Blind Tasting American Macro Lagers

#59 - The guys go back in time to blind taste the beers of our fathers. Which 100+ year old American lager reigns supreme when they don't know which is which?

[@Runner-fz5qg]

After a long hot day at the mill a coors banquet hits just right for me.

[@josephkaple8923]

Budweiser was my favorite until they caved to “Woke Culture” now I drink PBR.

[@bryanmcfadden4071]

​@@josephkaple8923been drinking miller high life and never regretted this Upgrade 👍

[@ghw7192]

The best beer I ever had was an icy cold PBR after moving a friend into an upstairs apartment on a 100+ degree day.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Haha yes! That’s their ideal time and place for sure 🍻

[@carolinareaper7501]

Pretty much grew up on pbr. There price has gone way up.

[@utookmynames]

Did it make you a little emotional? Cuz it made me emotional😂

[@randyspencer5937]

Sorry it’s coors

[@truthseeker6532]

Dude, ANY beer under those circumstances would be good!!!!

[@rayperry7315]

I look at beer the same way my favorite great uncle who was a WW2 vet looked at beer. Whatever is cold and whatever someone else is buying is fine with me.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Cheers to that 🍻

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Absolutely!

[@kcstott]

I’m sorry but you’d drink free piss? Is that what you’re saying?? Sorry I was at a ball game and my tickets included beer. It was coors light. I walked around the corner and paid good money for real beer.

[@bobrocks8387]

Your Uncle was a very wise man.😊

[@treytison1444]

I could identify the Yuengling just from the color alone

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Yeah, it had been quite a while since either of us had a Yuengling and usually straight out of the bottle so we weren't clued in to the color yet. It's definitely different from the rest in color and flavor profile. Thanks for watching! Cheers🍻

[@saddletramp6935]

You ate right. Some local microbrews are red, but not the major labels.

[@flatlanderfl]

Absolutely. Yuengling is definitely the standout here. Easy to pick out in this group

[@GB-rv8im]

1st American MICRO Brew LOL

[@intentionaloffside8934]

Black & Tan is my favorite

[@bobsoldrecords1503]

Schlitz going back to their original recipe was one of the most exciting things to happen to macros in the last 20 years. In the sixties and early seventies, it was the most popular beer in the United States, leaving Bud at number two.

[@myleftthumb2294]

Apparently they had to recreate it since the original recipe was lost. They interviewed old brewmasters.

[@jpecci1262]

We didn't even call it Schlitz. We used to call it beer and it was understood that beer meant Schlitz.

[@_Peremalfait]

I'm glad to see the once mighty Schlitz beer is still going with their original recipe. With Budweiser's recent woes perhaps there's an opening for new Schlitz drinkers to give the brand a boost.

[@joebauers3746]

Schlitz wins just because it is the most fun to say, especially after 8 of them.

[@paulpeterson4216]

@@joebauers3746 Yes, once you were full of Schlitz

[@toddlehman928]

I couldn't agree more on Miller high Life being a different beer from bottle to can. I too land in the bottle camp

[@JohnMartin-ys1kn]

You are correct.

[@Zeus-dw1cx]

Absolutely

[@caseysmith544]

I am Bottle though a tall 16 oz can is almost a bottle. Of Cheap beers it is my second choice over Coors and third is Rolling Rock.

[@JohnMartin-ys1kn]

Agree. @@caseysmith544

[@T-Mo_]

It ended up being his least favorite 😂

[@panicrev555]

You need to be able to cleanse the palette between beers. The previous beer(s) will drastically affect the flavor of subsequent beers tested.

[@billg3356]

My Nana used to drink 'Gansett tallboys back in the day. I still remember them in the fridge when I was a kid...

[@DouglasRosser]

My mom was a bartender/cocktail waitress her entire life. I grew up with so much free junk from distributors and about a million of those purple Crown Royal bags. But my prize possession was a wall-mounted Miller High Life sign that subtly lit my bedroom at night.

[@jcindestin8611]

When in the Marine Corps, we declared Pabst Blue Ribbon, "America's beer." 34 years later, PBR is still my go to beer

[@cr1138]

All day

[@jackharle1251]

When I was in Lejeune, we would go to the beach shop at Onslow Beach and get Milwaukee's Beast 😊

[@jcindestin8611]

@@jackharle1251 yessss, Onslow beach and the Beast! many times!

[@evanbultemeier3596]

Semper Fi. I was stationed at Camp Pendleton and did some time in the reserves.

