MGD 64: magic or merely gross?
Posted at 4:30 PM Oct 21, 2008
By Andrea Grimes
Glass of wine, 'round 120 calories. Pint of Guinness, 196 calories. Margarita (frozen, and tiny) ... 250 calories.
Bottle of MGD 64: sixty-four calories. Miller, in their never-ending quest to help us drink as much as possible without getting fat (or at least to make us feel better about drinking because we're depressed we're so fat) has created a 64-calorie beer. I first saw an online ad for the stuff a couple of days ago, and it appears to have recently gone available nationwide. Lord knows boys would never drink such a light, lite beer. They don't have guts (or livers) to worry about. So let's sell it to the gals!
Sure, Miller. I'm listening. Let's ignore, for a moment, the fact that drinking all this alcohol is likely to cause me to die of breast cancer long before my fat ass gets diabetes. This doll takes her daily folate, anyway.
Yes, let's look past all that and see if this business is worth drinking or if it's going to fall into the Budweiser Select category of "Are you sure you don't just have some rubbing alcohol I can sip on?" As a service to you, dear readers, I am going to leave my apartment right this minute in search of MGD 64. And taste it I will. Yes, it will be difficult--I may have to drink two, possibly three--but I will do right by you, dear readers.
The verdict is behind the jump!
If you love Miller High Life, you are going to enjoy the hell out of an MGD 64.
The bottle's not nearly retro enough for my aesthetic preferences, but we're mostly concerned about what's inside--and what's not inside, ahemm, namely those extra fifty calories. Fresh and fizzy, MGD 64 has more taste than Miller Lite or Bud Lite, hands down. None of the unpleasant sour whang of Budweiser Select and, despite what the BS commercials say, none of the aftertaste of BS. (And nobody, but nobody, likes BS with an aftertaste.) Less fun to drink once it becomes flatter toward the end of the bottle, but don't despair -- you only drank 64 calories. Have a new one.
Comments
You're a brave, brave woman, Andrea. I hope you survive your beer experimentation.
Posted 10/21/2008 at 05:24:21 PMWhat about when compared to Miller Chill or that Bud Light lime stuff? Cuz I looooove those. Seriously. The fact that you liken it to Miller High Life has got me pretty excited. What are these, like, 1 point in Weight Watcher speak? Mommy like.
Posted 10/21/2008 at 07:45:51 PMWhile you're at it - can you give a shout-out to Zima? End of life for that malty goodness....
Posted 10/21/2008 at 08:20:24 PMJen -
I kind of hate Miller Chill, so I haven't tried a Bud Lime. So you'll have to be the final verdict on that comparison.
But I think the High Life comparison is fair, so ... point-counters, have hope!
-Andrea
PS. RIP ZIMA
Posted 10/21/2008 at 08:48:36 PMMet a school teacher at the bar last night--well, she didn't tell me she was a teacher, but I assumed because she was wearing a denim vest with stitched-on ABCs. When she asked how old I was, I said 23. When I asked how old she was, she said "old enough to be your mother." Even though she didn't reveal her age, there was one number she did share with me: 64. Mommy McTeacher kept buying me MGD 64s, pinching my butt, and whispering in my ear that my well-manicured mustache reminded her of Tom Selleck. I would have asked for her number, but because of the scant 3.0% ABV in the 64, I never got drunk enough to forget that what was under that denim vest was as old as my mother's.
Posted 01/03/2009 at 08:37:49 AMMGD 64 is basically a marketing scam...well not totally. If yo simply drink beer for the taste then you're in luck. However the amount of alcohol you get in MGD 64 per calorie is actually slightly more than in Milwaukee's best light...yeah. If you're in it for the taste your fine, and if you have the money go for it, but don't think you're getting drunk at a calorie discount.
Posted 08/25/2009 at 01:54:57 PMWow, less calories *and* less alcohol? This is the perfect beer for vain alcoholics like myself who don't want to black out or carry those extra pounds in the belly but who do want to drink 15 beers in a night. I will purchase this tonight (assuming HEB or Chevron carry it) and come the weekend it will be me making fun of my friends who drank too much and not vice versa. Thanks for the headsup!
Posted 09/29/2009 at 04:32:56 PM