Heilemans Old Style
Old Style is an honest, unpretentious, award winning beer that has been pleasing Midwesterners for over 100 years.
1.9
451 reviews
Irwindale, United States
Community reviews
Can. Tastes like musky straw, corn, and doughy malt. Light body and low carbonation. Smells like musky straw, corn, and doughy malt.
An average block party staple
Pours clear golden with low white head. Aroma of bread and malt. Taste is sweet and bready, bland. Light, smooth body with soft carbonation.
12oz can from High Life Bar Milwaukee. Clear and headless I assume. Grain aroma. Easy drinking. None of that pesky flavor to get in the way. It is beer I guess.
For a pale lager and a buck a 16oz can beer it’s great. Drink um cold. Muskies
Pours a light golden color with a fluffy white head. Aroma of lemon zest, honey, light malts, faint earthy hops. Taste is of lemon, grainy malt, honey dew, doughy bread and grass. Thin mouthful. Dry finish. Not bad.
quite similar to PBR but just a slightly lighter body. Its lightly sweet and immensely smooth for a budget beer.
Had one in bar near Wrigley during '16 World Series for old (style) times' sake. Old school macrolager
Can. Some grass aroma. Some grass and rice flavor. Standard adjunct lager.
This one is a tick above the other old school regional favorite brews bought out and produced by a conglomerate but I could be influenced by the fact I’ve only tried it a few times.
24 oz can pours golden with a white head. This is just a basic beer but I have always wanted to try it. Basic lawnmower brew.
Bottle in the bed just now.
Pours pale gold with a small but well retained head that leaves a little lacing on the glass.
The aroma is a little herbal with some sweet maltiness and a bit of corn.
The flavor is lightly sweet a touch bitter, a little bit corny, clean... and delicious.
Look, I know what the technical strengths & weaknesses of this beer are, and for all that it’s still one of my favorite beers...
Can, best by January 2nd 2017.
Typical straw yellow colour? Minimal head of foam, short lasting
Corny grainy smell
Same for the taste but hells, I appreciate it for its simplicity and quaffability.
Tap at Bub’s poured clear yellow with a thick white head and nice lacing. Aromas of corn, light malt, and hints of doll house furniture. Flavor is slightly sweet. A little strange at first but refreshing.
500ml can from Thomas. Pours a clear straw colour with a minimal head. Bready aroma with some metallic notes. Taste matches the aroma with well balanced finish. Moderate carbonation. Nothing spectacular.
Poured into tumbler, typical pale lager colour. Flavorful, has a fairly mild breadiness in the malts (white/wheat bread). Recommended for those who like Miller Lite.
Poured from a 16 OZ can into a pint glass. The appearance is a clear light yellow color with a medium sized white head. The aroma is grain and corn. The taste is surprisingly good, made up of malt and grains. Overall, an excellent lager.
This was my reward to my self for clearing customs changing terminals and clearing TSA at ORD in what must be a world record of 20 minutes. This one was in the admirals club between concourse h/k in ORD. Right out of the bottle just to stay proper to style. Sloppy wet grains, some sweetness. Rice, grass, metal after taste. Light to medium body.
Canned at Tin Can. Pours yellow with white head. Not great tasting at all. Odd sweet aftertaste.
At Cubs spring training in Sloan Park so I HAD to have an old style! Traditional lager taste with a biscuit wheat tang. Rot gut but so what? Play ball!
---Rated via Beer Buddy
Light pale yellow in color. "Like natty light, but not as good." Can’t think of a better way to put it.
16 oz. can pours a clear golden color with fizzy white head. Aroma is not overwhelming, but has some corn, cereal, and perhaps apple. Taste is slightly sweet with a metallic finish. Body is light with lively carbonation. Pretty bland, but OK as far as cheap mass-produced pale lagers go. This one hasn’t changed much since it was brewed in LaCrosse, WI where the brewery featured 6 silos painted as a six-pack of Old Style tall boys. Perhaps its longevity and nostalgia makes me rate this higher than I should.
Pours a light golden color with white head. Cereal grains on the nose; follows onto the palate. Light bodied. Finishes with more cereal grains. One dimensional.
Bottle shared at the Nov. 2015 Monticello Dairy tasting. Clear copper, thin fizzy off-white head, decent retention. Aroma of grain, corn, hay, toast. The taste is grain, corn, grass. Thin bodied.
Can @ some bowling alley. Light gold pour with a small head. Plenty of artificial honey. Candy corn. Syrup. Pretty light flavor. Artificial sweetener. Apple. Grain. Pretty flabby. Effervescent carb. Fine as far as cheap pale lagers go.
12 oz can. Pours clear/golden with minimal white head. Aroma is corn and grains. Taste was watered down. Best to drink while ice cold.
Can poured into a shaker glass. Pale gold color with a big head that quickly dissipated. Sweet corn aroma and taste.
16 oz can- Pours clear golden with a decent head that reduces. Aroma is corn, cheap grains, typical pale lager. The taste is sweet, corn, candy, grainy. About what i expected, the sweetness is a bit odd though.
Draft at a Polish dive bar in Chicago. i think it was called Mr. Z’s??? Flavorless pale lager with no character. Touch of sweetness. Corny, adjuncts, $1.50 pint. The best part of this experience was watching the 60 yr old blonde polish bartender (dressed like a Eurohooker) yelling in Polish at all the drunk Polish old men.
Drinkable....enjoyable?....this one was free so i had to try....had this twenty years ago so had to try again...(#501)