[@TheSuperGenius]

Best beer I ever had, was my first RED HORSE pulled out of a plastic garbage can, filled with ice. This nectar of the Gods was drank at the first bar I went into, after walking over the 💩river, on a BLISTERING HOT day, Olongapo City, Philippines, circa 1986! Oh, what a night to start a 96! Semper Fi!

[@bozojoe197]

Yuengling is by far the best. You can drink it all night long and not get tired of the taste. It also has the best color out of all of the other beers and stands out beautifully.

[@JimneyCriquet]

Agree so sad it’s not available everywhere

[@user-cv8qe9ru8c]

No yeungling in my state sadly

[@smileymalaise]

They caught a worker pissing into the beer recently.

[@Rich-fg9vj]

Where did you find that information?@@smileymalaise

[@tweezerjam]

Grew up on this stuff. Took a break for a decade but recently came back home to lager. 😂

[@LevisLabOfficial]

Really great video! Love the vibe of the discussion, feels relaxed yet lively. Subscribed!

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Thanks for watching and subscribing. Cheers! 🍻

[@ShyGuyLoveSongs]

My buddies Dad worked at Schiltz in Milwaukee back in the day. Glad Pabst brought it back in small batches. Good stuff.

[@yokosomike]

I can remember my dad drinking Schlitts, then Coors and even Michelob. He finally settled on Bud, then Bud light as he got into his 50s. I’m now going to be the same age as my dad when he went to be with our Lord and every year on his birthday I stop and grab a pepperoni pizza and a Bud. Personally, I enjoy craft beer, a good Belgian ale but my favorite beer at the moment since I live in Tokyo is Coedo White and Hitachino Nest, both Japanese craft beers. Seems a long way off but I can still remember my dad cracking open a Coors on a hot day after mowing the lawn in the 70s in Southern California and sharing a drink or two with me. Thanks for the memories.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Totally agree in that we also mostly drink craft beer. Love Belgians. Glad it brought back some memories though. Thanks for watching, cheers!

[@bigfatno]

Fantastic! I love the history of the beers our fathers used to drink. I can still throw back some Bud and Shmidt from time to time, but I'm more of a "fancy" beer drinker now. Thanks for sharing.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Same here. We mostly drink craft but these certainly have their time and place. Cheers and thanks for watching 🍻

[@stevenm.6886]

My Dad always drank Hamms, advertised during his beloved Cubs games!

[@peterniemira9536]

Hamms is still a good tasting brew. Like all of them chill to the max.

[@Polack-ml9fh]

Can’t beat hamms from a keg.

[@caseysmith544]

Still in parts of the USA find Hamms.

[@corysather6640]

Hamm's is the Mountain Dew of beers very sweet and very little carbonation

[@leemehan]

@@corysather6640- Hamm's kind of has a sweet, weird taste to it.

[@jamesberryman9893]

Just stumbled onto this video and man I'm so glad I did! You guys are hilarious! My personal all time favorite of these would have to be Miller High Life but after about 5 or 6, it would be pretty hard to decipher which one is which lol.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Thanks James! Happy to hear you found us and are enjoying it. Keep your eyes peeled for a follow up video in the next week or two 😉🍻

[@scotthenkel2833]

Pabst and Schlitz were popular even into the 1980s before massive advertising and light beers took over.

[@artistnyc123]

Bingo! In the 6o's Pabst and Schlitz, Falstaff, Coors, and Bud, all had the same, price points. Today you pay a premium for Coors, Bud, and Miller due to advertising costs.

[@bzwaters]

A great video and I'm glad Pabst at least placed. When my dad was a young man drinking with friends, Pabst was his beer of choice. It was apparently the fuel for many a "colorful tales" of his youth. It holds a special place for me and it's one I always drink in his honor and memory. It is also a favorite of the "cheap beers". I would probably get Schlitz a lot as well except I have a hard time finding in my area.

[@austinidol95050]

my grandfather's beer was olympia , wish that beer was still available and part of your list for nostalgia , great topic video guys

[@ericruggles4631]

And if you drink enough of them, they all get prettier at closing time.

[@willhorting5317]

🎶 "The girls all get prettier at closing time, cause they all begin to look like movie stars." 🎶

[@billh.1940]

But so do us fat, ugly guy's. Good time is had by all.

