http://beerinfo.com/point-brewery-celebrates-point-special-lager/ The link is almost a few months old but adjustments were made to Point Special. I just recently bought a 12 pack with the new limited edition can design and really enjoyed the beer again. The sweetness seems to have been toned back and there is a nicer malt aspect as well now.
Would like to try this. Point Special Lager has always had a soft spot for me since when I was a kid and my dad brought some back from the Northwoods after it won a taste test in a Chicago paper. I've had it since and liked it but it was pretty sweet.
What a great looking can. Seeing the new can brought back some memories of the ‘70’s. What few I have left from then! . Didn’t see Point that often in Southern Wisconsin but never really thought that much of it. Flash forward, I will give this special edition a serious try. Sounds very interesting. Thanks for the link.
Huh? That's an interesting bit of double-speak to say "We didn't change the recipe of the beer, but we did." C'mon, if it went from adjunct to all-malt, that's a new recipe even if the ratio (?) of "hops, grains, and yeast" hasn't changed. Although, even that is somewhat suspect. They used the same amount of hops per brew in 1934 as they did in the mid-1970s? Probably no other AAL did. Yeah, that was the Chicago based columnist Mike Royko's test in July 1973 - it made somewhat of stir at the time (I guess Royko was syndicated nationally?) in that rather dark period of US beer. Here are the results - 11 tasters, each rated the beers 1-5, thus 11 was the lowest possible score, 55 the highest: A few notes - Note that Point Special was the top rated US beer, tied with Bass Ale at #2 (The Bass exported to the US was a much better then, too, of course). Meister Brau was already a Miller product (they bought the brand, along with "Lite", the previous year) but was not yet Miller's national "popular-priced" brand. "Barrel Of Beer" was a Huber product (came in the "big mouth" embossed bottle w/o a label*) and Huber also owned the former Meister Brau brewery in Chicago, operating it under its old name, Peter Hand, and brewing "Old Chicago" brand beer (among others). * That was possible before the Feds required the Health Warning on beer labels. At the time Rolling Rock in throwaway stubby-ish 7 and 12 oz. bottles (not the better-known silk-screened deposit bottles) were similarly only embossed, no label, with all the required info in the glass or on the crown. Lucky Lager in CA did the same thing, IIRC, for some of its production (12 packs, I think).
