Pabst Heileman's Old Style Review

Consumer Note: this beer is "authentically krauesened"

* Brilliant pale yellow with creamy bleached head leaves unexpected lacing on glass

* Floral nose includes "egg-like" sulfuriness and soapy aromas with the minutest suggestion of hop spiciness.

* Mildly sweet foretaste leads to a bit of canned corn flavor across the palate.

* Finish dries considerably; the result is a well-balanced aftertaste.

* Body is light.  Carbonation is fine and prickly.

Synhopsis:

Among the big national brand beers, I find Old Style --despite its defects-- to be one of the more palatable brews.  I find it less sweet than most of them -and therefore less offensive.

Old Style used to be produced at the G. Heileman brewery in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, until it could no longer compete with Budweiser and Miller.  When the old brewery closed down, Pabst bought the rights to the brand name and the recipe and just recently began producing it according to the old-world method of krauesening (pronounced kroy zening) -see consumer note above.  Krauesening is a means of carbonating the beer by adding 10% new wort (unfermented beer) to the already fermented beer.  This is considered standard practice in much of Europe.