Lone Star

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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Well, it is what it is. Doesn’t smell like much. Maybe a little like corn that got sprayed by a skunk in the distant past. The taste is actually pretty sweet for a light lager. Again, lots of corn. But, when it’s ice cold and carbonated, it is completely drinkable on a hot day. And the price is right.

[355ml bottle, Peckham’s Stockbridge, Edinburgh] Unsurprisingly, pours extremely light in colour with a head that vanishes within thirty seconds until it becomes almost totally flat. Tastes almost exactly like Miller Genuine Draft, which is one of the worst abominations known to mankind and is almost painful to even type on a website such as this. I guess that’s unsurprising, given who produces Lone Star’s beer these days. Tastes like bitter straw, with that lovely corn additive striking through at the end. There are so many good lagers out there – I wouldn’t even give this one star [15052009]

UPDATED: DEC 11, 2011 I’m just going to go ahead and say this: I didn’t hate myself for drinking one of these and ordering another one. Not being a massive fan of pale lagers, I didn’t find myself drawn in by the boring smell of rice and other additives, which do a great job (unfortunately) at masking the malts and hops(?). However, once I took a sip, things started to change a bit. On the tongue (or at the tip, at least), this is not very different from other pale lagers, although it doesn’t taste as industrial as, say, Corona Extra. As it goes down, though, it leaves a semi-sweet aftertaste on the back of your tongue that, as I recall, is mildly reminiscent of pumpkin. It’s not unpleasant, and it separates this from the other macro stuff. Overall, it exceeded my very low expectations, and though in the grand scheme of things I wouldn’t call it a good beer, like I said, I don’t hate myself when I drink it.

Decent cheap beer - has a little more of a barley flavor than your normal cheap macro.

Pours pale yellow with a thin white head. Aroma is mildly malty and sweet...smells a bit like hay and corn. Flavor also tastes of hay but isn’t so sweet...I guess they tossed a handful of schwagg hops in? Mouthfeel is watery and the finish is tasteless and abrupt (thankfully).

355ml bottle. Had this years ago when it randomly turned up in a NSLC. Old notes say, "Ok, kind of like a better Budweiser".

0,3 liter fles. Dit is echt bouwvakkersbier. slecht. vies smaakje er aan. Nee een chemisch goedje.

Bottled 355ml. -from Bier Imperium, Vienna. Pale golden coloured, small white head, stale bready and cornflakes in the nose. Pure water with minimal traces of cornflakes. Totally tasteless

(Bottle 11/07-2011) Low fast fading white head, light yellow color, mouthful of high CO2 water.

Ah, it’s a beer. Not bad if the price was that of a Keystone, Old Milwaukee or American beer. I would but it then, but not at a micro price.