yeah, I bet in a blind taste test, no one could tell them apart. In fact, I wouldn't be surrpised if some of them are the exact same beer, just in different packages.

I don't want to be the asshole who refutes a product-based claim, because I know there's more or less no difference, I'm just sayin', I can tell them apart.

Surely this calls for extensive taste-testing at Fest to settle this.

I'm down for this. Someone's going to have to produce some Old Style though.

wait so if theres PBR in Florida theres Old Style too right? If not, then I'll bring some down and hope forum regulars can spot an Old Style can in someones hand from yards away

i don't believe they sell old style anywhere but the midwest, or at least i can never find it

It's mostly a Chicago-area thing, really. It's like a "Chicago Beer" almost.

are you just saying that becasue Billy Spunke from the Blue Meanies said so at last years Riot Fest?

fuck, I wish the Blue Meanies would get back together.


any chance we can direct this thread back towards good beer?

No, I'm saying that because every shoddy bar/liquor store on the South Side has an Old Style sign over the door.

somebody should bring me one of these

Haha, sofuckingmetal \m/

whoa this is the grimmest ale i have ever seen

my friend i used to work with at 1-800-Got-Junk? is a HUGE beer nerd. He went on and on about Darklord, i'm sure he has one. he's always going on about DogFishHead, Mephistopholes or some shit, i dunno. He goes to breweries to get new beers before other people can and shit. Now he brews his own.

I get the attraction. It seems like an awesome thing to get down on, actually appreciating the taste and feel of a beer; but i dunno if i can stray from drinking piss beer to get sloshy at 50 cents a can.

anyone ever try any products from the "left hand" brewery?

I think their milk stout is the best beer i've ever tasted.