Pabst Blue Ribbon ($4.19 a six-pack)
It’s the dead (or height) of summer. Put aside those heavy, hoppy microbrews and treat your palate to, well, nothing.
Pabst Blue Ribbon has gone from the top of the beer heap to the bottom and back again. It’s now the beer that hip young drinkers ask for. Why? It’s not the flavor, which is practically non-existent, but the price, which is rock bottom.
Nevertheless, PBR, known as
“Pabst Select” when it made its debut in 1844, won a gold medal as best American-style Premium Lager at the 2005 Great American Beer Festival.
Pabst, headquartered in Wood-
ridge, Ill., markets 40 regional brands (Blatz, Stroh’s, Rainier and Olympia among them), but all its beers are made under contract by SAB Miller.
It’s light, fizzy and practically devoid of malt and hop flavors, which makes it just right for quaffing after mowing the lawn. Ice cold.|Dick Kreck
