Because there are times when you are stuck in a place that has nothing better. Maybe you are at a baseball game and don’t want to look like a douche. Maybe you are in Vegas and they give you a free beer while you play the craps machine. You are principled and thus your favorite beer is called, “free” and your second favorite is called, “cold”….
….okay maybe beer is beer and maybe we should just leave it at that. Why fuss about it?
This is my review of the only beer on the planet with the balls to have George Clooney narrate a commercial: Budweiser.
Just to get this out of the way, these have a mean score around 2/5 on my usual 5 (or 20-DenverJ) point scale. So these need to be scored differently but judged in as objective a manner possible. All of these:
- Quaffed in high quantity; available in 24oz cans and sold as part of a 2 for 1 special. Yes, I drank 48 oz of beer in one sitting for each specimen.
- Have no pretense of cultural significance. All are available at a gas station, specifically the CircleK in my neighborhood (PV/Shadow Mountain area of Phoenix).
- Consumed from the same glass that is not particularly fancy. Don’t worry I cleaned it.
- Nothing to fuss about, given their very minor qualities. So these were all the only beer I had that day, following a trip to gym. I was in no position to be picky.
They will be graded by:
- Price.
- Skunkiness. (5 point scale)
- Ability to get me drunk. (5 point scale)
- Marketing campaign. (5 point scale)
Points will be added to the price for a total numerical score. Lower or higher the better? I don’t know, I will make this your call. I fully expect to be excoriated in the comments for my methodology.
Hat Tip:
Budweiser therefore, stacks up like this:
Price: 2 for $3.50
Skunkiness: It is as terrible as it ever was. 4/5
Ability to get me drunk: 2/5
Marketing: Good. Bad. Ugly. Like Clooney is ever going to knock back a sixer of Bud like the proles. I’ll be fair, they are trying to make beer in space. 3/5.
Total: 12.5
Next up is Straulian fah beeeyah.
Fosters:
Price: 2 for $3.50.
Skunkiness: This is…charming. 4/5
Ability to get me drunk: 2/5
Marketing: I always thought these were funny. Here’s a string of them. 4/5
Total: 13.5
Do they even sell these in six packs anymore or do they just go with the oil can? Next up, is something that meets all my criteria but unlikely to be found anywhere near you:
San Tan Moon Juice Galactic IPA:
Price: 2 for $4.00.
Skunkiness: 2/5 (technically an IPA–score is debateable)
Ability to get me drunk: My wife was ever so pissed. 5/5 (7.3% abv)
Marketing: 0
Total: 11
This might be unfair since it’s an IPA but it met all the criteria. Next up:
Gilmore
Coors Light:
Price: 2 for $3.50.
Skunkiness: 3/5
Ability to get me drunk: Meh. My daughter can handle this. 1/5
Marketing: John Wayne? Okay, but Clint Eastwood was better. *shudders* John Denver… You lost all the goodwill from CGI Duke and The Gunny, Coors. This is what makes people light their own country music awards on fire. You should get less than nothing for this, but my stated methodology said nothing about negative scores. Then there is Smokey and the Bandit, but that classic of Americana loses points for Sally Field. 1/5
Total: 8.5
This next one was actually pretty good. New Belgium supposedly sought to steal market share from InBev and MolsonCoors brands by making a yellow lawn mower beer to counter the corporate giants buying craft breweries and distributing them across the country. The result is like that scene from Casino where Joe Pesci’s character gets mad about the FBI watching him, so he literally has his guys watch them back. It’s a pretty good golden ale. Nothing to write home about and definitely non-threatening.
Who doesn’t want to get blazed in the middle of the day?
New Belgium Dayblazer:
Price: 2 for $4.00.
Skunkiness:1/5
Ability to get me drunk: 3/5
Marketing: 0
Total: 8
Next is one that I haven’t touched since college.
Rolling Rock 33:
Price: 2 for $4.00
Skunkiness: I thought this was going to suck. I am not totally wrong, but I will not admit it. 2/5
Ability to get me drunk: 2/5
Marketing: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Oh my god. LMAO. The ball. Hits the groin. 3/5
Total: 11
Now, I happen to like Amstel, ever if they cannot spell beer correctly, so I’ll give them a shot.
