Frugal Joe’s Ordinary Beer (6 - 12oz bottles)
Item Purchased: Frugal Joe’s Ordinary Beer (6 - 12oz bottles)
Location Purchased: Trader Joe’s / 1840 N. Clybourn Ave. / Chicago, IL
Price: $4.69 + tax
Review: I can’t tell if alluding to this beer as cheap is a gimmick or not. At approximately $0.79 a beer, you would expect this beer to be bitter, on the verge of skunky and flat. On the contrary, this is a pretty tasty brew. I’ve paid four times as much for sixers that don’t live up to the quality of this beer.
There are no distinguishing fruit or nutty tastes to be distinguished. It is a basic malt/hops beer with a basic recycled cardboard case that plays up the fact that it is not an expensive beer. The label on each bottle follows by defining each word of the name as a dictionary would. Nothing is printed on the bottle cap and the bottle itself is an undecorated brown.
Better than most lite beers, all of Miller and Budweiser’s strands of beer, Frugal Joe’s Ordinary Beer is worth a trip to your local out-of-the-way Trader Joe’s. Don’t believe the label. Buy the beer and try the beer. I’m going to go get another, just to make sure I wasn’t drinking when I wrote this review…or something like that.
Rating: 4.25 / 5
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