Hating one adjunct lager, but loving another?

While I will agree that the beer is subpar in quality, it would be like a music lover listening to two people discuss why N'Sync is better than the Backstreet Boys and vica-versa. Doesn't make sense.

Or, in reverse, a BMC drinker would probably say that all IPA's taste the same to them.

 

I think they actually can taste the difference between the junk lagers. Since they know only a few beers, they can pickup on the slight differences. They know them well because that's all they drink.

 

I've observed a bar serve the wrong ones to restaurant patrons on purpose because one of them was temporarily out and the servers were tired of dealing with angry customers who never once noticed the difference and complained.

It has nothing to do with taste.

It is entirely the advertising, the image, the branding, and how someone pathetically ties their identity to one of those beers.

 

I was that guy I was a bud man. I suppose its just about what your group drinks when your young. All of my friends were bud guys, but my cousin and his friends in the next town over were coors guys. We had argued over witch beer was better(little did we know they both sucked)It took me many years to see the light and come to craft but when I got here i hit the ground running!

 

There was a time in my life, due to mass exposure, that I could have picked out Old Milwaukee out of any number of AALs you threw at me. I have a friend who can pick out Bud Light blind, every single time. There are taste differences among these beers and some people know their brand.

That said, the majority of people cannot dicern taste and tie themselves to these brands because of other more shallow reasons.

I do laugh a little at the fact that many beer geeks think that all AALs taste exactly the same but then tell you that they can taste a 1 week difference in IPA bottling time.

 

At Prohibition in Philadelphia during last year's Beer Week, they did a contest involving a blind tasting of 6 terrible beers: Natural Ice, the BMC lights, and a few malt liquors too, I think. If you could correctly identify all 6, I think you won a bottle of Founders KBS or something similar. Nobody got all 6, but my friend who is a bartender there said several people got 5 out of 6.

 

I seriously thought this thread was going to be about coffee vs mulberries until I got to this:

It's like I mentally blocked out the word lager from the title.

 

I find it hard to convert many BMC drinkers to craft drinkers because in their mind all craft beers taste like an IPA. For BMC drinkers I feel it is mostly brand loyalty. Some of the differences, no matter how small, you learn to like. I was a BMC drinker before I discovered the heavenly nectar that is craft beer. I know what its like to love bud light and hate Coors light, Coors tasted like water and BL was full of flavor... Just like everything else you buy, you buy it because you like it better than the other.

 

My Grandpa has told me for years that Budweiser is the worst beer on earth. He only drinks Miller Lite now and before that he drank only Old Style for a decade or so. Finally a while back I gave him a blind taste test with Miller Lite, Coors Lights, Bud Light, and a few others. He picked Bud Light as the best, then told me "to hell with that" and went back to his Miller Lite.

I have a buddy who says the exact same thing. Miller Lite is his favorite beer and he claims that Bud Light is the worst beer in the world. Have yet to give him the taste test.

Overall I would say that with the adjunct lagers is 90% brand loyalty and 10% taste preference. As they all do taste slightly different but only very slightly.

 

As beer drinkers, we've all got our prejudices...

 

its all about the Hamms

 

I like coors. not a huge fan of bud. Don't like miller. I must have a superior palate.

 

I used to only buy natural light because I never tasted a difference and natty light was the cheapest.

 

Wait, you couldn't only get 5 if you had a list of the brands and there were no duplicates. If you got one wrong then you'd have to get two wrong. Of course, that assumes you know the six in play and there are no duplicates which you didn't explicitly state but I'd think that's how you'd do it. Not that it matters, I'm just mathing in my head not arguing.

On topic, I think you can taste a difference. Just because they suck it doesn't mean they suck the same.

 

If given the choice I would drink Coors Light over Miller Lite and refuse Bud Light.

 

If I'm going for an AAL, it's probably Coor's. It has more to do with sentiment than anything else. My dad grew up in Illinois when you couldn't get Coor's out that way. It was like a special treat for him and his buddies. He can tell stories about how they got it. Those stories aren't too far removed from the stories you might hear on this site about quests for whales.

 

i enjoy molsons Canadian, coors banquet and sometimes highlife and hamms. cant say that about other AALs. The assumption that all AAL taste the same is silly, kinda like a BMC guy saying all stouts taste like Guinness.

 

BMC drinkers tend to be extremely brand loyal.