lowtones84
Well-Known Member
You guys all know what arguing on the internet is like, right?
Really, you'll martyr yourself over a beer? :lame:
I guess Charlie Papazian is one of those Guy Fawkes types who represents 25% of the people on HBT,
http://http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/craft-or-crafty-consumers-deserve-to-know-the-truth/article_e34ce949-d34a-5b0f-ba92-9e6db5a3ed99.html
it's like going far too overboard on Fuller Porters because they're $1/bottle?You guys all know what arguing on the internet is like, right?
Really, you'll martyr yourself over a beer? :lame:
I will not support InBev or MillerCoors. I fit into the 25% who say they're an evil corporation. Maybe when the market is back to a reasonable level and say Macros control 60% of the Market and craft controls 40% (BTW I would be against Sam Adams or Dogfish if they ever got to AB's size) thne maybe I'd consider it.
Thankfully AB's concern over the bottom line means I'll never have this conundrum, since the only good brews they own are former crafts like Goose Island.
I don't consider it martyrdom to be missing out on Bud Lime. That's just plain smart.
You guys all know what arguing on the internet is like, right?
Charlie has lost touch then. The second AB buys a small brewery, the craft beer turns from craft to "faux-craft"? Heh? He is part of a political machine and has left the brewing scene behind. That's sad.
This used to be about flavor. Now it's just politics as usual. Sorry AHA, that does not represent my views on beer.
CreamyGoodness said:Billy, you are truly an addition to the forum.
Best beer ever.
Truly an overnight success. Now we just need to get him a membership and see how he does in the debate forum
Billy-Klubb said:hahaha! that's a vote of confidence! I never learned how to debate properly though. most of my learnin' was self taught from them books & what-nots. hells bells, though! I wouldn't mind dropping in from time to time to shake out a thought nugget.
Indeed! There's someone on the forum I'd like to introduce you to, a Mr.cheezydemon
how many teeth he gots?
I'd never run a company to that size, so I don't think it's a serious concern.
Two. He's from Kentucky.
hahaha! that's a vote of confidence! I never learned how to debate properly though. most of my learnin' was self taught from them books & what-nots. hells bells, though! I wouldn't mind dropping in from time to time to shake out a thought nugget.
Indeed! There's someone on the forum I'd like to introduce you to, a Mr.cheezydemon
Oh, and it's a misnomer that you need to be educated or even intelligent to debate on the Internet
how many teeth he gots?
Two. He's from Kentucky.
alrighty then, and all that. he's got my 12 beat by a fortnight, at least. good show, old man cheesy! good show indeed!
Truly an overnight success. Now we just need to get him a membership and see how he does in the debate forum
I hope you're just trolling.
I'm not a troll.
alane1 said:I hope you're just trolling.
Some of you guys are acting like Budweiser/InBev raped your sister, and it's likely not so. It's just BEER for gods sake.
So, when this "friend" brings this bottle with the label covered, and he "twists off" the cap, you haven't figured out it is from one of the big boys? how did this go three pages without that being caught????
If one of my friends brings it over, I know it was cheap from the fact that one of my friends brought it over.
=IdiotThat being said, while I won't drink a Bud product even with a gun to my head, I have had some of the Michelob specialty beers and they weren't half bad.
CreamyGoodness said:I'm not a tough guy, so I'm not going to threaten anyone. But I am going to say that the next person who gets butthurt over a conversation about beer should be hit with a salmon.
What the hell happened to people hitting themselves in the face with rubber chickens? Can we bring that back?
If you can't answer Jaybird's simple question you're nothing more than a troll. Seemingly a successful one...
This was all completely hypothetical. I figured that was obvious from my original post. My bad for not making that more clear. The beer in question is merely fiction. A mild thought experiment.
Sorry it took so long to reply, I am in a much different time zone than most of you.
For me, I agree with most of you here that say, "If it's good, it's good. I would buy it." Before moving to Finland, I drank Bud Light or Keystone Light. Now when I go back state side I do not order those unless that is all there is. It is a taste thing for me, after drinking European lagers for over 5 years, a bud light tastes of nothing to me.
The responses to this post were close to what I expected. "I drink what I drink and everyone else can piss off" (my thoughts exactly), and the other opinion, "damn the evil corporations that control the industry". I honestly thought that the latter would be more predominant. So I am glad I did post this.
I have worked for a very large, industry leading, company in the US. Now I am in business school learning to do what I already know how to do, but need a piece of paper to prove it, Damn Finns. Because of this, I look at these things from a different prospective. I have a terrific appreciation for the big three brewers, for Walmart, Monsanto and others of the same ilk. Their business models are what most companies would kill for, whether they admit it or not. They didn't get to where they are today by letting anyone take just a tenth of a precent of market share. For their lead pipe cruelty in their business practices, I have no issues. Ethics are a different issue. I could go into a diatribe on that and Beer Wars, but that is a can of worms I do not wish to open currently. Maybe I will have to buck up and become a full member to enter the debate forum.
=Idiot
It's martyrdom to miss out on Lime-A-Rita, that's for sure, especially since we all know you'd drink Bud Light with actual piss in it that you saw come out of the hose if someone had a gun to your head.
mjdonnelly68 said:Depends on the caliber - I really dislike Bud Light.
I'll see your salmon and raise you a monk fish.I'm not a tough guy, so I'm not going to threaten anyone. But I am going to say that the next person who gets butthurt over a conversation about beer should be hit with a salmon.
"This is the really real world. There ain't no coming back!"What the hell happened to people hitting themselves in the face with rubber chickens? Can we bring that back?
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