Sam: It's a little hard to figure out actually WHO brews this, as it's brewed in the states by Miller under contract with Pabst. In the UK, where it's a number one seller(!!), Bass/Interbrew/Coors makes it. It sounds like they're playing hot potato, no one wanting to claim it. Would you?? My god, this stuff's rank. You could take paint off with this shit. I used to think Brits and the Irish had taste, because some good beer comes from the UK, but after hearing they go out of their way to buy THIS crap, I'm not so sure. Don't let anyone buy you this in a London pub. It's stomach ulcer in a glass. (10/18/2003)


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Sam: I used to consume this in mass quantities on fishing trips with my dad in younger days. Ice-cold swill, cheap as dirt. A pleasant thirst quencher on a sweltering hot Mississippi summer afternoon. So on a recent trip out west, I blundered into this beer again, and out of nostalgia, I bought a twelve pack. Not very bad a-tall. I have to say, if this were available here in Central Texas, I'd be tempted to give up my beloved Lone Star. Hamm's is a damn fine lawn mower beer, and it's exactly as I remember: ice-cold swill, cheap as dirt. (12/10/2005)


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Sam: This is the kind of beer you'd use to play a sick joke on your friend. Pour out their beer and fill their can with this. Watch that vein pop out on their forehead as they spew this shit across the room. This used to be a fairly decent brew. What the hell happened? This putrid yellow liquid is bound to cause cancer in lab animals. It's safer to get a buzz sniffing Liquid Paper than it is allowing this garbage into your system. Stick with staying sober if this is your only other choice. (12/13/2003)


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Steve: Drinking PBR out of a can will give you a headache and strange gas. Out of a bottle or on tap it is identical to the other domestic giants: watered down garbage. The actual taste is better than Bud though.


Tim: The story is that this beer was "selected as America's best in 1893." So either beer in America has come a long way since then or they've seriously strayed from the original. This beer is watery, and if you let it get warm don't even bother finishing it. The taste is actually decent, but just not noticeable enough. Good for boiling hot dogs in. (7/10/2004)


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Guest Review - Chris J: Another typical American NA beer. Has a long, dirty, citric after taste. Fortunately, the after taste diminishes somewhat after 3 or 4 cans. It would be really cool to see a good American brewery like Boston Co. produce some quality NA brews. They probably wont though. I may be the only guy who drinks this stuff. (11/8/1998)


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Sam: Y'know, years ago, Pearl was actually a damn fine beer. But all good things must come to an end. Not too many months back, in a fit of nostalgia and weak-mindedness, I gave Pearl another try. I nearly had a seizure. What acrid, vile abomination was this?? I hate that the Pearl brewery is closing and folks will lose their jobs, but at least the rest of us will get to keep our stomach linings. (3/21/2003)


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Sam: My heart breaks that Pabst owns this beer now. I'm sure the taste has suffered, but I'm still sending the original review. This is a delicious beer. Absolutely caught me off guard first time I tried it. At $4.99 a twelve pack I figured it would just be the swill du jour. Uh-uh. This is clean, crisp, refreshing. Deeper golden color than the mass-produced "lagers" made by the Big Three. This beer is an undiscovered gem; and since you can only get it in the Pacific Northwest, Montana, Wyoming, and occasionally Colorado, hopefully it'll stay undiscovered, and not suffer the dummying down that Olympia did when it went nationwide. Do yourself a favor if you find yourself in the Northwest Rockies, seek this beer out. (12/27/2003)


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Tim: This is a one of those great everyday beers. You might even call it a bad beer, but it's a good bad beer. It's smooth and refreshing, partially because it's watery. But this is no Coors Light. There's a good dry flavour too it. Enough to make it worth drinking. Not very carbonated at all. You can definitely down a lot of these in a hurry if that's what you're fixin to do. But you can also sit back and enjoy it too. It's also cheap, and everyone needs a good cheap beer that they can enjoy. (2/21/2004)