Amstel Xlight:
Price: 2 for $4.00
Skunkiness: I am not sure they know this market.1/5
Ability to get me drunk: 2/5
Marketing: Cute. 2/5
Total: 9
Sorry, I need to stop here. There are several others that span a spectrum between Corona and Colt 45, but quite frankly…I do not like you guys enough to continue drinking like I am homeless. Have a good weekend.
We drink, whatever we drink, because we enjoy it. If you have to make a bigger deal out of it than that, it is because you are posturing about your tastes.
Yeah, pretty much. Its almost like the Ford vs. Chevy people.
Yep. Silly argument amongst guys that brought the wrong truck. /Dodge Ram owner 😉
You left out the Toyota Hilux!
/Numerous Third World cops and militias
Don’t get too technical.
*narrows gaze, motions to Chadian Army troops*
When I first read that, I thought you’d typed ‘Canadian’.
Hmm, wonder what that equates to in fully equipped US troops.
One nearsighted rifleman with a defective follower spring.
Speaking of technical.
You sure that is not a Cruiser truck? That does not look like a HIlux.
The Toyota Landcruiser, millions of which are on the dark continent, and not available in N America, is the best off-road vehicle ever made.
Yes, that’s correct. Picture in the wiki article labels it as a J70 Land Cruiser truck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War
Know the feeling. //Broke Jeep owner.
Homeless would drink MD20/20, Thunderbird, Wild Irish Rose, Boones Hill…but if dipping into the “beer” realm, then Icehouse, Olde English 800, Natty Lite, Keystone….you did get a point for the Colt .45 (works every time).
The actual homeless I’ve met drink Popov.
OOOh, lookie at your hobos!
Well our Chicago shit-bums can’t go all fancy like that!
To alcohol: a market so diverse even the homeless have their preferences.
Would Zima count?
They still sell that?
It came back…like the bubonic plague.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/06/21/zima-the-clear-beverage-of-youthful-regrets-is-back-did-anyone-miss-it/?utm_term=.0fe884f03128
I dunno, man. I’ve been down on mah luck so long, I haven’t had a taste of a sweet,sweet 12oz of my ole’ friend.
Say, can you spare a dime for a guy who’s down on his’ luck and needs a truly unique alcohol beverage?
That was a really bad slogan.
Who did Coors think would be drinking Zima? William F. Buckley? Gay Talese?
The only location where I would order a Zima.
Great reference.
::flashback to the MD20/20 drinking contest I got into::
barf.
That is silly. Next you’ll be saying your taste is as good as mine. Preposterous
Miller High Life.
There, I said it.
Did not meet the criteria. Oddly enough.
That is my lawn mower beer….and old friend. Second MRE I ever had, I washed down with a Miller High Life. Made it almost palatable. Ah, being on the advance party for an FTX with a National Guard unit in 1986. By 1988, it was really strict.
You got beer with MREs? And officers insist they don’t get special treatment…
The Brits take it to a whole nother level. Sorry, you need to use the
servantstradesmens’ entrance to fetch your PL.Mid nineties and xo & 1SG would bring a keg to an FTX for a job well done at night (great to have a cup before hitting the sack) and NCO promotions would follow with beer for the entire company. Sadly it disappeared within a couple years.
I was an E-5 at the time.
Ah. Sadly by the time I joined the temperent timmies were in charge of the Air Force.
In the 70’s and early 80’s barracks had beer machines. Get a can of beer for 0.50. There was many a early evening I spent cleaning my M-16 with my platoon and all of us enjoying a beer.
Since this was Ft Lewis (9th ID) we’d be able to “enjoy” both Rainier and “fire brewed” Stroh’s from the machine. Plus there was Bud, Hamms, Olympia and probably Coors.
By the time I was a CPT in Bad Toelz each ODA had their own refrigerator in the team room with 2 rolls of 35mm film and multiple racks (aka cases) of real German Bier.
Start rant.
F-ing Schwarzkopf brought in GO 1 to save the poor Saudis from having alcohol in their country. Of course the Brits and French brought their booze. Now every GD general officer wants “to control variables” by treating their Soldiers like underage choir boys and prohibiting alcohol. The GO’s don’tt realize that the SOF alcohol policies and uniform policies are huge recruitment tools for the SOF community.
End rant.
My lawnmower beer is Modelo. I normally have some in case a few relatives come over.
Modelo rules and is incredibly versatile.
What’s a lawn? I drink Mich Ultra while standing in my driveway surveying my small yet leased from the county landscape of sagebrush and weeds. And some rocks. I got some rocks too.
