Budweiser - Who drinks this piss?

Budweiser!

sam adams is about the only good beer available around here...

Boulevard Wheat Beer is also a great choice.




when it comes to cheap beers - i'd rather drink a busch light than a budweiser... it has more flavor, and costs much less

I'd rather drink my dogs piss than budweiser!

Is busch light an American beer? (I'm in the UK)

Best real UK beer?

Holts (Manchester bitter).

Takes some getting used to, though, and needs to be kept well.

schlitz
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Beer snobs disturb me. If it says "beer" anywhere on the lable, it's good beer IMO.

riker does.......cause it's cheap.

That really is bullshit.

I'm no beer 'snob' but appreciate a good beer. A lot are laced with chemicals and taste like shit.

No snobbery here. Just opinions.

Go drink yer 24-pack of "Natty Ice"!!!

whew... took a few minutes but I found it.

Thread: The Habits of Beer Snobs

yeah, well the only beer I really like is leinenkugel's berry weiss, a beer for people who don't like beer, so I guess I'm not a huge fan of beer.

Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer, a big blonde, and a hard boiled egg.
Thats Americana.

yes, i'm pretty sure that busch is an american beer.






Oh, come on...

There is most definitely a difference in beers, and some are much better than others.



Seriously, would you rather drink a pisswater coors, or a nice flavorful dark lager?

my dad drinks that piss bud.

for taste, i like Beck's Octoberfest.

i don't drink enough beer..these days.. to remember my definitive tastes.

The black stuff - Guinness.

Hoegaarden and Leffe I drink too, but mainly the black stuff.

Best real UK beer?

Holts (Manchester bitter).

Takes some getting used to, though, and needs to be kept well.


Not tried that one. What's the Alcohol percentage? Can you buy it in bottles or just at the pump?

Hoegaarden and Leffe can be bought in bottles. Never saw them on tap before. (I'm UK too just for record)

oh good "god"



i remember the one and only time i tried that shit... I was at a party and the beer had run out in the area i was chillin, so i asked where more beer was and was directed to the kitchen.

ANyways, i get there, ask where the beer is, and someone says, "here, man, try one of these - it's really good beer" as they held out a natural ice.






i cracked the can, took a little smell, and proceeded to draw a nice swig...


I almost vomited immediately.


uuughh.. that shit is fucking disgusting - which is surprising for something that has next to no flavour

that's why it's going down too

Agreed. Beer snobs are disgusting. ALL Beers are good...to somebody. If you don't like it, don't drink it. Puttin down someone beer is worse than burning THE flag.

I like a drop of the black stuff myself. Very easy to drink pint after pint, and I get nicely drunk with it (if you understand).

That was awesome!

Edit...Dreamer, your post was great, I screwed up the quoting process somehow.

First of all, let me clarify that there is a difference between a beer snob and a connoisseur. The connoisseur has sampled dozens, if not hundreds of beers of all flavors, colors and brewing styles. He understands the brewing process enough to detect the little nuances differentiating one beer from another. Most importantly, a connoisseur recognizes that, depending on the situation, every beer has its merits. He enjoys a dark-colored draught import, but accepts that there is also a time and a place for cracking open a can of domestic. A beer snob is merely some guy who has veered briefly away from the warm frat party beer he’s used to, and somehow comes back feeling more enlightened than his caveman friends.

Beers are separated into lagers and ales – the difference being in how they’re brewed and the way the yeast settles in the process. Lagers tend to be lighter in color whereas ales run the full spectrum of light to dark. Most beers you buy in America are lagers, whereas in Europe, the majority are ales. Malts give beer a sweet flavor, hops a bitter one. So when you hear beer drinkers using words like "malty" and "hoppy", that’s really what they mean. Ales are usually more complex and full-bodied than lagers, hence the reason why beer snobs stick their noses up at the latter. Anything out of a can is too obscene for a beer snob to comprehend. Draught beer – that is, from a tap – is always the way to go. Most beer snobs drink a lot of malty stouts and porters, which are usually dark black to the point of not being able to see through the glass. You’ll rarely find a beer snob drinking anything lighter than a red or amber-colored beer. Most tend to think that dark ales like Guinness are the be-all end-all of alcohol consumption.

Beer snobs are created in several ways. Most are initially introduced to dark ales by other beer snobs who feel the need to enlist recruits. They try a Guinness, read about the brewing process on a pub menu and suddenly think they’re beer gurus. The worst snobs though are the ones who have lived their entire lives in America, then spend a month in Europe. They come back thinking they’ve had an epiphany – and not just about beer, but about life in general. If you should dare to drink with them after that, be prepared for an ejaculation of beer trivia that they’ve learned overseas. "You know, in Europe they serve beer warm, so it has to be made well. American beers have to be served cold because they don’t put in the time to brew it right." These pricks will even give the waitress at Wally’s Topless a hard time because all they have on tap is Budweiser. They curse and sputter and finally settle for a bottle of Heineken. Occasionally, guys take their snobbery to the point of actually brewing their own beer, thinking they’ve somehow gleaned wisdom from the pints they’ve raised.

