Help me stop drinking Bud Light!!!

[zman]

I told my gf that Bud Light has Formaldehyde in it as a preservative and now she can no longer drink Bud light
My swill of choice is PBR because it is not swill even thought it is a BMC it does not have those funky off and odd tastes to them

 

[user 30639]

Lone Star is my big swill of choice

I guess it's more of a pride thing really...

Everyone in my family drinks Miller Lite and at the young age of 13 I decided I'd never drink it..

If I'm going to a show or something Lone Star's what I'll drink even though it is a bit hard to find at some places...

Yeah, if I have to go cheap I'll go with Lone Star. If I have to pick among BMC products, I'll go with the silver bullet. It's been my faithful companion for many a tailgate.

If you like Bud Lite but are looking for the next step, so to speak. Yuengling Lager would probably be a good choice.

 

[ScottyT]

Holy Necro-posting Batman!

 

[nibiyabi]

Ugh, that's the second time I've done this. I swear I wasn't perusing the back pages this time. . . . I must have clicked on the "similar threads" thing at the bottom of some thread. Sorry again.

 

[Homercidal]

Go get yourself a 6 er of IPA and drink them (not necesarily all at one time) and then try some BMC. I swear if you can choke down a few IPAs, then your tastes WILL change!

 

[EddieWess]

I'll admit, I still buy BMC, but only for when I go golfing, the bottles are just too heavy to put 6 or so in my bag...
usually PBR or Coors light.

Colo, why don't you try a six pack of Dale's Pale Ale, it comes in cans just up the road from you in Lyons, Oskar Blues brew Pub.

 

[SOB]

Holy Necro-posting Batman!

+1 on that! I started the thread what...2 years ago? Anyways, as an update I now brew enough to usually drink only homebrew at home. If I run out for some reason that I punish myself by drinking bud light or PBR if I have it around. PLus, when I go back home I have to drink whatever's in the parent's fridge, which is usually PBR or Bud Light.

If you like Bud Lite but are looking for the next step, so to speak. Yuengling Lager would probably be a good choice.

Good luck finding the Yuengling outside of PA, and FL. They typically only sell it in state where they brew it. Which sucks, cuz the stuff is damn good! You can't find it in Ohio...I know that! I think I heard someone say they had it in SC though...

 

[IrregularPulse]

I admit I didn't read all 7 pages, so if it's been said, well, I second it.

I got into different beers in college. I tried a Flying Dog porter because the label was bad ass. It was great. From then i would always drink one at the beginning of the night before switching to icehouse/miller/bud. I was in college afterall.
After college I got a job traveling and thats when the obsession began. I would spec out the local micros everywhere I went. American Pales and IPAs were my Haven. I then got into porters, and towards the end of my traveling really started venturing to belgians and tried my first sour.
My advice to tasting other beers is to (this may sound ridiculous but it's truth) read about the beer, understand the beer and what it's is supposed to be. Then taste the beer for what it's individual qualities are.
You will not enjoy a beer if you go into them thinking "I wonder If I'll like this better than BL". Because in the back of your mind you'll be comparing it to BL, when it doesn't match you're mind will say wrong, don't like.!

So taste each beer for what's it has to offer. Try not to taste necesarrily good vs bad, but taste and think of what you're tasting.

Of course you don't need to do this everytime you open a beer, but it helps (at least helped me) appreciate different styles and beers for their individual qualities and not just as another bottle of beer.

 

[Jolly McStanson]

Bud is still my favorite beer. Home brew is usually my least favorite do to the fact I'm making it. Some of my buddy's make great home brew.

 

[zman]

Colo, why don't you try a six pack of Dale's Pale Ale, it comes in cans just up the road from you in Lyons, Oskar Blues brew Pub.

