Am I what I always hated?

I am a vegetable eater, but I'll say no to Brussels sprouts from anyone

 

It's just a nice gesture. I don't see any problem with it. Is it better to ask what everyone wants? Sure. But it's among friends...I'd just take it down.

 

*oh gawd*

 

Yes, it's a nice gesture, but so is letting everyone order what he/she wants, rather than you deciding. I'm buying...you're all drinking Icehouse!!! I would never order a round of Stone IPAs for my buddies because I know half would say it tastes like sh*t, but I love it.

 

Because a friend was nice enough to purchase one for you while choosing to to spend time with you because they like you.

 

I've always been what I've always hated.

 

This is why I drink alone down in the basement.

 

Budweiser is available through the monopoly and as a 3.5% version in grocery stores, Bud Light was available via the on-premise (monopoly) market some years ago but it never found its place. In the early 2000s they even sold Michelob over here (which I would have liked to have tried but I was too young to know about it).

 

Nor would I, but not everyone does things like that. I have friends that will just order up a pitcher of bud, or what have you, for the table. I appreciate the gesture and I'll have a glass. I don't see the need to crate a spectacle where there was none.

 

You could've just drank it, it isn't that horrendous.

 

Suck it down and order the next round. Agreed.

 

Or, if they choose what you drink for one round, drink it and smile, then buy everyone else a stout, watch them cringe, and call them f*cking snobs

 

you know I still like michelob, and I always forget that. they used to have a mic dark....long time ago.

 

Not to sound too bullish but drink the effing beer.

You're willing to drink PBR and Busch but you turned your nose up at a free Miller Lite? Advocacy or not, short of you being allergic to Miller Lite you were a jerk in my opinion. That person went out of their way to include you in a social tradition of camaraderie and friendship and you shit on it.

Drink the beer, thank the friend, and order him/her a craft the next round.

 

Eh, it's one beer. And it's free. Drink it objectively and add another to your "hads". Then order a better beer to get that taste out of your mouth. Oh, wait...

 

no, just a hipster

but in all seriousness: 1) its ridiculous that your friend made a big deal out of it, and 2) you're not a snob, you're a person who happens to not like what was being offered (the gasps!).

If someone decided to buy a round of entree's, and it happened to be a round of Dinuguan, I would turn it down because i don't like the texture, and I simply just don't like the flavor. If someone called me a food snob because of it, I'd politely tell them to f off, and I would order myself the pancit (assuming im at a filipino restuarant, and to give my rant continuity).

 

Yeah I do have to agree with some of the others. I missed the PBR/Schlitz/Busch part in the OP when I first responded. If someone drinks those, I would of thought they could choke down a Miller Lite.

I don't order BMC because they're tasteless and have very little to offer, not because they're revolting.

 

From what I've read about Michelob it seems as though the modern version, at the very least, is a decent pale lager. All malt and an IBU of 18. Nothing extra ordinary or craft like perhaps, but it still sounds like a decent lager beer, especially since Anheuser Busch are obviously able to brew lager beers without off-notes (Budweiser). So I'd very much like to taste Michelob Original. I don't think American macro breweries don't know how to brew, they just brew the majority of their beer to suit a taste in beer which favors light tasting beers, whilst adhering to standards of brewing which eliminates off-flavors.

This is a theory of mine but I think American macro breweries adhering to German rather than Bohemian brewing standards are able to produce very clean tasting beers, where they don't accept diacetyl or esters as acceptable flavor components due to their German heritage.