jcarson83 said:
Well if no one else is I guess I will. Bud and Miller are not good beers. I don't care if you appreciate the opinion of millions of americans. They're wrong. I have Bud Light in my fridge, next to homebrew and microbrew, because my wife drinks it. She likes the bland taste and lack of complexity. But she is wrong too, its not good beer. Sure it has its place at the ball park, after mowing the lawn, on the river, but its not good beer. Saying that those beers are good would be like saying that Oscar Meyer Weeners are a good sausage or that Velveeta is a good cheese. Its simply not the case.
Let me point out a third error that you made. You called BMC "Beer" when, clearly, we know that it is malt liquor, not "Beer".
I'm sorry sonvolt, but BMC is good, cheap, easy drinking, low-alcohol malt liquor. It is NOT, however, good beer.
Here's the thing I've noticed about tastes and tasting: Some people have, what I call, "dead tastebuds". These are people who like what they like and won't like something new, no matter how delicious, because it doesn't taste familiar. Of course, everyone is like that... to a degree, but some are far more so than others.
Personally, I am very experimental with flavors, I try a lot of new foods and new spices. Some of my recipes are hits, and some are misses and I usually know what people will think of my food or beverages before I serve it because I have a palate that allows me to make that assessment. I also know certain people will not like my food or beverages because, the first sip they take, will be with a thought in their mind that says, "I'm not going to like this... I'm not going to like this..." and then they take a drink, and without even swirling it around or breathing the aroma, they make a contorted face and say, "Blech!!!"
I submit to you the following hypothesis: Anyone who thinks BMC tastes good has no significantly living taste buds. Sure, people like it, but invariably, you will find that people who do drink it exclusively will NOT like other styles of beer- they will not like porters or stouts or IPA's or whatever. In other words, they do not like beer, they only like BMC and that is something different- low alcohol malt liquor.
So I'm afraid I have to agree with jcarson. BMC is the Velveeta of beer. You can like it if you wish, you can smear it over french fries and lick your fingers clean. You can enjoy the taste. You can be a fan of velveeta, you can think it's a delicious taste!You can even call me a "cheese snob" for saying that Velveeta is not cheese and that I would never allow it into my home as it is a crappy, inferior product. However, liking velveeta is not the same thing as liking cheese.
Liking BMC is not the same thing as liking beer.