Hmm. Is Schlitz technically beer?

So, every once in a while, I get cheap bad beer.

I have a 40-ounce of Schlitz. "The beer that made Milwaukee famous".

It doesn't taste like anything. I mean, my seltzer is nearly as strongly flavored than this beer.

If I concentrate, I can just barely detect some sweetness in the nose, but it basically smells like a glass of water. If I concentrate on rolling it around on my tongue, I can detect a little bitterness.

But it really is fundamentally lightly-colored water.

Yeah, I'm going to finish the bottle, but I'm not sure why. I've bought a beer that doesn't actually even touch my "Hmm, I think I'd like a beer right about now" urge.

Well, if you chug it, you do get a mild beer-taste build up over time. That must be what it's designed for: drinking fast.

So, it's flavored so mildly that you need to just pour it down your throat in order to get a reasonable beer taste. Whereas the beers I tend to like actually HAVE flavor, so you can drink them more slowly, and they still taste like beer.