[@billbrasky7540]

Ha I love that song. That was one of my ma's favorites too. When I was still in high school, she's get her boiler maker goin on on the weekends (bc we lived in a dry county at the time), and she had tapes of all the greats, and she'd play em loud while she cooked and danced and would have me drink beers and shots with her and tell me about the good old country music n stuff, SRV, and the golden oldies too, etc... That one ALWAYS got played at the house 🤙🏻

[@willhorting5317]

@@billbrasky7540 👍

[@gregthoms5232]

Coors is great. Don't know what his problem is.

[@benjaminhawthorne1969]

Past Blue Ribbon has been my everyday choice for decades. It is clean and fresh tasting, with no odor or aftertaste. It is the beer that I reach for to accompany every meal (except breakfast!😁) I buy thirty (30) cans at a time at Wal-mart for less per ounce than I can buy cola! When I want a beer that "eats like a meal," I reach for Samuel Adams. Held up to sunlight in a Pilsner glass, it shows its gorgeous rufous color. It also is clean tasting, but filled with about half a-dozen flavors, and as maker Jim Koch says, "a head so thick, you can float a bottle cap on it!" A bottle of "Sammy" is always a treat for the senses of every beer lover!

[@copsarebastards]

I'm a brewer at a craft brewery in NY and pbr is my #1 macro lager as well. The price is great, it has some nice hop character, it's not flavorless.

[@leemehan]

Schlitz is really great too. U want a beer that is miles better than Sam Adams, buy Wernesgruner at Aldi's. Sam Adams is terrible to me and blows it away!

[@RJR2222]

Sterling big mouths and Old Milwaukee were my go too back in the day. Enjoyed the content thanks

[@eddy67]

Genesee (Rochester NY) would be a good candidate for this test. Brewery has been around since 1878!

[@chriscon8463]

I remember having a sip of my Dad’s Genny Cream Ale when I was about 5 years as old in the late ‘70s!

[@samuelreams7670]

Cream ale out of bottle is delicious

[@joshuafrahm8778]

Out of these I'd have to go Yuengling, but Old Style is my #1

[@caseysmith544]

Old Style is a great beer.

[@Mournful3ch0]

No Style!

[@Kutulu369]

That Miller High Life sign on the shelf though. I miss seeing that so much from my childhood as it was hanging in the garage. It was mesmerizing.

[@jpecci1262]

The champagne of bottled beers.

[@jerrywoods4066]

Horrible beer

[@Zeus-dw1cx]

MGD in a bottle is great

[@SatchPersaud-sm1gc]

Nothing beats a cold lager, and there's only one true lager there

[@tomy.1846]

My best beer? Hands down. When I was about 14 years old, some of my friends and I went up on the roof of a random 5 floor apartment building one summer night. We found a red cooler on the roof with about 6 cans of Bud, in with the coldest possible water. A few few ice cubes were still keeping them frosty. It was a warm night, we were running around the nearby town like usual. Those beers were delicious! Cracklin cold! To this day, I'm 52, those cold beers were the best! It was like the scene in the Shawshank Redemption when they got the beers after tarring the roof! Incredible! 😃🙃🤤😎🤠🤯👆 Miss those days, lol!

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

😂 that’s awesome. They definitely have their time and place 🍻

[@geoffreyclark2805]

I'm in my 60's and back in the day I enjoyed Schaefer Beer, unavailable in stores for quite sometime a friend of mine ordered me a case from the liquor store a few years ago and it was okay but not quite what I remembered. Came to find out it's under Pabst umbrella now. Miller High Life is my choice now for American Lager style. Moosehead, Molson Canadian, or LaBatt's Blue I enjoy too.

[@robclark3095]

Meister Brau!!! That was my high school beer. I also remember my grandmother drinking Olympia beer.

[@gertifity4868]

Oly was great, but it had to be ice cold.

[@matpatte]

It was interesting to watch a battle of the worst beers ever made, and Schlitz coming in 1st place was the icing on the cake.

[@lcusatis]

I love how the Yuengling stands out so obviously.

[@JH-pn6zd]

..and yet they acted like they had NO idea what beee it was!🙄🙄🙄

[@JH-pn6zd]

**beer

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Haha, yeah honest ignorance I'm afraid. I don't think either of us had seen a Yuengling outside of the bottle or can, or at least not in a long time. Believe it or not, it got edited out when trimming down the time but I actually thought it could possibly be the Narragansett originally because I hadn't had that one outside of the can either.

[@lcusatis]

@@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539 Thanks for the reply, fellas. Enjoy the videos. This one was quite fun.

[@gene1278]

wish someone would bring back Falstaff.

