Coors - Coors Brewing Company

djwnice26

New York

2.1/5  rDev -18.3%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5

Needs to be served ice cold, once it hits room temp throw it out. Easy drinking light beer that you can BBQ with sit back have a couple dozen on a hot summer's day, the type of beer if you are doing a lot of shots with friends you can do chasers with all night long. It's better than a Bud or most other commercial domestics.

Serving type: can

05-09-2013 17:26:09 | More by djwnice26

punky796

Michigan

3.44/5  rDev +33.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 4

Poured from the bottle into a pint glass.

A - Pours clear golden-amber, with a foamy white head. Not a lot of lacing.

S - Mostly grains and flowery smells. Malt's not very present. A little grassy.

T - All of the above, with a little more grassiness and Earthiness that to me personifies Coors. Corn is also present.

M - Surprisingly crisp, more so than its light brethren. Goes pretty smoothly with minimal aftertaste.

O - My dad has told me stories about people making long trips to Colorado to buy this stuff when it wasn't available everywhere back in the day...I'm not sure about it being THAT good, but I'm pleasantly surprised. After having Coors Light occasionally for years and never bothering to try the original, I'm impressed, actually. As far as American adjuncts/macros go, this one is pretty solid. I'll get it again sometime.

Serving type: bottle

04-30-2013 09:13:11 | More by punky796

GossageBrewery

Missouri

2.99/5  rDev +16.3%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

Poured this 24 oz can into a pint glass. This American adjunct lager poured a slight hazy golden color, produced an average wight head, poor retention and it left only a slight amount of lacing on the glass. The aroma consisted of faint notes of grain and just a touch of floral hops. Light in body, this brew has a foundation of adjunct ingredients, corn, minerals and lemon citrus. Mouthfeel was crisp and clean. Overall for the style its not worst adjunct lager out there.

Serving type: can

04-19-2013 22:47:08 | More by GossageBrewery

Treath

California

4.39/5  rDev +70.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

This is from the Commemorative #3 1980 12oz can, poured into a glass mug. Good until July 8, 2013.
This is my first time tasting Coors "Banquet" Beer.

A- Clear yellow with a one finger head that fizzles away to a very thin soapy head. Bubbles are streaming up. It looks alright for an AAL. Surprisingly leaves some lacing.

S- Corn, grains, mineral water. No bad smells.

T- Light corn taste, some maltiness, grainy. No bitterness, but there's just a teeny tiny hint of a hop towards the end. The taste doesn't linger. It's a good taste.

M- Light, thin, watery. No too much carbonation.

Drinkability- Extremely drinkable.

O- Overall, this is a great smooth AAL. Very refreshing and tastes quite good. I will be buying more of Coors. I just became a fan of this beer.

Serving type: can

04-10-2013 20:27:37 | More by Treath

bullseyestrat

Massachusetts

4.5/5  rDev +75.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5

I consider Coors Banquet beer a go-to beer that I always keep in the fridge. Its cheap, refreshing, and very tasty. I've had Coors in the glass bottle, aluminum bottle, and aluminum can. For whatever reason I prefer the can since the metallic properties of the aluminum blend well with the Coors recipe. Along with the aluminum bottle is a bit more expensive around my area.
Anyways Coors doesn't look like anything special when poured into a glass or my glass boot replica from beerfest. A pale yellowish color shared by many lagers and pilsners. It has a nice white foamy head to it if poured right.
Smellwise it has a faint smell of barley and something that's well balanced that I can't quite put my finger on. To say the least I have smelled much worse beers out there.
For taste I had a love/hate relationship at first. To me it had an odd aftertaste to it which was unique. Nowadays though Coors has a very refreshing taste to me. Not much sounds better to me than popping a cold Coors after a long day of work. In the mouth it its very balanced and refreshing. Overall Coors Banquet beer is in my top 10 and will probably always be my go-to beer for years to come.

Serving type: can

04-03-2013 02:30:16 | More by bullseyestrat

JoshuaInPensacola

Florida

3.33/5  rDev +29.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.5

This inexpensive American classic can't be stopped. Though it's available in a bottle and on tap(rarely found in my part on the woods), you just can't beat it in a can. When served in an ice-cold can, Coors is truly an enjoyable brew. Just pop the top, punch a hole in the top, and let it flow. For a day on the beach, forget the Silver Bullet, and reach for the 'Original'.

