cAb Adventure

  • Pete's Wicked Ale: A good brown ale. Rating: 7
  • Tecate: MH summed this up well, so I'll just use his quote,
  • Flying Dog Tire Bite: Gross. It's a bad sign when the bottle art has a dog biting a tire with blo...
  • Fosters: Australian for, 'A hell of a lot better than Tire Bite.' Rating: 7
  • Heineken: This beer is only cool between your breasts. Rating: 4.5
  • John Courage Amber: For some reason this tasted like Peanut Sauce/ Thai Food... No one else thoug...
  • Labatt Blue Light: Whoa, a pretty decent light beer? Rating: 6.5
  • Beck's Oktoberfest - Hoppy and really good. October rules for all the seasonal beers. Rating: 7.5
  • Old Style: tastes like tasteless light beer. Rating: 4.5
  • Leinenkugel's Amber Light: A light beer that's a little better than other light beers - but not m...
  • Rolling Rock: Pretty good for a green bottled beer, but still not my favorite. Rating: 6
  • Michelob: Decent for a domestic lager. Better than other domestics. Rating: 6
  • Leinenkugel's Oktoberfest: I love oktoberfest, but I recently had Rock Bottom's Rocktoberfest and...
  • Lowenbrau: It's in a green bottle, it's from germany, it's skunky, and it's bitter. What a weird ...
  • Leinenkugel's Honey Weiss: Wheat and Honey? Decent. Rating: 6.5
  • Leinenkugel's Berry Wiess: Is this a wine cooler, a beer, or just terrible? Rating: 2.5
  • Leinenkugel's Honey & Berry Wiess Mix: Someone told me that these are often mixed out of a tap......
  • Michelob Light: WTF - Watery, Tasetless, and Foul... all at the same time. Rating: 2
  • Miller Genuine Draft: Not as bad as I thought, better than most domestics. Still not that good th...
  • Miller High Life: Champagne of suck. Rating: 2.5
  • Moosehead: The only thing I like about it is that it's getting me closer to being done with my ad...
  • Coors Original: A pretty smooth, decent domestic. Rating: 6
  • Molson Ice: Might be good for a green bottle. But it's still not good. Rating: 4
  • Peroni: Italy's number 1 beer is rated a 5 in my book. Rating: 5
  • Samuel Adams Light: Probably the best light that I've had. It actually has a taste to it... Ratin...
  • Red Dog: Batman and Catwoman love it. I hate it. Rating: 2
  • Rolling Rock Green Light: 2.4 carbs... Is this water or what? There's no taste so it's not really...
  • St Pauli Girl Bier: Skunky and not that good.  I hate green bottles.  Rating: 4
  • St Pauli Girl Special Dark: Not as special and dark as I expected.  But it was especially better ...
  • Tsing Tao: A Japanese beer.  Decent for a green bottle, but still a green bottle.  Rating: 6 2 comments
  • Red Hook Winterhook: The first new beer since I finished the Journey.  I believe this is a season...
  • Pete's Wicked Wanderlust Cream Ale: Sorta wheat, rich, creamy, malt beer.  So good.  I think it's...
  • Budweiser Select - A brand new beer from Budweiser - out today.  3.1 carbs, "new bold tasted that...
  • Sam Adams Oktoberfest: This is one good Oktoberfest.  Rating: 7.5
  • Boulevard Stout: Coffee tasting, good, true, stout.  Rating: 7
  • Grolsch: Stinky & sorta skunky at first, but decent taste.  Got better as I drank it.  Plus the n...
  • Boulevard Nut Cracker: Reminded me of the Rock Bottom Pumpkin Ale.  Rating: 7.5
  • Goose Island Christmas Ale: Good Gogo Boots.  Sort of bland right after having the Nut Cracker Al... 1 comment
  • Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale: Reminds me of newcastle.  Good.  Rating: 7
  • Avalanche Amber Style Ale: Breckenridge brewery.  Good.  Can't explain it.  Sort of a "light, dar...

A bunch of us at Pioneer won some "After Work Club" cards at the cAb (A smoke-free bar in Johnston, IA). They entitled us to a free drink every day for the year of 2004. So Nehru, Nick and I took this opportunity as a reason to try and rate every beer in their cabinet. Here are my ratings...

Photos taken from April to August, 2004 in Johnston, Iowa

Album added 20 years ago (Oct 8, 2004).