[@user-David-Alan]

Yuengling in a bottle is so much better. I guess everybody's tastebuds are different. The only beer with flavor out of the beers you had there was Y.

[@kentmarsh6442]

Yuengling is best on tap.

[@picklerix6162]

It’s good on tap but most beer tastes better on tap.

[@finnafishfl]

Cans > bottles

[@jeffduncan9140]

​@kentmarsh6442 never had it on tap but I do love it in the bottle.

[@flatlanderfl]

Just got back from a week of racing/camping down here in Florida and Yuengling kept us happily hydrated! Very good stuff.

[@DSToNe19and83]

Hahaha, this should be golden... like the high life! Plus don’t forget this buds for you and the mountains are blue! My favorite will be always the original American blue ribbon award winning Americas world’s fair! Still my favorite, red white and blue... with a ribbon on top! 🍻

[@adamjenks9613]

The ‘E’ in this study, the Narragansett Lager has been a favorite of mine for years! My personal choice for cheap beer. That’s just me, I honestly like it.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

It really is a nice one. I have been ordering it at concerts lately. Cheers! - Craig

[@skswig1]

They sell that as premium beer where I live

[@michaelbower85]

Same! I had one with dinner tonight and after work it hits the spot nice

[@justincovert6943]

Still love Narragansett. They make one called Fresh Catch which is delicious

[@gregggoss2210]

Good cheap beer. Prefer it in bottles. Quint's beer of choice.

[@roscoe_t]

Macro beer formulas have changed a lot over the years. Schlitz wrecked itself in the '70s with a formula update; the Schlitz in the test uses a 1960s recipe, so it naturally stands out. The Pabst of today is not the same as the Pabst I drank in the early '70s.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Yeah, no doubt none of them are the exact same as they started out in terms of ingredients and recipes. I wish I were able to taste how they were back in the day to compare 🍻

[@csnide6702]

Pabst was mild back in 1970s -- and a HUGE brand

[@bklyndg]

Where can you FIND Schlitz with the 1960 recipe?

[@12babyapes59]

@@bklyndg yes where do you find this beer?

[@SharpsBox]

Weirdly enough, the PBR in China is the original recipe on Pabst equipment. Tastes like mid 90s PBR before the Milwaukee plant closed.

[@joshuarosen465]

I remember that there was always a case of Schlitz in the back stairwell of my grandfather's house. He died in 1962. I don't know if it was a choice or if that was the only beer available in Sheboygan in the 1950s.

[@wardaddy6595]

My Dad and uncles all drank Schlitz when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s , I'm sure my first sip of beer was a Schlitz .

[@pjw1016]

Seems like WW2 photos of GI’s drinking beer were overwhelmingly Schlitz. Growing up in the 50’s and 60’s most of my area taverns had Schlitz or Hamms signs hanging out front.

[@fixed970]

I’m sitting here with a glass of Hamms, laughing at these guys!

[@UncleBlasto]

That animated Miller High Life sign is amazing.

[@AJ-ln4sm]

Good stuff fellas! I'd love to sit down and do this with my dad or my son. Cheers

[@fionnmaccumhaill3257]

In beer taste testing, the taste gets better the more you drunk.

[@nickyl9040]

Shaeffer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

🍻

[@emac1652]

One of the greatest ad slogans of all time. Some advertising exec pitching that in today's politically correct world would be fired on the spot😄

[@skybarwisdom]

I've never tried a Gansett but will look foreword to that day. I was raised on Budweiser and Miller and always thought that PBR tasted similar to Bud. Schlitz was the first beer I ever tried as a teen before moving on to better tasting brews. Keep it going guys.

[@seekingagreatperhaps6391]

The sheer stress I feel watching videos on any macro beer review is I can actually sense them getting warm as discussion happens and I start wrinkling my nose and then I realize I am on a mote of dust around an obscure star and nothing matters and we are all just cosmic dust in the wind and then I sigh and then I want a beer.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

😂

[@HaimTabibi]

Take Yuengling to your families and friends out west. They can’t get it out there and LOVE it!

[@sspaay]

The Black and Tan is heaven in a glass.

[@TheNutzandBoltz]

I'm from PA and live in Idaho. Brother'n'law borough out four cases. Fully agree.

[@Whats-It-To-Ya]

I live 15 miles from the Yuengling brewery and you couldn't pay me to drink that piss

[@ericmiles6413]

Found this in PA. at race love it since then.

