which commercial beer do you prefer???

if you have to choose a commercial beer to drink which one will you go for?

You left out quite a few potential choices, but in my opinion none would have mattered. If for some reason every single craft and microbrew were removed from the market and I was not allowed to homebrew, I would quit drinking beer.

+1 to McKBrew. While commercial brews may appeal to the masses, I have never enjoyed them. It took micros and homebrew for me to like beer.

Is there a point to all this?

From that list, I'd drink a cold Corona with lime.

I love Molson when I'm eating pizza and wings, and there's a cold Heiney in the fridge here at work that's calling to me... but if beer choices were suddenly limited to pale lagers, I'd be drinking a helluva lot less beer.

Is Sam Adams considered a big brew? If not I just go for the cheapest to stock the fridge for hot days and macro lovers, HIGH LIFE LITE!

I agree with the Corona and lime.

Coors - that **** is cheap!!

Molson all the way for domestic but PU is where it's at baby.

the_bird said:

I love Molson when I'm eating pizza and wings, and there's a cold Heiney in the fridge here at work that's calling to me... but if beer choices were suddenly limited to pale lagers, I'd be drinking a helluva lot less beer.

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+1. Given the above choices I'd probably have to choose Molson.

I don't really understand. You're asking which commercial beer I prefer, but you're limiting my choices to a handful of crap? How are you defining "commercial beer?" As far as I'm concerned, anything brewed by Rogue or Stone qualifies as commercial beer, and I'd take any of their offerings over the slim pickings in your poll.

Yuri_Rage said:

I don't really understand. You're asking which commercial beer I prefer, but you're limiting my choices to a handful of crap? How are you defining "commercial beer?" As far as I'm concerned, anything brewed by Rogue or Stone qualifies as commercial beer, and I'd take any of their offerings over the slim pickings in your poll.

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Yuri has it.
I am also a big fan of Left Hand Brewery, Avery, and Odells.

You don't have to be a home brewer to enjoy good beer, and you don't have to limit your "Commercial Beer" Consumption. to Light American (Or Mexican or Canadian) Lager either. Most of the time, a good beer is only 2 or 3 doors down from where you're standing.

If i'm drinking "commerical american pils" then make it a PBR or die of thirst. However, if were putting Stone, Rogue, and Avery on the "commerical" wagon then I've got alot to think about.

Honestly, I can crush some Heineken. I really enjoy the stuff for some reason.

Now, I won't buy it because I think it's ridiculously overpriced, but I like it the best off that list.

I think some of those beers are actually very well brewed. If you have ever tried to replicate a beer of that style, you will see that they aren't always easy to brew.

I think a lot of people confuse styles they dislike with bad brewing. That's unfortunate, especially since light lagers are a very popular style of beer -- just not with me :cross:

Hieneken was my celebration beer. Always a case on my birthday. I'd start wit that, then coors light. I won't drink bud light, even if its free. Corona isn't one of my favorites either..

Good poll, makes you think.

You forgot PBR. The only Macro American Lager even worth being qualified as close to good.

if you had put Heineken in a can I would of voted for that. Im assuming you meant in the bottles so i voted Coors.

Labatt Blue. It's not widely available in some of the southern states, but it's everywhere here in Mi. It was the beer I moved to when I decided not to drink Bud Light anymore. Then when I was in Vegas and it wasn't available I took my first step in enjoying good beer with my first Chimay. I flat refuse to drink and Light (or Lite for that matter) beer anymore, Water tastes better.

I really like Sam Adams when I'm out and they don't have a "good" beer selection. SA is my "go to" beer when that's one of the choices on a list like yours.

If I had only that list, I'd go without (and I have done just that in a few places). I had iced tea Saturday night, when the very nice restaurant we were at in Milwaukee had no beer selection beyond BMC.

I am a total EAC, I wouldn't drink any of the beers listed in the poll. When I have to go with a macro brewery my first choice is Newcastle. Personally I'll stick with the micros though.

A better question to match the poll options would be:

"If you walk into a crumby bar/restaurant/party, have a great thirst for beer, and only the listed beers are available, which would you choose?"

I think it's an interesting poll if interpretted this way, as most of us have probably been in said situation before. Under such conditions, I usually end up reaching for corona.

Of those listed, I'd have to take the Molson.

Borisbbadd said:

I agree with the Corona and lime.

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I voted the same way.
I think I might like the lime more than the Corona though.

I'll drink coors light when its a toss up, but all the guys at the firehouse are starting to drink Michelob Ultra Light, so I tried one the other day. I couldn't drink it. Tasted like carbonated, chlorinated water. Disgusting.

I'll take water or coffee.

i don't drink any on that list... the only cheap commercial beer i ever buy is Highlife or MGD... and thats about it. those 2 seem to actually have some manner of flavor as opposed to all the rest that taste like grass soaked water.

TheJadedDog said:

I am a total EAC, I wouldn't drink any of the beers listed in the poll. When I have to go with a macro brewery my first choice is Newcastle. Personally I'll stick with the micros though.

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I've even been turning down Newcastle. I am way too spoiled.