This weekend Barb and I went out for dinner and ended up at the Root Bar. Several reasons precipitated the decision; we love going there for the people and the music, we wanted a beer and the local police regularly establish road blocks to catch traffic violators including, but not limited to, driving over the limit, since the Root Bar is only 1.5 miles from the house our risk was greatly reduced drinking there. The Root Bar offers beer and water for sale, no mixed beverages, no soda, no wine, no food, no nachos, no crackers, no peanuts. just a vast assortment of beer and generic bottled water, for the environmentally unconcerned. I usually have the local brew, Summer Ale, but this night i decided to order like the locals and get some PBR aka Pabst Blue Ribbon. Some 

history. Their original PBR brewery was founded in 1844, that's quite a history considering Anheuser-Bush and Miller only began in the 1850's. Throughout it's early history it won many brewing competitions, sometimes against it's rival Budweiser. So in 1882 it began selling it's beer with blue ribbons tied around the neck of the bottle, explaining the eventual name. During WWII the PBR company painted their beer tins green in honor of the military, very patriotic. More patriotic than even Anheuser-BUSCH, closely resembling our  43rd president since he will be leaving office in less than 

2 years but the military, recognized by PBR, will be around a long, long time. In 2001 Miller took over the brewing of the PBR beer. So, in conclusion, what the locals here in Asheville have known is PBR has a long history as a US product, is a patriotic beer, it won head to head competitions against Bud and is currently brewed by Miller. This indicates those of you drinking Miller beer could easily switch to PBR, save on beer bills, $1 at the Root Bar and competitively priced near you,  and not give up any of that exquisite taste of the other national brews. This also indicates bud drinkers should switch because PBR is better.

With all that being said I had several PBR's that night and thought it tasted remarkably similar Miller-Bud-Bush...

We arrived during the second of four band performances and each was very good sounding contemporary rock and roll. The bands were from Louisiana, Albuquerque and Asheville. The bands are not permitted to play “copy” songs so they have to be original.