Usually you get what you pay for, but sometimes the semi-local microbreweries can surprise you with an inexpensive beer that tastes terrific. This is not one of those beers.
1845 Pils from Minhas Craft Brewery (Monroe, WI) calls itself a Pilsner, but really it's something else. It's kind of like the beer equivalent of the Predator taking off its mask. You take a sip and you just want to say, "You're one ugly $%&#@&!."
Minhas tastes more like a party beer than time-tested, hand-crafted pilsner-style goodness... the kind of beer you'd better drink fast, because anything less than cold starts tasting like fishbowl. But that shouldn't really come as a surprise when you realize that much of their product line consists of 40's and premium malt beverages.
The beer is more or less tasteless except for the bitterness; and I don't mean the good kind of bitter. To add insult to injury, the packaging boldly proclaims, "This six-pack has 8 beers in it," which seems like a bonus at the time of purchase, but when you get it home and it reveals its underlying hideousness, you just find yourself sitting there, wondering how you'll manage to choke down the seven and a half beers you have left.
If I haven't made myself clear by now, this is not a very good beer. You would do yourself a favor to forfeit the two extra bottles and spend your money on six beers you'll like. Or six beers you don't hate. Or the movie Predator.