I admit that I too was once a beer snob – which is why I feel completely justified in writing this. It began the summer I waited tables for a restaurant & microbrewery in Boston – which, if you’re going to be a beer snob, Boston (home of countless independent brewpubs) is the place to be. As part of our training, we were given a brief history of beer, an explanation of the brewing process and a thirty-minute tasting session where we were taught how to recognize hops, malts, and other elements. Up until that point, the only foreign beer I had ever drunk was Corona. I honestly didn’t know that beer came in more than one color or flavor. I quickly warmed to the house porter. Loaded with malts, it was like drinking chocolate milk compared to the flat keg beer I had been used to. My conversion to beer snob happened overnight. The rest of that summer was spent savoring fine dark ales and harassing my cretin friends about the Coors Light they were swilling.

I had apparently slept through the part of my training that talked about matching beers to food. A true connoisseur knows that no one beer – or type of beer for that matter – complements every situation. If you’re eating spicy food, you want to match it with something a little bit hoppy and bitter like a pale ale. For mild food, you don’t want a beer that’s going to overpower your taste buds, so a smooth light pilsner is the way to go. Dark malty beers are traditionally "sipping" beers, to be drunk on their own, or after dinner for dessert. I could never figure out why my normally delicious Cream Stout tasted so horrible with hotdogs. Likewise, I never put two and two together to wonder why I felt so sick and weighed down by dark heavy beers on hot days. All I knew was that dark ales were supposed to be good, and everything else, substandard.

Guys are usually the ones who become beer snobs – although my friend Mary Ann joined me the summer I began that lovely phase of my life. It usually happens in college or soon thereafter when people begin to realize that drinking can be a social thing and not simply a means of getting shit-faced. Fortunately, as with anything else learned in college, the snobbishness goes away after a year or two. Either the snob realizes that he can’t perpetuate the pretense any longer, or else he finally wakes up to the fact that he really would prefer a Michelob Light to his Murphy’s Irish Stout.

I came out of my beer snob phase as suddenly as I went into it. I was in Missouri of all places in the middle of June. It was ninety degrees, one hundred percent humidity, so I went to the store to buy a six-pack. After complaining under my breath that they didn’t have anything weightier than a pilsner, I settled for a six-pack of Miller Genuine Draft. Let me tell you, on that hot summer day, nothing ever went down so sweet. I was instantly thankful that I was drinking this and not something even as heavy as a Sam Adams. From that day on, I said to hell with whatever was supposed to be good beer, and just drank what I liked. Now, if I’m eating a heavy dinner, I’ll drink an amber. If I’m relaxing in a pub, I’ll drink a dark. But for any other situation, whether it be backyard barbecues, dancing at clubs or just chilling with friends, I’ve reverted back to my early college days of inexpensive light beer that goes down easy. I no longer claim to know anything more than I do. Just enough to know what I like.

So, if there’s a beer snob plaguing your life, simply relax, grit your teeth and realize that it’s just a passing phase. Instead of getting annoyed, do what I do now that I’m a "reformed" beer snob: sit back, drink your Amstel Light, and smile knowingly as they grimace, choking down yet another pint of Guinness with their buffalo wings.

when i want cheap beer i go with miller high life or pbr.

my favorite real beer at the moment is la fin du monde.

Natty Ice Horror

Dreamer, another excellent post, and I understand your point completely.

I just hear folks saying this beer taste like piss, that beer tastes like crap ect, ect, ect and I don't get it. Each person has a right to have their own particular taste in beer. There is truely a vast variety, and all are beutiful creations to me.

I have different purposes for different beers. If I'm looking to pound down a twelve for a quick buzz, I'll go for one of the mainstream lite beers for that mission.

If I'm having dinner, I prefer a lager such as Sam Adams.

What I don't do is curl up my nose at someone else's choice of beer. To me all beers are great in their own way, and if offered a free one, I'll drink anyone of them.

That shit will twist ya up in a hurry!...lol!

beer snob:

Those individuals who regard any beer that they do not drink as <insert 4 legged mammal here> piss. Completely ignorant of climate, context, and social class, beer snobs are contemptuously dismissive of any beer that a mortal cannot walk across like Jesus Christ did across the water.

Beer snobs are tedious bores, assuming that any beer which doesn't meet their definition of "adequately pretentious" is drunk out of ignorance.

Not since AB was sold.
Now, I drink nothing but Yuengling.
Made in America by Americans for American owners.
Fuck AB and InBev!
Those stupid bastards in St Louis don't realize they have signed their death warrant for their company.