# Is there anything worse than Coors Light in a can? Anything? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810 "2005-12-02T21:03:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/81 "2005-12-07T16:34:33Z")
> [@wolf in second hand clothing](#): > > If you see a bottle of Monty Python’s Holy GrAil and think “Hey, that’s a novel idea!” Buy the bottle if you must, but **don’t** drink it. I would have _gladly_ traded it for a Natty Ice. I almost tried this recently, at my favorite indie video store/coffeehouse/bar. They have a great selection of beers and ales, so thanks for saving me from a bad choice! ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/82 "2005-12-07T16:41:06Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > And appropriately enough, that brand name (after changing hands several times) ended up at Pabst Brewing Company, brewers of some more of the worse swill made in this country (Pabst Blue Ribbon, Schlitz, Blatz, Olympia and plenty of others). Nooooo! I was waiting for the PBR-bashing to start, but I love that stuff. Granted, I know it sucks compared to Guinness or Newcastle or Delirium Nocturnum, but if I’m going to drink cheap beer, it WILL be PBR. I honestly LIKE the taste, and I’d choose it over any Bud or Miller product any day, or any other popular/mainstream American beer. And now it seems to have a trendy indie-hipster following, but like any good indie-hipster, I can truly, honestly say I was into it BEFORE it was popular. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/83 "2005-12-07T16:49:41Z")
Lucky Lager is a decent beer to cook with. I use it in my chili, for example. The single worst beer ever made was an attemp at a “micro”-brew in Anchorage, Alaska back in the late 70s called Meisterbrau. Even the drunks on 4th St. wouldn’t touch the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/84 "2005-12-07T17:11:31Z")
In response to **BBVL** , I must nominate my favorite shit beer. PBR is, amazingly enough, the best thing to come out of the Pabst brewery, if the infamous list of Shlitz, Blatz, and other swill are in fact their main offerings. However, Tecate, my friends, is the great shit beer. It might be more readily available in California than elsewhere, but it goes down like a dream, spares you the morning-after bends, and costs about .50 a can. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/85 "2005-12-07T18:14:21Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > Well, technically Zima is a ‘malt beverage,’ not a beer. However, if we’re going to slide on over to that area of nastiness, I can tell you without a doubt that the worst malt beverage ever made is Champale. Bar none. Bar none? You so sure? Ever had Twisted Tea? Or some knid of nasy shit put out by Jack Daniels? Ugh. And **ladyfoxfyre** that was GOOD lambic, the Sam Adams shite was like a good lambic was combined half and half with shitty beer. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/86 "2005-12-07T18:25:17Z")
Actually Pabst doesn’t brew anything, they don’t own any breweries. All of their beer is brewed under contract by SABMiller. I don’t mind PBR, but I will not drink it on principle. I find it funny that trendy hipsters have been embracing it as a “working-man’s beer” when there is quite possibly no brewery in the world that did more to fuck over the working man than what Pabst did to it’s own employees. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/87 "2005-12-07T18:39:13Z")
**August West** : I’m gonna do it…CITE! Not because I don’t believe you, but because I’m curious. What did Pabst do, exactly, to make them, in your opinion, the Wallmart of beers as far as worker rights go? And yes, I just put words in your mouth. And no, I don’t give a rat’s ass about Pabst, I just want to be informed. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/88 "2005-12-07T18:52:44Z")
Coors Light is ambrosia compared to Lone Star Light. Lone Star Light is honeyed milk from the breast of Venus compared to Pearl Light. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/89 "2005-12-07T20:27:06Z")
Which part would you like a cite for? The fact that they don’t brew their own beer or that they screwed over their workers? Actually at the end of [this article](http://robwalker.net/html_docs/pabst.html) he mentions both. > [@](#): > > Along the way, Pabst shuttered its Milwaukee brewery, eliminating nearly 250 jobs and touching off a legal battle over pension obligations to former workers. This might explain another quirk of the Pabst resurgence — that it has radiated out from part of the country that had no particular historic tie to the brand. ‘‘They really alienated people in Milwaukee,’’ says Dennis E. Garrett, a marketing professor at Marquette University. In 2001, Pabst finalized its outsourcing deal with Miller, becoming a ‘‘virtual brewer,’’ as one executive put it at the time Basically, when Pabst shut it’s door in Milwaukee they severely cut the employee’s pension fund and they cut off the health and life insurance of about 800 retirees. Many thought that they acted illegally in shutting down the plant the way they did, but the courts ruled in favor of Pabst on that one. Still, it was not a happy way for a once great brewery to leave the city and there is a lot of resentment in Milwaukee about it. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/90 "2005-12-07T20:33:26Z")
…and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I love the SDMB. Thanks August. I was more curious about the aforementioned worker-screwing than the brewing offsite. Now, when someone offers me a PBR I can be both morally & physically disgusted…simultaneously! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mr.Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Roboto)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/91 "2005-12-10T14:00:47Z")
