After a long hot day at the mill a coors banquet hits just right for me.

The best beer I ever had was an icy cold PBR after moving a friend into an upstairs apartment on a 100+ degree day.

I look at beer the same way my favorite great uncle who was a WW2 vet looked at beer. Whatever is cold and whatever someone else is buying is fine with me.

I could identify the Yuengling just from the color alone

I couldn't agree more on Miller high Life being a different beer from bottle to can. I too land in the bottle camp

Schlitz going back to their original recipe was one of the most exciting things to happen to macros in the last 20 years. In the sixties and early seventies, it was the most popular beer in the United States, leaving Bud at number two.

You need to be able to cleanse the palette between beers. The previous beer(s) will drastically affect the flavor of subsequent beers tested.

My mom was a bartender/cocktail waitress her entire life. I grew up with so much free junk from distributors and about a million of those purple Crown Royal bags. But my prize possession was a wall-mounted Miller High Life sign that subtly lit my bedroom at night.

My Nana used to drink 'Gansett tallboys back in the day. I still remember them in the fridge when I was a kid...

When in the Marine Corps, we declared Pabst Blue Ribbon, "America's beer." 34 years later, PBR is still my go to beer

Really great video! Love the vibe of the discussion, feels relaxed yet lively. Subscribed!

Fantastic! I love the history of the beers our fathers used to drink. I can still throw back some Bud and Shmidt from time to time, but I'm more of a "fancy" beer drinker now. Thanks for sharing.

My Dad always drank Hamms, advertised during his beloved Cubs games!

Yuengling is by far the best. You can drink it all night long and not get tired of the taste. It also has the best color out of all of the other beers and stands out beautifully.

My buddies Dad worked at Schiltz in Milwaukee back in the day. Glad Pabst brought it back in small batches. Good stuff.

I can remember my dad drinking Schlitts, then Coors and even Michelob. He finally settled on Bud, then Bud light as he got into his 50s. I’m now going to be the same age as my dad when he went to be with our Lord and every year on his birthday I stop and grab a pepperoni pizza and a Bud. Personally, I enjoy craft beer, a good Belgian ale but my favorite beer at the moment since I live in Tokyo is Coedo White and Hitachino Nest, both Japanese craft beers. Seems a long way off but I can still remember my dad cracking open a Coors on a hot day after mowing the lawn in the 70s in Southern California and sharing a drink or two with me. Thanks for the memories.

Just stumbled onto this video and man I'm so glad I did! You guys are hilarious! My personal all time favorite of these would have to be Miller High Life but after about 5 or 6, it would be pretty hard to decipher which one is which lol.

And if you drink enough of them, they all get prettier at closing time.

I remember a management class discussing how Schlitz went from number 1 to couldn't give it away . A new CEO that knew nothing about brewing called in the brew masters because they couldn't keep up with orders .They explained to the CEO that brewing takes time and quality ingredients were limited . He said reduce brew time and use lower quality ingredients. They made skunk beer and most was returned .Schlitz went back to the old recipe but could not recover market share .

A great video and I'm glad Pabst at least placed. When my dad was a young man drinking with friends, Pabst was his beer of choice. It was apparently the fuel for many a "colorful tales" of his youth. It holds a special place for me and it's one I always drink in his honor and memory. It is also a favorite of the "cheap beers". I would probably get Schlitz a lot as well except I have a hard time finding in my area.

Out of these I'd have to go Yuengling, but Old Style is my #1

Pabst and Schlitz were popular even into the 1980s before massive advertising and light beers took over.

my grandfather's beer was olympia , wish that beer was still available and part of your list for nostalgia , great topic video guys

Past Blue Ribbon has been my everyday choice for decades. It is clean and fresh tasting, with no odor or aftertaste. It is the beer that I reach for to accompany every meal (except breakfast!😁) I buy thirty (30) cans at a time at Wal-mart for less per ounce than I can buy cola! When I want a beer that "eats like a meal," I reach for Samuel Adams. Held up to sunlight in a Pilsner glass, it shows its gorgeous rufous color. It also is clean tasting, but filled with about half a-dozen flavors, and as maker Jim Koch says, "a head so thick, you can float a bottle cap on it!" A bottle of "Sammy" is always a treat for the senses of every beer lover!

