What's a Platinum Beer?

There may be an 'analogy' to the Duff beer above with the Bud Light beers but the depiction would be that Bud Light uses the same 'base beer' as Bud Light Platinum but there would be a separate pipe running into the Bud Light tank pumping in water. In other words it very well may be that Bud Light Platinum + water = Bud Light.

Cheers!

 

I'm guessing that social climbers (status seekers) are probably the only ones who drink Platinum.

 

I tried it once. Meh. I'm still waiting for a Platinum Blonde.

Edit: Oops, I already had one.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/32166/121569/?ba=Bitterbill#review

 

I was searching for a link to that beer, but there are others too:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/search/?q=Platinum+blonde

 

I was once that way with tequila but I found over time that if I really put my mind to it and practiced regularly, I could not only look at it, but drink it freely again. Ah, the pleasure in small achievements. On to the next challenge...

 

I suspect this is quite relative...it may work if the peers are drinking "regular" BudLite, but I suspect the ladder will be without rungs if they show up with Platinum at a venue where people are drinking real craft beers of good quality.

 

I've tried sips of my wife's G&Ts in the past, even tried a gimlet or two a few years ago (@woodychandler), but hard liquor just doesn't have the draw anymore.

Color me old.

 

well, at least you know this guy isn't trying to fondle your daughter at the local college party.

 

Not based on the "Ingredients" listed for the two beer on AB's Tap Into Your Beer website:

 

I hate to say this but... that duct tape will be removed later in the evening.

Cheers!

 

And here I was talking to a guy at work, he's about 60, he was talking about how "you" just lose your taste for beer as you age and move to wine and Scotch...

 

JK, not the be controversial but...do you trust the stuff they list in their website?

Cheers!

 

I have him by a year and we're on different wavelengths. I like the taste of Irish Whiskey, but I haven't bought a bottle in many years.

Do like to share a bottle of Friday night wine with my wife.

 

Agreed. I'm an equal opportunity drinker - but depending on the season I may go for one spirit over another. Rum in winter, gin in summer, whiskey (including bourbon, scotch, etc|) more often in winter, but it's nice by a firepit also.
Wine I don't drink often but I do enjoy a good red wine when I do. White I usually don't care for, but every so often I run across a really good one. forget rose.
Beer is beer year round.

 

ya.... maybe he lost his taste for beer but I'm years older than he is and I can honestly say I have developed a real appreciation for the GOOD examples of beers, wines, and spirits of all kinds. Perhaps with age comes better appreciation for all things that represent quality examples of their kind, including but not limited to adult beverages.

 

I drink it once in a while. And I collect the cobalt blue bottles. But hey, originally from MO.

 

Seems like a reasonable recipe for making higher abv bud light.

 

Well, I don't doubt that some brewery PR is BS (or, as the admen call it "Puffery" ) but why would they admit to BLP being, essentially, brewed like a malt liquor - more corn* than malt, plus cane sugar and hop extract? (I was gonna write "cheap malt liquor" but, unlike Hurricane and King Cobra, this uses only corn not both corn and corn syrup. )

I don't think they list these ingredients on the Platinum label...

Well, except for a century's worth of advertising linking AB's Budweiser brand with rice as the superior brewing adjunct. Of course, with the multiple line extensions (fruit flavors, lemonades, cheladas and seltzers) that's long gone I suppose. Even Budweiser Selects (yeah, there's two of 'em), with their very Budweiser-ish labeling, use corn.

I'm sure many people assumed Platinum was some form of the undiluted high gravity Bud Light. (IIRC, that was also the rumor for that Budweiser Brewmaster Private Reserve stuff they released in a large bottle around Christmas back in the early 2000s. Even the BA entry's "Notes" seem to suggest it, while at the same time claiming to be all-malt ).

 

just wondering...if higher ABV the I assume also higher calories. When is lite beer no longer lite?