why no bmc stout?

[olllllo]

Why no BMC stout?

Why no McDonalds Hot Dog?

 

[Schlenkerla]

I'll be sure to do that

Only reason I caught that was there were so many errors in the first post I almost thought it should have been in the drunken ramblings forum...

That's to be expected, they can't use the shift key either. Too lazy in both cases? Why both trying to spell correctly or use punctuation for that matter?

 

[tmoney1224]

A friend and I went to a new "Irish pub" in town, sat down, ordered (I don't remember... probably Guinness or something... there wasn't a big selection), and were handed two 16 ounce plastic cups of beer.

Have not returned to the place.

Our favorite place to go play pool just switched to plastic cups, now granted they are a harder plastic not just a dixie cup, but it still ticks me off.

 

[GuitarBob]

Hey now what's with all the Guinness bashing in this forum? It might not be the thickest, richest stout on the market, but if it wasn't for Guinness a lot of us would still be drinking Budweiser.

Guinness is an excellant gateway beer for when you first find out that not all beer tastes like watery foam.

I mean come on. Is it really fair to compare Guinness which produces a half-way decent product to the goat piss that comes out of BMC?

Beer snobery can be fun, but let's atleast be fair with our snobery.

 

[homebrewer_99]

The real reasoning behind why there are no BMC Stouts is explained in four words here:

Garbage in, garbage out...

 

[Scut_Monkey]

Hey hey hey, let's get something straight Budweiser is the "King of Beers". Hell, if you can buy it at Chuck E. Cheese you know it's the pinnacle of beer.

 

[Vuarra]

I tried Guinness as a "Gateway Beer". I'm glad I discovered Young's Luxury Double Chocolate Stout, or I'd never try to brew with Chocolate Malt. I thought Guinness had the worst aspects of a lager and the worst aspects of a stout (kinda like a tip-tronic or paddle shift automatic)

 

[Evan!]

A lot of this phenomenon has to do with the historical progression of beer. Way back before Pilsen made crystal clear pilsener, most beers were dark, because they didn't have a good way of modifying the malt well enough to give it good diastatic value without darkening the malt at the same time. And since most drinking vessels were opaque at the time, it didn't matter much anyway. But the convergence of readily-available glass vessels and the advent of pilseners and similar clear styles brought about this wonderful novelty in the world of beer...holy crap, I'm drinking this clear stuff! It's like when you get your homebrew crystal clear...sure, it's not THAT amazing since all mainstream beer is clear...but it's still pretty awesome. Imagine that happening for the first time...it was all about novelty. And so, clear lagers became wildly popular...jump forward to today, and you still see the lasting effects of that novelty being felt...especially when you factor in prohibition, which decimated all but the largest macrobreweries. It's only been in the last 30 years or so that darker beers have made a resurgence in the US of A...so to expect a mainstream one to do well in such a short period of time is asking a LOT! Give it time...give it time. Bud Ale is the first step...

 

[passedpawn]

I tried Guinness as a "Gateway Beer". I'm glad I discovered Young's Luxury Double Chocolate Stout, or I'd never try to brew with Chocolate Malt. I thought Guinness had the worst aspects of a lager and the worst aspects of a stout (kinda like a tip-tronic or paddle shift automatic)

Youngs just has too much chocolate for my taste. It is one of the few beers I can't finish.

BTW, I really like Bud's American Ale. The Rays ballpark has it on tap and it is a fine ballgame beer.

 

[Christian]

I for one don't want them to make stouts, they will ruin em and just taste like crappy dark water. Buds watered down American Ale is proof they can't make anything other than watery lagers.