It's entirely possible that the High Life formula has changed over the
ages - when I started drinking, I preferred Budweiser (that was 1953, and
I was very very young), but at university ('60s-'70s) I didn't think Miller
was that bad. But now, I can smell it two or three glasses away.

Hamm's? Hamm's hasn't been anything to write home about for decades,
either. I remember when Consumer Reports gave it the top rating (that too
was probably 30-35 years ago), but shortly thereafter it was bought up
and brought down. Actually, it was never that good, just a clean, crisp,
almost unhopped beer. Not unlike Olympia ("it's [the] water), Stroh's
("fire-brewed"), and several others that went the same way of all fluid.