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Monaca, PA, United States 🇺🇸 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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cheap updated a beer: Lemon 'Licious Lager brewed by Paladin Brewing
4 months ago


6/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 7 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Cheap can from kroger. Pour is big and black, large and in charge. Fast fading choco moose head. Nose is a sweeter roasted thing. First taste is no doubt sweet, but its not as cloying as most pastry stouts. There is more of a roasted stout substrate background in this compared to other pastry bombs. This also has a fine level of soft carbonation that I'm diggen. Some dark chocolate in there. I like this stuff doesn't get cloying, even to the finish. Not bad but not as good as Penn's Sarris Peanut Butter or Croaker's Dismembered Dough Boy. Probably more in like with Cobblehaus Grandma's Special K and Butler's Cold Dark Heart.
Tried from Can from Kroger - Cincinnati (Mason) on 07 Mar 2026 at 17:24

5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 4 Texture 3 Overall 5.5
On tap at source. Pour is a darker orange brown tint and clear. A mild fresh easy nose. First taste has a bit of unexpected bitterness but its not in yer face. Hey, it a roggy! What else would you expect? There is some biody to this brew. Bitterness builds to the middle. As a pale lager macro lover I'm thinking this style needs a few manners. LoL. On style fer sher and its just as good as any roggy I've had for quite a while like Indigo Fiend, Bullseye Rye Not and Third Eye Gettin Twisted.
Tried from Draft at Coal Tipple Brewery on 05 Mar 2026 at 17:27

cheap added a new beer Red Hat by Coal Tipple Brewery
5 months ago


7.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 4 Overall 8.5
Nice dark brown clear dark beer. Mild sweet perfume for a nose, attractive. Easy fresh brown beer taste initially. No real ill ale character on this one, quite civilized. Very well behaved, For a brown ale, I'm liking this. Easy going fer sher. I'm surprised how nice this american brown ale is tasting. Good session. Yea, this is one of the best brown ales I've tasted and as good as East End Fat Gary, Altered Genius Honey Brown and Big Sky Brown. Good job there CT!
Tried from Draft at Coal Tipple Brewery on 06 Mar 2026 at 17:12

cheap added a new beer Backfill by Coal Tipple Brewery
5 months ago


5.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 5.5 Texture 3 Overall 7.5
Tap at source. Clear pale with a slight amber tint. Some sweetness on the nose. Sweet as well on the first taste but its not cloying nor in yer face. I really can pick out the creamy aspects of this stuff. In the middle, I'm still not getting any orange in there. Decent co2 level throughout. Pretty good for such a flavored beer, I guess something near pastry. In the end I' finally getting some orange sticking its head up.
Tried from Draft at Coal Tipple Brewery on 06 Mar 2026 at 17:01

cheap updated a beer: Collier Creamsicle Ale brewed by Coal Tipple Brewery
5 months ago


6.9/10 Appearance 5 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 2 Overall 9
On tap at the source. Hazy pale. Clean fresh beery nose. Slightly tart initial impressions on the taste. Quite flat. Getting some pepper. Easy going, no ill bitter sharp attitudes like many domestic pils. Comes across more like a well made pale macro lager. Not bad, I find myself enjoying this rather refreshing brew. Yes, I'll get a growler of this stuff to take home!
Tried from Draft at Coal Tipple Brewery on 06 Mar 2026 at 16:51

cheap updated a beer: Pigear Pilsner brewed by Coal Tipple Brewery
5 months ago