2.5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 1

Bottle. Well I guess this and bud were at one time the two Kingdaddys of beer. Just typical macro pale lager. Pale gold. Medium head. Not very good.

2

RB score 1.64

2.5

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

Oh the high life! We’re back in the high life again! Can’t help but here some Steve Winwood in my head.....boy we are slummin it tonight!

Well some lovely crappy hop extracts, and cheap ingredients. Its lacking the sweet corn i expect from molson and labatt, so thats a plus. This is pretty non descript boring fizzy yellow water.

5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

9-18-24, Hill East Burger

5.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

One of those classic American adjunct lagers, this original Miller beer has gained notoriety in Europe last year because of its use of the slogan "champagne of beers" (since 1906, mind you - though up till 1969, the full version was "champagne of bottled beers" apparently): the Comité Champagne, a mighty French lobby monitoring everything that has to do with the northern French sparkling wine of the same name, was not amused by this and had over two thousand cans destroyed in the port of Antwerp when some German company tried to import it last year. It is not the first time the champagne lobby makes a big fuss out of beers referring to champagne - they are blind for the metaphorical or even laudatory meaning that can also be read in such references, but basically it is all about the money, I guess. Anyway: this - in Europe - 'illegal' beer may be the original Miller, globally it is less common (and less well known) than the ubiquitous Miller Genuine Draft (MGD) version, so I am happy with this tick nonetheless - thanks to Lauren and Morgan for this one, not packed in a can but in a small colourless bottle! Snow white, moussey, bubbly, medium thick, lightly lacing, closed and stable head on a crystal clear, pure yellow blonde robe with slight 'metallic' old-golden tinge and lively visible sparkling. Aroma of dry cookies, cotton cloth, ferrous spring water, canned corn, popcorn even, rubber, hints of asphalt, wet brown paper and grass. Neutral onset, with a sweetish corn- and maltose-like flavour coming up quickly and remaining unchanged for the rest of the flavour 'parcours', except for some minerality (from the carbonation) being added which is actually refreshing, especially in the broiling of a July evening; thin, even rather watery mouthfeel, but something very thinly (white-)bready or flour-like also glows up in the end and I can even taste a very mild, waferthin grassy hop bitter element that last for a few seconds - but there are also these side notes of wet paper, plastic and rubber, as well as that whiny 'cooked' pasteurisation effect, unsurprisingly. Clean, clear, sleek and utterly 'easy', this is indeed the standard of bland, generic, industrial pale lager the American way, but that light breadiness and hoppiness are elements I cannot remember detecting in its MGD offspring - so seen in its context, this is not even the worst in that segment, though referring to itself as the "champagne of beers" is obviously not even worth going into. Still: have a point for annoying that humourless, petty champagne lobby.

3

#usa

5.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

16oz can into glass. Pale amber beer with a large foamy white head. Light carbonation. Sweet cardboard nose. A bit malty, bitter finish. Drinkable, much better than the other Millers beer I've had.

4.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

pale golden colour, large, dense white head, which lasts for several minutes; aroma of grainy, corny, hay, some herbal and minimal metallic notes; taste of bread crusty, corny, some metallic bittery and sourish notes; not that bad...or at least drinkable