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Steve: Ahhh, The Beer that Made Milwaukee Famous. It was awful, but at least it wasn't God-awful. I wanted to get the full affect of this beer, so I sampled it straight from the can, out of a pilsner glass, and out of a plastic cup. My Wisconsin-born wife reminded me that cheap beers always taste better out of a plastic cup. From the can, it tasted like a flavored can, never a good sign. From the glass, it had a wonderful aroma of... a beer can. It had a watery, slightly malty can flavor (man, that's one strong can) that had a tinge of funk to it; I was surprised that the funk was of a non-canned origin. Finally, the Wisconsin rule of thumb proved true. It did indeed taste better out of a plastic cup. The smell was less can-like, the taste was less funky, and a bit smoother as well. Much more easy-drinking. I could probably drink this all night long at a Wisconsin wedding, which is the most common venue for drinking Schlitz in a plastic cup. Long story short, tastes like Pabst. (3/13/2004)


Kris: Wow. This sucks. Badly. Between this and budweiser, this loses. Seriously, I have nothing else to say about this. Find something else. (6/4/2005)


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Sam: Honest to god, what the hell is wrong with you people?? In my quest to bring you gentle readers a wide variety of beers to read about and choose from, I occasionally must slum. This beer gives slumming a GOOD name. Holy crap, what a nightmare! It's brewed in San Antonio, probably in the old Pearl brewery, and as bad as Pearl was in its final gasps, I can see why this is so horrid. The misspelling should have been my first clue. I'm still wiping tears from my eyes and sweat from my brow. The rest of this goes in my worst enemy's gas tank. Good lord, I should get hazard pay for having to review dreck like this. I'm pretty sure this beer sucked a year or at least a few months from my life expectancy. (10/9/2004)


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Steve: I've never had it. I don't know anyone who's had it. However, a friend of mine from college, Dr. Matt Smith (yes, he's a real doctor...which is funny considering I've seen him so drunk he could barely stand), once stole a six pack of this from the back of a neighbor's pickup back home in Blytheville, Ark. The smell that eminated from the can was so awful, so disgusting, that these 2 intrepid college students returned the rest of the six pack to its rightful owner, without drinking any of it. That's right. 2 college students with barely enough money for gas, in a town rampant with alcoholics that would drink Sterno to get a good buzz (sounds like a good country song), returned a stolen six pack of this stuff. And this is a guy who works in Infectious Diseases at St Judes in Memphis (you're a better man than anyone I know, Matt). You'd think he could handle a beer. Well, that pretty much told me all I needed to know about this beer. Which is why, instead of reviewing it, I'm telling this story. I'll let our readers rate this one. I know Matt's score is zero. And folks.... I've been to Blytheville....it's worth it to spend your visit drunk, and they still chose to remain sober instead of drinking Stag. That should tell us all something. (11/30/2002)


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Rocky: It had been so long since I saw Stroh's that I didn't even think they still made it. I can remember my Dad drinking this when I was a kid, so it wouldn't surprise me if it was the first beer I ever tasted. Thats gotta be worth at least one bonus point. I wouldn't have found it, since I was checking out a different part of the cooler, but I saw a guy walk past me with three 12 packs of this stuff. I made my purchase, followed him out, and offered him a buck for one. It was worth a buck. Better than the big three macros and similar to PBR. (9/26/2004)


Sam: My BIL, good man that he is, knew I'd have a fully-stocked beer fridge when he came to visit, and he knew I was nostalgic for Stroh's and couldn't get it out here in Texas. So when he and my sister came to visit recently, he brought me a couple twelve packs. It is as I remembered it: it ain't great, but it's pretty darn good for a macro, and as Rocky said, it's better'n BMC. So if you're in a nostalgic mood, or if you come in hot'n'sweaty from a summer day full of yard work, you might find an ice-cold Stroh's an agreeable thirst quencher. (8/17/2007)


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