better beer part II – Miller Genuine Draft

It's Miller time!

I must warn you that the views in this blog may not suit some college white-boy jock wanna-bes, living in the parents' basement. Yes, I have a prejudice against Miller Genuine Draft (MGD) and apparently the people who drink it (sorry if that is you). I have allways considered it an over priced *trashy* beer ($12.85 for six?!?). Despite my opinions about it, I have never tried MGD. However, in the spirit of inclusion it is my second beer for the "better beer" contest.

It lost.

Badly.

Flat, very watery taste; not sweet, not bitter, but skunky. Little lasting drinkability (I was tired of it even before I finished the first bottle – but i kept drinking out of obligation). The colour was too pale to elicit a mouth watering craving. When I poured it into a frosty glass it produced a weak, limp head composed of large and fleeting bubbles – the kind that soda pop would make when you pour it too fast. The texture of the beer was decent (once you got past the head) and the carbonation was pretty good too. Little or no yeasty taste from a pillsner like MGD – I think that 4x filter they are advertising now is taking out all the flavour as well as the alcohol. The beer is stated to have only 4.7% but tasted lighter than that.

This has strengthened my stereotype of MGD: only macho boys in high school drink this beer – when the grow up they still drink this beer because they have not developed their "grown-up" tastes. Their taste is in the same place their maturity level is…High School. I think I should start an outreach program for MGD drinkers and a support group for the families that love them!

Verdict: I classify this as "an experience." Sorry MDG, you do not make the cut. I give this beer 3.5 watery bottles out of 10.