Sapporo in a tall chilled can always used to be my lawnmower beer. Then I discovered that commercial grass cutting firms have a competitive advantage and the whole habit fell by the wayside.
The best part about Sapporo is asking a novice to crush the can.
With their forehead.
Yeah, I’m a bastard.
My hometown lawnmower beer of choice. Available in 12 oz or 16 oz cans.
I love craft beer, but agree that the culture around it has gotten out of hand. Like anything, the problem can be traced to middle class honkies getting their pretension on and turning something into a status symbol instead of actually enjoying it.
That said, Bud is awful. Miller Lite, High Life, Coors, are my go-to macro brews and all are fine.
I also – used to – love craft beer. I even brewed some myself. But now tired of it. In my town there are multiple, no make that too many!, brew pubs that serve artisanal foodie food along with their excessively hopped up beer. The places are always crammed busy during the weekend nights as people, who, in the past, were happy with MGD, but are now suddenly into weird beers.
Lately I’ve gotten more into wines and some of the better local distilleries.
The Tap Room I go to does not serve food (they don’t mind if you bring it, and they will have food trucks roll on up) does not have any TVs and has no pretensions at all. If anyone suggest some sort of fancy something, they usually get glared at, maybe sworn at.
Beer Hall Putsch!
Meh. Not worth turning that into a “You know who else”.
Pre-Godwin’d
More like if you suggest a sushi bar…beer hall pushed (out the door).
Here in Cleveland, we’ve got more breweries opening each year then even I can keep up with. For one short week, I had managed to make it to all of the Cleveland breweries, and since then, two more have opened up. However, the various locations go from hipster friendly to sports bar in feel. And one of the better ones still has (most) of their beers for $3 a pint on Sundays.
their excessively hopped up beer
Can we get a fucking craft beer that isnt a double IPA or an oatmeal stout?? The “cover our mistakes by destroying the drinker’s tastebuds” cliche is really annoying.
I make sure to look at a brewery’s options before buying their beer. 80% IPAs? Go fuck yourself. 80% Stouts? Get bent. If you can’t make a palatable red ale or witbeer, you’re a shitty brewer.
Can we get a fucking craft beer that isnt a double IPA or an oatmeal stout??
Yes.
I had a couple of these recently.
Weird sounding but very tasty.
Sour beers all day air day. I could drink a geuze, flanders red, or american wild ale every day
Tchin Tchin !
Beer club Holiday Party tonight. Nothing but pretentious craft brews tonight.
Totally off topic. We picked up our new pistols last night. I will spend the afternoon cleaning and lubing them. Tomorrow (while thoroughly hung over), we’ll take them to the range for the first time. FedX just dropped off a dozen extra magazines.
Right now, I hate you. For … reasons …
A fantastic way to spend The Lord’s Day.
And by Lord I mean ZARDOZ.
I’ll reserve judgment to see if God distributes something better than a heap of beat up old C&R stuff, like a SCAR 17H or an MP5.
Bitchy envy aside, I hope you have lots of fun.
That makes up for #4.
I’m a believer in self sufficiency. My girlfriend is responsible for cleaning her own firearms.
I like your style though…4 new guns, cases of ammo, and extra mags all at once.
?
It’s almost as if a giant flying head went by Kinnath’s place.
My wife is 60 years old and has carpel tunnel syndrome in both hands. Surprisingly, she has no problem loading and shooting the 1911s. We’ll have to see if she has the dexterity to take them apart and put them back together.
Guns are clean and lubed.
Food for party is complete.
Three bottles of sour ale chilling down in the fridge. One is 2016 Sang Noir from Cascade Brewing. The other two are One Way Or Another (sour with Marionberries & Meyer Lemon Zest) which is a collaboration between Cascade Brewing and Bruery Terreux (one from each brewery). And a couple bottles of mead just for the hell of it.
Back in the dark ages, before the craft beer explosion, Foster’s was one of the few decent beers I could get in the area. My friends, who were drinking Budweiser or *shudder* Bud Light, thought I was a weirdo when I would show up with a sixer of Fosters.
Having been to Australia four times, and acknowledging that many of you already know this, *no one* in Australia drinks Foster’s. Not the punters down the pokies, not the broke feral cunts, not even the bloody Abo’s, mate.
