Needed: List of Fake Craft Brews

Seems pretty black and white to you, huh? I'm curious how many products you have purchased and use daily that would be subject to your narrow line of thinking.

 

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I'm waiting for the InBev/**** comparisons.

 

I would hope they would be in business to make money.
If they aren't, they are pretty foolish for sssspending all that time and money and taking such a big risk.
I don't believe that making money is evil. I go to work everyday to make money.
I have a duty to my family and my employees to make money.
Thay duty doesn't trump my responsibility to act morally.

 

Seriously though, who WOULDN'T want to try Taliban Severed Head Stout. Just to say you did.

 

In México, Grupo Modelo has launched a new brand called Ideal with two pseudo craft beers

 

Look a little further at the Taliban argument. I can't speak for SammyJax, but I think he's trying to show that everyone, even those who are so passionate that it's the taste of the beer in the bottle that matters more than anything else, have their limits on what they will tolerate from a brewery. I have drawn similar comparisons, not because I think aggresive marketing means you are the Taliban (as someone suggested above) but to show that we all have our limits.

 

Dude, its just beer, You're not doing anything charitable, life saving, or world changing. You're buying a fucking 6 pack. Relax.

 

Very Funny

 

Craft breweries don't operate morally either. For example, to get a single 4 pack of Silva Stout, Green Flash wants $60 to go to a stupid event with worthless food I don't want. Should I boycott them? At least I can buy a 6 pack of Bud Lite Platinum without attending an event.

 

Too late, this thread has been hijacked into "Beer morality"

 

It's not black and white, it's complex. As I mentioned earlier in this thread: There is much to be said about the proces of learning of business practices, the time involved, and the response. For example, I bought an Apple lap top four years ago. I did not know of any negative business practices then. I am becoming more aware of them now, although I have not researched it throughly myself yet. When I do, and if it seems like indeed their behavior does not fit with my value system, while I'd like to say I am going to throw my lap top out the window and buy a new one, I don't have the money for that. This is a complex issue and it is a constant struggle. I truly do try my very best to not support business that do things that I think to be wrong. I know I am far from perfect and I know I still have many adjustments to make. But this is a process that I believe there is a lot of value to. It shouldn't be simply overlooked or disregarded.

 

What if your life is based on doing charitable and world changing things? Wouldn't it make sense that you would look at your beer purchasing through that lens?

 

More power to you, I guess

 

Wait - now you're changing the world by not buying BCBS?

 

It is black and white that there is a moral component.
Most of the time the moral issue is some shade of gray.

I have to buy gasoline. It is pretty hard to do that without supporting some corporation that is pretty horrible.
However, I need to get to drive to work etc.

I will tell you that I think about what I am purchasing and where I am purchasing it every day.

 

But it's not. So I put that energy into more useful things, instead of what beer I'm buying.

 

Hardly. But it's part of a larger pattern of behaviors.

 

Ha ha, yeah, but mine is about that. So you see, that's why I look at it through that lens.

 

You sound like a load of fun