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Monaca, PA, United States 🇺🇸 Member

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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 has a new beer style achievement

Level 7 for Gose ticks with a total of 100 ticks of this master style.
Picante Paradox from Anecdote Brewing was the one that did it!
6 months ago

cheap (9744) reviewed

Picante Paradox from Anecdote Brewing (Indian Rocks Beach, United States 🇺🇸)

6 months ago

6/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 5 Overall 7.5

On tap at the source. Slight cloudy pale. Neutral nose, barely anything on the olfactory. Yes, some pepper flavor on the uptake with hints of mango, but there is barely any heat in this at all. Just a tad of tartness. You'd never know it was habenero. Pretty good overall gose. Slight processed feel on the finish. Not bad.

Tried from Draft at Anecdote Brewing on 06 Feb 2026 at 14:15

cheap added a new beer Picante Paradox by Anecdote Brewing
6 months ago

cheap added a new beer Negotiated Nostalgia by Anecdote Brewing
6 months ago

cheap (343) reviewed

Anecdote Brewing (Indian Rocks Beach, United States 🇺🇸)

6 months ago

8.6/10 — Setting 9 Selection 9 Service 9 Food Value 7 Overall 9

OK, this place is easy to find and they have a decent free parking lot. Went there with mom on a chilly Thursday afternoon and everything went fine. So may of their own beers on tap. Lots of different styles. Friendly spacious and knowledgeable help. Had at least 9 samples or more for 3 to 5 $ each.Good overall beer tasting experience. Nice job there anecdote! The dunkle and the sours were my favorites. Very tasty.

Visited on 05 Feb 2026 at 21:40

cheap (9744) reviewed

Zlatá Praha (4.1%) from Staropilsen (Plzeň, Czechia 🇨🇿)

6 months ago

2.9/10 — Appearance 2 Aroma 2 Flavor 4 Texture 3 Overall 3

Big green half liter green bottle from total wine. Date code is F17#L/PS, WTF? The last beer of a half dozen I got from total wine from Staropilsen. Whatever. Pop the lid for a big nose of skunly green bottle aroma, whew. Permeates the whole room, everybody is asking what the heck is that? Taste is the same, a big skunky what the heck. Pointed weird skunky improperly noble hop bitterness is coming across rather negativity. Yea, its beer, but its aged and very poorly baltic in nature. This is what you get when you try to tick new beers from the old check country, they are pawning off the beers they couldn't sell locally to TW&M. There, you have it. Big bullshit disappointment. Oh well, at least I didn't make this half liter disappointment an appointment. LoL

Tried from Bottle from Total Wine & More - Orlando (Colonial Plaza) on 05 Feb 2026 at 21:31

cheap updated a venue: Anecdote Brewing located in Indian Rocks Beach, United States
6 months ago

cheap (9744) reviewed

Česká Koruna Lager from Staropilsen (Plzeň, Czechia 🇨🇿)

6 months ago

4.6/10 — Appearance 3 Aroma 5.5 Flavor 4.5 Texture 4 Overall 5

Got a big green 500mL bottle of this from total wine for 3.5$. Pop the lid for just a fresh lager nose, but just maybe, a hair of skunk. Clear pale look in the glass, big white head that fades rapidly. First swig reveals decent carbonation on top of a more than usual, bitter noble hops. Continuing to the middle, a little less skunky than other staropilsen I've done lately, but yet there is some in there. Getting used to the fresh green grass flavor of this as I near the end. Ever chew on some green lawn grass right out of the lawn mower? Just asking. Pepper? Not sure. Baltic pale cheap lager flavors? Maybe the better of the staropilsen beers I've had so far. Finishes with a medium skunk hop bitterness.

Tried from Bottle from Total Wine & More - Clearwater, FL on 04 Feb 2026 at 20:51

cheap (9744) reviewed

Král Lager from Staropilsen (Plzeň, Czechia 🇨🇿)

6 months ago

3.3/10 — Appearance 2 Aroma 3 Flavor 4 Texture 3 Overall 3.5

Big half liter green bottle from total wine for 3.5$. On the lid pop, getting the green bottle skunk cabbage veggie aroma. Poured in a generic beer glass, its clear pale but it seems to have a slight dirty gray tint. First big swig provides a jetting medium stunk skunk flavor carrying over from the nose. Continuing, trying to get over the nose, I think I may be having a mild feeling of cheap lager sticking its head up. Honestly tho, I'd rather be doing the medium skunk thing than stupid ass IPA bitterness. Yea, its a cheap macro style lager and it somewhat reminds me of the old latrobe rolling rock that came in green bottles after it sat on the shelf for a year. From start to finish, difficult to get over the skunk character that permeates all aspects of this brew, except the decent carbonation. No meaningful date code on this but DO1#L/PS, whatever that means?

Tried from Bottle from Total Wine & More - Tampa, FL on 04 Feb 2026 at 20:22