3

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2

can from The Green Frog in Ft Wayne - I was amused to see this beer on the menu and told the waitress as much. It’s like finding Schlitz at a dive bar. Anyway, it’s clear pale yellow, has a mild aroma of grainy malt, and tastes of corn and not much else. Yep, it’s go some sweet corn laden malt that’s pretty mild as everything about this beer is. It’s light bodied, thin, adjunct laden... yeah, don’t bother.

3.8

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Draft at the OF. Hyper-filtered yellow-orange color. Patchy non-head with lots of CO2 bubbles underneath. Grainy and rough body. Finishes sugar water thin. Unoffensive at best, insipidly disgusting at worst. Slightly dry 6-row aftertaste.

2.6

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5

Canned. Clear pale yellow, brief head. Aroma? What aroma? Perhaps a whiff of vegetable soup? Sweet and soapy, light bodied with rounded mouthfeel but very, very empty. Perhaps some corn and rice flavuor, and definitely lots of water. Absolutely no bitterness. I believe I should be able to separate this from sparkling water in a blind test.

4

Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Blatz Blatz, my old friend Blatz. Quite a name, isn’t it? I remember when throwaway bottles came out and this stuff was really popular, now I’m showing my age. I had to buy a few of these to rate just for old time sakes so I rate as I drink, this is not by memory. Has a nearly sweet cornlike aroma typical of many pale yellow american lagers and the appearance of course is that of the ubiquitous pale yellow american lager. Taste is more impressive than the Blatz light and the flavor is how I always remembered it. Has that unique attribute of Blatz, I see the sale of this recipe has not changed the flavor much. Friendly, cheap and easy to get along with. Not a bad pale yellow lager by any means. Much better than many lagers I’ve tasted especially better than King lager and any of the City lager types. Even better than Henninger Premium Lager! The finish of this suffers from just a bit of industrial bitterness that makes it a little less enjoyable than beers of similar style like schmidt’s or carlsburg. However, overall, not bad.

2.4

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1.5

Canned (thanks heemer77). Pale yellow colour, big foamy white head. Aroma is very much vegetables and sweetness. Flavour is very sugary sweet along with maize.

4.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Draft, at Tom’s Place, Lemont, IL. I have no history with Blatz in my underage drinking or impoverished student days, so this review comes with no baggage, except my surprise at finding it not only on tap, but finding a bar with an old Blatz sign out front. In a pint shaker ($2.25), it shows that familiar pale straw color under a thin macro head. But there’s a noticeable lager malt taste here. Some corn adjunct, but I didn’t find it distracting. And just enough bitterness for an uncomplicated finish. Probably never a great beer, probably not the same recipe for generations, but I wonder if, when it’s being contract-brewed, Miller doesn’t mess around trying to "modernize" it.

4

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Rerate (Finally!): Golden, fizzy. Chemically artificial adjuncty nose. Clean and bready flavor, toasty finish with a hint of indistinct hop at the finish. Very light and easy of course. Touch of fusel?

I was 18 on a road trip while pledging SigEp. I remember this beer being horrible. You could feel by the can how cruddy it was. This was for the WVU/ECU FOOTBALL game tailgate.