The Beer:
Stegmaier
Chosen by:
Ashleigh
Reviews:
Robby:
Gold Medal beer? Not by today’s standards. It's been nearly 100 years since this beer actually won a gold medal. Still not a bad beer, but nothing to write home about. I found the history of this beer more interesting than it's flavor. If history is not your thing, then stick with a cheaper alternative. PBR will do just fine. I give it a 4 out of 10.
Nick:
If you live in Wilkes-Barre—the question is why? If the answer is that they hand out free Stegmaier, then I understand. The drab label implies you’ll be drinking shitty beer from a shitty factory but don’t be fooled my friend, this beer deserves your investment. I give this refreshing hops explosion a 9 out of 10 for superb drinkability and cheapness.
Ashleigh:
Remember when you were a kid and you used to go over to your friend's house to hang out.
And your friend had an older brother, one who was in high school. Sure he'd teach you cool things like how to make sparkler bombs, sneak his girlfriend up to his room for an afternoon of Sun Chips and blow jobs, he even knew the trick for getting the scrambled channels to unscramble on the old school satellite dishes.
Sure he sounds cool but this is the same guy who would open the bathroom door on you in front of your friend's sister, fart in your pillowcase during sleepovers and use you for shot put practice.
That in a nutshell is Jagermeister. Cool at first but when you look back on it, why did you fool with him.
Stegmaier is like Jagermeister ONLY in the fact that their names come from some bizarre European country you'll probably never visit — but if you did, everything else would sound remarkable like these two names.
Stegmaier Gold Medal Beer is CHEAP. I bought a 6 pack of it for around 5 bucks, which is a good thing. It's also a good thing that I had only one of these because it went down like water and I had to drive home. This might have been the easiest drinking beer ever, (sorry Coors Light). I can see myself spending a summer afternoon plowing through several of these.
Before we go any further, I'm a huge PBR fan. Mainly because it's easy to drink, cheap, fairly tasty beer. And I have to say if I didn't have to drive 15 minutes instead of 2 to grab Stegmaier, PBR might have a new competitor.
Packaging complaint. Stegmaier could use a new printer and should print their labels at higher than 72 dpi. The picture above is blurry because the label was blurry. The images in the background of the label are MEGA blurry.
And finally you should visit their MAJORLY outdated website. It too is cheap and was probably put together by the current owner's first grader. (Stegmaier, if you need help with a redesign call us).
This is a good Old Man Beer. I give it an 8 out 10 – mainly because if you are looking to drink a lot, this stuff will do the job.
http://www.stegmaierbeer.com/