> [@Ass For A Hat](#): > > When I was in college, we could get a case of [Rhinelander](http://www.huberbrewery.com/beer/rhinelander.shtml) (bottles) for $3. It was absolute shit, but too good a deal for poor, idiotic college students to pass up. More than any beer I’ve ever had, this one caused flatulence in the extreme. Not normal flatulence either…think WMD. I now see that they’re making Rhinelander Light. ::shudder:: > > If Rhinelander wasn’t bad enough, the good folks at Huber added just slightly more pee to their normal batch of Rhinelander to make the somewhat improved Huber. Same price, less farting. At least they were proud enough of this one to put their name on it. > > Lastly, we come to Brau Meister. Not to be confused with Meister Brau, which for the purposes of this thread, is pretty damn good. Of course, Brau Meister is another concoction from Huber. Since it doesn’t appear to be in their product line anymore, I assume that the federal government has finally stepped in. The only thing I can say about this one is that if you’re going to make a beer this shitty, do not put it in clear bottles. It just makes it easier for us to see the shit floating around in there. Must be a regional beer, Ass I’d like to try the Berghoff Genuine Dark… I’m on the West Coast and I’ve never seen this brand. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/92 "2005-12-11T03:41:45Z")
Nobody here has ever had generic beer? All it says on the label is “Beer”. During my poor college days, we’d buy a six pack or so of “name brand beer” and finish off the night with generic “beer”. It was a crime against humanity. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/93 "2005-12-11T05:51:49Z")
> [@Plynck](#): > > Coors. Carling. Rheingold. What was I thinking? Any Miller product. Curiously, I never had much of a problem with Rolling Rock. I think that there are two issues here; the starting product, and what you get after it has “aged”. Freshness really is an issue, and some of these brands just don’t last well at all. Funny story about Rolling Rock. I went to a party recently and all they had to drink was Rolling Rock. I basically said, no thank you, I spent four years in Pennsylvania AVOIDING that stuff. Well, I guess it wasn’t that funny or that much of a story. And damnit, I miss Yuengling. I’m not much of a beer drinker, but I once made the mistake of buying a rum called Admiral Nelson. God-awful. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/94 "2005-12-11T07:18:54Z")
Lest we forget a bottom-shelf travesty, I give you [Buckhorn](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://imagehost.epier.com/82113/buckhorn.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.epier.com/biddingform.asp%3F1138695&h=482&w=216&sz=27&tbnid=f9ffcEugAaAJ:&tbnh=126&tbnw=56&hl=en&start=19&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbuckhorn%2Bbeer%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26c2coff%3D1%26sa%3DN) ---
**Author:** ![Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ass_For_A_Hat)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/95 "2005-12-12T17:53:12Z")
> [@Mr. Roboto](#): > > Must be a regional beer, Ass I’d like to try the Berghoff Genuine Dark… I’m on the West Coast and I’ve never seen this brand. I assume that most beer distributors don’t have the necessary permits to ship hazardous material, so I’ve never really seen the Huber line outside of WI and IL. As cheap as that beer was, I figure their distribution chain was mostly just brewery employees loading up their trunks on the way home and dropping the beer off at the closest liquor store or gas station. The Berghoff beers are really not too bad as far a mass produced beers go though. Give it a try if you see it. ---
**Author:** ![chefjef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e480ec/32.png) [@chefjef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chefjef)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/96 "2005-12-12T18:02:23Z")
i think you can do a lot worse than coors light in a can…its my beer pong can of choice! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/97 "2005-12-12T19:49:24Z")
I think Light Caffeine-free Coke (with or without a can) is about as bad as Coors Light (with or without a can). My SiL has no taste for beverages, I tell you… ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/98 "2005-12-12T20:34:13Z")
It’s been a long time since I’ve been through the Midwest. Do they still make **Grain Belt?** ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/99 "2005-12-12T20:55:07Z")
> [@Doug Bowe](#): > > It’s been a long time since I’ve been through the Midwest. Do they still make **Grain Belt?** Or **Schaefer**? ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810/100 "2006-01-24T22:53:06Z")
In my early 20s I drank a lot of seriously cheap beer. Probably the worst was Schaefer’s Light. All of this brings up the question – why is there so much really bad beer made in America? Coors, for instance, was founded by Adolph Coors, whom I presume was from someplace Teutonic where they know how to make good beer. The better small breweries have shown that there’s no physical law preventing great beer from being brewed here in the U.S. So why do we get piss? (The best beer I’ve had was probably homebrew.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-worse-than-coors-light-in-a-can-anything/333810.md?page=6)