looks....cannot see any smoke or flames.....wonders.... Ok, i admit it isnt exactly the best flavor/a top beer - but can see nothing wrong in Bud/lime for summer drinking... I drink beer for 'taste' in winter, but 'refreshment' in summer - and can agree that Bud/lime is never gonna appear in my diet over the colder months, but not that it will never appear during these delightful warmer days... one cannot down 2+ liters of water without something other than h2o goijg in there, ya know....?
Why can't a beer be tasty AND refreshing in the summer? There are many good summer ales/session beers that are very tasty and still light enough to drink on a hot day.
^ maybe they dont come cheap enough or are not sold locally at the moment....the stores tend to buy in the latest thing - sell it for 6 month then move on - only the popular stuff hangs around longer. I like Chang all year round - but they only se,ll the 660ml bottles here - so its like a meal rather than a drink - too filling. They used to sell it in 375ml bottles in Aussie, so that was fine there... Agreed Larry - which is why i like to toss an ice cold beer down to break the flow!
I'm with Foil -- I've been drinking a lot of session beers and "farmhouse" ales this Summer. Fantastic flavor, very refreshing.
I went out last Friday to 5 different bars and NOT ONE had Coors beer, they ALL had Coors Light but NO ONE had Regular Coors. That's SAD.
that sounds like the supermarkets here - they all stock coors light - but i have yet to find a stockist of normal coors and want to try it.....mind you it was about a year before i got to try bud light/lime after one store SAID it stocked it ad had already ran out 3-4 days later.... i guess regular coors might arrive some day....
Hmmm.....we have regular Coors and Coor Light all day long in my area. I'd like to get Old Style! I'm assuming it's still around in The Midwest.
Wetherspoons used to have it on tap. Don't know if they still do as it's not a style of place I frequent. It was pretty average.
Maddy lives in England, I'm not sure where you are. Stores here HAVE Regular Coors, But they have 20x as much Coors light. I know a few stores have the Coors Extra Gold.
My beer rant for the day is that Shiner has discontinued their Hefeweizen. I called the brewery today and a lady in the PR department told me it had been replaced by that damned White Wing Belgian style ale. White Wing is okay, but I liked the Hefeweizen best of all their beers.
Ingested today: Melleruds Lager - a local lager/pilsner, pretty bitter, fresh taste, unmemorable. Shogun - Well, it had a longer name... an IPA. Pretty good one, very strong fruity aftertones, like apricot.
For good. They have seasonals, but the Hefeweizen was year-round until last October, which is when I wasn't able to find it any more. I thought they'd turned it into a seasonal, but apparently it's gone. Hopefully not for good, but the gal on the phone didn't offer much hope. White Wing is good, but as evenflow said in his review, it's got a lot of "herbal" notes. Whenever I drink it, I get sort of a oregano taste, which isn't something I care for in a beer.
Today I'm at Walgreens drug store and I spot - BIG FLATS lager. Yes, Walgreens has a "store brand." It's everything you would or could imagine. Cheap, functional, not bad....just no personality, nor does it need one. But who can resist a cool looking ferris wheel on the can? Anyway, I'm not recommending it, but if you are in Walgreens and don't want to get out into that bullshit weekend traffic and just want to get home and relax, give it a try. You're already in the store, what have you got to lose?
Walgreens in Massachusetts doesn't sell beer, otherwise I'd probably give it a try, fully expecting to hate it. When I was growing up, there was a grocery store than went full blown gimmick on the plain label generics (white package with a blue stripe and lettering), so they sold everything, right down to t-shirts that said "shirt" across the chest. This even extended to beer! The store was acquired by a larger chain and these things disappeared. But I totally wanted this when I was in my early teens. I'm sure the hipsters would go nuts for it!
The big regional grocery chain here did the same thing except the labeling was in black with no stripe. At the grocery store in my home town, there was a whole aisle (one side of it, anyway) with all that generic stuff on it.
I'd buy those at least once, but only because they look like a product from Repo Man. edit: found a picture
I saw my teen years as a cross between Repo Man and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I had forgotten about all these generic products until Oldfella posted about Walgreens beer.
Look where it's brewed, In Rochester, NY. It's a Contract beer for NAB (North American Brewery) which makes Genesee. It's OK but not as good as Genesee.
