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American cheap beer? (pg. 8)
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| Clovis |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orbax
uhh....you dont drink beer very much do you lol. Busch Lite is AKA "Water". It has NO taste and goes down smooth. You can drink 12 of them and not really feel anything.
Its a social beer for drinking and staying up all night without getting trashed.
You have to realize that there is not only the form of the beer (The material processes - Production, clarity, quality, taste/flavor, purity, and variation between batches) but the function of the beer. Is it for having 1 beer with a pipe on a snowing winter evening wrapped up in a jacket on the porch or hanging out at a beach for 12 hours and partying into the night with a bonfire.
beers fall into niches. even TY beers like Old English (malt liquor) have the function of Edward 40 hands, ghetto night, brass monkey, and camping.
Without a qualification any objective statement of beer quality has to be taken as subjective and more of a lack of your experience than any true scale of beerness.
ratebeer.com is an objective scale of beer form. Youll find a lot of beers that you LOVE fall in the lowest 10%. Think about that. |
This is the greatest post anyone has ever made on TA about beer.
I am saving it to re-post in any future beer discussion in which n00bs like nach0s and other try to tell me about beer. |
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| OurManFlint |
| The only time I will drink cheap beer is at this place close by that have 25 cent PBR's for happy hour. It's a good way to start off the Friday drinking after work. Other than that, I really havn't been able to stomack cheap american beer since I have turned 21. man, in high school, Coors, Miller, Bud, that was the good but anymore, I won't buy it anymore. |
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| nchs09 |
| nachos.. n00b?!?! ArE yOu MaD?! |
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| jdat |
| quote: | Originally posted by nchs09
dont you live in france..?
whats that chuffe or wtvr... the cheap french beer is just as ty as the american ones :o |
I lived in the Us for a while so I know the market there pretty well and no I am not saying french beer is good by any means.
Microbreweries don't exist and there are little to no beer shops so getting that special "one" is near impossible. |
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| nchs09 |
| quote: | Originally posted by jdat
I lived in the Us for a while so I know the market there pretty well and no I am not saying french beer is good by any means.
Microbreweries don't exist and there are little to no beer shops so getting that special "one" is near impossible. |
no no, i wasnt trying to make a point, just a random though that popped into muy mind :p please dont take it personally :) |
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| Clovis |
| quote: | Originally posted by jdat
I lived in the Us for a while so I know the market there pretty well and no I am not saying french beer is good by any means.
Microbreweries don't exist and there are little to no beer shops so getting that special "one" is near impossible. |
Jay, isnt the beer selection at most french supermarkets ing HORRIBLE?
In Toulouse most of the Casino in town only had Heineken, 1664, Kronenbourg and sometimes Corona 4pcks.
I had to go to LeClerc (sp?) to get anything decent like Stella, Guinness or other interesting stuff.
In Paris the supermarkets had more stuff, but still a dismal selection of world beers. Little from outside of Europe...
Here all the supermarkets at least carry guinness St Pauli, Stella, Tsing Tao, Sapporro etc. |
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| Clovis |
| quote: | Originally posted by nchs09
nachos.. n00b?!?! ArE yOu MaD?! |
Read Walker's post. It explains perfectly why the context of a beer can be just as important as the beer itself, and any TRUE beer drinker would know this.
Thus I can only assume that you are not a hardened beer drinker... |
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| nchs09 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis
Jay, isnt the beer selection at most french supermarkets ing HORRIBLE?
In Toulouse most of the Casino in town only had Heineken, 1664, Kronenbourg and sometimes Corona 4pcks.
I had to go to LeClerc (sp?) to get anything decent like Stella, Guinness or other interesting stuff.
In Paris the supermarkets had more stuff, but still a dismal selection of world beers. Little from outside of Europe...
Here all the supermarkets at least carry guinness St Pauli, Stella, Tsing Tao, Sapporro etc. |
i remember a supermarket called cora, or kora... bombs.com selection. |
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| infinity HiGH |
For the true beer drinkers here, we got this new pourhouse/restaurant in Toronto (well actually its in the neighbouring suburb, Mississauga, but whatever). It's called West 50. They got over 100 beers on tap.
Here's a full list: Clicky |
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| stren |
| quote: | Originally posted by infinity HiGH
For the true beer drinkers here, we got this new pourhouse/restaurant in Toronto (well actually its in the neighbouring suburb, Mississauga, but whatever). It's called West 50. They got over 100 beers on tap.
Here's a full list: Clicky |
where is teh Tesco beer ? |
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by stren
where is teh Tesco beer ? |
lolololol |
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| jdat |
| quote: | Originally posted by nchs09
i remember a supermarket called cora, or kora... bombs.com selection. |
Well the selection in the large supermarkets like Cora Carrefour etc is decent compared to the average supermarket in the US.
You find the standard good stuff from brands Chimay and the likes but I just call these standards.
I'm after the smaller brands and the special stuff :p
St Pauli is fairly rare actually I don't believe I ever saw it here. And in Germany well I don't recall seeing it either but I haven't really looked when I go to the supermarkets over there.
Add to this that you have to pay a fee per bottle when you buy big bottles in supermarkets and because I don't go there all that much it's annoying to bring the bottles to get a refund on the fee.
Hell you buy a bottle of Evian at a gas station in Germany and they charge you a fee for the bottle!
The country is very ecology minded and yes they do drink beer as much as people say they do :p |
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