Coors Banquet
Coors Brewing Company (Molson-Coors)

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From:
Coors Brewing Company (Molson-Coors)
 
Colorado, United States
Style:
American Adjunct Lager
Ranked #222
ABV:
5%
Score:
63
Ranked #28,441
Avg:
2.66 | pDev: 29.32%
Reviews:
907
Ratings:
3,409
Status:
Active
Rated:
Mar 09, 2024
Added:
Aug 18, 2001
Wants:
  42
Gots:
  867
Coors Banquet is brewed with 100% Rocky Mountain water and Moravian barley from many generations of family farmers. True to its roots, it is brewed only in one place, Golden, Colorado, and nowhere else.

Ingredients: Water, barley malt, corn syrup (dextrose), yeast, hop extract
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Ratings by jonervin26:
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Reviewed by jonervin26 from Pennsylvania

3/5  rDev +12.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
It is a good all day drinking beer. Better than many other beers of its mass market genre. Has a little flavor, but not much. Pretty average all in all though.
Nov 20, 2017
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.19 by Costa417 from Massachusetts

Mar 09, 2024
 
Rated: 2.77 by hankboris from Texas

Mar 05, 2024
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Reviewed by Midwestdrinker from Kansas

3.11/5  rDev +16.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
12-pack bought from Piggly Wiggly. $11.99 so about a dollar/bottle
1936 style stubby bottles w/ traditional twist-off caps
yellow straw in color with bubbles
no aroma to my nose
crisp, dry, refreshing. a very good beer so i really don't know why it got a poor rating.
on a side note both my late father and grandpa used to jokingly call coors cowboy kool-ade.
Mar 04, 2024
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Reviewed by Hunterdietz

3.77/5  rDev +41.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Coors Banquet is a favorite. Love the type of malty flavor it delivers. Definitely a heavier flavor than Coors Light and it's more than welcome. Coors gets a solid review here.
Feb 11, 2024
 
Rated: 3.29 by BlueSpader from Washington

Feb 03, 2024
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Reviewed by Leaferson from Massachusetts

3.68/5  rDev +38.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pretty good option if you want an average beer. Nothing offensive, the flavor isn't too weak or too strong, does the job fine for any situation. Refreshing on a nice hot day or after some hard physical labor.
Jan 31, 2024
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Reviewed by hedgehawg

2/5  rDev -24.8%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
I drank this beer, but I didn't notice. The koozie the girl put it in at Tecovas was by far the highlight. Still better than Coors Light, which is like saying, I fell in a cesspool, but I didn't drown. Ok—actually, I preferred it to a bottle of water. I will possibly drink this beer again. Good night.
Jan 28, 2024
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Reviewed by 6stubbies from Florida

2.16/5  rDev -18.8%
look: 2.75 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
This used to be a sought after beer for folks outside of its distribution area. Now it is everywhere in my he US. I find this a boring American adjunct lager. Drinkable and forgettable. Nice colour, little scent or head. Taste is slightly sweet and bland. Little aftertaste. I can see drinking lots of these for the sake of drinking but I prefer something with more flavour.
Jan 16, 2024
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Reviewed by John_M from Washington

2.31/5  rDev -13.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.25
Recently sampled during a macro swill blind tasting. Poured from a 16 ounce can into a 20 ounce wine glass (roughly half the can).

The beer pours a solid gold amber color with light lacing and decent head retention. While nothing extraordinary, this is a nice enough looking beer. On the nose I'm not picking up a whole lot, which I guess is no surprise. Over time and with patience, I seemed to pick up some sweet corn and a hint of pepper. To say the least, I was not impressed by the aroma profile with this beer. The flavor profile replicates the nose fairly closely, with a seltzer water like finish. Mouthfeel is light to medium bodied, with a clean, moderately long finish. Alcohol is virtually understandable, so I guess drinkability isn't too bad. It would probably be pretty easy to pound down a six pack of this swill without much difficulty, except I'm not sure why anyone would want to. The flavor profile is pretty unimpressive and boring... It would be more fun drinking down a six pack of fruit flavored sparkling mineral water frankly.

