Pabst Brewing Company
Client Brewer
in
San Antonio,
Texas,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Pabst Brewery
- Out of business
Established in 1844
Contact
110 E Houston St., San Antonio, TX, 78205, United States
Subsidiaries
Description
In 1996 Pabst, once one of the largest breweries in the United States closed down its production in Milwaukee after 152 years. Since then Pabst’s legacy brands like Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR), Old Milwaukee, Lone Star, Rainier, Stroh’s, Old Style and Schlitz are brewed under contract by third parties. For nearly two decades, MillerCoors brews and distributes all of Pabst's beers under an agreement. In 2019, it has entered with City Brewing Company into a 20-year contract production agreement until 2040. Pabst will gradually transfer from 2021 until 2024 its production from MillerCoors to City Brewing.
5.3/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 6
Pabst Light
5, 3, 5, 3, 14: Ratebeer
3 stars: Untappd
5, 5, 5, 5, 6: Brewver
16 oz can. Pours clear golden with a half finger white head that falls into a ring quickly. Aroma is corny, sweet malt. Taste is sweet with faint bitterness. Thin and watery. Maybe a hair more flavor than your typical bland light lager.
5, 3, 5, 3, 14: Ratebeer
3 stars: Untappd
5, 5, 5, 5, 6: Brewver
16 oz can. Pours clear golden with a half finger white head that falls into a ring quickly. Aroma is corny, sweet malt. Taste is sweet with faint bitterness. Thin and watery. Maybe a hair more flavor than your typical bland light lager.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Aug 2025
at 17:50
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4.5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Pour is a crystal clear gold with a large white head. Aroma is beer. Bready generic malt. Flavor is a wee bit of grain and not much else. Very watery.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jul 2025
at 18:24
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 4.5
Texture 5
Overall 6
So I went out of my way to find this and got a whole 12er. I hope I like it, jk it'll be fine, at worst a lawnmower beer. On to the review: pale golden, crystal clear, rapidly fading but very full white head. It's really refreshing to see a beer that just looks like a beer these days. Nose is subtle hints of grain, very similar to regular Pabst (which is usually too grainy and corny for my tastes). Am I detecting some actual floral hop? Its very faint if it's there but I think it is. Flavor is more about the grainy malt profile, there's a decent but light bitterness at finish, but no appreciable hop flavors. Something feels missing but I can't quite put my finger on it, maybe just lacking a certain depth that gives it an almost watery element.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Jun 2025
at 22:32
3.1/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 4.5
Flavor 2
Texture 3
Overall 2
Aroma is grainy, bready, slightly skunky. Taste is sweet with zero bitterness. Reminds me of the bad old days when the only NA beers around were O’doul’s and Clausthaler. The NA segment has come along so much further than this and someone should let Pabst know there’s been advancements in the techniques used to make these beers.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jun 2025
at 19:02
4.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3.5
Flavor 3.5
Texture 5
Overall 4
473 ml can. Pours a pale gold with light head. Aromas and flavors of weak sweet corn syrup.
Tried
from Can
on 28 May 2025
at 22:28
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Canned - its natural state, from a barber shop on India st. Not as horrid as some others in this category.
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2025
at 01:04
5.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 5
Overall 6
Can, so this is the 'new' Pabst Light? Pours a perfectly clear pale lager yellow. Nice big head fades fairly rapidly to about quarter inch. Lots of visible carbonation in there. Nose is a little bit of cream corn backed up by some fresh cut hay from Pennsylvania fields, hehehh. First big swig is friendly and easy, no real bitterness in here. Nicely bubbly on the palate. As a lager lover, I'm enjoying this stuff. Cold, it comes across somewhat refreshing. Even though I can't remember, I see on the original PBR light, I gave it about a 4.8 so I guess this is better to an extent. Finish is clean with no negative attributes. Not bad and hey, I got a 30 pack for 30 cents a can! Can't beat that !!! Especially if yer a macro lager drinker. Tho I can get Outlaw for about the same price.
Tried
from Can
from
JR's Beer Warehouse
on 27 Apr 2025
at 17:02
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 1.5
Can. Pale golden color. Decent head. Aroma, watery, weak, straw and grains. Taste is weak and watery.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Mar 2025
at 04:39
2/10
RB score 1.79
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2025
at 02:07
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Can. Gold in color with a three finger head. Aroma is straw and grains. Taste is grains and straw.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Mar 2025
at 05:02