About ten or fifteen years ago it seemed to me like Miller Genuine Draft was everywhere. It might have just been that people stopped buying it for my family parties, but lately I haven’t seen MGD around nearly as much. I don’t know it’s just that Miller is spending all of their advertising dollars trying to convince everyone that Miller Lite is masculine and something that straight guys should, nay must, drink, but I can’t remember the last time I saw an for MGD during a football game. They certainly still sell the stuff, so I guess I’m going to have to drink it.
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| Hello sexy lady from the 90's, nice shorts. |
The first thing I noticed was that MGD has a ton of flavor. It tastes kind of like a more full bodied Miller High Life, which makes sense because MGD was originally called “Miller High Life Genuine Draft” when it was released in 1985 (Bears!) It tastes pretty good at first, great even. Honestly after the first sip I thought I was going to have to reevaluate my stance on MGD then the aftertaste hit: textbook poo aftertaste. There are plenty of bottomshelf beers with aftertastes that are far worse, but MGD’s really has that unique “poo-ness,”
When I complain about a poo aftertaste the most common question I get asked is, “how do you know what poo tastes like?” Well, funny story. When we moved into the house I lived in for the majority of my formative years we inherited an old clubhouse in the backyard. It would have been cool but it was completely unusable. Even new, the clubhouse would have been full of exposed nails, and not even the great Lionel Richie himself could have danced on that ceiling without a tetanus shot. As it was when we acquired it, the clubhouse had turned rotten and it was full of goddamned hornets.
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| Unfortunately, in real life hornets have no casting cost |
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| What are you smiling at? |
Hornets are second only to possums as the most vile of God’s creations. They don’t make honey. They don’t pollinate flowers. And they don’t turn into butterflies (not that bees do, but still.) They just fucking sting you till you die. As you’ve no doubt surmised, I can’t stand hornets (and WASPS for that matter, but that’s just because I distrust Protestants.) At five years old I was no different, so my friends and I got to thinking of a way to rid ourselves of the hornet menace once and for all. One of us struck on the notion that if we didn’t like the smell of dogshit, hornets probably didn’t like it either. Next thing you know we’re picking up dog poo on a stick and throwing it through the clubhouse window. Genius.
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| Genuine class |
The plan started out well enough, well as well as any plan can go that involves running around throwing dogshit on a stick. Unfortunately I zigged when I should have zagged, and got a mouthful of dogpoop for my troubles. It’s about as gross as it sounds and tasted just as good as you think it would. I hightailed it into the house and washed my own mouth out with soap, because toothpaste just wasn’t going to cut it. The only good thing about the whole ordeal was that I was really young and it happened outside of school, otherwise I’d be “that guy that got a mouthful of dogshit” till the day I died. In conclusion I guess you could say I’m somewhat of an expert on whether or not something tastes like dogshit, and MGD’s aftertaste certainly does.
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| Ginuine cupcakes |
On the other hand it has a great looking website. It may not seem like much of a compliment in light of my dog poo comments, but it was very refreshing to see an aesthetically pleasing bottomshelf beer website. Most beer websites are all crudded up with annoying flash animation and stupid sound effects, like they were designed for someone that huffs roach spray out of a paper bag. MGD’s website on the other hand, was great and it helpfully links to MGD Canada’s facebook page, which raised a lot more questions than it answered. Is it run by Canadians or real Americans? I bring this up because they talk surprisingly little about maple syrup, moose shit, or Canadian National Treasure Alanis Morissette.
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| Sarah Chalke, one of my favorite Canadians |
Miller Genuine Draft may have kind of a fecal aftertaste, and it may not confer all of the totally-hetero-super-powers that Miller Lite does. It’s still a hell of a lot better than Miller Lite, and you can do a lot worse as far as bottomshelf beers go, and that’s the
Genuine truth! (I’ve been waiting the entire post to say that. Now that I’ve done it I feel kind of empty. This is an existential crisis. Let’s end this.)
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| ...and we'll bring it home with a little more Sarah Chalke |
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