# The Great Crappy Beer Appreciation Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 9, 2007, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147 "2007-10-09T22:58:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/1 "2007-10-09T22:58:10Z")
Let it be known I’m a beer lover. I drink beers at home, order beers at bars, and revel in my manly glory because of it. And while I wouldn’t quite claim connoisseurship, I do think I know more than my fair share about the booze of my choice. And as someone who loves beer, I long ago decided to accept all beers. Be ye Chimay or be ye Hamm’s, you are a friend of mine. But I noticed while reading [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9057891#post9057891) that not everyone feels that way and, while I wouldn’t claim the crappier beers are my preference, there’s something about them I love. It might be the price (oh so low) or the ease of drinking (painless like Gatorade), but, please: do not malign the crappy beers of the world. They are our friends. I’d like to nominate “Lone Star” for as the honorary president of Crappy Beers. I’m sure the Texans among us will agree. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/2 "2007-10-09T23:01:20Z")
I like watery American pilsners. Nothing better on a hot day. Frankly it’s the ridiculously sweet IPAs I don’t like. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/3 "2007-10-09T23:06:06Z")
[QUOTE=Birdmonster] I’d like to nominate “Lone Star” for as the honorary president of Crappy Beers. I’m sure the Texans among us will agree. [/QUOTE] Probably not all, but this one will acquiesce with a solemn “yeehaw!” I once read that most drinkers can’t taste the difference between Schaefer and Corona in a blind taste test. Both are very corn-heavy. I’m not sure if that’s a testament to Schaefer or a condemnation of Corona. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/4 "2007-10-09T23:10:29Z")
Rolling Rock, I salute you. Truly, you are the Totino’s Pizza Rolls of beers - cheap and satisfying. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/5 "2007-10-09T23:10:32Z")
My youngest son, when visiting from Seattle, is tickled that he can get Milwaukee’s Best here. Milwaukee’s Best. The kid was weaned on Henry’s, and he wants Milwaukee’s Best. :dubious: I miss Schlitz. Can’t find Schlitz anywhere. Or Grain Belt. I think Grain Belt had extra salt. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/6 "2007-10-09T23:14:08Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] I once read that most drinkers can’t taste the difference between Schaefer and Corona in a blind taste test. Both are very corn-heavy. I’m not sure if that’s a testament to Schaefer or a condemnation of Corona. [/QUOTE] I’ve always thought Corona was overrated. Ditto for Heineken. To me, they’re PBR with a good marketing campaign. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/7 "2007-10-09T23:19:16Z")
I love PBR. I honestly don’t know why it catches so much flak. I suspect it is mostly due to its perceived lower value. Now Natty Light/Ice completely deserves its reputation as a foul beer. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/8 "2007-10-09T23:25:21Z")
My comment above should be not be construed as an anti-PBR stance. Nay, PBR is royalty in this discussion. It’s more a commentary on Corona and Heineken, which, like I said, taste like cheap American beers to me, not some sort of sought-after import. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/9 "2007-10-09T23:25:59Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] My youngest son, when visiting from Seattle, is tickled that he can get Milwaukee’s Best here. Milwaukee’s Best. The kid was weaned on Henry’s, and he wants Milwaukee’s Best. :dubious: I miss Schlitz. Can’t find Schlitz anywhere. Or Grain Belt. I think Grain Belt had extra salt. [/QUOTE] I was coming in to give props to Schlitz…I can still get it, and do, sometimes. I swear, every time I’m in the checkout line with a six of the Schlitz, somebody else in line sees it and goes “Man, I haven’t seen that stuff in a long time”. Ironically, it’s made by Pabst now. Schlitz #2 to Bud until the 70s, then they tried to cheap out and then there was a strike, and oh, well. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/10 "2007-10-09T23:27:35Z")