Serving type: can

04-02-2013 22:47:35 | More by JoshuaInPensacola

Lagerquestrian

Texas

3.85/5  rDev +49.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.75

Here I have a Coors (original), not too bad. Opened a bottle from a 6-pack. purchased cold and consumed very cold. The best out of the adjuncts in my opinion. This beer has been enjoyed a many night in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado. I've toured the famed Coors Brewery in Golden, witnessed the river flowing into their operation, indeed flowing out of the mountains. Driven by many of cold mornings, seeing the brewery in full swing with mass production. My point is, this beer is the flagship of Adolf Coors and his legacy. I'm sure it's been watered down and modified for mass production and distribution since its original inception years ago. So we have the modern day Banquet beer, as it were. It is what it is, Coors present tense. Still my favorite sessionable adjunct American Lager. Pound them down cold. Not for everyone.

Serving type: bottle

03-31-2013 02:46:43 | More by Lagerquestrian

bullwinkle88

Isle of Man

3.34/5  rDev +30%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75

Arguably the best of the macros, I kept this on my porch during a blizzard. Its Coors, its meant to be enjoyed cold, and sucked down rather quickly. No hops presences, almost a syrupy flavor, but one thats actually pleasing. Whether or not you like it, you have to agree that it tastes like SOMETHING, which is sadly more than you can say about its competition. One of those classic cookout beers, you can drink a ton without feeling sick. Coors has tried to step up their game as of late with Third Shift and Batch 19, and in hindsight, Coors banquet ain't so bad. Just don't expect a new "usual"

Serving type: bottle

03-28-2013 02:48:59 | More by bullwinkle88

sam_bliss

Washington

1.8/5  rDev -30%
look: 1.75 | smell: 1 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 1.25

Pours very pale clear gold with a thin head. I get distracted for about 30 seconds and when I return to my freezing-cold just-poured beer the bubbly white cap has vanished. It is nearly naked, but decent lacing has been left on the side of my globe glass. It smells simply adjuncty and a bit metallic at first. A chemical aroma like that of solvents wanders into my nose. Some corn-syrup sweetness and hay-like scents seem to pose as hop flavor, but my sniffer knows better. Or perhaps I'm just cynical toward American macro-brewed lagers. I can't shake the artificial plastic or glue smell. Bubbles were rising to the surface at a rapid pace a minute ago, but now tiny gaseous carbonation spheres crawl up the sides of the glass and the occasional bubble makes its way from beer to atmosphere in the middle of the liquid's surface.

The first taste is almost too cold to get much. The mountains on the bottle were as blue as the rockies when I...wait. The rockies aren't blue!

Anyway, that first taste features a mild sweet-malt taste close to the end and leaves a bit of corn on the palate. Luckily the nasty chemical smell is not evident in the taste. But neither is much else. Very dry in the beginning and just plain fizzy and refreshing in the middle. A bit of apple juice is present, making this taste like weak sparkling cider. The aftertaste is less dry than I expected, with some sweetness and stale yeast. The malt is mostly bready but I think more rice and corn are used than malted barley. The body is thin and just as carbonated-watery as the flavor. Crispness is the redeeming quality for this beer.

This fails to meet my super-low expectations. I prefer even coors light to coors.

Serving type: bottle

03-18-2013 01:39:59 | More by sam_bliss

dbrauneis

New Jersey

2.44/5  rDev -5.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75

Served in a bottle at The Village Pourhouse in Hoboken, NJ

A: Pours a crystal clear light golden yellow in color with moderate to heavy amounts of visible carbonation and some light lemon yellow highlights. The beer has a finger tall sudsy white head that slowly reduces to an extremely thin film covering less than half of the surface of the beer and a very thin ring at the edges of the glass. Minimal amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Moderate aromas of sweet malts and grain adjuncts.

T: Moderate flavors of sweet malts with some grainy adjuncts and just a touch of grassy and flroal hops. Light amounts of bitterness in the finish that fade rather quickly.

M: Light bodied with slightly more than moderate amounts of carbonation. Slightly thin/watery.

O: Easy to drink and definitely more flavorful than the other BMC beers (and probably less offensive) - I would not cringe at having to drink this one at the ballpark/stadium or a concert but I definitely will not be purchasing this one for home consumption. The flavor severely worsens as this one warms up - needs to be drank very cold.

