Better stock up on PBR...

[Nephrology]

I went to the hipster college that re-popularized PBR

It's still not very good.

[Mntneer357]

I've had one or two New Belgium beers / ales that were decent.

While they do make a couple decent beers (Fat Tire and 1554, specifically), New Belgium is one of the breweries I have issue with. Somewhere along the line they decided "everybody loves IPAs" and that's all they seem to make now. I can't walk into a bar in my city that doesn't have 15 effing IPAs on draft...and they all taste vaguely the same (to me at least). First off, *summer* is IPA season....send that shit packing with the damn hot weather. Second, if you're gonna release yet another IPA, find a way to make it different than the other IPAs you've put out over the last 3 years other than changing they label.

Variety is a good thing. I'm equally happy with a Guinness, a Yuengling, a sour or a pale ale. Or a PBR

[Robinson]

PBR was my Dad's beer so I drink one occasionally in his honor and I enjoy that. But most of the macro brews just don't have a lot of flavor. I do like Shiner Bock and a couple others, but my favorite is probably Jekyll 'Merican Amber Ale, a local brew with great unpretentious flavor.

[RoyGBiv]

Thursday nights, college days, we'd buy a half keg of PBR and keep it iced all weekend in the farmhouse double sink. We'd have a house full of friends coming and going for NBC's Thursday lineup - Cosby, Family Ties, Cheers, Night Court, Hill Street Blues (you can guess the year) - Then head downtown to get the weekend started.

Although my beer tastes are more Porters and Stouts these days, I still keep a few "PBR Pounders" (16oz cans) in the fridge. Sometimes they're just what you need.

[JRB]

In years past, I've enjoyed many chilly PBR's out of a ski pack. For a younger 20-something it's about the perfect beer for finishing in the course of a chairlift ride. The price was a big help too - many times it was stretching all of our budgets to pack four of five of us into a friend's trusty old 5.0L AWD Mountaineer to drive up into one of Colorado's many good ski areas.

Having run the gambit of drinking whatever I could afford to drinking the fanciest shit I could find - these days I've found that the company I'm enjoying matters a hell of a lot more than the specific beer. I'll take cheap beer and good people over good beer and cheap people any day of the week.

Though I do love a good red ale and I feel like there's way too many IPA's where a tasty red could be brewed instead.

[orionz06]

It's still not very good.

Correct. Yet people will still miserably drink it like it means something. We should just let bad shit die off.

[Tabasco]

PBR: the preferred drink of Frank Booth

"Heineken? Fuck that shit, Pabst Blue Ribbon!"

That was my introduction to PBR.

[Hambo]

I still keep a few "PBR Pounders" (16oz cans) in the fridge. Sometimes they're just what you need.

I guess if you can't find brake fluid, you have to do what you have to do.

[SeriousStudent]

The last time I drank a PBR, I remember thinking that the horse who produced it likely had Hepatitis C.

I shall not mourn its passing.

[Shoresy]

Correct. Yet people will still miserably drink it like it means something. We should just let bad shit die off.

Stop. Don't. Come back. [/willy wonka]