Nobody drinks those 8 dollar a six pack beers brewed in someone's bathtub. Let's get real and talk about real beers like... Papsed Blue Ribbon, Shlitz, and Miller High life. Not to mention my favorite, Hamm's. These are reel beers!
Anyone remember Stag?
Anyone remember Falstaff? Falstaff, at one time outsold Budweizer in St Louis! How's that for a bottle of beer trivia?
You wanna talk about near beers ..... while the others want to talk about real beer... ya see son .... there are beer lovers and there are beer drinkers....... your a beer drinker.....
I recall my old days wranglin' the macros. Me and Billie would get a big herd o' Bud and drive it from St. Looie all the way to Chicago. That is, until a bottle o' Michelob Light broke loose one day and threw Billie off her horse.
This strikes a chord with me because I used to espouse the same sentiments. "I'll damned if I'd spend eight bucks on a six pak of beer anyone can make for forty bucks in a plastic garbage can"! ....heh heh
But now, things are different. I met a very prolific home brewer who typically has 12-16 beers on tap at any given time. While he was showing me the basics of homebrewing, he was also teaching about beer in general. I'd always thought I was very knowledgeable about beer, having studied, and drank, much beer in the last 30 yrs. Boy was I wrong.
Not only has my mind been raised to a higher level about beer, so has my palate. Heavy malt profile beers like stouts and porters and weird tasting Belgian brews are no longer intimidating. I have literally learned to love them. As recently as 3 months ago, I endured some good natured ridicule from my friend for still maintaining that, despite my new found appeciation for brown ales and Scottish stouts, I still enjoyed a can of Bud. But, a shocking change has occured, since then.
I was over at my daughter's house and my SIL offered me a beer. All he had was a Bud, but I didn't mind, having been a Bud fan of many many years. Horror of horrors. I couldn't taste it. Or, more corrctly, it had no taste! Yes, my palate had mutated. Bud no longer held any redeeming qualities I had learned to appreciate. It was truly canoe beer. Sigh. The end of an era.
BTW, I'm sitting here typing this while watching over two plastic buckets (11gals) full of pale ale gurgling away in primary fermentation. In another week they'll be cold conditioning on hops in ss kegs. This all grain recipe is better than any of the "those 8 dollar a six pack" beers I've since spent money on. I know, because I've looked.
Don't matter, should still work ('cause the hop is related to marijuana which is similar to female hormones and been known to grow breasts on men! It's tru!!!!!!!!!)
My spelling? At least, I can spell "atrocious" (well, I did have to look it up BUT I KNEW YOURS WAS WRONG!)
I'm just mentioning the names of beers that Piddie never "herd" of.
In fact, while you've got the dictionary opened to check my spelling of "atrocious", check out the definition of "facetious" or "parody" (tho', the art of the latter is always hard on the internet, since any subtly is easily seen as authenticity.
(unless english is your second
Why are you letting them off easily? Pabst, Schlitz, Yuengling, Schaefer, Pilsner Urquell, etc., were all GERMAN names, and Guinness is Irish. The names weren't in ENGLISH to begin with!
Have a beer (an easy-to-spell one or not, either work), that usually works for me.
Or have 5 or 6 to *get* jittery fingers.
I used to have a theory on beer names in the US and how the best selling beers were quickly becoming the easiest to pronounce.
Bud Coors Miller (they dropped "High Life" from most of the advertising) Lite
sold, while once famous, tongue-twisting brands like Schlitz, Schaefer, Schmidt's and Heileman are all but gone, along with "more than 2 syllable" brands like Narragansett, Ballantine, Ruppert Knickerbocker, Olympia, etc.
There was once a little PA. brewery called Horlacher which specialized in economy brands (altho' they did have this real nice "premium" brand that was hard to find and was an all-malt beer aged for 9 months called "Perfection").
I always figured their problem was when the guy walked into the bar and wanted a Budweiser, he said, "Gimme a Bud."
When the guy walked in who walked a Michelob, he said "Gimme a Mick."
The Horlacher drinker said, "Gimme a Hor..." and was directed to Sally with all the make-up on at the corner table.
Miller certainly dropped or de-emphasized "High Life" for many years, along with what they perceived as the effete slogan "the Champagne of Bottled Beers". The fact that they have, in desperation revived the name (maybe to jump on the retro beer fad), just as they tried to market Miller Beer, Miller Genuine Draft Beer, Miller Ale, Miller Malt Liquor, MGD, etc., doesn't really negate my thought (which was a thought from a few decades ago to start with, thus "I USED to have a theory...").
And how many people walk into a bar and order a "Miller High Life"?
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