MillerCoors Batch 19 "Pre-Prohibition Lager"

Appearing on tap next month at some bars & restaurants in Chicago (also San Francisco, Milwaukee, & DC):

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... _US_News_5

I'm sure I'll give it a shot, but with all the excellent craft beers widely available these days, I wonder how well this will do (unless, by some miracle, it's cheap & awesome).

Khaopaat wrote:I'm sure I'll give it a shot, but with all the excellent craft beers widely available these days, I wonder how well this will do (unless, by some miracle, it's cheap & awesome).

The word "skeptical" comes to mind.

Here's a Sun Times article, found in Ronnie's latest post in the always-excellent-&-informative Weekly Chicago Food-Media Digest thread:

New beer made from pre-Prohibition recipe

Given that the "Pre-Prohibition" era was also the era of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" how much formaldehyde and rat carcasses does the recipe include?