Genesee (Rochester NY) would be a good candidate for this test. Brewery has been around since 1878!

wish someone would bring back Falstaff.

Sterling big mouths and Old Milwaukee were my go too back in the day. Enjoyed the content thanks

That Miller High Life sign on the shelf though. I miss seeing that so much from my childhood as it was hanging in the garage. It was mesmerizing.

Nothing beats a cold lager, and there's only one true lager there

My best beer? Hands down. When I was about 14 years old, some of my friends and I went up on the roof of a random 5 floor apartment building one summer night. We found a red cooler on the roof with about 6 cans of Bud, in with the coldest possible water. A few few ice cubes were still keeping them frosty. It was a warm night, we were running around the nearby town like usual. Those beers were delicious! Cracklin cold! To this day, I'm 52, those cold beers were the best! It was like the scene in the Shawshank Redemption when they got the beers after tarring the roof! Incredible! 😃🙃🤤😎🤠🤯👆 Miss those days, lol!

I'm in my 60's and back in the day I enjoyed Schaefer Beer, unavailable in stores for quite sometime a friend of mine ordered me a case from the liquor store a few years ago and it was okay but not quite what I remembered. Came to find out it's under Pabst umbrella now. Miller High Life is my choice now for American Lager style. Moosehead, Molson Canadian, or LaBatt's Blue I enjoy too.

Yuengling in a bottle is so much better. I guess everybody's tastebuds are different. The only beer with flavor out of the beers you had there was Y.

Macro beer formulas have changed a lot over the years. Schlitz wrecked itself in the '70s with a formula update; the Schlitz in the test uses a 1960s recipe, so it naturally stands out. The Pabst of today is not the same as the Pabst I drank in the early '70s.

The ‘E’ in this study, the Narragansett Lager has been a favorite of mine for years! My personal choice for cheap beer. That’s just me, I honestly like it.

Meister Brau!!! That was my high school beer. I also remember my grandmother drinking Olympia beer.

I love how the Yuengling stands out so obviously.

I'm a coors banquet man You cannot beat a cold Yellow Jacket on a hot summer day And my dad was a Budweiser Drinker I believe he got introduced to it while he was in Vietnam

I remember that there was always a case of Schlitz in the back stairwell of my grandfather's house. He died in 1962. I don't know if it was a choice or if that was the only beer available in Sheboygan in the 1950s.

Good stuff fellas! I'd love to sit down and do this with my dad or my son. Cheers

Take Yuengling to your families and friends out west. They can’t get it out there and LOVE it!

Yuengling is currently negotiating with a distributor in Wisconsin. Usually have a few when I'm in Alabama, Georgia and Texas. Although can't beat a Shiner Bock when in Texas. Usually a High Life in the bottle is my go to.

It's important to remember that your grandparents would probably have only drank regional beers. Especially in the 40's and 50's since countywide distribution was a huge thing. Yuengling is still only available in I think 15 states.

I've never tried a Gansett but will look foreword to that day. I was raised on Budweiser and Miller and always thought that PBR tasted similar to Bud. Schlitz was the first beer I ever tried as a teen before moving on to better tasting brews. Keep it going guys.

I didn't see this in comments at least near top of them. One of the biggest differences between Schlitz and other American beers is the grain that is used. They brewed with rice because near Milwaukee there were large areas with wild rice and it was cheap and easy to get. They meant to change back to the usuals but people liked it so much they kept it. Just one fun side note the beer factory that Lavern and Shirly worked at was called Shots Beer which was an homage to Schlitz.

What a superb review, Gents! As a Canadian, I can only get high life at the local beer store. Interesting that Roger noted a difference between the bottle and can versions. In fact, up in Canada, the bottles are imported from Milwaukee and the canned versions are brewed locally by Molson. Both are tasty, but I prefer the bottles. (Plus, the bottles are cheaper). Lastly, On business trips through Michigan , I always grab some Hamms', Strohs', Schlitz or Old Style. Just love these American Macros!!

