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Monaca, PA, United States πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Member
Retired American Luddite and refugee of the 2018-2024 Ratebeer/Anheuser-Busch (InBev) fiasco. Thanks Brewver for the chance to continue rating! ....... and yes, I'll soon be a supporter! ........ Since 1968, I've enjoyed all kinds of cheap macro pale lagers, starting with Carling Black Label bottles I found in Grampa Gino's wine cellar! Later, my dad had faves like Old Mil, Strohs, Bud, Coors Light and Piels! They were all good for a budding youngster like me. My ratings aren't to style, but how much I liked it. Thus, my fave styles; lambic, wild & flemish, rate much higher than IPA since I don't like bitter hoppy beers. You like IPA? The lower my IPA rating, the better according to style! There, you have it! Easy peezy, no worries!

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4.3/10 β€” Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
2$ can from chalet in n. lima. Pours a hazy lighter colored pale. Nose is clean and fresh lager with a bit of cream corn. Very thin pond scum head. First taste is unexpectedly a sharper bitter bite, not really hops, more of a phenol bitter. Very good carbonation but it don't help the enjoyability factor here. Yes, the bitterness is not that of a pilsner, but more of the kind you get from inexperienced brewers. That odd to say for this brewery, I haven't got that before on any of their other brews. Oh well. Gets a little more difficult in the middle. That band-aid plastic flavor keeps on keepen on. Its in the forefront on the finish. This one a little disappointing. They should have put more effort in the tasting as they did on the label.
Tried from Can from Chalet Premier on 13 Aug 2026 at 17:42

cheap updated a beer: Hinoki brewed by Wolf's Ridge Brewing
2 days ago


6/10 β€” Appearance 2 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Can for two bucks at chalet premier. Pour is clear pale, small thin white head. Clean fresh macro lager nose, no hint of cream corn, LoL. Taste is refreshing and easy, very good level of co2. I'm impressed; its so difficult for most domestic craft brewers to make a decent pale lager. No real bitterness, civilized, goes down easy. Great brew, invigorating, revitalizing, renewing, and bracing. How bout that? Just a little sad I didn't get a sixer of this stuff. Sonder, you know what yer doing for the everyday redneck Appalachia hillbilly resident. For all those IPAs out there that are about as useless as a screen door on a submarine and dumber than a bagful of hammers, this is what plain old beer is all about. Nothing personal, just kidding. Always drink upstream from the herd and live simply, love generously, care deeply and speak kindly. There, you have it.
Tried from Can from Chalet Premier on 12 Aug 2026 at 18:44

cheap added a new beer Eagle Light by Sonder Brewing
3 days ago


2.8/10 β€” Appearance 5 Aroma 5.5 Flavor 1 Texture 2 Overall 1
First brew rating for this brewery, pounder can for 3.5$. Probably more cabbage and spondulicks for an IPA tick by this cheap ass pale lager lover. Pour is typical hazy IPA, pale and hazy, hehehh. Nice white head fades to a thin bubbly pond scum. Fairly strong IPA hop perfume for an odor, nearly volatile, but it aint. Healthy rude somewhat fruity ipa bitter bite for a first taste. Very soft carbonation. Bitterness really hangs for a while after each swig. Boorish, uncouth, loutish, churlish, rude, coarse, and vulgar for my girlie macro pale lager taste buds. Snooze cruise rototilling action across my tongue and down the food shoot. However, you like IPA? You probably should experience this terribly on style sample. If you come across it, do it. There, you have; straight from the rookie immature beer drinker's pie whole.
Tried from Can from Chalet Premier on 11 Aug 2026 at 17:06

6.9/10 β€” Appearance 5 Aroma 7 Flavor 7.5 Texture 5 Overall 8
Pounder can for almost 4 bucks at chalet in north lima. A little over the usual price I usually pay. But I must say, after drinking this; it was worth it! Pour is maybe a little lighter than most fest brews, it lacks that light brown tint. Nice clean looking silky head about an inch that fades to, and holds at 1/2 inch. Maybe just a tad of that approachable marzen nose, a mix of sweet toasted bread, roasted grain, warm pretzels, just barely. Flavor is unexpectedly light; friendly and easy, good co2, can't find any negative effects on the commencement. Seriously, its so well behaved and I can't find any negative characters, that I find in other domestic fest beers. Maybe because the alky content is a point or two below most fest beers? Not sure. Smooth, kind, affable, amiable, cordial, and genial. Yep, I'm gonnah say this is right up there with some of the best fests I've had like Climax Hoffman, Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest, Voodoo Brewing James Brown and Holy Moley Oktoberfest. Nice job KCBC!
Tried from Can from Chalet Premier on 10 Aug 2026 at 17:13

6.1/10 β€” Appearance 9 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
Big pounder can for $4, a little out of my price range, heheh. Pour is very rootbeer-like and it has a very nice looking creamy off white head that stays. Slight nose of hazelnuts. First taste is better than that so called chocolate bomb I had yesterday from troegs, stupid chocolate elf. This is a bit smoother and more acceptable on the palate. It does have some filbert in there but its well balanced, not like other filbert beers I've done where the nuts are so artificial and in yer face. The chocolate in here is also well done, goes down smoothly as a porter should. Pleasing finish, to an extent. Not as good as Pittsburgh Brewing Block House Double Chocolate Bock,
Verhaeghe Duchesse Chocolate Cherry, Penn Brewery German Chocolate Cake Stout or even Rivertowne Mazy's Malted Milk Chocolate Stout; but hey, it is very acceptable and I like d it!
Tried from Can from Chalet Premier on 09 Aug 2026 at 19:17

cheap updated a beer: Platter's Chocolate Hazelnut brewed by Ellicottville Brewing
6 days ago


2.9/10 β€” Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 0.5 Texture 1 Overall 0.5
Can from JR's for a buck off the clearance rack. Looks like rootbeer with very little if any head. Nose is hints of mild chocolate. First taste is quite rude; its bitter malt and just maybe a hint of chocolate on the aftertaste. Not real good. To call this a chocolate brew is quite misleading. And who can find the cherries and sweet cream attributes? Totally missing. Actually it seems like its the mad elf, with some dark coloring added. Then they threw in a couple of cocoa beans in there so they could say it was chocolatised. Yep they fooled me on this one. Even my better half, who likes chocolate beers couldn't handle this mess. After having the mad dreams, which was rather tasty and enjoyable, this stuff is an utter disappointment. Maybe I shouldn't compare the two? But they both used mad elf as the base substrate. Glad I only spent a buck on this bomb of a tick.
Tried from Can from JR's Beer Warehouse on 08 Aug 2026 at 19:07

2.8/10 β€” Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 1 Texture 2 Overall 1
As a macro pale lager aficionado, I find quite humorous how IPA lovers describe the terribly on style taste of this style. You know, its a real man's kinda beer! This pounder can pours slight haze on an orange yellow pale background. Maybe some green grapefruit on the olfactory. First taste is what else but en-vogue typical straight up ass IPA design of inelegance and gracelessness. Its coarseness, crudeness and bitter tastefulness is utter vulgarity. In the middle I find its medicinal character clumsy garish tacky and unrefined. Its nasty kitsch crudeness and grotesqueness will be glitz for any IPA expert and judge in matters of IPA. A rude ass taste. After my first real IPA experience, all my beer friends on RB said my palate would eventually mature enough to like IPA. Well, its been 59 year, I don't think its gonnah happen. There, you have it. Finish is intense, bitter, long and ill mannered. Will somebody get me a clean cold macro lager for a chaser? Just asking.
Tried from Can from Chalet Premier on 07 Aug 2026 at 19:13