Hamms

Brewed by Miller Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Pale Lager
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

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

TAP. $1.50 all day every day for a pint at Glory Days. While it is hard to argue with such a "deal," the watery, hardly hoppy, bit bready, slightly sweet pint isn’t worth much more than that; but compared to the rest of the "Domestics" on tap, this would be a more economical, if not SLIGHTY tastier option.

This tastes like i found a Busch can in a dumpster 40 years ago and just now opened it. Clear and skunky.

I grew up in a small town in "the land of sky blue waters [Minnesota]", so this beer, and the Hamms Bear Minnesota Twins commercials are a part of my heritage. When I was I kid, my next door neighbor relaxed on his front porch with one of these every summer night. I never tried this until recently after it became Miller’s cheap 30-pack brand. What is it now? A watery pale lager with no smell to speak of. Pours a normal clear gold with a quickly diminishing head. Not much aroma. Just basic beer, but without the foul corn flavor found in most super-cheap pale lagers. Not much discernable flavor or sensation; just an inoffensive macro-lager. My previous cheap 30 pack (or 36-pack) of choice was Pabst Blue Ribbon or Boxer Lager, but this one doesn’t have a foul finish of the others. Since its competition has stepped back, in my opinion, this stepped forward by default as my new favorite mass quantity cheap macro pale lager. Much better than water, which W.C. Fields and I despise "due to all the disgusting things fish do in it."

Super Cheap beer. Poured from a can. Straw colored beer with white foamy head. Some mild hops. Otherwise very bland and typical of mass produced lagers.

Tasted from 12 oz can into a rocks glass (I’m not expecting to drink the whole thing.) Poured a pale golden color with weak white foam which quickly subsided to a thin ring of bubbles. Brewed by MillerCoors. Aromas and flavors just like all their other adjunct light lagers, which is to say, mostly nothing except a little offensive creamed corn and oxidized hops extract. Light body, moderate carbonation, mostly dry lager finish. 3 for a buck-and-a-half at QuikTrip. You get what you pay for.

Drank in Panama. Tastes like a mgd. A little bit of body and a decent finish, not terrible.

Can. Sweet barley malt and straw aroma. Golden yellow color with large white head. Lightly sweet and creamy barley malt and hay flavor. For a pale lager, not bad.

Hamms is my go to cheap lager. In the two cities I’ve lived in since turning 21, I have always had a store selling thirty packs of Hamms for less than $16. I always enjoy having a nice cold, refreshing Hamms. It is not a sophisticate beer, but rather a great refreshing beverage. It has a taste reminiscent of Pabst but without the odd after taste. It has little aroma other than a slight undiscript grain smell, and is much like other pale american lagers in respect to appearance, palate, and carbonation, though this is a good thing in this case. Every one has a few freinds who will only drink lagers, so it is nice that there is a cheaper, tastier alternative to other popular more brands. Always have a 30 pack at my house.