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comment by kleinbl00

Light lager or pilsner. Kirin Light, Amstel Light, Sam Adams Light, Heineken Light in that order.

Know what sucks? Lagers and pilsners require refrigeration in order to make properly. Microbreweries don't bother with this, so you get nothing but IPAs and ales. And snooty hipsters that like drinking beer you've never heard of are happy to pay too much for Lagunitas IPA which means there's one store in a 5-mile radius that even has Kirin Light.

The local grocery store has even stopped bothering to carry Amstel.





coffeesp00ns  ·  3277 days ago  ·  link  ·  

it's darkish for a pilsner, but Labatt Blue is totally legit as mass market brews go.

kleinbl00  ·  3277 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And much easier to find in Canada.

coffeesp00ns  ·  3277 days ago  ·  link  ·  

unfortunately, yes. But when I was in OH I could get bottles at some of the convenience stores.

I don't know if it would be worth searching for, in comparison to some other Pilsners like Staropramen or Pilsner Urquell.

kleinbl00  ·  3277 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Around here, it went away about the same time as the Amstel. Thus my continued resentment.

user-inactivated  ·  3278 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There are some breweries that still have Pilsners and such. Oskar Blues readily springs to mind.

kleinbl00  ·  3277 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Right - and if I go to Total Wine I can pay $3 a can.

But as late as last year, I could get a sixer of Amstel down the street. Now? Frickn' Amstel is a Total Wine run. I can buy 13 kinds of cider, 97 different IPAs, four or five stouts and if I want something that isn't 300 calories a bottle, my choices are Sam light, Heineken light, Bud light or Michelob Ultra.

And that's why I'm cranky. There are as many non-alcoholic beers near me as there are decent lagers.