scruffy 0 #51 May 18, 2011 Quote This. I drink quite a range of styles, flavors, ABV %'s, what's on sale, seasonal, weather, etc. It IS my choice. Oh - and I choose to never drink Heineken. Blech. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snhiofL2Rh4Peace, love and hoppiness Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #52 May 18, 2011 Quote I drink Pepsi, mutha fooker and pepsi light at that not pepsi max like proper men (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iluvtofly 0 #53 May 18, 2011 Come to Atlanta. We have a couple really great local breweries. Ever heard of Terrapin or Sweetwater? Yummmm.....my mouth is watering just thinking of their yummy beers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #54 May 18, 2011 Quote Because nobody really drinks beer for its taste. WTF ..... do you ALWAYS talk shite? or just when you open your mouth? (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fossg 0 #55 May 18, 2011 (Doing my best Marlon Brando imatation).... STELLA!!!! STELLA!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #56 May 18, 2011 Quote Quote Because nobody really drinks beer for its taste. WTF ..... do you ALWAYS talk shite? or just when you open your mouth? Obviously, he was talking about MolsonCoors or Anheuser-Busch products. "There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterrig 1 #57 May 18, 2011 Quote Quote Quote LOL!! "Exit stage left!" Reminds me of an old Bugs Bunny cartoon! Chuck Heavens to Murgatroid! "Exit Stage Left" was Snagglepuss, not Bugs Bunny. Damn, I'm old. There's a NASCAR/Coke commercial where they do the "I'd Like To Buy The World A Coke" song. I rememeber the original. That's right! I was getting a headache trying to recall who said that, Age is hell on the memory. Now that youmention it, I remember the original 'coke' song too. Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #58 May 18, 2011 Quote The most macho guys are the ones who drink what they like and don't worry about what other people think of what they're drinking. The least macho guys are the ones drinking something they don't like, simply because they think it makes them look macho. Down with beer snobbery! We have a winner!I make beer, I tour breweries any chance I get, and I sit and pontificate about hops, aroma, balance, etc. With that said, I enjoy everything from Coors Banquet to Deschutes Obsidian Stout and all in between. I pick my beer based on how it tastes to me (and what's on sale that week), not how many hot chicks they have in their commercials. And speaking of taste, some of the craft beers, darkened and hopped beyond all recognition, turn me off. There's a popular amber or two that just really don't taste good (to me). And since it's about what you like, when our DZ fridge is full of Busch Lite 'cause that's what a lot of them like, I'll crack one at the end of the day and say "Cheers." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fossg 0 #59 May 18, 2011 Any beer on a dropzone tastes great Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #60 May 18, 2011 Quote Obviously, he was talking about MolsonCoors or Anheuser-Busch products. Coors Banquet, a great LITE beer.And A-B beers? Hey, who doesn't like rice? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #61 May 18, 2011 Quote Any beer on a dropzone tastes great Hell yeah, sun goin' down, beautiful woman on your arm, packer sayin' "hey, this one's on the house." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Abedy 0 #62 May 18, 2011 Quote Americans are not equipped to discuss good beer... they don't brew any. I second this. I tried Budweiser, Heinecken, Miller and Sam Adams. One bottle of each was enough. More than. Regretted I spent so much money on imported watery horse p*ss and poured most of it into the sink. I'm not a beer snob but the one and only Budweiser one can drink comes from the Czech Republic. The Czechs are really good at brewing beer. So are the Belgians. English stouts, bitters and ales are usually quite good, and so are Irish ones. I also liked Australian beer, e. g. VB or Tooheys Old (the New one is stylish shit for wannabes). Sadly, the art of enjoying a good beer is fading away here. Some folks drink cheapest junk out of plastic bottles. A lot of young fellows - most of which are very macho - insist on fancy "flavoured beer" which is beer mixed with passionfruit, melon, etc pp. Barf! BTW: Americans can enjoy good (German) beer. I spotted Radeberger in a number of episodes of "Two and a half men". Based on "Chuck" being the one to mainly drink it it seems to be a "macho" beer that really deserves to be called a beer. And no, this beer is not the reason for Mr Sheen going nuts Link to Radeberger edited...The sky is not the limit. The ground is. The Society of Skydiving Ducks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #63 May 18, 2011 I hated beer for years, and only forced one down occasionally at parties, just to be sociable. One day I was killing time at O'Hare, waiting for a friends flight to come in, and wandered into the bar. On a whim, I ordered a Sam Adams, just because I'd only recently heard it being advertised. WHOA!!!This actually tastes like a grain product, instead of a blend of used dishwater and urine! That got me curious enough to try the out-of-the-mainstream brews, and I discovered there was an entire class of beers out there that were actually *pleasant* to drink. These days everything I drink was brewed within a 50 mile radius of home...except for the Guinness in a can. Currently in the fridge: - Guinness - Avery IPA - Lefthand Sawtooth Ale "There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterrig 1 #64 May 18, 2011 And no, this beer is not the reason for Mr Sheen going nuts It was probably the 'crack'! Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #65 May 18, 2011 We just got back from Boston. Hit the Sam Adams tour . . . twice, and knocked back quite a bit of their lager, IPAs, etc.I got to admit my Alaskan Amber on the plane home was not quite as good as my last SA in Boston. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #66 May 18, 2011 Quote I second this. I tried Budweiser, Heinecken, Miller and Sam Adams. One bottle of each was enough. None of those are even close to the best that Americans can produce (Sam Adams isn't bad, but the rest is mass-produced crap, and isn't Heineken Dutch, anyway?). If that's your idea of American beer, I can understand why you wouldn't like it. The fortunate thing is that micro-brewing and craft brewing has really taken off in the last couple decades to the point where there are lots and lots of strong local and regional breweries, and even a few that have national distribution that are excellent. I don't know how much of it gets exported, though, so trying to have some of the best American beers outside of the U.S. might be difficult. Of course, my theory is that if you live somewhere that is known for good beer (as of course you do in Germany), drink the local/regional stuff. Why pay to import something when you can both support a local business and buy something fantastic that your area of the world produces? Quote Some folks drink cheapest junk out of plastic bottles. The only place I've regularly seen plastic bottles in the U.S. is at stadiums and I can understand why they'd serve beer out of plastic bottles (or cups) there - it means the drunken idiots aren't holding a head-bashing weapon in their hands. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Abedy 0 #67 May 18, 2011 Maybe Heinecken is Dutch, I couldn't find out from their website. But it's very common in the US, AFAIK. Anyway, you are right. Beers which are heavily advertised are often characterless blends of dishwater and horse piss. If you go Down Under, almost everyone will tell you to NOT drink Fosters - which, according to their own ads is "Australian for beer" - it's not. Definitely not. And so I think it is with those heavily advertised beers in America. Quite a number of beer connoisseurs here in the middle of Germany (Thuringia, the land of Martin Luther, Goethe and Schiller) would tell you that "Beck's" is one of those heavily advertised, overrated, characterless "brews" one should not even pour down the sink and thus should choose one of the many "local" brands here from Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. But that's going too far... The sky is not the limit. The ground is. The Society of Skydiving Ducks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
normiss 798 #68 May 18, 2011 Bud and Heineken are not American beers. Which Sam Adams did you try? The Latitude IPA is pretty tasty to me...a few others are decent. America has a TON of great craft breweries, you need to try more beer! I just came back from Total Wine tell me the craft American beer selection isn't unreal.... Those that say America has no good beer simply have not tried enough American beer. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Calvin19 0 #69 May 18, 2011 I prefer Jeremiah Weed. But it is not available, usually and not a social beverage. I usually get stuck with beer. Fat tire. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Abedy 0 #70 May 18, 2011 Well, do not tell me "Budweiser" isn't American. In a way you're right. The name was ripped by clever immigrants whose offspring produce "beer" in America. See: Budweiser by Anheuser-Busch The real Budweiser comes from the Czech Republic from the city of České Budějovice. There have been a lot of lawsuits but anyone who knows just a little about beer will tell you: Budweiser (which is the German name of České Budějovice) comes from České Budějovice As for the American beers: There are good ones, I have no doubt about this. But why drink imported and thus expensive beer if I can choose from a variety of local beers supporting our local economy? But if I ever happen to come to the US I will try several brands. The sky is not the limit. The ground is. The Society of Skydiving Ducks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #71 May 18, 2011 Quote Well, do not tell me "Budweiser" isn't American. "Anheuser-Busch InBev" is a Belgian company, so we can now blame it on the Belgians."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
normiss 798 #72 May 18, 2011 I have somewhat expected there to be an EU lawsuit now that the owners are in their "jurisdiction". International lawsuits are tough to win and damn expensive from what I've seen. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kmart 0 #73 May 18, 2011 Sam Adams' Black Lager is currently my #1 beer. Love it! Anchor Steam is my #2 beer I like a lot of the Sam adams beers and dont like some. I still haven't tried them all yet. Some of the ones I like are "October fest", "Coastal Wheat" and from the imperial series "Double Bock", kind of pricey though Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterrig 1 #74 May 18, 2011 Quote Quote Well, do not tell me "Budweiser" isn't American. "Anheuser-Busch InBev" is a Belgian company, so we can now blame it on the Belgians. Doesn't InBev have owner connections with (I think) Brazil? Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #75 May 18, 2011 Quote Quote Quote Well, do not tell me "Budweiser" isn't American. "Anheuser-Busch InBev" is a Belgian company, so we can now blame it on the Belgians. Doesn't InBev have owner connections with (I think) Brazil? Chuck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anheuser-Busch_InBev#History"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
