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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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cheap updated a beer: Beard Crumbs brewed by Land Grant Brewing Company
5 months ago

cheap added a new beer Hazy IPA by White Squirrel Brewery
5 months ago

cheap (9692) reviewed

Seedless from Land Grant Brewing Company

5 months ago

5.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 5.5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5

Cheap can from krogers. Pour is slightly darker than the pink on the inside of a watermelon, somewhat like an amber, but not. No head. Ever so slight watermelon nose, just barely. Otherwise the aroma is fresh and simple. First taste is some watermelon, backed up with a medium wheat ale bitterness. Good biting level of co2. Perhaps the wheat ale bitterness is fading near the middle and the watermelon flavor becomes more apparent. Also, getting a tad more refreshing, but it never lets you forget its an ale. To the bottom of the can, it still remains acceptable. In the end, this is slightly better than the average fruit beer, still dry yet not dull. Better than expected.

Tried from Can from Kroger - Cincinnati (Mason) on 26 Feb 2026 at 18:17

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Skull Session from Land Grant Brewing Company

5 months ago

4.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 4.5 Texture 4 Overall 4

My can say homage skull sessjion, but I read its the same beer as their other skull sessions, including the scarlet. Pour is like iced tea, no head. Ever so mild malt nose, barely detectable. First taste has a tad of that immature brewer phenolic bite in there. Decent level of carbonation. Near the middle, yes there is some of that vienna caramelized malt but the mostly I can't ignore that sharp pointed bitter bite. As I near the end, I seem to be getting used to it, and it seems to wane, but this stuff needs a few manners. Just saying. I hope the crispness they refer too in the description is not that medium astringent bite I'm detecting. Has a way to go if it wants to be up there with Trader Joe's Jose Dark, Birdfish Speedy Penguino, Modelo Noche Especial or even Michelob Amberbock.

Tried from Can from Kroger - Cincinnati (Mason) on 25 Feb 2026 at 18:11

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Lemon Glow from Land Grant Brewing Company

5 months ago

4.6/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 5 Overall 5

Looks like lemonade when poured from a can. Very thin white head. Nose is a rather crisp pale ale hop aroma. First taste is interesting; initially, I think its IPA hops but that fades immediately into a less bitter, more tolerable, flavor that is backed up with some pretty good fine sizzling carbonation. Yes, the carbonation level is quite nice. Almost cutting, but not. This co2 level almost makes this quite hoppy pale ale a little refreshing and manageable. Too many pale ales of the domestic variety are so guilty if trying to be an IPA. Its welcoming to find a pale ale that is just that, a plain, on style, pale ale! For near 6% this stuff goes down rather easy and before I knew it, I was at the bottom of the can. Yea, hides the alky content rather well. There, you have it.

Tried from Can from Kroger - Cincinnati (Mason) on 24 Feb 2026 at 17:50

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Stiff-Arm from Land Grant Brewing Company

5 months ago

2.4/10 — Appearance 2 Aroma 5 Flavor 0.5 Texture 4 Overall 1

Can, clear pale pour with a very thin head. Citrusy hop nose. Big terribly on style bitterness. Makes me think I'n chewing on an old rubber inner tube. Sharp IPA flavor. A pale lager lover's palate will be destroyed for an hour. Long bitter linger for a finish. Decent co2 helps distract from the rude bitterness within.

Tried from Can from Kroger - Cincinnati (Mason) on 24 Feb 2026 at 14:55

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Big Time from Land Grant Brewing Company

5 months ago

1.8/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 0.5 Texture 1 Overall 1

$1.75 can at Kroger Ohio. Slight haze on pale. Head fades to nuttin. Redolent cloying alarming nose. Treacly viscous appearance, bubbles rise very slow. First taste is syrupy glutinous bitter thick viscid rudeness. Think pine tar perfumed hand soap and a little turpentine in a food processor then served over top of rotting fermenting green grapefruit rinds. Very dreadfully difficult and exceedingly on style. A banausic blast of monotonous contemporary bitter yawning bullshit producing bastard hops. Lets rototiller rabid rancid rank ruin my taste bud for at least an hour. Who dah heck raucous reckless rampage rutabaga cares? I like ticking these IPA styles if they are cheap enough and they got some mind soothing alky, but I'll never get used to the style. All my ratebeer friends told me 20 years ago that I'll start liking it once my taste buds mature. Well, I'm still a crying spoiled bawling wailing blubbering howling baby boy who just crossed the hymen beer rating barrier. There, you have it, directly from the mouth of a macro pale lager lover. If you like IPA, you need to put this on yer bucket list!

Tried from Can from Kroger - Cincinnati (Mason) on 22 Feb 2026 at 19:03

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Bierzelt from Land Grant Brewing Company

5 months ago

From a mixed 18 pack of Land Grant cans! Pour Slightly cloudy pale yellow, much lighter than your typical fest beer. Nose is slight farmy citrus. Quite different taste for an oktoberfest, unconventional to the style. Little bit of odd hops in there, not sure if they are noble or not, I don't thinks so, lacks the manners of a noble hop. Good level of carbonation. Yes, now I'm getting some sort of pilsner bitter bite in the middle, but its not totally in yer face like a typical domestic pilsner. Good level of carbonation. Overall, Ok but it could be a little better behaved. That pilsner bite builds to the finish. Drinkable.

Tried from Can from Kroger - Cincinnati (Mason) on 21 Feb 2026 at 18:59

cheap updated a beer: Lemon Glow brewed by Land Grant Brewing Company
5 months ago

cheap updated a beer: Stiff-Arm brewed by Land Grant Brewing Company
5 months ago