[@TheNutzandBoltz]

@@Whats-It-To-Ya And the color blue sucks. Thanks for your opinion.

[@shawnlabroix6886]

What a superb review, Gents! As a Canadian, I can only get high life at the local beer store. Interesting that Roger noted a difference between the bottle and can versions. In fact, up in Canada, the bottles are imported from Milwaukee and the canned versions are brewed locally by Molson. Both are tasty, but I prefer the bottles. (Plus, the bottles are cheaper). Lastly, On business trips through Michigan , I always grab some Hamms', Strohs', Schlitz or Old Style. Just love these American Macros!!

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Interesting on the cans being brewed locally. That would definitely create a noticeable difference. Thanks for watching! Cheers 🍻

[@laudanum669]

I work at a liquor store in Wisconsin we sell a 4 pack of Hamm's Tall Boys for $2:50. So 2 4 packs equals about 11 12 OZ beers for $5. We also sell 30 packs of Hamm's 12 OZ for $13. But our best selling beer is 30 packs of 12 OZ Busch lite for $22. I'm a die hard Hamm's guy myself.

[@shawnlabroix6886]

@@laudanum669 Just bought a 30 of Hamms in michigan @ 13.99. Solid macro imo. Would really love to try Extra Gold Lager by Coors but tough to find

[@bucknasty69]

That’s nuts you guys can get Hamm’s that cheap up north. I hardly see it around down here in Texas, and the cheapest 30 pack I can get is High Life for $20. I miss Hamm’s, I drank a lot of it in college. Used to get 30 packs for $15 when I went to college up in Kansas.

[@crazyjeff100]

I'm a big craft brew guy (I enjoy porters, stouts, lactose-free fruit sours, and amber ales) but you'll catch me in my backyard multiple times a year with a bunch of miller high life bottles. I haven't ever tried a PBR or Schlitz, but I'll add it to my list this summer. Lived off Milwaukee's Best in college, not surprised that didnt make this show.

[@tweezerjam]

Yuengling only began brewing their flagship Lager in the 1980s. Their original beer is their Lord Chesterfield Ale, followed by their premium (pilsner) and porter varieties.

[@donnydew9313]

Love Banquet! Wanna try the extra gold if it comes back!

[@DH-.]

Miller high life bottles give me nostalgia, those were the best to chug in competition with your buds .. secret trick you get a flexy straw bend around the rim use like a snorkel in a weird way and u can chug the whole thing 3 seconds flat as an amateur drinker 2 seconds with practice

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

🤣 niiice party trick pro-tip there 🍻

[@ComradBaroness]

As a punk from the West Coast, PBR and Miller High life are my personal favorites and scene favorites. Cheap and good.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Yep, same here in a normal show context.

[@bluidog2]

Coors Banquet over all of these. Has never changed.

[@brianandrews4716]

Nice video. Out of that line up I'll take the bottled High Life all day.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

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[@skateboarderw3281]

Totally enjoyed this....good times, Schlitz rules. Too bad it's not in NC anymore...

[@arise2945]

Apparently you can't get it in Kansas any more either.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Dang. Roger said he couldn't find any when he went around to a few stores in Georgia the other week. So hopefully they haven't stopped distributing here also. Thanks for watching 🍻

[@jamesvolpe3581]

Beer drinker for many years!! Of all the ones you tried and I had them all Yuengling is by far the best! Just an outstanding beer and my go to choice!

[@bobg5362]

Originally from RI. Growing up my father was a Gannsett drinker. He said the taste changed for the worse when they moved production out of state and stopped using the water from the Scituate Reservoir.

[@davesmith4757]

Dad beer? You mean real beer.

[@justincovert6943]

It's important to remember that your grandparents would probably have only drank regional beers. Especially in the 40's and 50's since countywide distribution was a huge thing. Yuengling is still only available in I think 15 states.

[@porkrind]

Yuengling has recently made a BIG change in distribution and is now available at least as far west as Kansas. By recently I mean last week, it was big news here. It's... okay. I too am a High Life from the bottle kind of guy.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Great point 🍻

[@rickkeeton9246]

You’ve left off Fallstaff and Strohs and Blatz, and Drewry’s! Hamms, and Olympic Gold, if we were low on cash!😂

[@drew311stylee]

Fun video. Thanks for posting. It's really hard to side-by-side taste test beer. Even in this video certain beers that you really liked upon first tasting, once you've had a bunch of different cheap beer on your palate you go back to it later and it doesn't taste good to you anymore. I bet you guys could do this 10 times and get 10 different winners.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

You are absolutely right. The temperature and palate fatigue are big factors. It was very difficult haha. Still fun though. Thanks for watching, cheers!