I'm a Pabst man, however, I truly miss the Coors Extra Gold. Shame they discontinued it.

I'm a big craft brew guy (I enjoy porters, stouts, lactose-free fruit sours, and amber ales) but you'll catch me in my backyard multiple times a year with a bunch of miller high life bottles. I haven't ever tried a PBR or Schlitz, but I'll add it to my list this summer. Lived off Milwaukee's Best in college, not surprised that didnt make this show.

Good, Fun review. Wish I could get Schlitz in Seattle, WA. 1 of best take-aways is that they are all pretty similar. I tried Schlitz once here (12 pack) and I liked it. It was my father's favorite in the 50's to early '70's. He was from Wisconsin, too. I also enjoy Coors and Miller.

The Narragansett is a contract beer as well. If you look at the can it says brewed in Rochester, NY. So basically you’re drinking a Genesee Beer.

I picked Schlitz right at the start, but Hamm's should of been a part of the test, these two beers are great.

Yuengling only began brewing their flagship Lager in the 1980s. Their original beer is their Lord Chesterfield Ale, followed by their premium (pilsner) and porter varieties.

That animated Miller High Life sign is amazing.

Miller high life bottles give me nostalgia, those were the best to chug in competition with your buds .. secret trick you get a flexy straw bend around the rim use like a snorkel in a weird way and u can chug the whole thing 3 seconds flat as an amateur drinker 2 seconds with practice

Shaeffer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one

Fantastic! A lot are hard to get here in England.. not a fan of corrs or bud but I loved PBR when it was here briefly 🍺

Totally enjoyed this....good times, Schlitz rules. Too bad it's not in NC anymore...

Wow. Surprised. Gonna have to try Schlitz. My long time fave Yuengling. Can’t abide Bud or PBR.

Beer drinker for many years!! Of all the ones you tried and I had them all Yuengling is by far the best! Just an outstanding beer and my go to choice!

Just an interesting side note, Coors makes its big money with high-end ceramics for electronics, mostly as a defense contractor. The beer side of things acts mostly as a PR wing, though it's definitely a strong concern in its own right. In the early '90's I worked for a laser scribing firm, and a single Coors ceramic plate, about 4"x4", was about $100, and once it was scribed, punched, and snapped, was worth as much as $50K. Coors had the market cornered, and was the only manufacturer of the specific type of required, military-grade porcelain for certain defense contract circuit boards. The little firm I worked for (seven people) probably went through 200-300 plates per day, five days per week. (It took a lot of time to build up the power in the capacitor banks, and the system could only cut a half dozen or so pieces per cycle.) That's over $100,000/week that Coors got from us alone. (And we made about the same, I believe, after energy, equipment, payroll, and basic overhead. The two owners were raking it in.) (The most fun was the excimer laser, which could punch through a half inch of plate steel in under half a second. You'd do a x-ray resistant ceramic stencil first, and put that in the way of the excimer aperture and -- Flash! -- an 8"x8" area of steel plate would be cut into whatever shapes, to tolerances that could only be checked by electron microscope.)

Love Banquet! Wanna try the extra gold if it comes back!

Fun video. Thanks for posting. It's really hard to side-by-side taste test beer. Even in this video certain beers that you really liked upon first tasting, once you've had a bunch of different cheap beer on your palate you go back to it later and it doesn't taste good to you anymore. I bet you guys could do this 10 times and get 10 different winners.

The sheer stress I feel watching videos on any macro beer review is I can actually sense them getting warm as discussion happens and I start wrinkling my nose and then I realize I am on a mote of dust around an obscure star and nothing matters and we are all just cosmic dust in the wind and then I sigh and then I want a beer.

Schlitz is my favorite, in this lineup.

Problem is all of the beers have changed formula thru the years

As a punk from the West Coast, PBR and Miller High life are my personal favorites and scene favorites. Cheap and good.

The original Michelob was my beer of choice since high school (I graduated in '83) till it was discontinued. Yuengling has been my go-to since. In fact, I'm enjoying one now. Don't recall ever having a Schlitz but remember my dad and his friends having it around back in the '70's. Think I'll look around for it and pick up a 6-pack for my own taste test.

