Miller sucked then and it sucks now. Bud is even worse. I’d rather drink a corn brew like Busch than anything Miller puts out. Or anything else Budweiser puts out, for that matter. Blech!!
I used to think that way.
Then, one day, I get a text from my brother. “Come down, I have a case of beer for you!”
Twenty minutes later, we’re sitting in his back yard, cracking open a can of Mountain Crest Lager.
I take a long drink. After I gather myself, I look at him and say “Usually when your brother invites you for a beer, it’s not a threat.”
Twenty years ago, I was on transfer to Milwaukee for about 6 months and fell for Miller High Life. The local bars and restaurants seemed to get the freshest beer. I went to a few Brewers games at the old stadium and the High Life on tap was almost like nectar. A few years later, I was on transfer there again and my fiancee visited me for a week. We toured the brewery and are convinced we were brainwashed. It was almost like the Duff tour on the Simpsons. The next day, we went to see the Red play the Brewers at the new stadium and again the beer was great.
Now, I do enjoy Yuengling and the wife enjoys craft, but for backyard or watching the game drinking, I am High Life.
A Doper after my own heart. Can’t drink any more, but I so very much miss Yuengling Porter. Killian’s Red is probably a chemical abomination, but a tasty camping/fishing beer regardless. Never liked IPA’s, not a little bit. Hard to remember why now, but I think they were dry, bitter and lacking the rich flavor of a dark beer/porter.
I would happily drink a Rolling Rock or an Old Style. Bud, Miller High Life, and especially Coors, NO.
The Miller food commercials were cute, although they would never encourage me to buy any. “Deviled Egg” had me until the guy shoved the whole thing in his mouth at once. “Olive Loaf” just made my stomach lurch.
I can still recite the Rolling Rock prose poem from memory. I’ll do it at my next poetry slam, in between “The Walrus and the Carpenter” and “The Pobble Who Has No Toes.”
In college, my bar beers were Labatt’s and Bud Light. When we’d head over to Windsor, we’d often get Molson in pitchers. Spring Break college beers were Busch Light.
Now my cheap beers are Miller High Life, Labatt’s and Kirklands (from Costco). And Old Style when I’m going to Chicago. A friend from Chicago just visited me this past weekend and surprised me with three cases!
I…I’ve never had a friend who showed up at my doorstep with three cases of beer.
(Dissolves into hopeless weeping)
I was at a roadhouse a few months back and they had “A Crap Can of Beer - Bartender’s Choice -$1”
I rolled the dice and ended up with a can of Busch Light Draft, of which I drank a few lake’s worth in college.
The grape flavor/aroma was almost overwhelming, it was very nearly like drinking a can of grape soda.
silenus, Miller High Life is a corn brew, to me that is it’s signature. It’s not malty, it’s corn-y.
I know, but there is something else in their beer that just makes it…not appealing to me. And I’ve been known to drink Schmidt’s and Grain Belt, for Ninkazi’s sake!
I’ve had too many silver bullets that tasted exactly like seltzer water then i care to imagine.
A friend of mine in college once offered me a Schmidt’s. I took a couple of drinks, looked at the can and said “You know, if you took every other letter out of this name, you’d have what’s in this can.”
Interesting. Makes me want to try it again for old times’ sake to see if I can taste that flavor. I just remember it was the beer of choice at college frat parties, and I quickly found out that it was one beer that, no matter how cheap or even free, I just could not stomach. It turned me into a shots drinker for a few years there. I don’t think I’ve had one since about 1995.
I hadn’t either. I think I made quite a giddy ass of myself in response. It was just so unexpected and beautiful.
I never really drank High Life, but I was a lampy for a band in Tx that claimed they were trying to get a sponsorship with Miller:D:p and the whole band drank only Genuine Draft. MGD was always on offer for the crew… I never cared for it, but if I was broke, it was free.
Always preferred Coors light.
Coors keeps showing commercials on TV. I think the last time I had a Coors was in the early-to-mid-'80s, and that’s because someone else was buying the pitchers. (Wait… Last time was in the late-'80s. Long story, so I’ll skip it.) I’ve been thinking of buying one can, and one can of Budweiser, to see if they’re still as ghastly as I seem to remember.
I did have a couple of Coronas last night. For a light beer, I like Longboard Lager.
Back in college days, this very poor student had I think $2 for the weekend. Bought one of those big bottles of MHL to last me. It was SKUNKY!! Damn those clear glass bottles!!
Ahhhh, college beers. I started of with PBR 16 oz. cans. Stohs Bohemian was next. After that it was Busch. Then Miller long neck returnables. I still remember putting the bottles on the ledge outside the dorm window and having them freeze in short order. Somewhere in the mix was Mickey’s Malt widemouths. That stuff was pretty bad. We could get a 1/4 keg of Schmidt’s for $11. Sneaking that into (and thereafter keeping cold) our alcohol-free dorm was always an adventure. Despite Rolling Rock being the closest brewery, I never drank it until after college. Its now my everyday beer. I preferred the Old Latrobe version but the InBev (or whoever owns the name now) isn’t bad, despite Newark, NJ being a looong way from the mountain springs of Pennsylvania.
P.S. - Local domestic beers in a bar where I live are around $3.50. My buddy drinks PBR cans as they are only $2. The bar had some Busch cans one day and they were also $2. I tried one for old times sake and it wasn’t bad. I’ll drink that when they have it over the RR just to save the money.
P.P.S. - Don’t get me wrong I like IPAs , stouts, porters, German beers and all kinds of craft beers but I’m pretty cheap sometimes.
Right after college when I was still poor and going to grad school, I moved into a housing co-op near the University of Texas. We had one of those old style soda vending machines where you could see the top of the bottle. You’d pull on the neck after you put your money in the slot. As I said, this one had been modified. For forty cents, you could get a Shiner or a Shiner Bock. Bud, Miller Lite, or Coors Light would run you eighty cents.
I miss the days when Shiner was a cheap beer.
Theoretically, that shouldn’t be possible. Miller holds a few of patents on isomerization of hop extracts that add bitterness but don’t develop lightstruck (skunky) aromas/ flavors.
That’s the reason they can use clear bottles.
(August West, former brewer/QC guy at a Miller-owned subsidiary)