Hey Kent
I can finally buy Shiner beer in Oregon. I had some "Shiner Black" beer when I visited you and it was one of the best beers I've tasted. I recently purchased a six pack of Shiner assorted beers. So far they have all been very good. I have 2 more to go.
I haven't had a Shiner in years. I have noticed they have several "flavors" available now. In my memory their Shiner Premium was a lager and not bad for a small brewer.
But I've been told I have a strange taste in beers. Warm Jax is delicious. Miller is hoppy, but a good beer. Schlitz was a good beer. Someone told me that Pabst started brewing the original Schlitz recipe again, but I've yet to taste it. Carrie Nation is still alive and well in Oklahoma.
> Hey Kent
> I can finally buy Shiner beer in Oregon. I had some "Shiner Black" beer when I visited you and it was one of the best beers I've tasted. I recently purchased a six pack of Shiner assorted beers. So far they have all been very good. I have 2 more to go.
John, Shiner has come an amazing long ways as a brewing company. Once upon a time in the 1970's, Shiner made the absolute worst beer in Texas, a really nasty brew, which was quite an accomplishment considering that Lone Star and Pearl were in the running as well. These days, Shiner is producing an amazing variety of highly palatable beers. It's almost as if there's a new brew from Shiner every few weeks, all good. Definitely a gigantic improvement.
I do love me some Shiner every now and then.
Shiner blonde is my fav.
My town was on a collision course to play Shiner in the Class 1a baseball semis a few years ago.
We all boycotted the beer until after we beat them and went on to win the state championship.
Kent, shame on you for dishing a fine beer like Lone Star, give me a ice cold 6 pack of the longnecks and I am good to go.
Randy
" Kent, shame on you for dishing a fine beer like Lone Star, give me a ice cold 6 pack of the longnecks and I am good to go."
And shame on him for trashing Pearl beer - still made under contract by the Miller Brewing Company in Ft. Worth and sold in all the finer Kroger and Walmart stores
Jeff,
What do expect from a struggling artist such as Kent?
They are always a little bit off center and to the left of the centering bubble.
lol
Randy
I suppose that Pearl and Lone Star would be okay if a person didn't know what good beer tasted like. It's hard to recall what a wasteland of beer Texas was back in the 1970's, but Shiner was amazingly awful, Pearl and Lone Star were saving money by brewing with used hops and grains other than barley. Lone Star pretty much got by on advertising, calculating that long-neck bottles were cool enough that the contents didn't matter.
Shiner beer is excellent. Check out the seasonal variety they have. They have a mesquite flavored one that is excellent for BBQ's but not for drinking many of them. The Christmas Cheer is also excellent and we buy as much as possible when it comes out. It rarely lasts long. Tough to beat Shiner Bock (except it ads weight like crazy) and the Shiner Blonde is okay. They have a shiner premium that is close to what was initially brewed and contrary to Kent's allegations, it's quite good.
I've drank nearly every beer they've brewed as we have family that live in the town of Shiner. In December we made pilgrimage there to attend a wedding of my cousin and after the High Mass wedding, we adjourned to a local dance hall where there were multiple kegs of Shiner Beer of many flavors. They were all gone at the end. 🙂
It is interesting to note that the residents of Shiner and Lavaca County do not like the "new shiner" beer and prefer the old style and drink beer of, in my opinion, lesser quality, except for the Shiner Premium. They drink it like it's going out of style and it's good for hot weather beer.
Most of what they produce goes well with colder climates though. 🙂
I love Texas, and beer and Shiner beer, but given the choice between Shiner and Fat Tire, I'd pop the top on a Fat Tire every time. But I haven't tried a lot of the new varieties either.
Had the Shiner Bock...great beer. I'm suddenly attracted to IPA style beer. They start tasting like grapefruit.
So far in addition to Shiner Black, my favorite so far, I've tried "Ryes and Shine", "Premium" and "Kosmos". I still have "Wild Hare" to try. From what you guys are saying, it sounds like I have several more to track down and try. What a pleasant thought.
>I'm suddenly attracted to IPA style beer. They start tasting like grapefruit.
So do these 😉
Kosmos' is by far, the best.
In the 70's while living in Austin, the $2 per pitcher sold Shiner. It was a bit more dependable than the water to give us a buzz...
> In the 70's while living in Austin, the $2 per pitcher sold Shiner. It was a bit more dependable than the water to give us a buzz...
I'm trying to think what the best cheap draft beer you could buy in Austin at that time was. While Shiner* draft was marginally less nasty than Shiner in bottles, that isn't saying much. I'm thinking that Miller on tap was the deal. Or was it Pabst bock?
* by "Shiner" we mean, of course, the brew that was then made by the Spoetzl Brewing Company in Shiner, Texas, not the products later sold under the Shiner label by the company that bought Spoetzl out (Gambrinus) and began to use actual barley malt and hops in the brewing process.
I thought I heard of something called "Shiner Boch" at one time.
Dark beer and very stout like a Beck's Dark.
Maybe I'm thinking of something else.
Shiner and Lone Star were nearly like having an import around here.
Back in the '70s I felt lucky to get Olympia beer from a local truck driver on his return from Oregon or Coors from a former classmate that was stationed in Florida. At the time it was illegal for them to pass into these parts.
There is an apparent interest in the tasting of forbidden beverage.
Schlitz was was very abundant as there was a brewery in Longview. They sponsored a Quarterly Surveyor meeting every fall that filled the hall. It was the first mixer that many new students of surveying were introduced to their peers.
Never understood why they chose to change their recipe, was something to do with a change of personnel in the Master Brewer department. Old Milwaukee kept up the tradition after that.
Pearl had a very good lager back in those days that came as a 4 pack. It was very smooth and its thickness made it feel like drinking a 6 pack. Haven't seen that in 30+ years.
I have found a taste for Tiger beer as an import in 12oz bottles with 5% alcohol content and in Asia if found in around 16oz bottles with more alcohol content than that.
Still, these days I use more beer in my cooking than for drinking. It does a gumbo good and adds to a great fish batter or in an evaporation tray in the smoker on a low moisture day.
B-)
"Pearl had a very good lager back in those days that came as a 4 pack. It was very smooth and its thickness made it feel like drinking a 6 pack. Haven't seen that in 30+ years."
I think that might have been Pearl Cream Ale.
Yes, that was it.
Good stuff...........