Side note – you can’t get beer at gas stations in the populated areas, but there are so many bottle shops (many of which are drive through, bloody oath mate!) that this is unnecessary. Most pubs will sell you some to ‘take away’ when you’re done with the pub, but need some more for when you arrive at home. Or, like I was, camping out in a Kenworth 700 bloody miles from anywhere.
Back here in America, my regular beer of choice is Yeungling. My in-laws and some associates give me less shit for Yeungling being a basic lager, but more because the guy who owns it is a Trump supporter.
If I had to buy products based on my political agreements with the owners/producers of anything, I’d probably fucking starve.
And own quite literally, nothing.
Henry David Thoreau would have approved. DIY Über Allës.
Coloradans don’t drink Coors, it’s Busch, at least when I lived there,
King Cobra, Ice Cold, very effective
Coloradans don’t drink Coors
Horseshit. If I had a nickle for every Coors I drank over the years I could retire. To be honest I crave it at times. It is hit and miss for getting a 12’r that is not skunky though.
I’ve been to Australia twice, and never saw Foster’s for sale.
I like Yuengling. It’s now available in Massachusetts so I don’t have to wait until I visit my relatives in Pennsylvania to get some.
Half hour video on Yuengling. I’m not surprised the guy is a Trump supporter.
My wife was ever so pissed.
This could be a fun grading criteria.
Great post Senor Sharpshooter! You are a brave, brave man.
my thing with winefyied beer which i generally like is to much alcohol. I like a beer to be refreshing and to be able to drink without much buzz. I am a wine drinker so if I am going to drink something above 10% abv it will be wine. I just prefer the taste of wine to high abv beer. My beer should be under 7%, which makes it tricky cause i like ipas and many of them go a bit high.
my goto cheap Romanian beer is ciuc
https://res.cloudinary.com/ratebeer/image/upload/w_250,c_limit/beer_11869.jpg
A 500 ml can is about 70 of your american cents
I generally agree, but here’s my one exception, Velvet Hammer
I did buy recently from one of the Romanian craft brewers a smoked rye porter at 9% but did not taste it yet. I like that these brewers are experimenting though with different stuff that is very untypical of Romania where little dark beer is drunk
That sounds really tasty. I like the. And I like smoke flavour.
My maternal grandfather was an ethnic German from Romania. He used to bring my dad Coors back when it wasn’t nationally distributed because he liked it much better than Bud.
Threading fail, should have been below 11
I like Coors. Never understood the hate.
What always cracked me up was that when my German SIL had visitors from the old country, they all wanted Bud!
I grew up with Coors and liked it too. Then they started putting those widgets in the can and the color changing can. Can’t use that for beer can chicken.
Once I discovered spatchcocking, I abandoned beer can chicken.
Go buy some Coors and fire up the grill!
Spatchcocking rules!
Truly. I did one of my Thanksgiving turkeys on the weber. The crowd went wild.
You shouldn’t use any beer can for beer can chicken unless you burn off the hydrocarbon coatings completely. Paint and plasticisation are nasty shit.
Local bar 6.50 pitchers of PBR vs 11.50 for Miller Lite– No brainer
Can only afford craft about once a month 5-7.50 a pint
2x a week at local bar
I have had your US Budweiser, although it is called Bud in Europe. Not impressed. The Czech stuff is better
I also prefer the look of the bottle of the European one
http://rumroadravings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/url6.jpg
The czech stuff is beer.
On the Bud tour in St Louis, I had to restrain myself from asking them what they did with the excellent hops they had.
Are they even related?
The Czech version is excellent.
And because it’s appropriate:
The Subtle Art of Beer Snobbery
And
40 Ounces of Fury
Awesome.
Today’s winner of the Internet.
or,
“trappist: this type of ale is brewed by monks noted for their skill at trapping tourists in their monastery’s overpriced gift shops. They changed their name from trapper to trappist in 1816 when they realized they spoke French and thus needed a fancier title.”
A couple of my faves from Down Under that would have made MS’s list if he wasn’t posting from Arizona –
TW: I’m using beer advocate’s site, because in a gross display of nanny-State bullshit, the breweries own websites in Oz require you to enter your birthdate. On principal, fuck that noise.
Castlemaine Brewing XXXX Gold was my go to evening drinker, as it was a little lighter on the alcohol and not as hangover inducing. The Ozzy equivalent of Coors Light, without the attached stigma.