Serving type: bottle

03-01-2013 02:19:11 | More by dbrauneis

brookfieldStasher

5/5  rDev +94.6%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

Screw all the bad reviews by the beer snobs....Coors Banquet is my favorite beer by far....I can't find anything bad to say about this beer at all. The smoothest, most crisp and most enjoyable beer in the world plain and simple. Glad to live on the U.S. border so this fine beer is available to me at all times... Lots of bad American beers... Coors Banquet is an exception.

Serving type: bottle

02-20-2013 19:31:32 | More by brookfieldStasher

humuloner22

3.66/5  rDev +42.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75

This is one of the most underrated beers I have had. It is one of the old standbys, especially if you are going to drink a few of them. The color is golden typical of an AAL, the smell is sweet, kind of grainy but not overly sweet, it has a crispness to the smell, clean. The taste is smooth and has a clean carbonated mouthfeel. This is not thing really surprising to the style, but as this is one of the first good mass produced beers I have ever had, it has a special place in my memories. Although I like to try a variety of beers nowadays, this one is one I will go back to on a hot summer night, you know during the beer drinking weather! Overall one of the better beers out there for the price and pretty remarkable for such a large conglomerate to be able to produce such a quality beer so consistently.

Serving type: can

02-19-2013 23:32:15 | More by humuloner22

19kiloFX4

4.8/5  rDev +86.8%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

Keeping old school, this is a fantastic beer worthy of more praise than it gets. Great job Coors on brewing a single beer perfectly. Please don't change this beer, You can't miss with perfection like this! People on this site only give good scores to the "little guy" give credit when its due!

Smell, taste, and appearance sum up to be a beautiful thing! Looks wonderful love the labeling wish more places around here (Florida) would have it on tap.

Serving type: bottle

02-19-2013 20:46:09 | More by 19kiloFX4

Alextricity

Michigan

2.43/5  rDev -5.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25

24oz can for $2.49 or something like that. I hadn't had it before, so why not? Had straight from the can. March 11th 2013 is dated on the bottom.

What can be said? Honestly. To me, pretty much all adjunct lagers taste the same. They have that corny/malty taste, and a corny/sweet aftertaste. Coors isn't an awful beer, but c'mon. It's not a beer you drink to drink... this is a beer to drink for cheap and get drunk on, plain and simple. I can say that it's slightly better than Budweiser, as it doesn't have an EXTREMELY corny and skunk-like taste, but it's still nothing to be proud to drink.

Serving type: bottle

02-04-2013 00:19:12 | More by Alextricity

TheSixthRing

California

2.51/5  rDev -2.3%
look: 2 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

Appearance - Pours a crystal clear, watery yellow with a half finger head and piss poor retention.

Smell - Mildy Sweet and grainy. Watery aroma.

Taste - Grain in water. Mild sweetness. No off-putting character, in the least.

Mouthfeel - Watery light with lively carbonation. So watery, it's damn chuggable. In that sense, it's a fair body.

Overall - I can drink this all day, but not because it's good. It's so damn watery and flavorless that it's literally like drinking water with a hint of sweetner. In that sense, I like it better than Budweiser, but as a beer, it's virtually non-existent. For that reason, it's fairly tricky to score, because I probably like it slightly better than my score presents. I also love water. If this were waterybeeradvocate.com, this beer would get a near perfect score, but in the grand scheme of things, it's below average at best.

Serving type: bottle

02-03-2013 04:59:49 | More by TheSixthRing

dexterk1

Illinois

2.43/5  rDev -5.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

Coors is the banquet beer:). Appearance is about average. Clear light yellow just like most mass market beers.
Odor is grain. Taste is sort of bland and general. Nothing really stands out. Not terrible for a hot day and little money. Better than other mass markets(miller, bud, amstel light). It is what it is really. As good in cans as in bottles, but not really that good overall.

Serving type: can

12-29-2012 22:20:06 | More by dexterk1

srandycarter

California

2.63/5  rDev +2.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

Just had 2 officially review standard Coors when I found one in my Brother in laws frig. Macro rice beer as expected. Standard Bud is much better in general. Coors light is nice on a hot day instead of water, but I digress. This would NOT be my choice for that deserted island scenario.

