News that’s in any way appealing comes rarely from Ann Arbor during Summer Term, so to spare you all from the reaching Ripe Produce stories that get a good deal of complaints, I’m opening up a Michigan OTR edition of The University of Michigan’s Best Bets. The best bets will ask and hopefully answer some questions that incoming freshman may have as they get ready to make their first impressions on campus. There will be a new topic to be voted on every day until I run out of ideas and get desperate like new seasons of Family Guy, running the earlier success into the ground. Get over it.
Post an answer in the comments if you don’t like the options and if others agree, it will be added to the options. If you guys have your own best bet questions you want to see put up feel free to send them in to the tip line and if they don’t suck I may use a few.
Part V:
The notion that frat’s give out free beer at their parties is true, but should be taken with a grain of salt. Don’t show up to a party expecting Sam Adams and Corona stacked in ice buckets. Hell, don’t even expect Coors Light. With the need to fill several hundred different mouths with several beers each, frats will skim a bit on the beer quality and from time to time hand you sh*t you haven’t even heard of (What the f*ck is Red Dog?). Therefore, in hopes of aiding incoming freshman in deciding which beers to drink and which to stay away from, the fifth question of Michigan’s Best Bets is: What is the Best Cheap Beer you’ll get at a Frat Party? (Fewest votes is, ipso facto, Worst Beer)
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Keystone - A cheaper version of Coor's and about as good for what you pay. A solid cheap beer.
Busch - On par with Fratty Light. You will probably grow accustomed to the Fratty way more than this, and thus gain a preference for the Fratty.
Natural Light (aka Natty Light or Fratty Light) - The most commonly served beer around campus, so if you don't like it, start to. Don't worry, after a night or two of welcome week, this beer isn't so bad.
Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR) - The most flavorful of the cheap beers. A quality find and my recommendation if you can get it.
Stroh's - A Detroit brewed beer that is joked as being some good ol' Rouge River water in a can. Not too bad, has a decent flavor. I recommend trying it.
Red Dawg - Another beer to avoid at all costs. Shame on the frat that serves this shit. And yes, I mean you Sammy.
Miller High Life - A must drink. Truly the best of the cheap beers. A good flavor to it while not being overwhelming with flavor. Drink this whenever available.
I will tell you right now that you will get served shitty beer all the time. Its unavoidable when you get it free. So don't complain (like you damn West Coasters do about the cold weather - you knew what you where getting into so shut it) and drink up! Posted 07/01/2008 5:49 PMReply
except red dog, that shit tastes like vomit. Posted 07/02/2008 12:32 AMReply
$.75 PBR cans at Circus Bar and Billards (it used to be .55) make it the best deal in town for beer.
Besides, what could be better? It won't a blue ribbon! Posted 07/03/2008 7:54 PMReply