And if I wanted something for getting saucy and having a more robust flavour, Carlton Dry for the bill nicely. A bit more pricey, but boy they went down great.
Best lager I have ever had, anywhere, was Leopard from New Zealand. It was even available here in the states for a time. Sadly it went bust.
I traveled through Oz for a few years on rotation in and out of PNG. XXX was my pub order always. It is a safe bet. Carlton Dry was my fill my back pack at the bottle store to take back to my hotel beer. Nice choices Gordi. One of my last trips through there a buddy brought me some local small brews that I do not remember the names of and they were nice. I remember a peach one that was very good and I usually am not a fan of fruity beers.
That appears to be the law or the norm here in the US as well. It’s stupid for two reasons:
1) Any 13-year old can just type in a random birthdate.
2) You can’t even do anything on the brewer’s website; it’s not like there’s a button you can click to have alcohol shipped to your door with no ID check.
Carlton Dry is not bad.
I tried Victoria Bitter while I was in Australia. Yuck.
I stopped in at 4 Pines in Manly, and they had some great beer and food.
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saying i don’t really like the wine-ification of beer /= some paean to the superior working-class virtues of domestic light beer.
but whatever. i’ll drink that too.
I dont think there is a winification of beer. we have returned to a beerification of beer.
Have you ever been to McSoreley’s?
they’ve been making their own beer since the mid-19th century (*its not the same stuff that for a while was bottled and sold in the NE, which was made by Strohs)
This is their beer menu: “Light, Dark”
I’ll considered America to have returned to proper ‘beer culture’ when more pubs are operated in a similar way.
I’m a big fan of McSoreley’s, although I haven’t been there in a few months.
Perhaps I am that beer snob you hate, but you’re sounding like beer Bernie Sanders here to me saying that you don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 domestic and 18 import beers on tap, etc.
I think America’s beer culture has never been better.
I agree, but like any time something is a fad, the difficulty is in finding quality in the mass of options.
_
fwiw, most places with 18+ beers on tap? 30-50% of them are skunked/flat/old. just saying.
You’re going to the wrong places. Sure, some places are like that, but all the good ones are too popular to keep all but the most esoteric stock long enough for it to go stale/skunky.
no, they’re not.
the difference is that most people are tuned to tell when domestic pilsner goes bad. Ales of various kinds spoil differently and most people don’t know/don’t care they’re drinking stale bread.
this is maybe an over the top example…
but this place has 69 taps, and they are literally wall-to-wall busy every day, 6 days a week.
half of it is gone/going bad at any given time. 50% of what they sell comes out of a handful of those taps. the rest languishes for a week or more.
and this is ‘one of the finest beer bars in the world’
“”the rest languishes for a week or more.””….between orders
It wasn’t intended to offend. Coincidentally, you made the comment the weekend I wrote this up and it was a good bridge.
It was my intention however, to -ahem- Gilmore the hat tip.
no, no worries. i was just clarifying.
my principles are different.
I will take water or bourbon if the choices are mediocre beer, even free.
I’m making an “American Wheat” today. It’s a bit out of season, but it’ll go fast in this household if I don’t screw it up.
may I make one suggestion?
no.
just dont.
use a damn hefe yeast.
That’s what I grabbed, hefe yeast and bavarian wheat extract. I’m not exactly sure what makes it “American” wheat.
Because Wickard vs Filburn.
using a ckean yeast like pale ale or koelsh.
the worst is brewers who use a clean yeast and then call it a hefeweizen. I am looking at you, widmer.
I see. I grabbed WLP320.
A question for you, robc. My first attempt at brewing (an amber ale) turned out good, but not great. Specifically, it is undercarbonated and inconsistent between bottles. Thinking back, I didn’t really stir in the sugar before bottling. I just sort of dumped it in, gave a few quick whisks to integrate it, and started bottling. Could that have been the issue?
Inconsistent carbonation is likely due to inconsistent distribution of the priming sugar. I like to put the sugar solution in the bottling bucket before I rack the beer into it, then gently stir. Carbonation tablets are really damn handy, too, but more expensive.
Another possibility, although not likely if you bottled within a few weeks of pitching the yeast, is the yeast was already dying off, or the vast majority of the yeast had flocculated already (both things should take months to occur) so you didn’t get enough in the bottles to ferment the priming sugar. If this were the case, letting the bottles age longer might cure the problem.