I’m sitting here with a glass of Hamms, laughing at these guys!

Miller high Life in the bottle is always my go-to, the original Schlitz recipe is right up there and I'm glad they brought it back. It's just kind of hard to find where I live. Great show! This was a lot of fun. Thanks!

What a great 👍 video Craig and Roger well done subscribed cheers 🍺🍺

It was interesting to watch a battle of the worst beers ever made, and Schlitz coming in 1st place was the icing on the cake.

I had not seen or heard of Narragansett, until this year, here in New Jersey. I recently saw Hamm's beer for the first time. 🍻

Nice video. Out of that line up I'll take the bottled High Life all day.

Entertaining and a fun activity. I’ve done that with bourbons. I’m going to copy y’all and do the same with beers! Cheers and greetings from Justin, TX!

In this category, nothing beats the Coors Original Banquet beer - IN A BOTTLE!!

In beer taste testing, the taste gets better the more you drunk.

Great interesting video. My 1 is Coors banquet and 2 MHL.

Used to love Schlitz in the 80's and 90's. It was really hard to get here in the UK along with Michelob. Tend to drink Bud now.

Being from long island my grand parents. Didn't drink any of that. It was Rheingold and gin sometimes whiskey. Upstate it turned to Genny Cream Ale.

Now if they can only bring Stroh's copper kettle fire brewed beer back.

I advise to try yuengling black and tan, good stuff.

PBR is a good beer and glad to see it still hanging on and doing well. I also like Hamm’s. Wish it would have been part of your test.

Grain Belt still going well in upper Midwest. First thing i do when I visit is buy a 12 pack in bottles. Very very good beer.

Dad beer? You mean real beer.

I haven't had beer in years but I might try and pick up some Schlitz. I'm a history buff so I think it's neat that Papst brought back the original recipe.

Hahaha, this should be golden... like the high life! Plus don’t forget this buds for you and the mountains are blue! My favorite will be always the original American blue ribbon award winning Americas world’s fair! Still my favorite, red white and blue... with a ribbon on top! 🍻

That was fun---THNX guys!

Yuengling Traditional Lager is the best of the lot.

PBRs for me.

My dad was a Schlitz drinker when I was a kid. Of the macrobrews you had here it is pretty much the only one I’d drink. I’m a craft brewing fan.

I rotate between Hamms, PBR, Highlife, Old Style and Coors. After 20 years of mostly craft brew, ive gone back to my roots.

I’d love to see you do a battle of all of the bud beers including Michelob, Busch, Natural and see what the main differences are.

I live in a college student ghetto and, judging from the empty beer cans that decorate their yards, the youth generation appears to really like Miller Lite, Coors lite, and Keystone Lite.

I read an article which list the oldest brewery of each state, many of them closed or were about to close and were saved by Pabst

Schlitz was my favorite beer in the early 70s. They tried to speed up the brewing process and thus gain an economic edge over its competitors, and it backfired on them. One of the great all time blunders in the beer industry.

Of those tested, my favorites are Yuengling, Schilz, and Pabst. Do they even make Blatz anymore?

Fun fact: Narragansett is actually brewed at the Genesee brewing company in upstate New York. I recommend the Genesee cream ale!

Very experienced in every one of those. First beer I ever head circa 1971 was Schmidt’s from Philadelphia. For your offerings Americas first brewery 1!would have been my number one. Schlitz 2. If any one is lucky enough to come across Yuenglings lord chesterfield ale on tap!!! That’s amazing

Yuengling and Coors Banquet were the go to for me when I drank. Although we couldn't get Yuengling in Illinois but we live right along the Indiana border and buddies would pick it up if they were over that way occasionally. It was like the holy grail for us back in the day lol.

I liked Genny Cream Ale in the returnable bottles, it had taste all its own. The older the bottles, the better the taste. When they discontinued the returnable bottles, it lost that taste. Can't drink it from cans.

Should have had Strohs and Old Style in there.