Beer Review 1 | Dos Equis Lager Especial
A very sweet tasting and refreshing cerveza. The cool bottle as well as the endorsement from The World’s Most Interesting Man also doesn’t hurt. I just wish the alc/vol was a bit higher and the cost a bit lower. It is a beer meant to be enjoyed with some enchiladas or for an afternoon at the pool.
Style: Mexican Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 4.2% | Rating: 4
Beer Review 2 | Yuengling Traditional Lager
Yuengling Traditional Lager is not only from America’s oldest brewery, but also a very tasty beverage. I like the look of the bottles, and I love that it’s family owned. The alc/vol could be a tad bit higher, but you really can’t beat the price. This is America’s beer!
Style: Amber Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 4.2% | Rating: 3.5
Beer Review 3 | Coors Banquet
It’s funny considering how much Boomers used to suck down Bud Light, Miller Lite, and Coors Light, that Coors Banquet has always gone so overlooked. Coors Banquet has a subtle banana flavor to it and tastes way better than the Light formula.
Style: American Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 5% | Rating: 4
Beer Review 4 | Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
This is a beer that has been well loved by Hop Heads for decades, and while it’s not something you’ll ever see me drinking a full 6pk of, I will say that it does live up to the hype. Very flavorful and jacked full of cascade hops. I imagine this beer would pair really well with a nice burger or steak from off of the grill.
Style: Pale Ale | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 5.6% | Rating: 4
Beer Review 5 | Icehouse
The taste is a bit offensive, but still drinkable. Let’s be honest here, if you are buying an ice beer, you are buying it to get as drunk as possible while spending as little money as possible, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Style: Ice Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 5.5% | Rating: 3
Beer Review 6 | Samuel Adams Boston Lager Remastered
I haven’t had the non nerfed version of Samuel Adam Boston Lager since around 2008. So it’s hard for me to compare the original with the “Cost Cutting” opps I meant “Remastered” version. But it tastes mostly like I remembered, maybe a bit more watery now though. It’s a mighty fine beer that I’ve kind of been craving more of lately. I just wish since it’s now beer flavored seltzer water, that they’d slash the price a tad bit.
Style: Vienna Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 5% | Rating: 3.5
Beer Review 7 | Dos Equis Ambar Especial
I had heard people praising the Dos Equis Ambar Especial over the Dos Equis Lager Especial, however I found myself liking the Lager Especial more. It’s an okay cerveza, I picked up a subtle taste of a cigar or tobacco flavor when drinking it, but I’m also really bad at beer reviews, so who knows? Lol
Style: Mexican Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 4.7% | Rating: 3.5
Beer Review 8 | Warsteiner Premium Pilsener
Has that Heineken skunkiness, but it’s cheaper, and Warsteiner is a much cooler name for a beer. Being that it’s a German beer and I’m mostly made up of German heritage, I’d rather grab a 12 pack of this one over Heineken.
Style: German Pilsner | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 4.8% | Rating: 3.5
Beer Review 9 | Warsteiner Premium Dunkel
One of the best beers I’ve ever had, it tastes like a chocolate coffee! Very affordable and tasty, those Germans know what they’re doing, I wouldn’t mind having a dedicated fridge full of this stuff.
Style: Munich Dunkel | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 4.8% | Rating: 5
Beer Review 10 | Moosehead Lager
Tastes like a Heikenen at a discount price, and with an awesome moose head logo on the bottle. It is Canada’s oldest independent brewer, so it’s not being run by some big evil corporation, yet. If you were to see this side by side at the store next to Heineken, I’d recommend picking up this one. It would be best enjoyed with some poutine and while watching some old Bret “The Hitman” Hart matches.
Style: Canadian Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 5% | Rating: 4
Beer Review 11 | Eagle Banana Bread Beer
Smells like it was brewed with Banana Runts, it has more of a banana smell than it does taste, it is also dangerously overpriced. If you’re a banana fan like myself, I’d recommend trying a single, the price and the flavor don’t justify an entire 6pk of the stuff.
Style: Fruit Beer | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 5.2% | Rating: 3.5
Beer Review 12 | Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA
While I find the original Sierra Nevada Pale Ale to be quite flavorful and refreshing, the Torpedo Extra IPA was just too much for my tender lil guy taste buds, not for me. Way too harsh, not enjoyable.
