Sampled from a 12 oz can this beer poured a medium yellow-gold with a medium sized soapy whit head that faded quickly. The aroma was sweet, tangy, corny and industrial. The flavor was dryish, tangy and had a touch of cardboard. The finish was short, tangy and vaguely bitter. Thin body. Not much to this one. Bland and inoffensive.

Courtesy fantomas. Pale gold, fizzy producing a voluminous white but short lived head. Funky corny nose and flavor with clean cobwebby and dusty malts. Dusty. Despite the clean fermentation profile and light body the adjuncty nose and finish makes for an intrusive and unrewarding experience. The claim to have revived the krausening practice but its not clear what positive effect this might have. I assume the beer is tank conditioned with active wort and then bottled? Or do they krausen, then filter, then force-carbonate and bottle? The label exhorts to Think Local Drink Local. An ironic command, given its owned by Pabst rather than the original G. Heileman Brewing Co., of La Crosse, WI. Even worse, Pabst is now HQd out of Texas rather than its historical base in Milwaukee. At best, this beer is contract brewed in Wisconsin by Miller, so in some way it has a connection to its home state.

The official beer of the Chicago Cubs. Pours from the tall boy a clear, straw yellow with a white head that faded fast. Smells grassy and slightly sweet with light lemon aroma. Flavor is the same. Crisp finish. Drinkable but won’t challenge your palate.

Horrible. Just like the baseball franchise that is so famous in representing.

bottle - It’s very simple. This beer is yet another pale yellow, light malt and adjunct smelling, mild malt and adjunct tasting, thin, watery pale lager. So does a beer actually having taste mean it’s "pretentious"?

Bottle. Sour barley malt aroma. Golden yellow color with small head. Fairly dry barley malt flavor with very light hops. High carbonation. Decent - better than the average BMC offering.

Very pale straw colour. Husky aroma and husky pale malt flavour. Aside from the huskiness, this is a fairly clean example of the style, not showing the higher alcohols or esters of many other pale lagers. Thus, it is not objectionable. Seems like it gets sufficient lagering time and is lower on adjuncts than many of its competitors.

The beer of the Cubs. Had this at Wrigley. Pours a dull yellow with no real aroma. Taste is a stale malt, kinda like cardboard. Leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Funny, when the Cubs play the Cards here in St.Lou they actually sell this at Busch stadium for the Cubs fans.

Never really heard of this beer until I was at a crummy bar in Knoxville, Tennesse. Evidently, it is very cheap and they have it on tap instead of Natural Light/Ice. Needless to say, we had it...and it was just about as bad as you could imagine. Yellow colour, metal aroma, bitter flavour with a pungent and uneventful aftertaste. Overall, horrible. BUT, fun to drink when you are on Spring break in the 'south'! I had this on draught at Toddy's in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Better than some of this style, but not as good as Premium or High Life. Thin. yellow. --- Beer merged from original tick of Heileman’s Old Style on 28 Aug 2018 at 18:51 - Score: 0. Original review text: 11/17/03