If this was the only beer on the market, I would discontinue drinking beer.
Jan 12, 2024
 
Rated: 3.21 by SpencerCaubarreaux from Louisiana

Jan 11, 2024
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Reviewed by Broski1989 from Pennsylvania

3.05/5  rDev +14.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Coors Banquet.. aka.. Coors Regular, Coors Original, or Coors Heavy was and is the staple beer of the Rockies. Not as popular as its sister light beer version, but still respectful. It pours like a typical American adjunct lager. Head fades quickly. Has a smooth full bodied mouthfeel with a quick clean finish. It isn’t as popular anymore as it used to be some 25+ years ago, but still has a heavy following within its respective Midwest region. If your looking for a better alternative to Miller Genuine Draft or Budweiser look no further then the golden box of coors. You wouldn’t be disappointed for its Price.
Jan 01, 2024
 
Rated: 2.98 by funku2 from Colorado

Dec 27, 2023
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Reviewed by Athener56 from Oklahoma

3.45/5  rDev +29.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75
I usually get these as a cheap option. Comes in a slightly skinny 12oz can. straight from the fridge it is crisp and refreshing. taste is sweet and inoffensive. for the type of beer this is a good one.
Dec 09, 2023
 
Rated: 2.54 by HS676 from Pennsylvania

Dec 05, 2023
 
Rated: 2.49 by KeithGreatNorth from Canada (BC)

Dec 04, 2023
 
Rated: 3.82 by Calvinism from Colorado

Nov 15, 2023
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Reviewed by LiquidAmber from Washington

3.29/5  rDev +23.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a light to medium amber with a quite fizzy, two finger white head that unexpectedly calmed down and left a persistent quarter finger cap. Aroma of lightly grainy lager malt, light corn, hint of lemon and light grassy hops. Flavor is mild grainy lager malt, hint of lemon, a little corn sweetness into the finish which reveals mild grassy hops. Light to medium bodied with light creaminess, but sharp carbonation. I was a bit surprised to see that I had never reviewed anything from Coors before. Killian's Red was one of my first "outside the lager" experiences and was a repeat purchase decades ago. I'd like to revisit it again if I ever see it. Coors was one of my first dissapointments while I was tasting as many beers as possible in the 1970s (although I think that was mostly adjunct lagers at the time). I had been living in Montreal and was amazed at how much fuller in body and taste the mainstream Canadian brews were (my regulars were Labatt Blue and Brador). However when I read that a legendary beer that was not seen outside of Colorado was available in New York state, a friend and I hitchhiked down to try this well hyped beer. We bought a six pack, found a kid's treehouse in a wooded area and cracked them open. I was crestfallen. The legend was a big step down from anything in Canada and even more insipid than most of my favored US (adjunct) lagers of the day. My friend never let me talk them into any travel again after that. This was decades before I got into craft beers but still was a formative moment in my beer adventure.
Anyway, back to Coors Banquet. Like most adjunct lagers, it is a perfectly adequate brew, intentionally brewed to be slightly sweet, have elements of grain and hops, but not enough to offend anyone. I'd have no problem drinking this again in the absence of anything else. The overall profile is light, mellow and has a noticeable flavor attenuation from other adjuncts; I think in a blind taste, I'd suspect this might be a lite lager. Innocuous and bland, but drinkable. This one came in a cool bottle that was a supposed reproduction of the 1936 stubbie bottle Coors used. Except this had a screw cap (I actually used a bottle opener since that's what I use on 99% of the beer I drink these days and didn't notice the twist off cap). Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Nov 14, 2023
Coors Banquet from Coors Brewing Company (Molson-Coors)
Beer rating: 63 out of 100 with 3409 ratings