Style: IPA | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 7.2% | Rating: 2
Beer Review 13 | Yuengling Hershey’s Chocolate Porter
One of the most delicious beers I’ve ever had, smells and tastes like it was drizzled with Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup. I only had a single of this beer, but I could tell from just that one, that I would have no problem drinking an entire 12pk of this in a night. My dream would be for Yuengling to drop their partnership with Hershey, and just make their own Yuengling Chocolate Porter, maybe down the road.
Style: Porter | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 4.7% | Rating: 5
Beer Review 14 | Guinness Extra Stout
Has that chocolaty, kind of metal tasting Guinness flavor of the original, just a bit thicker.
Style: Stout | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 5.6% | Rating: 3.5
Beer Review 15 | Red Stripe
Decent smoke, decent carbonation, very clean, floral smell.
An okay beer…“Red Stripe, it is beer!”
Style: Jamaican Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 4.6% | Rating: 3.5
Beer Review 16 | Kentucky Vanilla Barrel Cream Ale
Cool bottle, cool aged in bourbon barrels gimmick, but it’s pricey and the vanilla flavor was a bit too much for me. I love vanilla bean ice cream, but whenever I have a Vanilla Coke, it just tastes too artificial, and that was the vanilla flavor I picked up from this one. It was okay, but not a repurchase.
Style: Cream Ale | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 5.5% | Rating: 3
Beer Review 17 | Yazoo Gerst Amber Ale
Fair price, very drinkable, nothing remarkable.
Style: Amber Ale | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 4.9% | Rating: 3.5
Beer Review 18 | Blue Moon Belgian White
Around 2009, when more beers beside the usual American adjunct lagers were becoming more popular, Blue Moon seemed to really explode in popularity. It seemed to be a pretty common chick beer for female beer drinkers back then. I’m not sure how popular it is now, but having retried it, it was very underwhelming. A hazy looking, bitter orange flavored beer.
Style: Witbier | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 5.4% | Rating: 3
Beer Review 19 | River Rat Hazelnut Brown Ale
The can says it’s best if it’s slightly warmed up, which is sort of how I drink my beers anyways. When I am power drinking a 12pk, I usually just leave the pack of cans or bottles on the counter after getting the first one, so this is right up my alley. It has a brown nutty goodness to it, I liked it a lot, just wish it was cheaper.
Style: Brown Ale | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 5.4% | Rating: 4
Beer Review 20 | Oyster City Hooter Brown
Has a nutty flavor that has a bit of an alcohol bite to it, it also leaves a strong aftertaste. The alc/vol is pretty high, so a 6pk should get you where you need to go.
Style: Brown Ale | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 8.4% | Rating: 4
Beer Review 21 | Holy City Brewing Overly Friendly IPA
It comes with your standard citrus and grass clippings smell/taste, and has a medium hazy color. It is refreshing to the tongue, with a slight aftertaste bite. The can is kind of annoying to look at, but it’s a solid IPA.
Style: IPA | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 6.9% | Rating: 3.5
Beer Review 22 | SweetWater H.A.Z.Y. IPA
I love the SweetWater Brewing Company’s products, but this was my first time trying their H.A.Z.Y. IPA, and was not disappointed. I found this one much better than their standard IPA in the yellow can. Very hazy with floaters, citrusy and delicious, I plan on getting this one many more times. A darn tasty beverage.
Style: IPA | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 6.2% | Rating: 4.5
Beer Review 23 | Catawba White Zombie White Ale
Sweet looking can with various shades of purple with a raised textured zombie on it. A very tasty and refreshing beverage, dangerously frothy.
Style: Witbier | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 4.7% | Rating: 4
Beer Review 24 | Palmetto Amber Ale
Pours a dark color that resembles a Barq’s Root Beer with a lot of head, but it's a very average tasting beer. Not worth the price, will not be repurchasing.
Style: Amber Ale | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 5.5% | Rating: 3
Beer Review 25 | Palmetto Peach Pale Ale
Dangerously subtle peach flavor, and much like its Palmetto Amber Ale brother, the flavor isn’t worth the price, will not be repurchasing. I’d rather just grab a Peach Nehi or Peach Faygo for my post drinking recovery beverage.
Style: Fruit Beer | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 5.4% | Rating: 3
Beer Review 26 | Palmetto Salted Lime Lager
Another 3/5 beer from the good people over at the Palmetto Brewing Company, it tastes kind of like a key lime pie with a dash of salt.
