Help! I think I'm a complex-aholic!

You prefer to just eat turds?...

 

No I avoid PBR, thanks.

 

This doesn't sound like a problem to me at all; if you want more complexity, there's nothing wrong with that, I would think that going for more Coors Lite would be a bigger problem.

 

Don't forget where u came from. Remember ur roots!! Mine were college with Keystone baby!

 

Is this Shooter McGavin?

 

I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!
You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
...No..

 

Exactly what I was thinking.!!

 

I would highly disagree with this statement in general. Ever had Foie gras or mexican candy? I would argue that there are more additives in our food, but flavor wise I actually think American food is bland and tasteless in comparison to many other cultures. And that's ok, because I detest bland food. American beer until recently was in fact on average, VERY bland. The craft boom seemed to change that for the better, but if you ask me, in many regards, the ideas were actually borne from the love of foreign beer.

 

pretty much just that.

 

If you can smell a horse taking a healthy shit, that's all the complexity you need.

 

That's why I live on a farm, I just drink miller ice and smell/lick them sought after blankets....

 

To me "simple" beer does equate "bland" beer.

I also have started to enjoy stronger flavoured beers more often (RIS, barrel aged & strong Belgians in particular) but I still regularly enjoy simpler styles such as a Pislner , Pale Ale, Porter or Stout.

 

No but American Adjunct lagers which dominate the macro market IMO are bland beers! When you consider light beer is not brewed that way, and is american adjunct lager cut with more water, it speaks volumes. I am by no way defacing traditional style lagers or pilsners. I personally do not consider pale ales, porters or stouts, to even be simple beers!

 

brb....

 

I think you're somewhat missing the point of what he's saying. Most americans equate HFCS and salt with flavorful. An appreciator of food will like something like a delicate salad over pre-made salty french fries, but to the "average american" the salad is boring and the salt is "flavorful"

He's saying the same thing goes for the american beer palate, which I agree with to some extent, though on the flip side many of those huge beers also offer serious complexity. As complex as a sour ale barrel-aged over fruit, coffee and cocoa nibs, dry hopped and bottle conditioned with maple syrup and brettanomyces? Maybe not. But maybe?

 

Our food is the sweetest because the AG companies make shitloads of corn syrup, and own/put it in everything.

 

You won't get an argument from me that the most of the mass produced North American lagers are quite bland. I found them bland before discovering craft beer. I used to not like beer because of that stuff.

 

EVER WONDER WHY THE HIGHEST SELLING BEERS ARE FULL OF CORN!??!!??!?!!?

 

And this is scary because most corn is GMO.

 

And also that the owners of the GMo patents sue the shit out of farmers for all of their land if ANY of their plants are found on the property... even ones blown onto the property by the wind.... The other really nice part is that the gmo plants are modified to resist the chemicals (literally agent orange) that the corn companies also make and sell, so once you use the modified plants and the chemicals once, nothing else will grow on the land... except the modified plants. MAN, GIMME A BUD LIGHT.