Light Beer
Posted on: May 9, 2008 - 11:02am
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Light Beer
Light beer is seriously an abomination before the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Regular mass market beer (Bud, Miller, Coors) already sucks ass and is like making love in a canoe (fucking close to water) and they want to dilute it even more? If someone wants it like that how hard would it be to pour in a glass and add a little water (beer should always be drank from a glass)?
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Diluted alcohol is such a terrible invention only Americans could have thought of it.May breweries forgive you.
Real men(or women) drink from the bottle.Drinking from a can is always the worst.
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
Life is good, and people who believe in afterlife fail to understand this.- Mindcore
Light Beer is more pointless than diet soda. if you want to be healthy, save a step and just don't drink the stuff period.
" Why does God always got such wacky shit to say? . . . When was the last time you heard somebody say 'look God told me to get a muffin and a cup tea and cool out man'?" - Dov Davidoff
Women drink Wine coolers and Mike's Hard Cock . . err Lemonade . . .
" Why does God always got such wacky shit to say? . . . When was the last time you heard somebody say 'look God told me to get a muffin and a cup tea and cool out man'?" - Dov Davidoff
Not the ones I know.I hang with the hardcore chicks..
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
Life is good, and people who believe in afterlife fail to understand this.- Mindcore
Actually there is a good point of diet soda - diabetics and people wanting to lose weight.
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So whose Hard . . . . . Lemonade do they drink?
" Why does God always got such wacky shit to say? . . . When was the last time you heard somebody say 'look God told me to get a muffin and a cup tea and cool out man'?" - Dov Davidoff
A diabetic who wants to drink soda is like someone who is lactose intolerant wanting to drink milk.
Again, save a step and don't drink soda. Drink fruit smoothies or water. Besides, the fake sugar is actually worse for you than the real sugar so in both cases, it is simply better to just not drink soda if the point is to be healthier. If they don't care about being healthy then who gives a shit if its diet or not?
" Why does God always got such wacky shit to say? . . . When was the last time you heard somebody say 'look God told me to get a muffin and a cup tea and cool out man'?" - Dov Davidoff
Light beer can also refer to low-alcohol beer. I can understand why you might want to be able to drink more beer without getting smashed, but I can't understand why you'd want to drink more terrible beer.
"A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven." -- former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien
Say what you will about Canada... they make GREAT beer.
LC >;-}>
When Miller introduced Miller Lite, several beer companies had already tried and failed. Miller was doing market research to try to find out why, and also to figure out what gimmick they needed. One of the researchers went to this po-dunk, out of the way place in the Midwest because this one bar was selling double the amount of any other bar its size.
The previous ad campaigns had dealt with watching your figure. They promised that you could drink light beer and not have to worry about a beer gut. They thought that women would be a good target, since women's consumption of beer had been rising for 20 years. Naturally, they thought, you should target their desire to be attractive.
Turns out, they were wrong. When the researcher got to the bar, it was filled with big burly construction worker types with beer guts. Puzzled, the researcher asked these guys, who obviously didn't mind putting a few quarter pounders down over lunch, why they were drinking light beer. They said, "Well, it's simple. With regular beer, you drink four or five, and you're bloated and full. No matter how much you'd like to stay out, it's just not fun anymore. With this light beer, we can drink more. That means we don't have to go home to our wives until later."
Thus, "Less Filling, Tastes Great" was born. Remember how they had all the big football player guys in those commercials? That was their audience.. not women.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- H. G. Wells
rAmen to that.
Big Rock Brewery from Calgary makes a kick-ass porter (note to visiting Americans: it's at 8.5%, so drinking three of them is the equivalent ethanol intake of about eight American beers). Actually Big Rock's stuff is all pretty good.
Although single malt is always a good night, too.
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I'm diabetic and drink probably close to a gallon of diet soda a day - that much real sugar - including that in a fruit smoothie which would also be a pain in the ass to make all the time (I live in the middle of nowhere) would probably kill me. And water sucks. Drinking a glass of water is like drinking a glass of nothing.
Science works whether you believe in it or not.
Diet Coke conspiracy or no, that's way too much soda. I gave up soda almost completely about ten years ago, and the health benefits have been tangible. I've also had issues with crappy water. I find that making strong iced tea helps a lot to mask the flavor of bad water. (Don't kid yourself about the quality of water in bottles, by the way.) If you don't sweeten your tea, you're drinking a LOT healthier.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- H. G. Wells
Bah. Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine is also kickass, at 9.6%.
My wife prefers porters. Great Lakes Brewery here in Cleveland makes the Edmond Fitzgerald Porter, which is very nice. It's almost an imperial stout. My favorite is their Nosferatu Red, though.
I have a clone brew going at home right now. I'm doing up an imitation Mac & Jacks, which is out of Redmond, WA. It's the only good thing to come of of Redmond, near as I can tell. It is also very good.
So, though Canadians make some decent beer, the US has its share of damned good beer, too. Just stay away from Miller & Coors and especially Budweiser, the Microsoft of beers.
Another scotch drinker! Fantastic.
What's your favorite scotch?
Yep. Just bought a case of it Saturday.
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Bleh. I just don't like water period - it's bland. And unsweetened tea would make me vomit.
Science works whether you believe in it or not.
heh..
Well, what I did was gradually reduce the amount of sugar I put into my tea. I went from almost two cups per pitcher down to a half a cup, in 1/4 cup increments, giving myself a month or so to get used to each step. From half a cup, it was easy to go to unsweet.
Now, I can't drink sweet tea. It almost turns my stomach.
