Guns & Oil - Maverick Lager

I had a couple pints on tap during a free Yelp event. No it's not a beer nerd beer, but it is drinkable and serviceable if just a simple lager is what you're looking for.

 

Fireman's #4 is real ale's number one seller. It is the beer that allows them to do all the other stuff, but I cannot imagine having to brew fireman's #4 every second or third batch.

 

I figured you would take umbrage with my use of the word "craft"

Nice Green Man snifter. Here is a blurry shot of my pint glass. Cheers!

 

Oh, is this now the who has Green Man stuff?

Here is the coaster that was on my coffee table just now:



I was too lazy to go and take a picture of the taphandle.

 

I needed a beer anyways as I am watching the world cup and it is in my beer room.



Upside down because it is hanging.

 

Ok, so bud drinkers like firemans 4 as their gateway beer....not that they realize its their gateway

Im actually not suprised in this as i figured it was a big seller to people outside the "craft beer" industry when they cant get their bud, miller coors type beers. While still keeping us drinking it because real ale just rocks.

 

I feel like this guy is a Guns and Oil Rep. Registered Sunday. One post, here.

 

I agree. You get the tar, I'll get the feathers

 

Could just be a lurker who never had a reason to post before and doesn't know how beers get added. It's not like he gave Maverick Lager a 5/5 review or started talking up this beer.

 

Have you tried this beer?

 

Actually no. And given the plethora of other options in my area, I am not likely too either. But as stated before, it was never going to be a beer that I was actively seeking out.

 

If you had you may not have been as quick to defend it. I have tasted it several times and, IMO it's not good.

Opinions are like a-holes though, and I am one opinionated a-hole.

 

I like Fireman's 4, not just as an alternative to crappy beer lists. It is a great beer on cask, and always drink it when Hay Merchant, D&T, or Cottonwood have it on the cask engine. I guess it is not as hip as what the rest of you kids drink

 

well thats true but we still like you.

 

I'm glad you tasted it so I did not have too.

 

P.S. Rumor has it, their next beer out will be called Going Rogue. A light lager.

 

Not a Guns and Oil rep. After first taste, thought it was pretty bad, but couldn't find it to rate it.

 

I'm a friend of the owner of G&O. He's not a frat boy. But he's not a beer nerd, either. Just a good dude who wanted to start a beer business. I think the idea behind G&O was less Russian River and more Shiner Bock -- an approachable "local" beer for the Keystone/Heineken crowd to graduate to.

I've drank a lot of G&O because association, and it's an appropriate beer for sitting down to drink a six pack by yourself while watching sports and eating chips. And it's a small business alternative to the big company lagers. I do, though, find the "Guns and Oil Brewing Company" / Texas thing to be a bit deceiving being that it's contract brewed in New Mexico. But it's all about branding -- not beer. Someone has to do it, I guess.

Not worth talking shit on, though. Owner has said some silly things about beer, but he's one of my favorite people. And I drank a Stone RuinTen from a Guns & Oil glass this weekend. So it does some good.

 

My brother-in-law was in town over the holidays and bought a 6 of this because he liked the name. Would I be buying it again?.... no. Did I hate it?.... no. Will they sell a lot of it to non-serious beer drinkers?.... probably. As far as contract brewing goes; I'm sure if a local brewery had the capacity and/or pricing the business would have stayed local. A smallish outfit you may have heard of called Boston Brewing started that way. They claim their downtown brewery is opening in May 2015.

 

I've had it. I see it as the old "Pig's Eye" made in MN. It's OK. I don't think every brewery has to push the envelope. I'd buy it over Bud if that's all the ballpark had.

Haters gonna hate, I suppose.