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RATINGS: 239   WEIGHTED AVG: 1.61   EST. CALORIES: 132   ABV: 4.4%
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Since 2001, contract-brewed for Pabst Brewing (San Antonio), as Pabst no longer owns a brewery of its own. Schaefer has been brewed in America since 1842, making it one of America’s oldest.


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   AROMA 2/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 2/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 2/20
keepersj12 (1689) - Sicklerville, New Jersey, USA - FEB 16, 2007
An old throwback. This stuff used to be good like Piels was way back when. Now just slop. What does" The one beer to have when your having more than one" mean anyway.

2.3
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 8/20
BREWMUSKCLES (1609) - New Jersey, USA - MAR 16, 2009
golden with a one bubble stream of bubblus that doesnt quit when poured. golden and dry with a touch of sweetness and a beery taste that our fathers put up with for 30 cents a glass. grain, corn yep and a wisp of hop. it wasn’t bad i guess.

0.9
   AROMA 2/10   APPEARANCE 1/5   TASTE 2/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 3/20
mansquito (1602) - washington, Washington DC, USA - DEC 28, 2006
This beer has no taste. It has no smell either. It is also useless. I don’t know why I drank it. Oh yeah, I actually remember now... I was stupid. Oh... and it was cheap... actually it was a dollar more than the other stuff. Oh and it also has a meager 4.4 percent alcohol. No reason to drink it, except to drink it.

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   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 2/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 4/20
JMerritt (1568) - Macomb, Illinois, USA - APR 20, 2007
Clear, light golden with a medium-sized light-white head that quickly and unevenly dissipates down to a thin film. Sweet corn and light malt aroma is just a tad sour around the edges. Rather dry flavor, some rye and wheat, sour grains, copper, and glass. Very highly carbonated. Lacking in flavor and character all around.

1.8
   AROMA 2/10   APPEARANCE 1/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 8/20
jasonp (1556) - Leesburg, Virginia, USA - MAY 6, 2004
One of my favorite shitty beers. It’s typical macro crap but it has a certain charm to it. Tastes like it was made with rice and corn but ends up tasting not all that bad. I used to drink a lot of this playing my company softball games in the summer. Just had one again for old times sake. Like I said, I've tasted worse.

0.9
   AROMA 1/10   APPEARANCE 1/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 2/20
troopie (1555) - Munchen an der Willamette, Oregon, USA - DEC 10, 2007
Tin. Flat watery lager with a bit of maize aroma. Beerlike flavour without being beer. This is what my brewer friends call a malt soup. It’s usually cheap, but you can find something better you can afford.

2.3
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 5/5   OVERALL 8/20
JFGrind (1552) - Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA - JUL 16, 2002
I suppose I am ’blessed’ living in Mayfair, Philadelphia because I have a bar that serves both Schaefer and Schmibt’s beer on draft. An ice cold mug of draft costs only eighty cents. The ice cold Schaefer draft went down easily, the flavor was more of a watered down beer. I think the recipe has been changed in the past ten years. I swore this beer had more flavor to it. Does anybody remember the Schaefer ’stay cool party bottles’ that were glass wrapped in styrofoam just like the soda bottles were in the late 80’s?

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   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 7/20
ditmier (1509) - Boise, Idaho, USA - SEP 4, 2008
2008 Can in St Barths - The irony here is what attracted me to this 11.2 oz can of "America’s Oldest Beer." Not only was it in a childs 11.2 oz can, it was made in Puerto Rico and was "not less than 4% but no more than 6%%...two tidbits that I was able to gleen from the label...Pours transparent yellow with a minimal head and almost no lacing, aroma is grain, flavour is light corn malt and a touch of grain...not bad, but I probably wouldn’t drink one unless it’s 98 degrees outside and the hose isn’t hooked up..


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