Rolling Rock Extra Pale

"From the glass lined tanks of Old Latrobe," reads the can’s inscription, "we tender this premium beer for your enjoyment, as a tribute to your good taste."

Call me jaded, but this sounds like a marketing department trying to buffalo small minds into thinking that, not only is this beer something special, but they’d be stupid not to agree.  Kind of like peer pressure in written form.  On a can.

Makes sense.  Peer pressure is what made most of us into beer drinkers at one time or another.  But to me this raises a red flag and makes me think of that idiotic spiel you find on Budweiser cans.

I pop it open and take a sniff.  Yeasty with faint hoppy highlights.

First sip:  Light, hoppy, and very watery.

The overall taste is not that bad.  While the flavor is weak, what there is of it is good.  It’s watery malt with subtle hoppy overtones, delivered in an airy dilution of bubbles.

Conclusion:  it doesn’t completely suck, but its far removed from groovy.  Groovy isn’t even on the horizon.