What other crap beer can you drink now that PBR is so pricey?
Posted on Thu Nov 5 2009
This guy named Kevin Depew has the guts to drink a bunch of cheap swill beer so I don't have to. And for that, I thank him. Depew is from the business blog Minyanville.com, and he's made this witty video about how hipsters made Pabst Blue Ribbon popular again. He then taste-test three similar bottom-of-the-barrel brews that can still be consumed ironically: Natural Light, Schaefer and Olde English 800. His unfiltered opinion includes a thumbs-down on Natty Light and Schaefer. ("That's insulting," he says of the latter after a swig.) But my favorite is his description of Olde English 800. After pointing out that adding that "e" to Old in the name is suspicious, he notes that the brew has more alcohol than the others and comes in a bigger can. "It's like they just resorted to blunt force trauma to get an edge," he says. He decides to stick with PBR, even though it's raised its prices and is no longer the downscale, anti-establishment choice. Cheers, pal.
—Posted by T.L. Stanley