Style: Fruit Beer | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 4.8% | Rating: 3
Beer Review 27 | Highland Brewing Seasonal Berryful
From the beautiful city of Asheville North Carolina, this seasonal beer feels like someone loaded up a gatling gun full of sweet and tart blueberries and rapidly fired them directly on to your taste buds. I preferred this one a bit more than SweetWater’s Blue beer.
Style: Fruit Beer | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 5% | Rating: 4
Beer Review 28 | Beer Den Robin Hood Amber Lager
From the fine people over at Lowe’s Foods (the grocery store, not the hardware store) where you can get drunk at the in store bar, this is Beer Den’s Robin Hood Amber Lager. It has a very orangey amber color, and tastes great. It tastes like being drunk inside a grocery store.
Style: Amber Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 5.6% | Rating: 3.5
Beer Review 29 | Holy City Folly Time Juicy Pale Ale
A beer meant to remind you of looking at the dolphins in the ocean, and the bikini bottoms on babes, all while skipping the traffic and jellyfishes that comes along with a beach trip. It’s okay an okay beer, dedicated to the hippy beach known as Folly.
Style: Pale Ale | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 5.5% | Rating: 3
Beer Review 30 | Milwaukee's Best Ice
Tastes horrible, and gives you a rougher hangover than the other Ice beers. That being said, at 10 dollary doos for a 15pk, even in today’s Nightmare World timeline, The Beast Ice is a winner in my book.
Style: Ice Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 5.9% | Rating: 3
Beer Review 31 | Oyster City MANGrOve Pale Ale
Has a very strong and delightful fruity smell, tastes like mango, maybe a bit of an overly “alcohol” taste. The alc/vol is great, but with that price, it’s a one and done purchase for me.
Style: Fruit Beer | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 8.2% | Rating: 3.5
Beer Review 32 | Samuel Adams Porch Rocker
I picked this one up for a build your own 6pk without even realizing what it was all about. When I read the description on the back right before drinking it, it said that the drink was inspired by German cyclists who mixed beer with lemonade to quench their thirst on hot summer days. I was shocked by how delicious and refreshing this one was. It sort of reminded me of a lemon lime Gatorade beer, which might sound odd, but I could easily see myself killing a 12pk of these.
Style: Fruit Beer | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 4.5% | Rating: 5
Beer Review 33 | Palmetto Mango Passion Fruit Session Sour
Style: Sour | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 4.5% | 1
Sour beer, woof.
Beer Review 34 | Palmetto Huger Street IPA
An average tasting IPA, the price and the alc/vol is decent though. It’s readily available in my area, so I’ll probably have more in the future, but it’s nothing to write home about.
Style: IPA | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 7.2% | Rating: 3
Beer Review 35 | Holy City Pluff Mud Porter
A tasty beverage.
Style: Porter | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 5.5% | Rating: 3.5
Beer Review 36 | Southern Pines Man Of Law
An alright beer, it has RoboCop on the can.
Style: IPA | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 6.4% | Rating: 3
Beer Review 37 | Steel Hands Pecan Brown Ale
A very tasty beverage.
Style: Brown Ale | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 5.5% | Rating: 3.5
Beer Review 38 | Modelo Especial
From Constellation Brands in the USA, it’s America’s new #1 beer Modelo Especial! A tasty cerveza with a hint of honey and citrus. While not as good as its darker beer brother, and while the price is nothing to write back home to Mexico about, it is indeed a tasty beverage. The cool looking bottle wrapped in gold aluminum foil doesn’t hurt either, I just worry about one day having that foil hitting one of my fillings, but until then, drink up!
Style: Mexican Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 4.4% | Rating: 3.5
Beer Review 39 | Miller High Life
Back in my early 20’s whenever I would drink at home instead of going out to a house party or a dive bar, Miller High Life and Budweiser were my go to beers. The taste has a rich creaminess to it, at least that is what I get out of it. I also love the design of the bottles, it is a mixture of classy and cheesy that really appeals to me, however I do prefer the taste out of the can more. One of the most satisfying bottom shelf beers you’ll find, it’s Miller High Life “The Champagne of Beers!
Style: American Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 4.6% | Rating: 4
Beer Review 40 | Terrapin Hopsecutioner IPA
Tastes like a Pepsi-Cola.