[@MichaelLanier-qk8kg]

Schlitz was my favorite beer in the early 70s. They tried to speed up the brewing process and thus gain an economic edge over its competitors, and it backfired on them. One of the great all time blunders in the beer industry.

[@ronaldtheriot]

Schlitz is my favorite, in this lineup.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

We certainly agreed!

[@jdbeards1]

WE drank The Bull, Schlitz malt liquor.

[@leemehan]

I like PBR and then High Life

[@ClancyWoodard-yw6tg]

I'm a coors banquet man You cannot beat a cold Yellow Jacket on a hot summer day And my dad was a Budweiser Drinker I believe he got introduced to it while he was in Vietnam

[@beardorocks]

I rotate between Hamms, PBR, Highlife, Old Style and Coors. After 20 years of mostly craft brew, ive gone back to my roots.

[@brownale1000]

What a great 👍 video Craig and Roger well done subscribed cheers 🍺🍺

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it, cheers🍻

[@stephenrichie4646]

Wow. Surprised. Gonna have to try Schlitz. My long time fave Yuengling. Can’t abide Bud or PBR.

[@eugeneblum5686]

Yuengling is currently negotiating with a distributor in Wisconsin. Usually have a few when I'm in Alabama, Georgia and Texas. Although can't beat a Shiner Bock when in Texas. Usually a High Life in the bottle is my go to.

[@gertifity4868]

Shiner Premium is a great lager. (And Texas is a great state!)

[@JimneyCriquet]

Wish I could get some in WA

[@MrBushy3000]

I didn't see this in comments at least near top of them. One of the biggest differences between Schlitz and other American beers is the grain that is used. They brewed with rice because near Milwaukee there were large areas with wild rice and it was cheap and easy to get. They meant to change back to the usuals but people liked it so much they kept it. Just one fun side note the beer factory that Lavern and Shirly worked at was called Shots Beer which was an homage to Schlitz.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Ha! Very interesting. I know rice is very commonly used today but must have been an interesting change back in the day. Thanks for highlighting that!

[@pecoswild]

Entertaining and a fun activity. I’ve done that with bourbons. I’m going to copy y’all and do the same with beers! Cheers and greetings from Justin, TX!

[@b.rocket]

Great interesting video. My 1 is Coors banquet and 2 MHL.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

They were all good. Tough tasting them side by side like that. Thanks for watching! Cheers 🍻

[@CrazyAboutVinylRecords]

Yuengling Traditional Lager is the best of the lot.

[@brendamackel6917]

My dad was a Schlitz drinker when I was a kid. Of the macrobrews you had here it is pretty much the only one I’d drink. I’m a craft brewing fan.

[@Tyler-wp3ns]

Looks like my beer fridge!Just need Old Style, Hamm’s, Busch, Stag, Grain Belt, Iron City, Molson Canadian, Michelob Golden Draft and Natural Ice.

[@edfulginiti8798]

PBRs for me.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Can't go wrong there. Get them often myself. - Craig

[@marcstevens8576]

I'm a Pabst man, however, I truly miss the Coors Extra Gold. Shame they discontinued it.

[@Mike-jv4rz]

PBR and Old Style in bottles are both great to me... In the dead heat of summer I like the "miller killers" the 7 oz bottles, 3 chugs and gone - they never get cold lol..

[@marcstevens8576]

@@Mike-jv4rz It was a lot of fun trying to open those pull-tabs in the Winter as teenagers. "Hey, Shake get us a screwdriver". I remember it very well. Half the time, before Shake returned with the screwdriver, our cans of Schlitz, or Pabst were pretty much frozen. Brings back great memories.

[@Mike-jv4rz]

@@marcstevens8576 Pull tabs- lol Now that's a blast from the past 👍

[@FestusBro]

Drank a bunch and forgot about the Extra Gold. From the wayback files.

[@justincovert6943]

Being from long island my grand parents. Didn't drink any of that. It was Rheingold and gin sometimes whiskey. Upstate it turned to Genny Cream Ale.

