Today I kick off an entire week, that’s 7 days of diet beers! American light Lagers are some of the biggest sellers out there (Yes, Modelo is North American!) Crisp and clean, they slake the thirst of just about everyone many times throughout the month.
How they make light beers this clean is still a mystery. Some say flavorless. Some say swill. Some say p… beer. Not Beermeister32! These are works of art! How they heck do they do it? !!!
Making a lightly-flavored beer is the hardest thing to do. When I started brewing, I figured the light beers would be easy and the harder beers would be darker ones, like a stout. The inverse is actually true. Beginning brewers are better off learning on a 100-level, more complex dark beer like a porter or stout. The light beers are graduate studies! It is very difficult to make a brew this light and clean, any little flaw gets picked up by the palette.
Today’s chug is Michelob Ultra. Back in the day, when regular Michelob was being produced, we used to save our pennies for some Ruffles, Mozzarella cheese sticks and of course a couple sixers of Michelob! If we were really lucky, maybe even Lowenbrau! Back in the 80’s, that was living large!
Michelob Ultra is a light Lager, not too different from a Coors Light, which is my go-to light beer. It’s a good one when I’m eating food and am just looking for something to wash it all down without the commitment of about 350 calories of heavy Ale for example. There’s definitely a place for these….. Chug!
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