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Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: Dave W on July 04, 2013, 04:00:00 PM
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http://deadspin.com/36-cheap-american-beers-ranked-638820035
I don't care about the beers, but I did enjoy his comments. Example: 33. Rolling Rock. Smells like three fat guys in a two-man tent. ;D
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My son started with Keystone, because "you could drink a lot for cheap". Six years later, he's got his Cisterone certificate and is working at The Great Divide brewery. I think he's trying to leave Denver and head back to Chicago in the hopes of working for Three Floyds.
I did love the comments. I used to like MGD for a cheap, easy drinking beer. They should have included Rhinelander, which is the only beer I ever had that tasted like the can.
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You can do a lot worse than Grain Belt, and I do have a few Gansetts around the shack. Mostly fun reading.
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I had too many Coor's Lights yesterday. Hey, it's what was in the cooler behind the stage! Not feeling so great today. :-\
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... which is the only beer I ever had that tasted like the can.
ROFL... ;D
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Growing up in Washington we had the original Olympia (Oly, or Olies) and Rainer (Raindog) and yes, as a high scholl ruffian, trouble making, musician I drank quite a few! Grain Belt gets honorable mention, my Grandfather drank it, often while smoking a pipe ;D
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Some of the jokes are funny. But cheap American beer really is that bad. I haven't tried everything on that list, but I've had quite a number. Pabst is the only one on there that I had that I'd be able to tolerate. The Germans, Dutch, and Belgians seem to know how to make cheap beer but we don't. It's that simple. I don't know what their secret is, but obviously neither does anyone else.
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Nice commentary, and quote perceptive. I resonated to the comment about "...at a license-plates-on-the-wall kind of restaurant." Most of the places I ate while living in Texas fit that description. The ones that sell BBQ are pretty damn good.
I've always found PBR to be a decent, drinkable beer, and Coors is more than decent, it's just undistinguished. Never been a fan of Bud's taste.
I have never, nor will I ever, consider any beer with the words "Lite" or "Light" in the name, to be real beer. The best you can say about it is that someone's horse passed its test and they had to find something to do with the leftover sample.
But now that I'm living in beer snob heaven, I tend toward amber ales, porters and stouts, non of which are ever likely to show up in the "cheap" category.
The best thing I can say about most cheap beers is to paraphrase Victor McLaglen in "Fort Apache" when he said to the Colonel (Henry Fonda): "Well, 'tis better than no whiskey at all, sir."
The full and delightful exchange:
[in the storeroom at Meacham's trading post, the soldiers find boxes marked "Bibles" - Col. Thursday tells the men to open them - when they do, they find kegs of whiskey instead]
Sgt. Quincannon: Bibles, sir!
Lt. Col. Owen Thursday: [Col. Thursday hands a cup to Sgt. Mulcahy] Sergeant, pour me some scripture.
[Sgt. Mulcahy dips the cup into a keg and hands it to Col. Thursday. He takes a sip and spits it out]
Lt. Col. Owen Thursday: What's in this? Brimstone and sulfur?
Silas Meacham: You know what it is and I'm entitled to keep it.
Lt. Col. Owen Thursday: Your license may permit you to keep a medicinal store of whiskey, but this is no whiskey.
Silas Meacham: Perhaps you're not used to frontier whiskey.
Lt. Col. Owen Thursday: I don't know... I've tasted most everything.
[to Sgt. Mulcahy]
Lt. Col. Owen Thursday: Sergeant, you a judge of whiskey?
First Sgt. Festus Mulcahy: [looks around at the others] Uh, well, sir, some people say I am and some say I'm not, sir.
Lt. Col. Owen Thursday: [hands him the cup] Tell me what you make of this.
First Sgt. Festus Mulcahy: [takes a drink - makes a face at Meacham - takes another drink] Well, uh, it's better than no whiskey at all, sir.
:rimshot:
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Growing up in Washington we had the original Olympia (Oly, or Olies) and Rainer (Raindog) and yes, as a high scholl ruffian, trouble making, musician I drank quite a few!
Back in my young and dumb drinking days, when money was tight, I'd occasionally grab a 40 of Rainier.
That stuff use to seriously give me nightmares.
