Revisiting macro beers

Huh. I popped a St Pauli Girl one day and the whole room smelled like cabbage. It wasn’t attractive in the least, smelled bad, tasted bad. Kinda like stinky bad ********** , that was more * than I needed there. You can eat it but you won’t like it. . Probably get deleted.

 

I have no problem ordering an Old Style, Hamm's, or Coors Banquet in the right setting. And if I'm at a concert and Lone Star is available, I know what I'm drinking the rest of the night. Of course, I don't consider any of those beers to be "awful." I'm fully capable of accepting them for what they are and "easy-drinking" sometimes hits just the spot.

 

Absolutely all it is.

 

Not to mention many of these beers are very well brewed, with attention to detail and consistency that all brewers can learn from and should admire.

 

Coors banquet has had $12 for 12x16oz. Lately. Hamm's has been sitting right at $0.75/can

I've dedicated myself to weekends only. But even then, the value is definitely there when the craft international lager alternative is $10/4 big pack Slightly less than pilsner urquell. But the math has to be done. It's almost double macro costs.

I'm glad some people have their own standards.

At the same time, so many folks go with $5.99/6 at grocery stores and gas stations thinking it'd a good deal. To be honest, a craft IPA 4pk at 9.99 is of nearly the same value as a cheapy beer. Beer for beer ABV wise, you are right in line.

Not everyone drinks for value. But im right in the middle.

 

It's equally OK to say you've moved on to better things. I actually started on milk, but no longer drink that. Or sugared pop/juice. Or wine. Or liquor - except in my BA beers. Or macro.

I suppose some of us bash macro because it's the competition to the generally more superior beer we graduated to, and we feel compelled to distance ourselves from the less-discerning folks that still consume macro en-masse.

 

Can't get more "Scottish" than this --- I guess? :

In box above - MillerCoors' current ingredient listing for their version of Olde English 800 (the High Gravity, 7.5% and "Under 3.2% ABW" versions are identical).

Below that, Bohemian Breweries origin claims ("centuries old" ) for what was then a mere "OE 600". The brand originated in Duluth, MN at the Peoples Brewing Co.

After Atlantic/Bohemian, the brand was acquired by Blitz-Weinhard, which contracted east coast production to first P. Ballantine & Sons and, later, Ortlieb in Phila. (Some sources suggest that after Pabst ended the deal with Ortlieb, they marketed the same basic recipe under the "Coqui 900" name - "100" more than "OE 800" and supposed named after the Spanish word used in Puerto Rico for the sound a bullfrog makes.)

In the late 1970s, Pabst bought Blitz-Weinhard and maintained ownership of the malt liquor even after Heileman kept the B-W brewery and their other brands in the early '80s "buyout/spin-off".

Miller then bought OE from Pabst in 1999, when the two companies were divvying up the Heileman-Stroh portfolio.

 

Understood, a great Pils is a thing of beauty, but there’s nothing wrong with grabbing a simple beer like PBR every now and then. It’s just not fair to call it shit beer because there are better beers out there. And your right it’s fair to say you’ve moved on and prefer other beers, we all have for the most part or we wouldn’t have found and use this site.

 

The only thing missing from that commercial is the voice of Homer Simpson doing the "mmmmmmm" sound.

Cheers!

 

This one is good too.

 

Sucked down a few Miller High Life long neck bottles the past weekend. Get together at a non crafter house. Ice frickin cold and damn delicious. Drinkable, too. Great non craft beer. My go to non craft.
Must admit, I had some Zombie Dust in fridge waiting for me when I got home.
Still like my MHL, too.

 

If you lived on ZD alone your palate would be fried and drinking hoppy beers would painful after a while. Aals make for great palate resets. They’re cheap, easy and light, from there you go more extreme. I learned the hard way after my first Vt trip, I gagged at the thought on another hoppy beer. Palate fatigue is real, you need an easy drinking alternative, aals, wine, bourbon whatever. I’m judicious with my ipas, I no longer drink them all, only special ones.

 

I think it's great somebody admits they can drink macro. I do, trying to get the PHILOSOPHY behind them.

 

Sometimes a Yuengling, Narragansett, Lionshead Pilsner (probably won't see this one much outside of PA), or even a PBR or Miller High Life can be fun change of pace when the mood strikes.

But bud, bud light and coors light are, in my opinion, undrinkable. I wish I liked them, because I'd save a ton on beer, but even when ice cold I think what little taste they have is absolutely vile.

As far as wanting a skunky beer, I don't ever want that. Maybe if it was just ever so slightly light struck it would still be drinkable, but put a Yuengling amber lager in a green bottle in the sunlight for a few hours and then chill it and try to enjoy it... You won't be able to.

 

Time and a place for everything: a cold bottle of Taj, light and fizzy, is the perfect accompaniment for spicy Indian food.

 

We meet up with friends at a decent bar in town with tons of craft choices. But the high prices and small servings are pissing me off. I get Narragansett when I'm there for $3 a full pint. I'm completely content drinking that beer next to my friend drinking $9 ten ounce pour of Sip of Sunshine or the like. No thanks on the skunk though.