I don't hate them because of their beer or their connections to a particular sports team. I hate them because they're world-class douchebags. (Google "carson king busch light" if you have any doubts.) If they went tits-up it wouldn't concern me in the slightest.
I don’t knock your hatred of the brand and I believe they’ve done worse than your example. I get that we are beer geeks so it hits harder, but if you put other companies, beer or otherwise under the same microscope you’ll find plenty of a-holes. At least Bud didn’t kill 10 people, like Boars-Head https://www.npr.org/2025/01/11/nx-s1-5256921/boars-head-listeria-outbreak-usda-investigation
The deli meat company. Not the late lamented beer brands! Sean O'Shaunessy Boar Head Stout (late 70's Ortlieb) https://www.ebay.com/itm/136211897152 Ortlieb adopted the brand earlier used by Krueger: https://breweriana.com/signs/boars-head-cream-ale-framed-paper-sign-20275/ Henry Weinhard's Blue Boar Pale Ale (Blitz Weinhard beginning ~'80, lasting into the 2000s under various uncaring owners). Blitz Weinhard apparently acquired the brand that was earlier brewed by Regal San Francisco: https://breweriana.com/beer-cans-flat-tops-oi/blue-boar-ale-120-18927/
I enjoy my Miller High Life. Maybe a little nostalgia because that was Grandpa's beer. But its my favorite macro.
Of all the defenses of a company that sells a huge amount of one of the world's deadliest substances, that's an odd one to choose
Heineken was my first ever. Tasted good for a late teen. Drinking Kwak around that time in its proper glassware (If you know, you know) opened my taste bud to a different league. Today, I’m not big on Kwak… the rest is BeerAdvocate history. If it wasn’t for this site I’d be still stuck with the same old - and probably have more in savings.
Haha! Just read what John_M stated before about such beers, but in all fairness to Heineken, it goes well with any junk food, usually for lunch when I’m a bit in a hurry, also pretty low ABV so I’m not going horizontal too early / napping. It’s not a good beer, but wash down food nicely I guess.
I get your point entirely, but I also find tolar111 assessment accurate. Smoking, drinking, illegal drugs (or legal ones - meds) whatever. Life choice or rather "needs/addiction" after a while.
Sure. One company was careless and their product caused 10 deaths as a result. The other company spends millions of dollars to promote and convince people to consume their product which they know very well causes 100s of thousands of deaths annually. Im just saying, there are much better ways to remind us of the fact that other companies are problematic besides big beer. Looking at kill counts is an odd choice.
Stores around me sell 24 oz. bottles of modelo. Once or twice per summer I'll have an ice cold one of those. I'll even put in a lime. That's it as far as me and yellow fizzy stuff goes.
Macro beers don't have to be yellow. Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan is technically a macro brewery, as are many others that make delicious beer that isn't "yellow."
Newcastle Brown Ale is owned by Heineken. Again brewed in the UK for the US market, previously it was sometimes brewed at Heineken and some of the draught has even been kegged in The Netherlands. The Groupo Modelo brands in the US are owned by Constellation and brewed in Mexico at Constellation-owned breweries. Grolsch, like many of the other European brands once owned by SABMiller, is owned by Asahi with Molson Coors owning the US import rights.
Ortlieb's stout's branding was Boar Head (though the brewery called it a nickname, used on the neck label and case end) while Krueger's was Boar's Head. I really doubt there was any connection - the Krueger trademarks were owned by Falstaff at the time (via Narragansett, which bought Krueger in the early 60s) and Krueger seems to have dropped the use of the name by the 1940s and just called it Krueger Cream Ale.
Maybe I have low standards regarding wine, but I’m usually willing to drink airline wine but reject most of their beer.
That's part of the problem... defining what's meant by the term "macro." In my book Guinness definitely qualifies, but no one would call it yellow. Context is everything in a discussion like this. Most people seem to mean bmc when they use the term, but there are plenty of other breweries that qualify (as I believe you alluded to in your OP).