+ 100 on Dales Pale....mmmmmm...a hoppy orgy in your mouth....mmmm soooo goooood. Plus the Sam's Club liquor store carries it and it is pretty cheap. That reminds me to go to Sam's tonight

 

[zman]

+1 on that! I started the thread what...2 years ago? Anyways, as an update I now brew enough to usually drink only homebrew at home. If I run out for some reason that I punish myself by drinking bud light or PBR if I have it around. PLus, when I go back home I have to drink whatever's in the parent's fridge, which is usually PBR or Bud Light.



Good luck finding the Yuengling outside of PA, and FL. They typically only sell it in state where they brew it. Which sucks, cuz the stuff is damn good! You can't find it in Ohio...I know that! I think I heard someone say they had it in SC though...

We have Yuengling in Beer Country Colorado!!!

 

[RCCOLA]

I guess I don't understand "slammin' a case" of cheap tasteless beer just to get drunk.I appreciate the flavors of beer too much to waste it in that fashion.If I want to get drunk then I'll drink canadian whiskey and have to do a lot less drinking to get me there and feel a lot better the next morning rather than consuming 1500 calories and pissing all night.If I want a lighter tasting beer,I'll drink a wit,hefe, kolsch or a pilsner but I got a real problem with anything brewed with more corn and rice than barley.I think thats the real problem people have breaking themselves from--that they think beer is supposed to taste like fermented corn and rice,not malted barley and hops.My .02

 

[SumnerH]

We have Yuengling in Beer Country Colorado!!!

Yuengling is pretty much everywhere in the US; I've lived from Maine to Los Angeles and it's always been easily available. Not surprising, since it's the 6th largest brewery in the US in terms of sales (Anheuser, Miller, Coors, Pabst, Boston Beer Co (Sam Adams), and Yuengling).

It's actually the biggest US-owned brewery in terms of volume brewed now that Anheuser has been sold--the biggest 3 are internationally owned, and Pabst and Sam Adams sell more but contract out a lot of the actual brewing (if Sam keeps adding internal capacity they'll probably overtake Yuengling soon).

 

[SOB]

Yuengling is pretty much everywhere in the US; I've lived from Maine to Los Angeles and it's always been easily available.

According to Yuengling they only have distributors in 13 states (including DC) so I'm a little surprised you've had it in LA and in between.

It's also the oldest brewery in the US.

 

[orangeandblue302]

I drink Yeungling when im slummin. I have never found other than in Delaware, PA and MD. I have been all over the northeast and out west and have yet to see it anywhere. Props to those who have. I can get a case of bottles in DE for 14.99 usually.

 

[Mustangfreak]

You'll eventually get a taste for micro beers.

I was the same way. Hell I couldnt drink beer without thinking it was "gross" till I was almost 22. Before then I always drank liquor. Then I started on Coor's light, and Bud light was super easy to drink after that. Never liked Miller light though. Fast Forward to 2007 I'm back in the states and I jumped into homebrewing, which pretty much forced me to drink better beer. And it was not a hard transition at all. I LOVE beer so much now, I just can't get enough of it. And now, I wont drink BMC unless we go to a strip club or a bar and I'm not the one buying LOL.

 

[SumnerH]

You'll eventually get a taste for micro beers.

For me it was the other way around, sort of. Guinness was the one macro I really liked from the outset, but most micros were at least interesting. It was a long while before I found any merit to American light lagers; I'll rarely buy them, but I can down a High Life or Molson or Miller/Bud Light on a hot summer's day now, whereas when I first started drinking I wouldn't have bothered with them at all.

Regular Budweiser and Sam Adams Boston Lager are the 2 holdouts that I've never gotten into (Bud Light is drinkable, and many of the Sam seasonals are pretty good). They have what I call "Schlitz Malt Liquor" syndrome, where I always feel like I just got a mouthful of hair after drinking them.

I was the same way. Hell I couldnt drink beer without thinking it was "gross" till I was almost 22. Before then I always drank liquor.\

I was 23 or 24 before I started drinking at all, so that makes a difference.

 

[orangeandblue302]

Boston lager isn't to bad IMO. I think it may be because i can get a 22oz at my local beer store for 1.45 and in DE we have no tax and you can use it for botteling