Bottom line is, if you're concerned about all those chemicals you're taking in, there are alternatives. If not, it's definitely not my place to tell you any different. It's your body.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- H. G. Wells
Agreed on the can, not on the bottle. I used to be with you on that, then spoke w/ an Eastern European about how much flavor is opened up by pouring into a glass or ceramic. Think wine. Open it up, pour it out to open flavor. Same w/ beer. Try it!
EDUCATION! EDUCATION! EDUCATION!
Canned beer sucks - hate the metallic taste it gets. Good beer generally isn't available in cans anyway.
Science works whether you believe in it or not.
I thought the whole point to drinking beer is to get smashed. I have yet to hear a drinking story which goes like "Yeah, my friends and I had a few beers but stopped ourselves before getting hammered and then all got home safely without incident." Besides, isn't being proud of putting a bunch of light beers in you like being proud of beating up a baby (i.e. its so easy its pointless)?
" Why does God always got such wacky shit to say? . . . When was the last time you heard somebody say 'look God told me to get a muffin and a cup tea and cool out man'?" - Dov Davidoff
The fruit smoothies was in reference to people wanting to be healthy nto necessarily diabetics. And isnt a gallon of soda a day, regardless if its diet or no diet, just bad for you? I don't even drink that much soda a day.
" Why does God always got such wacky shit to say? . . . When was the last time you heard somebody say 'look God told me to get a muffin and a cup tea and cool out man'?" - Dov Davidoff
<beer nerditry>I'm talking purely stuff sold as "beer" which in the states, IIRC, can't contain more than 3.2% alcohol.</beer nerditry>
I've actually never had barleywine anything, but my brother raves about some of the stuff he's had so I'll see what I can find and give it a whirl.
Gotta love drinks named after disasters. "I'll have a pint of Podunk Brewing Mine Collapse, please."
We've got the Irish Car Bomb, so how long until someone makes a Twin Towers Lager or Branch Davidian Chardonnay?
I never meant to impugn the beermaking abilities of Americans; I was just pointing out that what is sold as "beer" south of the 49th is quite a bit weaker than its northern counterparts. Also not claiming that Canadians CAN'T make bad beer (I'm looking at you, Labatt).
Love me some Highland Park 10yr.
I also have a serious case of like for Aberlour, Macallan, Auchentoshan, Glendronach, Caol Ila...come to think of it, there aren't many single malts I've tried and HAVEN'T liked. Some have definite "times" for drinking (Laphroaig on a blustery winter night, in front of a fire), but I'm having a hard time thinking of one I thought wasn't fit to drink.
I'm also a wine, gin, dark rum, and bourbon fan, listed in order of experience base.
Ahh, booze; is there anything you can't do?
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Not true. Major beer geek here - I even made my own for a while. In some states that's true - most liquor laws here vary widely state to state - in PA grocery stores can't sell any alcohol - have to buy liquor and wine (other than in restaurants/bars where you drink it on premises) from stores owned by the state (wine you can buy at the winery that makes it) Beer you can either get by the 6 pack in a bar or case of 24 from the distributor. They sell Brooklyn Monster Ale (11% ABV) with "beer" on the case/label here.
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Yep. In Georgia, I think it's 14%
(That's recent, though. Used to be 5.1%)
That's a damn fine question. I'm guessing the Branch Davidian exists somewhere. Twin Towers... gonna be a tough sell.
American microbrews have really picked up the slack left by a lot of the major brewers. I'm quite fond of Hebrew beer. The Messiah Bold is very good, as is the Jewbilation. Also worth trying is the Sweetwater IPA. (Sweetwater is right down the road from me, so their stuff is everywhere around here.)
Hell, as cheap ass beer goes, it's hard for me to find better than Pennsylvania's finest.. Yuengling. About as cheap as PBR, and much more flavor.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- H. G. Wells
Yuengling is good for something cheap - the brewery is only about 40 miles away from me - up until a few years ago you couldn't get it outside Eastern PA - though I've heard it isn't cheap further away. It's about $18 a case here now - was about $14 about a year ago until beer prices shot way up. Reading beer is another decent cheap one, but don't know how far away you can get it. There are real microbrews in PA -Victory and Stoudts are about the best. Victory makes one called Blithering Idiot that is over 11% alcohol. And an 8% known as Hop Wallop IPA (VERY bitter and hoppy.) Strongest beer I ever made was a Barleywine I called "Old Cutthroat" whcih was super hoppy and 10.5% Alcohol by Volume (You use a hydrometer before and after fermentation to determine alcohol level.)
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The Ceo of Molsen's said "I noticed that you gentilmen were not drinking beer so I thought I wouldn't bothewer either."
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After reading the recipes being swapped here making me kind of thirsty. I was just thinking of my oldest daughter living in Mississippi in what is called a dry county. I never knew such a thing even existed. My second daughter was in Florida where she says liquor is sold 24/7. I guess the senior citizens think they might not live till tomorrow, so they want their alcohol NOW! My youngest daughter, what a sweetheart has finally learned what it means to not drink the last beer in the frig and by all means buy more. BTW I loved the joke at the end.
Yeah, the very idea of a dry county is idiotic and ought to be illegal. I'm surprised it doesn't anger the Flying Spaghetti Monster enough to make it rain marinara sauce there. That "In Heaven there ain't no beer" song is another reason that even if Chrstianity were true I'd rather go to Hell. The Flying Spaghetti Monster would probably consider that song either blasphemy or heresy as the Pastafarian version of Heaven includes a beer volcano.
Speaking of which, the Weyerbacher brewery (also in PA) makes an Imperial Stout called "Heresy!" They also make a raspberry Imperial Stout called "Old Heathen" and another very strong beer known as "Blasphemy." Wonder if the owners are atheists?
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Are we ALL , (reading this), spoiled enough yet ? Nope, not even close .... Drop "Beer Bombs" to the needy with peanuts ..... instead of explosions .....