Product: Miller Genuine Draft: Not Bad for a Cheap Beer Producer: Miller Brewing Company Approximate Retail Value: $7 for a six-pack Category: Beer Country of Origin: USA Reviewer: R. Pietsch The F Words: Flavor – Doesn’t taste good. Doesn’t taste bad. Feel – A decent carbonation rolls right down the back of the throat. Finish – The colder it is, the quicker it’s gone.

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As the summer comes to a close, college campuses across the country are once again pitted with popped collars, littered with Live Strong bracelets, and flooded with more cheap beer than all the NASCAR events in a season.

With this in mind, I realized that “economical” beers need to be reviewed, too. Miller Genuine Draft (MGD) represents the bottled beer, generally used to start or finish (if your night was lame and the beer lasted that long) an evening. I have never really subscribed to the notion that bad beer is cheap beer. You can spend just as much on a six-pack of shwag as you can on a six of some Flying Dog. While MGD is not over the top, it is generally a few shillings more expensive than, say, Bud.

Let’s take a look at this. Generally, the additional cost comes from the bottled packaging. MGD has an elegant black label over clear glass, which gives a nice contrast to the eye. You will look far more suave holding one of these at 11:30 than you will for the rest of the night. Of course, you have to pay for this luxury.

I don’t look for much in beer like this. In my opinion, all mass-market American beer tastes relatively the same. The difference between them is I can swallow the ones that don’t really taste like anything. I hate to use the word clean, but MGD is about as good as these beers get.

So, if you’re feeling like you will be defined by what beer you are drinking (which a lot of people are to some extent), then MGD is not a bad choice. Just look for the golden beer with the shiny black label.