There is a time and place for everything.  Even PBR.  In the can.

For me the time was about 1:45am and the place was a dive bar with good music where I was offered a “stimulus package”, including a shot of old crow and a can of PBR for $5.

Pabst apparently won a ribbon for this beer one day in the 1850s and knowing that it was probably a tabulation error, they plastered the award on the label and have given a bad name to blue ribbons everywhere since.  A lager by definition, I’m sure that PBR is brewed with all kinds of corn and rice and yummy extracts, but honestly – this beer pulls it off.

I’m sure that the beer snobs out there would never be seen in public with a PBR in their hand (they’d put theirs in a glass to hide it) but for a cheap lager, this beer ain’t that bad.   You’re not going to find many beers more poundable and certainly not going to find anything as tasty for a buck at your local bar.  Have to knock it a few points on sexiness, but the tallboy can and familiar blue ribbon score it points for packaging.  Aftertaste was not wonderful, but if you keep drinking them – you don’t have to deal with that for a while.  And hell, you can always kill it with your shot of old crow…

Face it – in a hot room with loud music, when presented with a row of macro beer taps – PBR in the can just fits the bill.  Cheap and wet.

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You vill drink dis beer and you vil like it.  Alright my German accent sucks.  Especially via text.  Know what doesn’t suck?  The Monchshof Kellerbier I tried the other night.  From the killer flip top bottle (love these things) to the fact that the folks at the M&D served this up in the correct glass – it was nearly the epitome of packaging.

But it didn’t stop there.  I am not too familiar with the Kellerbier style and this was not at all what I expected from what was described to me simply as a “Lager”.  It was malty and delicious.  Plus there were 16.9 ounces of this goodness packed in there.  Bonus.

Smooth, easy to drink and I would guess low in alcohol, although I don’t recall looking to see and can’t find anything about it on the big guys sites.  Either way, it certainly drank like it was all kinds of poundable and left a delicious taste with me that made me remember her name in the morning.  For just seven bucks, this was a find.  I hope to see her again sometime.  Das Good!

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