:o
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Rainier was famed for having TV commercials created from employee ideas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz-WuLQz_ns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5l6HWLD_28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocfToV3xzUY
And I always loved the Hamm's ber sport siwth the bear and forest animals...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVq7IsExEJA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZh66cyCCE8
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My son, the aspiring brewmaster, has everyone beat for beer snobbery. He and some of his friends are big on gypsy runs of limited beer. Because you still can't get truly fresh European beer here, what they do now is make "tours" for brewmeisters. Some guys from Germany/Holland/wherever will come over and do a tour of small breweries. They will make a limited run of their special brew, and then head out for the next city. My son has traveled as far as a few hundred miles just to get a sample of the freshest European beer this side of the Atlantic.
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Al's comments re the Colonel reminded me of an anecdote from my Burma research about my dad's commanding officer...
When they were behind the lines all supplies were sent in by "drops" from Dakotas and "specials" were usually identified with a coloured ribbon... this might be orders, or photo recon material, or "luxuries" ...
Well, his C/O Bill Henning used to get a "rum-drop" and these bottles were kept in his horse's saddlebags, and his groom/batman, an ex jockey (champion one, by all [turf] accounts) ensured they remained secure... once they had reached a "safe-harbour" for the night the call could be heard "Paddy...! Fetch my saddlebags...!" and everyone knew what it meant... ;D
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When I drank at gigs I'd always get Ziegen Bock.
(http://i40.tinypic.com/2dalpj8.jpg)
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Not a beer snob, and don't drink that much to begin with, but cheap beer is easy for even me to taste. I once spent four weeks in Biinghamton, NY for training and, being on per diem, we made out money last as long as we could - if I never, ever heard of Gennesee anything I would be fine >:( Tasted like fermented ditch water strained through moldy sweat socks........
As for PBR - it can't be that bad if Jerry Jeff sang about it ;)
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They should have included Rhinelander, which is the only beer I ever had that tasted like the can.
I checked to see if Rhinelander was still in business. They are, and now they're also offering craft beers. The mind boggles.
Anyway, here's my favorite old beer commercial from the former Jacob Schmidt Brewery in St. Paul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EO3-Jpu7is
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My favorite beer commercial. Even included on the Cream "Those Were the Days" 4 CD set.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z9tXP5IsRg
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That guy's insane, placing Coors as high as he does. Tonight I had both Schlitz (which is great) and National Bohemian and I would take both over Coors in a heartbeat.
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That guy's insane, placing Coors as high as he does. Tonight I had both Schlitz (which is great) and National Bohemian and I would take both over Coors in a heartbeat.
Back in the days of "generic" beer, Harry Carrey did a blind taste test. Of the six beers he sampled, he picked Schlitz as the generic beer more than once. Generic Beer was a canned version of Walters Special, which was the traditional single tap beer in bars around the Midwest.
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That guy's insane, placing Coors as high as he does. Tonight I had both Schlitz (which is great) and National Bohemian and I would take both over Coors in a heartbeat.
I agree with the Coors comment. Never liked any variety of their beer. I've heard people rave about how the beer tastes at the brewery tour. That would be fine if that same taste was available in the store. :rolleyes:
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Back in the days of "generic" beer, Harry Carrey did a blind taste test. Of the six beers he sampled, he picked Schlitz as the generic beer more than once. Generic Beer was a canned version of Walters Special, which was the traditional single tap beer in bars around the Midwest.
I never realized Harry was a beer connoisseur. :)
Walter's Beer was brewed in Eau Claire. The tap was passable, the bottles and cans weren't (IMHO).
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I checked to see if Rhinelander was still in business. They are, and now they're also offering craft beers. The mind boggles
Remember Shiner fifteen or twenty years ago? Absolute ditch water - IMO. Now, they make some excellent stuff.
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Shiner Bock is the real national beer of Texas, and deservedly. During the time I was there (1985-98) it was about all I drank, as there were no microbrews in the state. I haven't noticed any change and it's still my "everyday go-to" beer.
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Houston is swimming in micro breweries now days - some are gaining national distributorships as well. It sure isn't our "Superior" water supply :rolleyes: - so they must be doing something right.
You can probably throw a rock anywhere in Austin and hit at least one, if not two, small breweries.
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Hmmmm...... This thread is right next to the Toilet Warriors one............
Coincidence? I think not! ;)
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Love the comments ;D. My in laws are on a Bud Light Lime kick... "tastes like fruit loops soaked in thigh sweat" pretty much sums it up lol.
Went bar hopping 4th ave district in Tucson last night with my wife's cousins, and they got me to try a "manmosa" at Che's Lounge.... Miller High Life and orange juice :D :puke:.
Couple of my favorites lately are local to me - Phoenix Brewing Co.'s Fretzey Unfiltered Ale and Camelback IPA.