Sometimes it helps to just gently turn the bottles end-over-end to get the yeast stirred up again.
Have you stumbled across homebrewtalk dot com yet? It’s a tremendous resource. When I started out brewing, I used to spend hours upon hours reading there. If you can dream up a question, it’s been asked and answered on that website.
As they like to say at HBT, welcome to the obsession!
Another possibility, although not likely if you bottled within a few weeks of pitching the yeast, is the yeast was already dying off, or the vast majority of the yeast had flocculated already (both things should take months to occur) so you didn’t get enough in the bottles to ferment the priming sugar. If this were the case, letting the bottles age longer might cure the problem.
I don’t think this is the case. I bottled after 3 weeks of fermenting, and the carbonation hasn’t improved as the bottles have aged (they’re about 1.5 months old now). I just had 2 bottles and they tasted completely different. One tasted like a slightly darker Shock Top, and the other tasted like an oversweet Fat Tire. All signs seem to point to me not stirring the sugar in enough before bottling.
Have you stumbled across homebrewtalk dot com yet?
Not yet, but I’ll check it out! Thanks for your help!
Mr. Fancy pants. Nothing on Mike’s hard lemonade?
I’m cheap. I’m not 15.
Amazingly enough, Mike’s Hard Lemonade is my 55-year-old sister’s favorite drink. She’s never been much of a drinker, though. Come to think of it, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen her drunk.
While I’m waltzing down memory lane about my times Down Under, here’s a couple of New Zealand’s best ‘working class’ beers –
From the North Island, a favourite of many a logging truck driver, Waikato Draught.
And from The South Island, insert your sheep jokes here – Speight’s Gold Medal Ale.
Unfortunately the stupidity of Australian regulations made it across the Tasman, so I used beer advocate again.
OH MY!
Have you told people in Oregon yet?
My favorite movie line about beer preferences
My kind of guy.
My favorite one yet MS. But Coors Light worse than Bud? C’MON! Bud tastes like chemicals!
Coors light losts point for John Denver and their alcohol content being incidental. Sadly, Original Coors was not available at the Circle K.
Water is a chemical. Piss is multiple chemicals.
Awesome new optical illusion
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2017/12/08/curvature-blindness-illusion/
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
Nope,The color on the individual lines are not the same, no illusion here
OT and a bit late, but thanks to the Glib admins (Glibmins?) for the “Go to bottom” arrows. Soo useful when on mobile.
When I was stationed in Germany and a German member of the crew would rotate out one his “gifts” at his going-away party was a can of (room temperature) Carlings Black Label. The shit is bad to start with and this stuff had been in the PX supply chain for probably 18 months – skunky as hell.
“Spuelwasser!! Dishwater!
A lot of GIs wouldn’t drink the German beer. They stuck with what they knew – Coors, Bud and even Carlings.
A lot of GIs wouldn’t drink the German beer. They stuck with what they knew – Coors, Bud and even Carlings.
Truly tragic. Franken has been producing great beer for 500 years.
Yeah, I find that interesting–I would understand if they were avoiding some sort of absurd local offal delicacy, but, hey, there’s beer worth drinking there, and it’s not like that was unknown. I wonder if that attitude has changed over time.
Ability to get me drunk: Meh. My daughter can handle this. 1/5
As somebody who no longer drinks “for effect” this is what I drink, and why I drink it. I can drink Coors Light for hours, at a steady pace, and not be particularly concerned about jumping behind the wheel at going the fuck home time. And I don’t feel like hammered fuck the next morning.
As I like to say, in reference to all the high-test microbrew crapola, “If I wanted to get shitfaced, I’d go back to drinking Wild Turkey.”
Yeah I hear you. I reserve whiskey for particularly bad days.
Miller products are poisonous to me. I don’t know what it is, but I cannot get through a bottle of beer with “Miller Brewing Company” on the label without getting a pounding headache.
Whoa, MS, San Tan being next to the likes of Fosters and Rolling Rock? I admit that most everything they put out is boring compared to someplace like AZ Wilderness, Pueblo Vida or Tombstone but it’s drinkable. Apart from Sex Panther, which is a fucking waste of a great name.
Also, I guess you might not see it as much not living in Chandler, but they do market a lot locally around here at least–a friend of mine was slightly irked driving from around Hayden and the 101 to some BBQ-and-beer fest they shut down Chandler Boulevard for, to learn that San Tan had set themselves up to be the only thing on tap. At least The Perch is also right there.