[@Old_Sailor85]

Miller and Coors (since it went nationwide) tastes like soap to me. College it was Buckhorn, Old Milwaukee, or anything else that was less than $5 a case. Old Style if we were splurging or buying "kegs". I actually like what people call "skunky" beer. Almost all are in green bottles. Heineken, Moosehead, Grolsch, etc. FWIW, I worked at Christian Schmidt Brewing Company for a few years until they closed in 1986. We had 100 labels. We also made Rolling Rock when they were om strike. Rolling Rock's recipe made little CO2 and we had to carbonate the heck out of it. Schmidt's beer actually made excess CO2 that we compressed, liquified, and sold or used for other brews. Schmidt's Classic was my favorite.

[@fixed970]

Loved the Schmidt’s wild life cans!

[@MidNight-ns7is]

Miller high Life in the bottle is always my go-to, the original Schlitz recipe is right up there and I'm glad they brought it back. It's just kind of hard to find where I live. Great show! This was a lot of fun. Thanks!

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Awesome, glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching. Cheers🍻

[@DickElectric]

I love how all our memories are of dad or grandpa drinking his favorite brews back in the day....by the way my grandpa drank Old Milwaukee....I always got a sip and the golden retriever got a full one in his dog dish.

[@PipeMan1958]

I picked Schlitz right at the start, but Hamm's should of been a part of the test, these two beers are great.

[@theworldwariioldtimeradioc8676]

Stroh’s also. Both might be tough to find. I live in an urban area and can find Hamm’s at the mega liquor stores.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Yeah, Hamm's and Old Style seem to the be two most popular in this style that we can't get in our market here in Atlanta 🍻

[@leviturner3265]

I agree. I find Hamm's to be very nice. Our local liqour store sells Hamm's in 30-packs. I do not know how well they sell, but I make sure to buy two a week so that they continue to stock to them. Currently I have a surplus of about 150 beers because I can not drink them as fast as I buy them. Whenever the liqour store does not have Hamm's in stock I buy Miller High Life. If for whatever reason they do not have either, or I am looking to save one dollar, I might buy Busch. Always in 30 packs to save money.

[@TheMarcopix]

@@leviturner3265 We mostly drank Stroh's because that's what the older guys drank and they bought ours so...ok. Hamm's was another that brought back memories.

[@theworldwariioldtimeradioc8676]

@@leviturner3265 You are beer stocked for the apocalypse.

[@steveh4114]

Good, Fun review. Wish I could get Schlitz in Seattle, WA. 1 of best take-aways is that they are all pretty similar. I tried Schlitz once here (12 pack) and I liked it. It was my father's favorite in the 50's to early '70's. He was from Wisconsin, too. I also enjoy Coors and Miller.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

That is certainly a big takeaway. You get a lot more separation as far as good and bad once you get into light beers which we also did a blind tasting video of recently, but in this category it's kind of hard to go wrong if you are in the mood for that type of beer. Thanks for watching! Cheers

[@leeallsopp5152]

Fantastic! A lot are hard to get here in England.. not a fan of corrs or bud but I loved PBR when it was here briefly 🍺

[@willcool713]

Just an interesting side note, Coors makes its big money with high-end ceramics for electronics, mostly as a defense contractor. The beer side of things acts mostly as a PR wing, though it's definitely a strong concern in its own right. In the early '90's I worked for a laser scribing firm, and a single Coors ceramic plate, about 4"x4", was about $100, and once it was scribed, punched, and snapped, was worth as much as $50K. Coors had the market cornered, and was the only manufacturer of the specific type of required, military-grade porcelain for certain defense contract circuit boards. The little firm I worked for (seven people) probably went through 200-300 plates per day, five days per week. (It took a lot of time to build up the power in the capacitor banks, and the system could only cut a half dozen or so pieces per cycle.) That's over $100,000/week that Coors got from us alone. (And we made about the same, I believe, after energy, equipment, payroll, and basic overhead. The two owners were raking it in.) (The most fun was the excimer laser, which could punch through a half inch of plate steel in under half a second. You'd do a x-ray resistant ceramic stencil first, and put that in the way of the excimer aperture and -- Flash! -- an 8"x8" area of steel plate would be cut into whatever shapes, to tolerances that could only be checked by electron microscope.)

[@gamemeister27]

I honestly had no idea! That's super interesting man

[@SilverbackGorilla69]

Making a comment so I don't forget this. Never knew, very interesting.

[@Mike-jv4rz]

@@gamemeister27 Agreed great info...

[@fiteboss]

Yeah, CoorsTek makes some really nice precision squares and other metrology equipment too. Big $$

[@scarhart53]

Miller-Coors is owned by Molson out of Canada. All they make is beer.

