Keystone Ice: An Amateurish Beer Review
Cheap beer is cheap for a reason. Keystone Ice is made by MillerCoors, and yet seems to be so cheap that they only have a Facebook page for the brand!
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But before I explore this particular beer, I have a story.
I live on a dirt road in a rural private housing development. I have developed a theory about my neighbors based on my observations picking up litter. I suppose some of my neighbors fall into the following categories according to their beverages presumably consumed on their drives home.
Budweiser and Busch
Our good ol' boy pulls off the highway onto our dirt road, cracks open a cold one, drinks the can, and pitches the empty out the window after about 500 yards.
Foster's
Our good ol' boy pulls off the highway onto our dirt road, cracks open a cold one, drinks the can, and pitches the empty out the window after about 800 yards due to the larger can.
Box Wine
Professional woman pulls off the highway onto our dirt road and downs about four on her drive home, pitching the empties out of the window as they are drained.
Keystone Ice or Natural Ice
Our good ol' boy pulls off the highway, chugs a 6-pack while tossing the empties onto the passenger floor before pulling over to kick them all out of the door and into the ditch at a particular steep bank into the woods.
OK, so with that theorizing aside, on to the subject at hand.
Keystone Ice
An ice beer is brewed by traditional means, and then frozen to reduce the water content by skimming off the ice crystals. This results in a higher alcohol volume. American ice beers are not typically as strong as a German Eisbock. They are also not usually very good.
This beer is relatively strong for an American macrobrew at 5.9%. However, it's bland. Hops are almost imperceptible. It's watery. Basically, its purpose is to get you drunk faster than on the usual Miller or Coors beer without resorting to malt liquor. If that's all you want, this is the beer for you. It's not the beer for me, and I'm glad I found it for sale as a single pint can rather than in a six-pack, case, or 24/25 oz. tallboy can.
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Sorry you were tempted to try that pee water. I drank a ton of cheap beer when I was in college and broke. If your goal is simply to get drunk just pick up some Mad Dog 20/20.
Too bad you can't get Yuengling out west. Best American beer.
I had to give it a try just to set a baseline. And it was a good excuse to tell my story about my neighborhood litter and what it suggests about Friday commutes home.
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