Is that just out of principal? Or have you actually tried all their offerings and really don't like them?
I'm not trying to be argumentative, just curious as to why someone would turn down good beer just because of the brewery.
Of course I've tried BMC beers.
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I just don't like them. I don't like the way they taste, I don't like the way they are brewed. I got to the point I tried so many I didn't like I just gave up.
Business-wise, they (Miller) ruined Leinie's for me. I'm a WI born and raised beer drinker. Leinie's was
our craft beer and Miller bought them and industrialized their process. The beer changed. I no longer make an exception for Leinie's and do not drink it. Miller used to make a flavorful pilsner like their German ancestors (and my German ancestors) brewed, but as they grew it became more industrialized and IMO that ruined the beer. Brewing still is such an ancient process but filtering and pasteurizing just ruins the flavor on so many levels, not to mention no hop flavor or aroma, nor malt backbone. Hence my previous notation that BMC makes crappy beer style very well. The American Pilsner (Miller) and Light American Lager (AB, Coors, Pabst, et al) are to me, nothing more than water, alcohol, color, and carbonation. I don't blame them, they make what sells. I'm just not one of their customers.
Ok, just so we have this right, you don't drink these styles: American Lager, Amber, Wheat, Belgian, Bock, White, Abbey, English Pale Ale, Helles Lager, Pilsner, Oktoberfest, Brown Ale, Cider. OK, after going through the AB site I got tired. So I guess the question left is, which styles do you like?
No not the styles in general. Perhaps what I should have said was their versions of the style for the most part. There are some styles I simply find undrinkable. American Lager in all its forms, American Pilsner, all that yellow beer stuff with no flavor and aroma.
Lager beer in general is not to my taste. There isn't enough flavor to keep me interested in the beer. Lagers lack character. German Pilsner and Bock do not, however, but I haven't found one that satisfies me.
What I drink are hefeweizen, dunkelweizen, russ, dampfbier, gose, and porter for the most part. I keep each of those beers on tap, although the russ is in a Scotty keg and the gose is bottle conditioned. The top two beers I drink are hefeweizen and dunkelweizen. Sometimes when I'm bored I'll experiment with ice distilling the dunkelweizen as a dunkeleisweizen.