[@dane5896]

I had not seen or heard of Narragansett, until this year, here in New Jersey. I recently saw Hamm's beer for the first time. 🍻

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Ohhh, Hamm's ey? That's a new one on me. Sounds worth a try.

[@ryantaylor3945]

I was wondering where Hamm's was in this lineup bc I thought it was a very old brew as well.

[@drbobdrake]

Narragansett was a very popular beer in New England and was a major sponsor of the Boston Red Sox out of Cranston, Rhode Island. The brand went out of business but was brought back several years ago with great success. Cans of Narragansett featured in the film Jaws. “Hi, neighbor, have a ‘Gansett!”

[@j.landismartin5397]

The original Michelob was my beer of choice since high school (I graduated in '83) till it was discontinued. Yuengling has been my go-to since. In fact, I'm enjoying one now. Don't recall ever having a Schlitz but remember my dad and his friends having it around back in the '70's. Think I'll look around for it and pick up a 6-pack for my own taste test.

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Excellent idea 🍻

[@Jj-bh1tv]

That was fun---THNX guys!

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Glad you l enjoyed it. Thanks for watching 🍻

[@mondoenterprises6710]

Now if they can only bring Stroh's copper kettle fire brewed beer back.

[@csnide6702]

and get it back in Detroit

[@brent69]

Old style

[@mondoenterprises6710]

@@csnide6702 If it's good enough for Clem Snide, it's good enough for me.

[@csnide6702]

@@brent69 Heileman's Old Style was HUGE in Chicago area - for a long time !

[@Mike-jv4rz]

And Alex ....

[@iasimov5960]

Of those tested, my favorites are Yuengling, Schilz, and Pabst. Do they even make Blatz anymore?

[@leemehan]

Yes they do! I am from Wisconsin and it is here

[@chuckharst8676]

Grain Belt still going well in upper Midwest. First thing i do when I visit is buy a 12 pack in bottles. Very very good beer.

[@71rcode72]

I met my wife 26 years ago at a bar in Muenster Texas. I had a can of open Schlitz in each hand at the time. It's magical.

[@alanarnold2163]

The Narragansett is a contract beer as well. If you look at the can it says brewed in Rochester, NY. So basically you’re drinking a Genesee Beer.

[@aleks1939]

Well the brewery may be owned by Genesee, but they're using the Narragansett recipe.

[@mondoenterprises6710]

Speaking of Genessee, where do they place?

[@csnide6702]

FIFCO --- Genesee has been absorbed by them.

[@billh.1940]

Ah! Genesee, I remember it well, 10 cent a can. The cream ale was drinkable, but junk. The beer was worse. Upstate NY it was were I started drinking, but then the whole town was drunk. Nothing else to do.

[@markabrams3932]

@@billh.1940 Genny Cream Ale was my staple growing up in upstate NY until I was 20. I enlisted and was later stationed in Belgium has had introduction to real beer of the region. I've never gone back!

[@roostercogburn4931]

Rolling Rock, olde style, iron city...my regional faves.

[@barberdoug6930]

Problem is all of the beers have changed formula thru the years

[@congresssux9766]

We the consumers allow it. Too many idiots drinking beer for a buzz instead of getting a buzz off an enjoyable drinks.

[@mike289homebuilt5]

In the old days, everything was organic, everything felt more upbeat

[@wellfleation1]

Out of all those bad beers, I would go PBR all day every day on a hot summer day.

[@JackJack-ld5eo]

Growing up in the 60's, my dad drank all of those beers at one time or another, except Yuengling. Whenever he asked me to get him a beer, I would open it for him and take a quick sip or 2 before I got it to him. I was able to accurately name each beer on your first go around, based on your descriptions, 😂. Thanks for the remember when! P.S. you forgot about Schaefer!

[@drinkingwithcraigandroger4539]

Haha that's awesome. Glad our taste lined up with your memory. Yeah, there are quite a number of classic beers viewers have pointed out that are more regionalized, or at least not available to us in Georgia it seems or that we don't see often anyway. If one of us travels up north we'll have to load up on some of the recommendations and do a 2nd tasting. Cheers🍻

[@dakchang63]

You not the only one being introduced by yard work 😅

[@RWildekrav66]

Should have had Strohs and Old Style in there.

[@markreeves9026]

I advise to try yuengling black and tan, good stuff.

[@DogSpeak]

At the end of the day, you drank more Yuengling than the others

[@SERBIAZ]

Red white and blue. Awesome beer