I'm sorry buddy, but you're just way off here. The extended fermentation isn't what we're talking about. High alcohol beers tend to mature and blend off the bitter flavors as time goes by for about a year or so. World Wide Stout, which comes in around 15%, from last year tastes different now then it did then, and different from this years batch.

I'm actually going to a party the day after a wedding where a bunch of beer nerds get together to bury a selection of beers 3ft deep in a friend's backyard and drink what we buried last year. I'll have to leave a wedding freakishly early to do so, but it's worth it.

I believe the dude who worked in a brewery in Germany.

The one beer to have when you're having more than one.

I'm with the Cap'n. But I can't touch Bud.

Oh, I knew that. I just think "Champagne of Beers" isn't as impressive as a paragraph that doesn't mean a damn thing.

High Life or PBR, pretty equally. Though lately my strategy has been to only buy a couple more expensive, higher alcohol content, beers (lately big on Terrapin Coffee Oatmeal Stout- 8.9% and New Stock Ale- 13.25%), which do the job just fine and taste better and end up costing me the same overall as drinking 6 shitty beers.

I'll make sure you don't want to drink by the time you get there.

Another for Miller High Life in glass and Rolling Rock.

I also drink a fair amount of Miller High Life.

Others: Rolling Rock, Corona (bite me, holmes), Iron City, Blatz (the only "cheap-o, irony-friendly" beer I'll touch; grandfather worked sales for Blatz for thirty years & change).

Anybody ever drink Cook's? I remember they used to have a sign for it at Kroger: Cooks--Best Beer In Its Price Class. Only Beer In Its Price Class.

It was like 8 bucks a CASE and nearly undrnkable.


Shout out to Kokanee; drank a million of those on trips to BC.

I don't, but I'd love to know what it is, since that is my neck of the woods.
The great thing about Central PA is there are quite a few good microbreweries around here.

As far as cheap beer, I won't go below a Yuengling. I'll drink cheaper quality beer (your buds, millers, whatevers)... but only if I'm not paying. I'd rather pay more money for a quality micro.

I don't drink beer all that much anymore but in the day...

Utica Club
Carling Black Label

Nowadays if I have one . . . usually a Miller Lite or a Bud

I remember a 4 pack of Haffenreffer slaying me in college a few times.

and I'm never really happy about this when it happens.

high life.

can't stand pbr.

fun experiment: put a lime in a budweiser and tell me if you can tell the difference from a corona.

Alright, I'm with you here if you're talking about double-digit alcohol contents, because the extra 'hol effectively fends off bacteria much, much longer (like wine, liquor, etc).

BUT-

Are you still attempting to push the orignial point that Budweiser somehow fits into that category? I know you aren't.


edit: I just realized you'll be on the crapper reading this on your blackberry. That's kinda funny.

I just realized I have a visual...



Neuroboy and I. And for the record I put him up to it. "Trust me dude, it's gonna be a long night... you WANT a pacer beer or three."

oh that's exactly where I am, and no, I was never trying to challenge the idea of aging something like bud or even a good spaten. I just objected to the contention that it's NEVER a good idea.

[plop]

(tips cap)

My preference used to be Omaha's own Falstaff, but I also like Schmidt, PBR, Old Style and Hamm's. I will drink Olympia Schlitz and Schaeffer as well. Lone Star, Milwaukee's Best and Natural are a bit too nasty or watery for me.

They sell Stag anywhere else?

(low whistle)

nope.

The best thing about actually liking High Life is the fact that the local convenience store has screwed up their UPC input and I've been buying twelve-packs of what Neuro and Cap'n are holding in the pic above for $4.99 for months.