I love Bud Light. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/11 "2007-10-09T23:29:49Z")
I just remembered [Lucky Lager](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Lager), which, belongs in the bad beer pantheon if only for the cryptograms under the caps, most of which are so poorly printed, their illegibility will drive you mad hour after drunken hour. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/12 "2007-10-09T23:31:36Z")
I grew up with Schlitz. Well, actually I grew up with Coors, but I switched to Schlitz as soon as the place that would take my fake ID started carrying it. Confession time: Once in a blue moon I get the hankering for some good old American adjunct beer, and I seek out the local purveyor of Crap Beer and buy me some Busch. Or maybe some Olympia. And I keep a half-case of Lucky Lager on hand for boiling shrimp. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/13 "2007-10-09T23:45:00Z")
I used to drink a cheap Phoenix brew called A-1, for Arizona’s #1. It was originally produced by the Arizona Brewing Co. starting in 1943 and survived takeovers by Carling in 1964 and G. Heileman in 1979, but hasn’t been brewed for around 20 years now. But it was good n’ cheap ($1.25 to $1.50 a six pack) and went down smooth and easy on a hot summer’s day. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/14 "2007-10-09T23:48:11Z")
I like Stella Artois ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/15 "2007-10-09T23:53:35Z")
Schaefer Beer is beer that even the poorest person turns down for being too cheap. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/16 "2007-10-10T00:00:58Z")
Oh, and for those of you in Texas, how do you like Pearl? I think Pearl light is the lightest of light beers that was ever light. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/17 "2007-10-10T00:05:10Z")
[QUOTE=Airman Doors, USAF] Schaefer Beer is beer that even the poorest person turns down for being too cheap. [/QUOTE] Did you realize Pabst bought Schaefer? I just checked the Pabst homepage and was positively awed by their status as, undoubtedly, the world’s greatest purveyor of Crappy Beer. The list: Ballantine Ale Black Label Blatz Champale Colt 45 Country Club Jacob Best Lone Star Lone Star Light McSorley’s Ale McSorley’s Irish Style Lager McSorley’s Black and Tan National Bohemian Old Milwaukee Old Style Olympia Pabst Blue Ribbon Pearl Pearl Light Piel’s Schaefer Schlitz Schmidt’s Special Export St. Ides Stag Stroh’s Pabst Ice I mean, BLATZ?! STROH’S?! God! I’m in love. I think I need to find some “Pearl Light,” which, while I’ve never had it, it can’t possibly be anything but Crappy Beer. It has the Crappy Beer-en-est name ever. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/18 "2007-10-10T00:09:09Z")
What about [Genesee](http://www.geneseebeer.com/GeneseeBrewingCo/)? Or [Utica Club](http://www.saranac.com/familybrands/)? Can’t we get some… well… love isn’t quite the right word. Some recognition, perhaps? (grinning) (Yeah, yeah, I know they’ve both been “reimaged” but, I’ll always remember them as the beers my grandfather used to keep in his cellar.) ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/19 "2007-10-10T00:11:54Z")
Ah, PBR. I am not a beer drinker by any stretch but I have a soft spot in my heart for PBR. It got me through grad school. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147/20 "2007-10-10T00:19:19Z")
Oh, the joys of cheap beer. Weaned on Lucky Lager, Raised on Rainier and Oly, the northwest is an oasis of cheap barley pop. Like everyone else, I went througha micro brew stage in the early nineties, but after a while I started to get angry at having to pay more than four dollars for a draw beer. Now, I stick with PBR, High Life, or even Coors Light. Denver area hipsters have tried to co-opt PBR for a couple of years now, but I think they’re influence is waning. I have good friends who live in the Rose City, home to many a micro brew, and I fall right back into the malty goodness that is a good Steely Brown or a Rogue Stout, but it seems everyone up there likes the IPAs, which are way too hoppy for me. On a hot day, give me a Little Miller, or a Rainier Pounder. MMMmmmmm. Yellowy beery goodness! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-crappy-beer-appreciation-thread/422147.md?page=2)