Style: IPA | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 7.3% | Rating: 3.5
Beer Review 41 | Corona Extra
This beer reminds me of every Dad’s refrigerator in the early 2000’s. It seemed like whenever I’d go over to a buddy’s house, this was the beer in their Dad’s fridge, so I think of that more than I do the cheesy beach commercials. I believe I had a Corona Extra at a bar over fifteen years ago, so this was pretty much like a first impression today. Corona Extra has the skunkiness of a Heineken, without any of the Heineken goodness. It tastes bitter, and not in a fun “beer” kind of way. I added lime to it, and now I totally understand why that’s a thing, but on its own I give it a very generous 2.5 out of 5.
Style: Mexican Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 4.6% | Rating: 2
Beer Review 42 | Pabst Blue Ribbon
A beer enjoyed by both manly men and girly men (hipsters) alike. I first remember seeing hipsters drinking this beer for $1.50 a bottle at my favorite dive bar back in 2005. Then by 2011 there must have been an article about it in Hipster Monthly Magazine, because fedoras began to tip by the millions nationwide for PBR. The beer tastes OKAY, and it’s in the 11 dollar range for a 12pk, which is the new CHEAP for beer. It is the gold standard for a 3 out of 5 beer.
Style: American Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 4.8% | Rating: 3
Beer Review 43 | Modelo Chelada Especial
It tastes like a tomato flavored Sprite, a bit too rich for me. I’d be curious to try it with a freshly cracked open Modelo Especial and the fixings added afterwards, that would also bump the alc/vol up from 3.5% to 4.4%. The canned version will not be a repurchase for me.
Style: Fruit Beer | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 3.5% | Rating: 2.5
Beer Review 44 | Heineken
The bottle looks cool, and it tastes like a Heineken.
Style: Holland Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 5% | Rating: 4
Beer Review 45 | Miller Lite
I can’t believe I’m actually reviewing a light beer lol, I expected to review a Yuengling Light or a Modelo Oro before this one anyways. It’s Miller Lite, it tastes better than Coors Light and Bud Light, which I’ve known for years. It tastes like a nerfed version of Miller High Life, which isn’t a bad thing if you’re trying to lose your spare tire. It pretends to identify as a pilsner on the label, while being an American adjunct lager, I guess some guy on the marketing team heard the word pilsner back in 1942 and slapped it on can. If I ever fully transition to 4% beers, Miller Lite would be a good choice.
Style: American Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 4.2% | Rating: 3
Beer Review 46 | Sierra Nevada Summerfest
Has a beautiful golden color, decent head, and practically no aroma. The taste is lemony and light. It is a fine and refreshing lager, but I'm more likely to grab a slightly cheaper pack of Miller High Life or PBR. Jeremy Piven probably loves this stuff.
Style: Lager | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 5% | Rating: 3.5
Beer Review 47 | Shiner TexHex Bruja’s Brew
Supposedly brewed with cactus water, hazy in appearance, orangey in taste, and the can has a cool looking cowgirl on it. I liked it, not a beer I’m going to have on rotation, but I enjoyed it in my build your own 6pk.
Style: IPA | Tap/Can/Bottle: Can | Abv: 7% | Rating: 4
Beer Review 48 | Shiner Bock
Tastes like the tap water version of Michelob AmberBock, not a repurchase. The drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket might have been right about a few things is all I’m saying.
Style: Bock | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 4.5% | Rating: 3
Beer Review 49 | VooDoo Ranger Imperial IPA
I used to be really into IPAs, but I’m starting to think it was mostly just for the high abv. It tastes okay, big alcohol taste and leaves a bit of a bite on the tongue. I would not recommend having an entire 6 pack of these, throw 3 or so into a build your own 6pk and that’ll do the trick.
Style: Imperial IPA | Tap/Can/Bottle: Bottle | Abv: 9% | Rating: 3
Beer Review 50 | Michelada (Micheladder Especial Señorita Slayer)
A VERY tasty beverage, the lime and spice really deliver, but it's not something I'd recommend having more than 3 of in a night because it's so rich, so for that reason I give it a 4 out of 5. Next time I might try replacing the Clamato Juice with V8, but the Sriracha hot sauce is a MUST. I tried one with some Valentina hot sauce, and it wasn't as good.
Micheladder Especial Señorita Slayer
Garnish The Rim With Lime Juice & Tajin, & A Lime Wedge.
Add
4 oz Clamato Juice
1 Lime Squeezed
1 T Sriracha
1 T Worcestershire Sauce
1 T Tajin
12 oz Icehouse
Stir & Enjoy!
Style: Michelada | Abv: 5.5% | Rating: 4
