Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4
Enjoyed while watching the Cubs play the Brewers at Wrigley Field in Chicago, IL. This one was much lighter than the Budweiser I enjoyed earlier, definitely more watered down. Not bad?
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
I had this at the Mutiny in Chicago while watching a friends band play. Definitely a beer to enjoy in either a dive bar or at a Cubs game. I don’t really buy the whole \"krauezining\" marketing speak that they have, it tastes like every other mass produced lager but maybe a tad creamier? I don’t know, it’s not bad but I can’t say it’s very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 5.5
What kind of sicko goes around taking notes on Old Style..oh well. Bottle at Empty Bottle. Pale Lager factory aroma. Macro swill all the way, but relatively smooth and easy for what it is. Mellow Cream Ale notes. A somewhat hollow beer, to say the least. Clean and drinkable with almost no hop tones, just some faint soapy balance. A touch classier than most BMC trash, but still sub-par all the way.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5
12 oz. bottle. This says "authentically krausened" on the label, so I’m guessing it goes here. Neck label says "Think Local, Drink Local." Hmph. There are a dozen brewers more local to Chicago than this Milwaukee-contracted product. BIG skunk when opened. I let it breathe, poured into a glass, let sit a few minutes, and it’s still there. Gets a tick for looking like a beer, pilsener color, but a very thin head… oh, wait, it’s gone now. Taste is, um, fizzy. Slight touch of bitterness, but otherwise it’s fizzy water. Nothing foul or rank about it, but it’s just a bottle of nothing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
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.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Here’s rating #10 that establishes the number on the shelf tag. 24 oz. can. I compared this to a 12 oz. bottle of the old stuff after finding both from Sam’s. Assumption is the older bottle might be a bit past code. But of the new stuff: I poured it into my Sam Adams glass and a frothy head foamed up the top half, possibly due to its wide-mouth opening. Both beer looked identical in the same glasses: pale lager yellow, a bit of gold in the thicker part of the glass. The corn smell is less pronounced here, but there’s also less malt or hop smell in its place. There’s also less sweetness in the taste, but the mouthfeel is watery, something I learned after tasting this is a common complaint even among regular beer drinkers. A bit more malt comes through, and with less remaining corn, it seems more finished. Midway through, I start to get that unpleasant buzz that usually comes with trying tallboys of malt liquor. I think I’d rather put this down to the psychology of drinking from a big cheap can.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
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.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
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.
dwest (2978) reviewed Heilemans Old Style from Heileman's Old Style 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2
Horrible. Just like the baseball franchise that is so famous in representing.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5
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"?