Serving type: can

12-21-2012 23:19:35 | More by srandycarter

Fatehunter

Oregon

3.48/5  rDev +35.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Poured into a tulip glass. Had two fingers of head... quickly gone. Clear, golden colored body.
A nice grainy smell. Nothing else.
Smooth taste. A mild bitterness, but nothing else.
A slight fizzy texture, moderate carbonation and light body.
Not bad for its style.

Serving type: can

12-10-2012 01:12:21 | More by Fatehunter

BierStein711

Illinois

3.95/5  rDev +53.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Coors!

Wow!

Two finger head is quickly reducing.

Moderate carbonation

Smells of grain, corn, and cereal

Taste: alcohol, grain, and a bit of corn at the finish

Mouthfeel: Harsh, but not too bad.

Overall, this is a fine beer. I believe this is the best Adjunct Lager I have ever had.

I think I would seek this out on draught, but Batch 19 is superior.

Serving type: bottle

12-01-2012 15:43:38 | More by BierStein711

StonedTrippin

Colorado

2.3/5  rDev -10.5%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2

this is no cowboy classic, this is crap. watered down yellow pee looking adjunct brew that only leaves you with a few extra bucks in your pocket and a hangover for the ages. this is for the birds. weak extracty malt nose, metallic taste, minneraly and off in the finish, a little sweet, and oddly grainy in feel. its got too much carbonation, not enough body, and is highly lacking in the tradition and western values it seems to have built its reputation on. is it better than a coors light? maybe in certain circumstances, but in isolation, this is a terrible beer and i would much prefer to not drink than to drink this 9 times out of 10.

Serving type: can

11-22-2012 14:25:45 | More by StonedTrippin

beergoot

Colorado

2.98/5  rDev +16%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

Medium yellow body with a fairly thick, white head. Slight, bright maltiness to the nose. Light cracker taste; slight bitterness at the end; a bit of corn aftertaste. Light-bodied, fizzy and watery; dry finish.

Slightly better looking and tasting than some adjunct lagers, yet there's nothing else really going for this beer. It would be easy to confuse this adjunct lager with any other beer of the same style in a blind-taste test. And that's exactly why, in my opinion, many beers of this style garner such relatively low ratings -- there's very little, if anything, to set this beer apart from its peers.

Serving type: bottle

11-16-2012 18:11:37 | More by beergoot

Theheroguy

Maryland

2.3/5  rDev -10.5%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2

Barren and far too lacking in either flavor or aroma to have any positive or negative notes.

This beer goes down easy but is slightly over carbonated to receive and average score in terms of mouth feel.

I used to like this before I got into craft beer but now I don't know what I saw in this.

Serving type: can

10-30-2012 22:26:51 | More by Theheroguy

Lemke10

Wisconsin

2.48/5  rDev -3.5%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

Pours a clear, slightly pale amber color with almost no head. Scent is weak with cheap grassy grains, and corn. There taste is rather decent for a cheap domestic beer with thorough bold grainy flavors. Sorry but like most cheap beer I can never seem to find the hops and only a slight bit of malts. It has a decent flavor and an ok volume, one of the better tasting cheap beers along with Pabst. To say the least, I would drink this any day over Coors Light.

Serving type: can

10-30-2012 01:46:05 | More by Lemke10

UCLABrewN84

California

2.68/5  rDev +4.3%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 2.5

Pours a clear yellow with a foamy khaki head that settles to a film on top of the beer. Small dots of lace slowly drip into the remaining beer on the drink down. Smell is of malt, grain, and a distinct popcorn aroma. Taste is much the same with a sweet finish. This beer has a good level of carbonation with a crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty poor beer that is only drinkable when it’s super cold.

Serving type: can

10-29-2012 19:12:01 | More by UCLABrewN84

michiganminer

Michigan

2.53/5  rDev -1.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

Picked some up because I have never had it. the skinny can is nice. the gimmick cold activated can doesnt work well I couldnt tell if it was blue or not. fizzy, pale. Tastes alright but has a unique aftertaste that all coors products seem to have at $20 a 30 its not worth it to me

Note: I review for the style. I refuse to let my prejudices slant any review. Nothing worse than the typical beer snob reviewing an AAL, same for your AAL drinker reviewing a craft brew.

Serving type: can

10-29-2012 03:05:06 | More by michiganminer