Heineken

illini0250 · Jul 11, 2012

boo boo said:
Heini in a can is great. No skunk.

Yes!

Offset_Bender · Jul 11, 2012

Heineken, the official beer of the London Olympic Games. Bet there is a lot upset British over this.

brewski08 · Jul 12, 2012

evrose said:
Yes, yes... all of that is lovely prose... but how then do you explain the fact that Heineken almost always smells like a wet shaggy dog?

Woof.

the same reason BMC drinkers describe all dark beers as Guinness-like and compare all hoppy beers to triple-hopped Miller Lite: ignorance.

AllHopAbandon · Jul 12, 2012

TopherM said:
...which makes you wonder why they would serve it in green bottles...

Marketing. Green bottles = imported > domestic, according to the masses.

Qhrumphf said:
I've also read (I forget where) that some Euro brewers intentionally let them get skunky...

I refuse to believe that. If they get skunky at all, it's due to handling during shipping and storage.

Insomniac · Jul 12, 2012

Offset_Bender said:
Heineken, the official beer of the London Olympic Games. Bet there is a lot upset British over this.

Indeed, it didn't go unnoticed!

Airplanedoc · Jul 12, 2012

Heineken is all one of my neighbors will drink, after tasting some of my homebrews, he can,t even give them away to the other neighbors. I do my best to pass on them even if they are free, or I have to walk a block back to my place.