New favorite

8%? Yeah, I like that one too.

That's best for most beers!

I'm still confused. I was convinced beer was made from malted or enzymated grains... And Blueberry is a cowboy comic hero, over here...

That sounds interesting....is it somewhat like a Lambec.....

And what do you think they do with unsold back issues? Recycling costs money (transportation and energy costs), much cheaper to sell to InBev and have them throw them in the mash tun...(or perhaps they use them to replace the beechwood in the fermenting tanks?).

Judging from the net reviews I've seem, this "Wild Blue" stuff is basically a mixture of cheap beer (stuff too bad to use straight, even for Bud?!), artificial blueberry flavoring, corn syrup, and rubbing alcohol or something. [Seriously, the reviews consistently mention this]

A typical review:

The first sip made me cringe. The initial taste of this medium bodied beverage is not just artificial but medicinal. It honestly tastes like someone took the cheapest malt liquor they could find and then poured all the blueberry flavored syrup they could get into this. This is honestly god awful.

-Miles

Wow, interesting... I was embarrassed that it was an AB product and I liked it, but I did. Nothing annoys me more than a crappy beer covered up by a fruit/chili/whatever flavor, but I honestly didn't find Wild Blue to be like that. Maybe I should give it another try and see if maybe I'm confusing it with something else, or just like it despite how many others don't...

There's no reason to change your personal opinion based on the opinions of others. Yes, in my opinion, B/M/C do make good craft beers. If *you* like it, then who cares what the other guy thinks.

Oh, no, I won't change my opinion if I try it again and still like it. It just surprises me that it has such a low opinion, and I half wonder if I'm thinking of the wrong beer, or if it's just one of those things.

When I was searching for reviews of the A/B product, I actually did see some references to a microbrew with the same (or a very similar) name, which apparently caused some people a bit of confusion.

Also, perhaps the labelling of it as "beer" is part of what causes so many people to dislike it, since it apparently bears basically zero resemblance to beer. While I actually like koolaid, and I like wine coolers, I'd probably feel rather put off if I got one when I was expecting a beer!

[The same might be said of many Belgian fruit beers and lambics (for example), but they also tend to be of far higher quality, which is probably going to offset dashed expectations to some degree.]

-Miles

p.s. All this blathering makes me want to actually try the stuff once, just to see for myself. Probably best not to start with a six-pack tho... :]