiful gold color and lots of bubbles, forming a thick, tall white head. It no longer has this impressive appearance, but the flavor is what I remember. It has some corn with a dry maltiness. Served cold, it isn’t bad at all. Much lower carbonation than I remember, and no thick, tall, head. Actually it tastes better straight from the can.

Can. Poured clear pale color with a medium frothy white head that was mostly lasting with good lacing. Moderate sweet grainy aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium sweet flavor with a medium sweet finish of short to moderate duration. My expectations where met with a below average beer.

(can - 12 oz) Clear golden pour color with a fizzy white head. Malty and sweet aroma with a light grassy note. Lightly sweet at the front with a very mild grassy and corn middle. Smooth finish and very easy to drink.

UPDATED: JUL 16, 2011 Enjoyed on tap at Frank’s Power Plant in Milwaukee, WI, where my band played a show. For my 5th beer of the night, this one was perfect as it was pretty light. One of those "I’m about to have too many so I’ll get this instead" beers. Appearance fizzy yellow beer with white head. Aroma not really much there, generic lager smell. Taste is actually smooth for a mass produced lager, not much other than hay/straw. Not bad though....had this again at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago, IL while watching 7000 Dying Rats (the band). This tasted like a mixture between stale and moldy bread, and water. Man was it bad. I guess on tap is the way to go!

Wasser. Better than Miller or Budweiser though. It is a light tasting lager with a noticeable adjunct coating.

Once, when younger, this was my "go to" brew. Absolutely standard micro brew, but the name was interesting!