TheFlatline
Well-Known Member
Grow up!!! Nothing gives any of us the right to be "Beer Snobs!"
To be fair, Miller/Coors (and Bud) spend millions upon millions of dollars to tell us that we're not drinking very good beer unless we drink BMC. They fired the first snobbery shot by turning beer into a commodity product while telling us it was the only thing worth drinking.
I won't use the horse pee analogy so much any more, I will just point out that most people can't taste the difference between bud light, miller light, and coors light. It literally has no distinct taste.
That being said, don't try to replicate a "light beer", it's a lager, it's already harder than f*ck to make decent beer with that much corn and rice in it, and at the homebrew level it's probably way too expensive for you to go down that route.
I nominate the cream ale concept, or if you really want to knock his socks off, go find the Haus Pale Ale recipie on this site. It's easy to make, tasty as all hell (and you can tone down the hops to appease his current inability to drink anything bitter), and is dirt cheap. I've taken to referring to it as the Girlfriend Experience because it has so many positive qualities.