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> I don't think you've had very good beers.
Oh, I have indeed had very good beers, and I don't think Bud is one of them. I'm just sayin', it's a much better beer than people give it credit for. I don't even know what Natural Ice is, but Bud is a cut above MGD, PBR, Milwaukee's Best, etc. although it's often lumped into that category. Personally I think it's better than Coor's too, but I can see how people might have a different opinion on that.
Beers I think are very good and would certainly recommend include Old Speckled Hen, Old Peculier, and any of Sam Smith's, especially the Nut Brown Ale.
Edit: Old Peculier is not Peculiar.
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A-B has better beers than Budweiser, Michelob or Michelob Dark I have usually found to be pretty good. Used to be able to get their Busch Bavarian back in the '70's and '80's, but have not seen it in years. But my preferred beer these days is Pete's Wicked Ale or several of the Sam Adams brews.
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[quote tenders]> I don't think you've had very good beers.
Oh, I have indeed had very good beers, and I don't think Bud is one of them. I'm just sayin', it's a much better beer than people give it credit for. I don't even know what Natural Ice is, but Bud is a cut above MGD, PBR, Milwaukee's Best, etc. although it's often lumped into that category. Personally I think it's better than Coor's too, but I can see how people might have a different opinion on that.
Ok, it may be a cut above those crappy beers, but that doesn't mean it's any better than what people give it credit for. It's somewhat like saying poodle crap for dinner is much better than people give it credit for. Poodle crap is a cut above great dane crap, pug crap, english cocker crap, etc.
That whole category deserves all the discredit it gets.
One of my personal favs was Bitburger, less than 10 days old. I have yet to meet an American bartender who knows how to properly poor a pilsner.
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Bitburger, I had that when I was in Germany.
My brother was stationed right near Bitburg.
I saw these stickers everywhere!
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> I don't think you've had very good beers.
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> It's somewhat like saying poodle crap for dinner is much better than people
> give it credit for. Poodle crap is a cut above great dane crap, pug crap, english
> cocker crap, etc.
Hilarious! Snobbish, perhaps, but hilarious! I forsee winedrinking in your future. Because I don't think you've had very good dog crap. A chianti, a few fava beans, and a pug turd, now, them's good eats.
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[quote tenders]> I don't think you've had very good beers.
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> It's somewhat like saying poodle crap for dinner is much better than people
> give it credit for. Poodle crap is a cut above great dane crap, pug crap, english
> cocker crap, etc.
Hilarious! Snobbish, perhaps, but hilarious! I forsee winedrinking in your future. Because I don't think you've had very good dog crap. A chianti, a few fava beans, and a pug turd, now, them's good eats.
I worked at a winery for a bit. I mainly don't drink wine because of its absurd cost. When I can buy the stuff locally in Spain, France, Germany... for 1/100th the cost it sells for here, it's just ridiculous.
I don't drink alcohol anymore. I've now become a non-alcoholic beer snob.
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Apples and oranges. I don't like rice beers (to me bud and tsing tao taste the same), but coors light has it's place. I can't drink more than 3 or 4 good beers. Coors light...more. Plus, it's nice not to eat your beer all the time, if you know what I mean. Coors light is like the angel food cake of beers. Sometimes it's what works. And beer snobbery is gay. kj.
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>>Beers I think are very good and would certainly recommend include Old Speckled Hen, Old Peculier,
Have you found that in the states? I've only seen it in england. Cask ales don't travel well.
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I've found Old Speckled Hen and Old Peculier at the Whole Foods in Cambridge, MA.
OSH is sold regularly at DiCiccio's grocery in Scarsdale, NY (around the corner from one of the world's best wine stores, Zachy's).
Sam Smith's is hit or miss to my surprise, but usually hit, in the kiosk about six feet north of Hot-N-Krusty in Grand Central Terminal, and I sometimes stumble on it in the Korean grocery stores in midtown Manhattan.
Are any of these really cask ales? I didn't think so--at least not under the definition of "cask ale" that I had heard of, though never tasted.
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