An Amateur Beer Snob's Guide to Beer: The N Beers

The listings below will include the name of the beer, my numerical ranking based upon my own scale of 0.1 to 10.0, and a little of my personal thoughts about each beer.

N Beers

Natural Ice

2.3

Here you learn why the Anheuser-Busch folks never put much taste into Natural Light - because the beer would taste like this, and it's not good. The taste is "over-the-top American" (you figure it out). This can be a difficult beer to swallow.

Natural Light

2.7

Before Anheuser-Busch had Busch Light, there was Natural Light. This beer is weak, has little taste, and can be hard to swallow at times. There is plenty of fizz and the price is right. Not a brew any self-respecting beer snob would order in public.

Negra Modelo

4.8

A dark Mexican beer that didn't impress me. It isn't an awful beer, but there's not much to say about it. Fairly wet with no fizz. The only taste is a slight burnt flavor, and my taste buds had to reach for that. Probably decent for just drinking. More flavor might raise this beer's score.

New Amsterdam Blonde Lager

7.9

Excitingly crisp and wet with a brilliant sweetness that rounds out this fine drink. New Amsterdam Brewing Co. of New York, New York brings this stuff to us. Definitely worth trying out.

Newcastle Brown Ale

7.7

A little sweeter than I'd like, but this ale is so smooth and tasty I just have to classify it as a favorite. It's not the best beer in the world, but it's a great drinking beer. Beer snobs of any rank can enjoy this.

Niksicko Tivo

5.9

Has a pretty powerful bitter to it for a brew that looks and smells like Budweiser. Too much carbonation in this Yugoslavian drink. What cheap American beers try to be.

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