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I have noticed Bud has sucked for the last couple of years...it always used to be the only one I would order at bars where I play, cause even in a sketchy bar, the Bud would taste OK (in the old days).
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So many British beers... so little time... ;)
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Genny Cream Ale brewed right here in Rochester NY. Genny screamers we called 'em cause that's what your bung hole will be doing the next morning.
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Genny Cream Ale brewed right here in Rochester NY. Genny screamers we called 'em cause that's what your bung hole will be doing the next morning.
You drink any Big Flats beer up there in Rochester? They sell it at Walgreens here in Austin, it's about 3 bucks for a sixer and tastes sorta like Busch. It says on the can that it's brewed in Rochester, but I'd never seen or heard of it before and I lived in the NE the first 41 years of my life.
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Never heard of Big Flats. The Genny brewery brews lots of different beers though not just Genny any more.
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According to this (http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/big-flats-1901-premium-american-lager/135439/), Big Flats is brewed by Genesee.
According to this (http://theweek.com/article/index/211595/walgreens-50-cent-beer), the beer had "a skunk odor when opened." Sounds like what you would expect from a beer that sells for 50 cents a can at Walgreen's.
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You drink any Big Flats beer up there in Rochester? They sell it at Walgreens here in Austin, it's about 3 bucks for a sixer and tastes sorta like Busch. It says on the can that it's brewed in Rochester, but I'd never seen or heard of it before and I lived in the NE the first 41 years of my life.
Shiner Bock, sir. The national beer of Texas. Eschew imitators!
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According to this (http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/big-flats-1901-premium-american-lager/135439/), Big Flats is brewed by Genesee.
According to this (http://theweek.com/article/index/211595/walgreens-50-cent-beer), the beer had "a skunk odor when opened." Sounds like what you would expect from a beer that sells for 50 cents a can at Walgreen's.
I'd say that's fairly accurate. It's not good by any means, but I've had worse (like Meisterbrau).
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Shiner Bock, sir. The national beer of Texas. Eschew imitators!
I drank Shiner for a little while when I first moved down to Texas, but I don't much care for it any more. Besides, I thought Lone Star was the national beer of Texas.
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Earlier this summer I went to the liquor store to get something cheap to cook bratwurst in. (Gotta boil them in beer and cut-up onions before grilling 'em, you know) I asked the store guy for something appropriate (and if I got Miller or Bud my Dad would come over and drink it all when I was at work ;D ) He went in the back and got me "Boxer Beer" which I had never heard of before, and was $4. For a CASE. He also cautioned me several times not to drink it! :mrgreen: He said he got it for the summer music fests going on, because "Those damn kids'll drink ANYTHING, and I don't want to waste anything good on them."
My Dad did try it, and said, "Yep. Tastes like beer." Jeez, Dad, you lived in freakin' Germany for years, for god's sake, why do you drink this piss water? "It's just beer, son, you're not supposed to ENJOY it." He aslo said that all the guys he worked with in Germany drank Czech beer when they wanted "cheap stuff", and it was the best stuff he had over there. Of course you couldn't get it here, and it'd probably be really old by the time it got here anyway.
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I drank Shiner for a little while when I first moved down to Texas, but I don't much care for it any more. Besides, I thought Lone Star was the national beer of Texas.
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My daughters were both born in Texas but have grown up in Fort Collins, in the Napa Valley of beer. They made a holiday run together down to San Antonio to stay for a few days and picked up some Lone Star, thinking it was "the national beer of Texas". They determined in the first few sips that it was pretty bad. They then took my advice and stuck with Shiner Bock or margaritas for the rest of their stay.
"It's just beer, son, you're not supposed to ENJOY it."
All the citizens here would be taken aback to hear that. Beer and Colorado State University are the local industries, and if it's not great beer, it's not worth drinking.
Except for the college students who are focused on being able to drink beer all evening (or all day) and still being able to walk - so they drink one of those "lite" brews, which are little more than colored water.
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My daughters were both born in Texas but have grown up in Fort Collins, in the Napa Valley of beer. They made a holiday run together down to San Antonio to stay for a few days and picked up some Lone Star, thinking it was "the national beer of Texas". They determined in the first few sips that it was pretty bad. They then took my advice and stuck with Shiner Bock or margaritas for the rest of their stay.
Yeah, Lone Star is definitely not good, but it is cheap in the bars. It's like the PBR of Texas.
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Yeah, Lone Star is definitely not good, but it is cheap in the bars. It's like the PBR of Texas.
Pabst has owned the Lone Star brand for years.