Sunday, October 17, 2010

Beer Taste Tests - Intro

So I'm trying out beers, and starting today doing it somewhat methodically.

I bought 6 different 24oz single servings of beer from the store. The candidates are:
  1. Busch ($1.69) - Since it's claiming association with mountains and stuff, I figured it must be the Coors competitor; I've not tried it in known memory.
  2. Corona Extra ($3.19) - I've found Coronas to be passable in recent experience, but most likely this can't win because of its price.
  3. Miller High Life ($1.69) - I had an MGD in recent memory, and it was passable, so why not try the classic?
  4. Coors ($1.99) - The Coors Light I'd had most recently got me thinking that maybe beer was a passable way to ease consciousness after all, so the theory is this might be the better flavored cousin.
  5. Coors Light ($1.99) - One of the better tasting beers I've had in modern times, it made me consider beer as a reasonable alternative to wine or hard stuff.
  6. Sapporo ($2.49) - Japanese and completely unknown, but with no claims of lagerhood.
These were selected because
  • They were available as singles in this particular store.
  • They were NOT lagers (which I've slowly learned are not what I like).
  • They were reasonably inexpensive.
Over the coming week I'll have tried each of these and perhaps a few more and I'll put my notes out as a blog.