Don’t get me wrong, San Tan makes good stuff. This one met my criteria. 2 24oz cans for $4 next Bud, Coors and Fosters. It’s nice to see the locals next to them like that. They probably make a killing from the 24oz cans. The Grapefruit Moonjuice is better though.
Sex Panther I will reserve judgement until I can find it on tap.
According to one U.K. company, your Christmas decorations just aren’t complete without an “angel” at the top of your Christmas tree — and why settle for a regular blessed harbinger of the Word of God when you can have….Hillary Clinton?
Why have that when you could have something much, much better atop your tree?
Right now, Buck Owens is singing “Truck Drivin’ Man” on spotify. Is this a great country, or what?
Duly noted! /Glib resident Trucker
/Great country, shitty overlords.
Had a Stone “Drink By” with huevos rancheros for breakfast. Just poured an Evan Williams with a splash of cranberry, topoed off with Perrier.
Cheers!
Haha. I turned the teevee on a few minutes ago. It looks like the Army – Navy game will be played in a snow storm.
Go Army! Beat Navy!
It’s beautiful, even if Navy is ahead (again).
Certainly a great ending.
And almost concurrently, Toronto wins the MLS cup.
Rattlesnake! https://youtu.be/Q-i1XZc8ZwA
For the nerdier beer-lover, FlavorAct V is worth checking out:
http://www.flavoractiv.com/drinks/beers/
I set-up sensory training/flavor standard training for a hop extract producer “quite” some time ago using their system. The Beer Flavour Handbook is downloadable on SCRIBD.
I love non-IPA crafts but I drink 15x more Miller Lite than I do craft.
No entry for PBR?! This is a glaring oversight.
I confess that on 2 occasions, I bought a 30 pack of PBR and drank it by myself. The first time was the election of 2012. I drank 5 the day before, 12 on election day, and 13 the next day. I link drinking in patterns of Pythagorean triples.
I forget the 2nd time a killed a 30 pack of PBR by myself. I was probably really depressed.
$13 for 30 12 ounce cans.-43 cents a can. Hell of a deal. In Tanzania, a pint of beer cost about 25 cents.
Alaskan Winter Ale is out and at my local liquor store! Yeehaw! I know what I’m doing the rest of the day…
Krispy Kreme beer is coming soon
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/12/09/krispy-kreme-beer-is-coming-soon.html
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Beer lovers have a sweet new brew to look forward to. Two Tampa Bay breweries have teamed up to use Krispy Kreme donuts in the brewing of their beers.
Both Hidden Springs Ale Works and Arkane Aleworks in Tampa, Florida, have starting brewing up batches of the beer, with one batch made out of dozens of glazed donuts, while the other is made out of cream-filled donuts, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
Hidden Springs Ale Works posted a picture of the brewing process on their Facebook last week, showing chunks of the donuts they’re mixing in with a Russian imperial stout that’s yet to be named.
Each of the batches are made up of two dozen donuts, creating a 12.5 ABV stout that’s “roasty” and “chocolatey,” with flavors of the glaze on the doughnuts coming through when you take a sip, Hidden Springs founder Josh Garman told the Tampa Times.
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I’ll take 10!
My teeth, at the thought, itch they do.
My current yard work/ work on the boat beer is Kona Longboard. When I lived in PA and NC it was Yuengling Black and Tan. In CA it was Pacifico.
http://www.delish.com/food/a43164/most-common-beer-every-state-map/
I used to be this guy.
Then I discovered I hate hops and peeing, and really just like being buzzed.
Bourbon and scotch, please and thank you.
https://youtu.be/HSVN3lijfdA
Dammit.
I have had Rolling Rock in ages. I remember it being not all that bad.
Cold and wet.
At a pinch, drop in a large splash of Rose’s Lime juice to make it interesting.
When they were kids, I’d send them to the fridge to pick up beer for me. Much to Mrs. #6’s disgust, the kids were taught that it was called “Toy Beer”.
Never heard of San Tang. Sounds local.
My go to – “generic” lager now is Devil’s Backbone Vienna Lager. South/Central Virginia, you can pretty much find it at any bar/restaurant/gas station/etc.
Second choice – easier on the West Coast – is Longboard.
Yuengling is a good backup though – esp since it’s only 4.4% if you gotta worry about driving home.