Don't get ur monocles out of place but......
I think Bud, PBR, and Coor's banquet are pretty tasty and would gladly drink one, free or not. I've also had more than a few craft beers I've poored out or could barely choke down.
I do understand that everyone has their own taste but that's just the thing, there is no taste in bud.
Like I said before, the people that I know that drink Bud on purpose are people that drink a lot and want something cheap and not filling. They are about quantity.
Zamial said:...and a ZJ.
Cambone said:What is a ZJ?
I disagree with everyone here who thinks eople drink Bud becasue it's cheap, marketing sells beer.
dfc said:I don't like it and due to business practices will NEVER purchase it, but if someone else wants to buy and enjoy Bud I don't give a damn.
It's nasty though.
I'd say its relatively bland, or maybe generic.
Nasty is reserved for stuff like kestrel super strength or carlseberg special brew. Proper tramp juice.
This here is an EXCELLENT point.BMCs have a few things going for them. They are cheap, readily available, easy to drink, and socially ingrained (at least in America).
I hope that some of my SMaSHes turn out to be as drinkable and as cheap as Bud Light. Before I started homebrewing that was my mainstay. I'd like to say that my own beer is my mainstay in the future.
As far as the legal stuff and bullying, there really isn't a way to get around it. You can stand on your morals but then you have to do it on everything. Like not using Walmart or Target, Homedepot or Lowes, Exxon or 7-11, Mcdonalds or Taco Bell, etc etc etc. Any company of a large size begins to force their competition to make more money because they can and that is their reason for existing. You literally cannot function inside of this society without contributing to a company that forces others out of buisness. Unless you live in isolation.
From the very start of this company, they have been willing to do anything to stifle competition from anyone, no matter how small. They have used legal harassment, law suits and purchased ads to attempt to discredit smaller and respected breweries such as Sam Adams and Pete's Wicked including inflammatory ads in newspaper and radio in Jim Koch's hometown of Boston. They constantly have resorted to false or misleading advertising to sell products. Even their beer name "Budweisier" is stolen as was the recipe for it. And weren't they the ones to use the slogan "same as it ever was"? We all know that's not true. They also have tried to bully distributors to only carry their products on their trucks and when this was called illegal they offered "incentives" to oust other products. The list goes on.
In the middle 80's I was involved with a homebrew club and became the president. In my travels I spoke to the former brewmaster and VP of production for the now and recently (at that time) closed Horlacher Brewing Company, Louis Kogelman. The brewery was in my hometown of Allentown, PA. He informed me that this small brewery (around 230,000 barrels per year) was sued by Anheuser Busch for what they called a monopoly on the train industry. Horlacher products were served on all trains in the area. Horlacher lost the suit and was forced to close shortly thereafter due to the sudden loss of this business. This information came from Kogelman himself who worked for Horlacher up until their closing.
Horlacher wasn't hurting Anheuser Busch and the train industry would have faded out anyway by itself as would have Horlacher most likely. But the giant AB wasn't about to miss an opportunity to put another brewery out of business.
These are only some of the reasons I will never knowingly purchase any product by this company. And yes, I understand the company is now owned by InBev.
So.... do you apply that to all facets of your life, or just your beer selection?don't support a large corporation
Because they like it? Just like some people like Coke, or Pepsi, or Dr. Pepper, while I don't. I don't knock them for liking Diet Coke, even though I don't like it. So what? I don't care what other people like or don't like.
I keep PBR in my garage fridge, and will continue to do so even after my first home brew is done. Where I live, you can get a case of PBR tall boys for $20, and that's cheaper than Bud. Has more body and taste than Bud, too.
I really like the best craft/micro beers. I buy them regularly, but that's not the only kind of beer I drink. Even if you can afford it, you can't eat lobster every day or it'll start to get boring. Ya gotta throw in a hamburger or a chili dog or plate of french fries regularly. Makes you appreciate the lobster even more.
ElyIrishBrew said:I keep PBR in my garage fridge, and will continue to do so even after my first home brew is done. Where I live, you can get a case of PBR tall boys for $20, and that's cheaper than Bud. Has more body and taste than Bud, too.
I really like the best craft/micro beers. I buy them regularly, but that's not the only kind of beer I drink. Even if you can afford it, you can't eat lobster every day or it'll start to get boring. Ya gotta throw in a hamburger or a chili dog or plate of french fries regularly. Makes you appreciate the lobster even more.
Last night a friend offered me a bud and i hadn't drank one in years so i decided to take one and i almost threw up... its piss water in a bottle ...why would anyone spend good money on the commercial beers when so many good small breweries make great brew?
dkwolf said:My biggest thing is.... I hate wine drinkers, because they tend to be snobs about it. I will NEVER turn that way with beer.
downtown3641 said:Weird. I've never met a snobbish wine drinker. Then again, I don't find it snobbish to drink what you like and avoid what you don't.
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