Am I what I always hated?

No, as long as you didn't give him a hard time saying that his taste in beer sucks! Politely refusing is good in my book, i'd rather drink something I enjoy, my sole purpose is not to get drunk.

 

Busch but not Miller? I understand the others because you want to portray some sort of hipster image, but Busch?

 

You are not a snob, you are just a beer drinker that doesn't like Miller Lite (I don't like Miller Lite).

I would have told your friend that you do enjoy Yuengling Porter and I would have asked why he didn't buy me that instead.

Drink what you like and don't criticize others who like beers like Miller Lite.

Cheers!

 

People who label other people that don't enjoy the same things as them as snobs, in my experience, are assholes.

So the good news is that you're not a snob, but the bad news is that you used to be an asshole.

 

Not if you drink Schmidtt (really not bad beer for an AAL) and Busch especially. Would have maybe been an act of friendliness to accept though, and hey! you could have reciprocated by buying the next round and making it the porter! But in general terms, if doesn't matter what you like, be it yuengling or bud light, if it's the same price as what you don't like, then drink what you like! But when someone buys a round, it's generally accepted as common courtesy to just accept it, I think.

 

Say that you prefer ales instead of lagers, or something mildly disarming like that.

 

I wouldn't say you're a snob. I'd probably have just slid the Miller Lite to someone who actually drinks it. Though it's not exactly an offensive beverage since it practically tastes like water, if you don't like it, don't drink it. If you had bought a round of stouts I'm sure he would have cried about how badly it tasted like shit, so I wouldn't worry about it.

 

So someone buys you something and your instinct is to ask why they didn't buy you something else?

 

I don't like Miller Lite, but I'd drink it if someone bought it for me. It's hardly difficult to put down a cold pint of it fairly quickly.

 

Or say that you prefer to support businesses that are more likely to spend their money locally and less likely to invest their money overseas. Then watch everyone's head explode.

 

Personally, if I'm doing rounds with a bunch of mates, and someone gets in a round of something I'm not a fan of, I'm still going to drink it, because I'm at the pub with some friends, not doing a tasting. But I don't think that not drinking it makes you a snob.

 

Did he really get mad? I had this discussion recently are they really your long time good friends? If so they must not know your beer tastes yet? education. also there is noting wrong with being a snob. its just their opinion anyway.

 

My friends know that I am not a Miller Lite fan. In all probability they would never, ever just 'select' a beer like Miller Lite for me. If they did I would refuse to drink it and I would indeed question their judgement.

I should caveat that my friends also drink tons of my homebrewed beers so they know viscerally that Miller Lite does not 'work' with me.

I suppose we all have our own unique circle of friends.

Cheers!

 

If you don't like it you don't like it, though if you enjoy other American adjunct lagers, I wonder what you find so repellant about a light beer. AALs are mild tasting by default, granted I've only had Coors Light (along with Budweiser, MGD and Pabst as well as Schlitz 60s Formula). What I don't like about Coors Light is the lack of taste, but there's nothing about the taste that I wont find in Budweiser or MGD or Pabst. There's nothing foul about it, it's just light tasting (and a waste of money). If I lived in the US I could probably drink most of the AALs sold over there, I have yet to taste an American lager beer with an off-taste, the problem with the common American lager is more to do with the flavor intensity than the taste itself. The closest I've come to feeling unthankful for a beer is when one of my friends orders Newcastle Brown Ale, I find it to be too sweet for my taste, but the taste isn't overwhelming to where I can't drink it without much problem. Light tasting beers prove less of a problem for me than more intensely flavored beers, which have a flavor that I don't enjoy, say a sugary note or a weird estery/yeast note or the like.

I do find it weird though that a light beer could taste bad or off, considering how much taste that they intentionally remove from the beer to make it a light beer. Though I will concede to being a foreigner, and not having tried Bud or Miller Lite.

 

scumbag move to turn down a free beer.

it's not like the guy offered you shit on a stick. he bought you a beer. drink the fucking thing and move on. one Miller Lite isn't going to ruin your night, it's not going to be so much beer that you can't have another and you won't look like such an ungrateful prick.

for fuck sake people on this site take "beer advocacy" much too far.

yes, you have become what you hate.

 

really I would have though bud was every where in Europe. Of course I never gone north. BTW you NOT missing anything, but that good old bud Wang of beechwood and rice. lol

 

It this scenario (a friend buying a round) I'd just drink it. I'd buy the next round and ask what everyone wanted.

 

Your friend sounds like an asshole.

 

I think the problem is he ordered for everyone. When I buy rounds, I just let everyone make their own drink decision.