What constitutes a good beer?. On one hand. You have people saying Budweiser, Bud Light, Michelob...taste like "piss water". Then will precede, to hand you a Keystone or Busch, and state, "Here's a real beer!". Those are one less carbonated bubble away from water, if you ask me . Not that I'm sticking up for mass beers. Just that when the argument presents itself, they always grab the most heavily diluted brand and claim it's, "Real beer".
What constitutes a good beer?
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If people are into fancy craft beers, hey, that's fine. Whatever floats your boat. 
But those who look down on 'mainstream' brands like Budweiser or Coors do tend to engage in a fair amount of elitism. I mean, you don't have to LIKE those beers, just don't get all "MY beer is better than YOUR beer, sheeple".
But those who look down on 'mainstream' brands like Budweiser or Coors do tend to engage in a fair amount of elitism. I mean, you don't have to LIKE those beers, just don't get all "MY beer is better than YOUR beer, sheeple".
Whatever brand it is as long as it's ice cold it will be worshipped. I stick to medium strength lager because I know where I am with them and anything stronger over 5% can make the room start spinning very fast. Birra Moretti is very nice from a glass but it has to be ice cold.
For me it’s about quality of ingredients and process. No corn or rice adjuncts, artificial chemicals, forced carbonation.
I think Lone Star Beer makes Bud, Coors, and Miller Lites taste like a craft IPA....
Nasty shit
If people are into fancy craft beers, hey, that's fine. Whatever floats your boat.
But those who look down on 'mainstream' brands like Budweiser or Coors do tend to engage in a fair amount of elitism. I mean, you don't have to LIKE those beers, just don't get all "MY beer is better than YOUR beer, sheeple".
That's it in the altogether. If you like it, drink it. I drank MGD as a younger man, but actually really don't like it now. And despite what @Mr. Laser Beam says, I'm not at all elitist, but a lot of "standard" mainstream beers are pretty weak tasting in the grand scheme.
The only thing I go for at this point is Red Stripe Jamaican lager, and it isn't as good as it used to be, but still a better flavor than most beers.
If you want to try something seriously strong, there's Guinness Extra Stout or Mississippi Mud. Not my thing, but they are strong flavored.
I'd make a lousy Irishman...I can't stand Guinness.
The whole "ice cold beer" is funny to me. If not for a war time hops shortage back in the day we'd have flavorful American macro brews instead of sour water. The "ice cold" part was introduced during the hops shortage to hide the lack of flavor. Then Americans forgot that that was not the way beer was supposed to taste.
Beer tastes just fine cold to me. I don't really care if it was supposed to be like that or not. I can't stomach the thought of drinking it warm. 
The less hops the better for me. I like a drinkable beer and don't want to feel like it's a chore.
Tried Harp? I like it better.
My own personal tastes are I like stouts, wits, trappist and malty beers (amber, red, brown, etc). But any beer that's fundamentally based on barley, yeast, and hops with any other ingredients being for flavor and brewed with the traditional process can qualify as a good beer.
I can not think of beer without recalling a sketch presented on "Mystery Science Theater 3000". It presented Mike, Crow and Tom Servo within the SOL's bridge and they are dressed like middle class Englishmen having a "round" at the pub. Mike says he enjoys a "stout" with a bit of "body" and so places his mug under a tap. He pulls the lever. the "beer" certainly has "body"! Emerging from the tap is a string of nearly solid mass! (It was likely a thin rod of translucent flexible plastic being shoved through the prop "spigot" by an unseen stagehand.) Mike patiently waits but the "beer" never touches the bottom of his mug before the skit finally cuts to a commercial break. A simple sight gag "riffing" on the nature of "thick" beers, but it always made me smile.
Beer is a highly subjective thing, and I think part of is cultural expectations. Personally, I find my beer tastes change with the season, where I like dark beers during winter and lighter beers during summer. But one might like a beer where another may dislike same beer, so like I said completely subjective.
Currently I've been on a german beer kick as I'm quite fond of German beers. My current favourite is Aventinus Doppelbock.
Currently I've been on a german beer kick as I'm quite fond of German beers. My current favourite is Aventinus Doppelbock.
"Oh, I know, dark beer...it's bitter. It's for thick-necked guys named Gunter." - Martin Mull
I'm keen on Paulaner, myself. That's what we drank at the Oktoberfest.
I think you meant to place that clip in either the "cat" or the "dog" thread!
Well, I figured it might fit here since they happened to be fighting near beer. And the cat won.
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