Is Lone Star beer any good?

[Yavin4]

Been watching "True Detective" and during the questioning of Rust Cole, he's drinking a six pack of Lone Star. Looks real good.

[evlbstrd]

1. No.

[flamin lib]

2. Lone Star is just your average beer. Shiner Bock on the other hand . . . nt

[KamaAina]

13. This is the correct answer.

Shiner Bock is even sold here in craft-beer-obsessed Northern California. which ought to tell you something.

[OriginalGeek]

3. Well when I was a teen in Texas

my best friend said Lone Star tasted like refried beans.


I said "Yeah? so what the problem? We LOVE refried beans!"

And I drank another.


It helps that back then you could get a 24-pack for about 5 bucks.

But like Flamin'Lib said, Shiner Bock is the good stuff. Shiner Bock and chicken fried steak would be high on my list of potential last meals should I ever require one.

[d_r]

4. Texas Budwieser

I used to drink it in college because I could always tell who was stealing my beer.

[Major Nikon]

5. It's maybe one notch above Pearl beer

Which isn't saying much.

[Aristus]

6. Almost all mass-market Texas beer tastes like shit.

It's been so long since I lived there that I don't even know if they have a fairly well-developed micro-brew scene or not.

If they do, try one until you find one you like. Then stick with it.

But if you keeping drinking mass-market pisswater, they'll keep making it.

[alarimer]

17. St. Arnold's claims to be Texas' oldest craft brewer

They make Fancy Lawnmower, which is pretty good.

Also, although I don't rate Shiner as a craft Brewery, it's pretty darn good. They do a lot of seasonals, which I enjoy. We only get Shiner Bock and maybe one seasonal (like the winter one) where I live in NC, but you might find others in bigger towns elsewhere.

I used to think you couldn't get Shiner outside of Texas, but obviously that's not true anymore.

Austin has a lot of small brewers. 512 is one my cousin has been involved with.

[NightWatcher]

7. The good ol days when you could drink and drive in Texas

It made the journey from New Orleans to Houston to Victoria to Corpus to Sarita and Falfurrias tolerable.

Working near Kingsville when it was hot as balls out was only made better by sipping Lone Stars all day. I also loved having a truck with a sliding rear window to toss the dead soldiers in the back.

Ah, the good ol days.

[Major Nikon]

8. At least there's something to look at besides tumbleweeds

Lots of long and bad roads west of San Angelo that even cheap beer can't fix.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. Good Lord! Not in a CAN, please!!!11!!

Show some RESPECT!!!11!!

That detective didn't buy that beer, he sent someone out for it. In which case, it's only polite to drink it, cheerfully. But a long-neck bottle is the only way.

[sarge43]

10. Not unless it's improved in the past few years

Back when we Zoomers called it reconstituted Aggie piss.

[hobbit709]

11. No!

But back in the day it beat the hell out of Pearl and Texas Pride.

[Iggo]

12. The only answer to that question is: No.

[KamaAina]

14. But it's hardly the equal of Alamo.

[Paladin]

15. Not too bad; better than I remembered from a few years back. (nt)

[sakabatou]

16. I don't know about the beer, but he's a good as a hero

[idendoit]

18. It only got one star.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. My dad used to buy it when we lived in San Antonio back in the early 50s

I was just a little bitty kid of three or four and I remember seeing their ads on TV. I remember watching a baseball game with my dad and I asked him for a taste of his beer and he gave me a swig. I didn't like it. My dad though usually drank Budweiser when he drank beer (usually when he ate - he was more of a hard liquor dinker of whiskey or gin).

[Jenoch]

20. Lone Star Beer has changed ownership

at least four times since the mid 70s. The location where it has been brewed has changed several times. I am sure the recipe has changed over the years as well. I don't think it was ever known for being a great beer.

My father appeared in a Lone Star Beer TV commercial in the early 70s.

[pinboy3niner]

21. Thanks--now we know we can blame your dad

[Sancho]

22. Made from natural fracking water!

Life is too short to drink cheap beer...so unless it's a really hot day on the lake and it's all you got, beers to avoid:

Lone Star
PBR
Rolling Rock
any kind of Pumpkin beer

[idendoit]

23. Rated by the pros.

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