This beer is a contender for this years beer of the year and it is about time. Ten mounts into it and I do believe that this is the first contestant we have. The beer on the block today is of all beers a Pabst Blue Ribbon. This is not one of those trendy beers that everyone is drinking, in fact I think this beer had a stigma about it back in the day as being a billy bob beer, one which the proud beer swilling blue collar workers of the americas guzzle wile watching the fine quality programing only found on CMT, (is that channel even still around), but I digress. All stigmas aside the only place I have found this beer is whole foods a place which congers stigmas of another, but I will spare you all the stigma talk and get on with the beer review. This beer has a lightly malty taste with no bitter after taste. This thing is as smooth as all get out and in addition to that the beer is refreshing and thirst quenching as well. This beer will go well with darker meats such as steak and ribs. The beer is not so good with chicken but that is of little consequence. The beer has so many good attributes it is just so good, it comes in a one pint can which is the way all beers should come. The beer is about 6 to 7 bucks and is a good deal in my opinion. The web page is a little basic and leave much to be desired, but with a beer that is this good you don’t need a really boffo web page. So, as the temps start to drop and you want to head back outside and start grilling you might think about grabbing a PBR. Patrick, this ones for you wherever you are.
Palmetto Summer Seasonal Watermelon Wheat Ale.
Going going gone. As I sit here on my balcony enjoying this departure from the summer I enjoy the last of the beers I picked up on my vacation to the east coast. Todays beer is Palmetto Summer Seasonal Watermelon Wheat Ale. I was all ready to blast this beer as not being worth the bottle it was put in because I had it the other day as a standalone and was not pleased due to the fat that the watermelon taste that the beer touts was non existent and the beer was overall bitter. However, that was before I sat down with a cigar and the beer. I by no means call myself an aficionado when it comes to cigars but on occasion life calls for celebrating and this was one of those times for me and so I find myself sipping and cigaring on the balcony (I was enjoying a 10th Anniversary Maker’s Mark, thanks Jay). This combo works, the smoke brings out the watermelon taste that was so lacking when I first tried the beer. This was like a whole different beer, I was like “where were you all my life you wonderfully balanced beer?" The mellon taste sits on the back of the tong as the wheat taste mingles with smoke from the maker’s mark. For those who smoke cigars on a regular basis, I think you will enjoy the tactual mouth taste of the beer and the cigar as well as the taste. For those who include the physical sensation of enjoying food or drinking or smoking or loving for that matter, I think you will find that this combo just feels good in the mouth as well as on the taste buds. With the smoke the beer is well balanced with a nice mix of mellon and wheat. Without, the beer is a bit bitter and uninspired. As a result, the beer is not one that I would get in the future due to the fact fact that I just done smoke cigars that much to justify buying this beer, but to those of you who do, this beer is a good smoking beer but that is about it.
So enjoy.
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