Ah, Pabst. Or, depending on when you first encountered it, PBR. Well, I guess it's always been PBR but, when I was in my undergrad, the music and art kids who drank it prominently called it Pabst.

Pabst Blue Ribbon is a staple. I think I've seen it in every bar I've ever been in. Every gas station I've ever visited has has it. It's (anecdotally) as ingrained in American beer and brewing culture as AB InBev, and Miller, and Molson Coors, yet (again, anecdotally) thought of as being on a lower tier. And I've never really gotten that (well, okay, maybe it's deservedly lower than many of Miller and Molson Coors' beers, but it's definitely at least on-par with any Budweiser product).

Today, I'll drink a can and give you my thoughts.

This is the final March post of 2024, which means it's my last bock season. I was happy to find this (at the tail-end of February) on the build-your-own shelves of my local bottleshop. Having only had great experiences with the brewery, I eagerly threw it in my pack.

The brewery? HighGrain. The beer? Ibex, their Weizenbock. Let's see how she's drinking.

Have I really never talked about Yuengling on the blog? Hold on--let me do a quick check. Okay, yeah, that's wild. I guess I've really never done up a Yuengling beer before. Well, I get to correct that today.

You may recall how, last March, I bemoaned the fact that there were just a few bocks on the market. This year's different. I'm sure Yuengling's released their Bock Beer in prior years but I've never seen it before 2024. But, now that I have it in hand, let's see how America's Oldest Brewery treats this classic and beloved German style lager.

Do you remember when I drank Moerlein's bad Märzen last September and said it would "...most likely be the last Moerlein brew I ever drink?" Well, I threw in that "most likely" because I needed to give myself some wiggle room.

See, I'm not one to completely write off any brewery. Just because I haven't had a beer I enjoy from them doesn't mean I won't ever have a beer I enjoy from them, you know? What if, this fall, Moerlein puts out the greatest pumpkin ale to ever be produced? I don't want to keep myself from trying it just because the brewery's always missed for me.

That was my line of thinking when I picked up this lone can of Moerlein's Maibock for this year's blog bock season. Maybe, thought I, this will be the Maibock to end all Maibocks. And so it went into my sixer.

Let's see if my hopeful thoughts will pan out (I doubt they well, but I've been surprised before!).