Fat Tire is pretty low. Thank god they have a brew (fat tire) that enables them to brew the good stuff though. I have to add that at the moment I’m very unhappy with new belgium…had the sahti on-tap the other day and I swear it was old fat tire. I couldn’t pick out a single sahti-like character, terrible.
Not a beer snob, but I can’t make myself pay 5.00$ for a pint of BMC, If I’m out, and that’s all they have, I’ll have a Pepsi. If I’m at a buddies, and he offers it to me, I’ll drink it. And summertime, you’ll always find a case of Milwaukee’s Best Light in my fridge. There is really no better beer on a hot after mowing the lawn. It’s just good stuff.
edit : It’s also a very good shower beer. And with the cans, there’s no worries of a broken bottle in the bottom of the tub.
Canoe beers? Really?! Wow. If that’s all there is to drink I volunteer to be the designated driver. I only have so many brain cells. I refuse to kill any with canoe beer.
If anybody is keeping track, put me down in the “no thanks to macros” column. I started drinking back when there weren’t any craft breweries in the US, so I had my fill of what they have to offer. Fortunately in the Pacific NW, it seems that every bar has at least one local craft beer on tap (Mac & Jacks is our Bud). I have a feeling if I lived in a less hospitable region, my opinion would likely change.
I live in a less hospitable region than the Pacific NW (who doesn’t?) and I can usually say “no thanks” when I can’t get a craft beer. If there’s nothing on the menu but bland american lagers, I’ll go with something else, perhaps Scotch?
As a young’un, it was Michelob Light and Boonesfarm. In college, Bud, Stroh’s 30 packs and this wonderful thing we found called Heiny Wine ( I think that’s how you spell it ). Kinda like a wine cooler. We poor college students couldn’t resist the $9.99 for a 24 bottle case. Only problem was you woke up in the morning feeling like someone cut your heart out.
Now, the “worse” I will drink is Corona mainly because a friend of mine loves it and we go over to his house in the summer and he offers me one or two. Other than that, I choose water over the other macros.
The AHA has made me a beer snob!! Thank you AHA!!!
Under the right circumstances I could drink PBR, Coors Banquet, Busch, Busch Light, Iron City, even IC Light.
But I can’t drink Bud or Bud Light, I’d rather drink water. I had AB Bud in Ireland once though, and it was actually pretty good - I think it was a nitro pour, but it lacked the acetaldehyde that is such a big turnoff for me with the Bud in the US.
I will drink any BMC, being in Colorado Coors is ok, but the locals seem to have a love hate
relationship with it. I would say Bud or Coors are my lowest rung. My neighbor, the other home
brewer (you know who you are), drinks Miller High Life. I can’t. For the life of me I have tried and
I couldn’t do it. On the beach in Mexico, Tecate with a lime and a dash of salt, yum.
I’ll drink just about any beer, but nothing labeled “Ice.” Instead of making beer flavorless, it’s like they intentionally make it taste bad. Not to mention the headaches. It makes good beer can chicken though. That’s what happens to it when you leave a case at my house.
One thing I have to give to the macro brewers, their beer my be awful, but don’t you all agree it takes real talent to make bad beer, cosistently? I mean, batch after batch, a bud taste like a bud, and coors, coors…every beer, for years on end taste the same, millions of gallons, on gallons. I really do think it take skill and talent to make a product taste in such quantities, taste the same, every time. For that, we gotta respect them.