93EXCivic wrote:92CelicaHalfTrac wrote:Lies. Miller High Life.Salanis wrote: Any beer in clear or green bottles will be crap. Scientific fact. (I am being like 90% serious when I say that.)Rolling Rock = Best cheap "drinking beer" EVER. I drink that stuff like it's water in the hot months.
Gives me a headache after about 12 of them. 
Salanis wrote: Any beer in clear or green bottles will be crap. Scientific fact. (I am being like 90% serious when I say that.)
Theory on that:
Many of the euro beers that come in green bottles are packaged in light-proof cases. They get ruined when they are broken out into six-packs and placed in lighted coolers. For instance - Stella Artois is a decent, mild "light" beer when you drink it on tap at the airport or bulk buy it in the 24 pack. It is a skunky mess when you buy it in the grocery or pizza take-out joint.
Dr. Hess:
Brew your own. If you brew from extract you can crank out good beer without too much effort outside of bottling it, and if you get a pony-keg setup, you can even skip that hassle.
I do brew my own. Hesselbrau. I just prefer convenience.
92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: Rolling Rock = Best cheap "drinking beer" EVER. I drink that stuff like it's water in the hot months.
If you like Dos Equis Amber, Rolling Rock is a pretty good choice. They've recently moved the brewing out of Old Latrobe to somewhere else (and started brewing Iron City beer at Old Latrobe - seriously, WTF?) but I don't think it's affected the taste.
And you might want to give Pabst a try - seriously, although you may not want to let your colleagues at the hospital see you drinking it. Not 100% sure if it only uses the ingredients in the German beer purity laws, but I think there's a good chance it does.
Also, if there are any Aldi's near you, they usually have one or two obscure German brews on the shelf for very cheap. I suspect a lot of them are the German equivalent of PBR, but if no German beer gives you headaches...
In reply to MadScientistMatt:
I mentioned the Aldis imported Wernesgruner pilsner above. I think it's pretty good for the price.
Brett_Murphy wrote: Dr. Hess: Brew your own. If you brew from extract you can crank out good beer without too much effort outside of bottling it, and if you get a pony-keg setup, you can even skip that hassle.
I tried this. I am a terrible baker. I can buy better beer than I can make for certain. All of the really good micros in the US are available in the sixtel size keg - which is 5.13 gallons so you are not committed to a "flavor" for too long. It lasts about 3 weeks with one or two friends "helping" on the weekends. It is cheaper to buy it (ex. Sierra Nevada is $38 for 24 bottles here - sixtel is $62 for the equivalent of about 56 bottles), easier to manage - no pile of bottles or cans to recycle.
I picked up a couple keg couplers, two tap handles, a regulator and some hose from a local home-brew shop, drilled two holes in an old fridge and made a kegerator for under $200. I've got fresh cold beer and seltzer at the ready.
For some reason, all German beer smells like cat urine to me.
Duhh! Typo. I ment to say CAT urine.
I tend to like Guinness, Harp, Yuengling and Smithwick's.
I grew up in the town were Smithwick's was originally brewed (Kilkenny) so that may be more of a sentimental preference.
In reply to aeronca65t:
.......and where does car urine come from exactly on a car? 
1988RedT2 wrote: Haha. Kids. Back in my college days (yeah, it's a ways back) we could buy a six-pack of Ortlieb's at Kroger for 99 cents when it went on sale. Regular price was like a buck thirty-nine. Was it good beer? Uh, no. Did I ever buy it? Um, yeah.
Joe's beer. $3.99/case. Yep, guilty as charged.
Red, White and Blue was $1.49 a six pack when I was in HS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_White_%26_Blue_Beer
bludroptop wrote:1988RedT2 wrote: Haha. Kids. Back in my college days (yeah, it's a ways back) we could buy a six-pack of Ortlieb's at Kroger for 99 cents when it went on sale. Regular price was like a buck thirty-nine. Was it good beer? Uh, no. Did I ever buy it? Um, yeah.Joe's beer. $3.99/case. Yep, guilty as charged.
This is how colons were emptied in my high school days. $1.09 a quart, $6.99 for a case of 24.
I thought everybody drank this.
My parents lived up close to where this is brewed when they were young. They swore by this stuff. They still claim it is top quality brew.
If you are worried about the ingredients then look no further than this
Delicious and comes in flavor saving brown bottles instead of skunky green ones.
I imagine this used to taste like it looks:
Otto Maddox wrote:
Oy! Genny Screamers = spraying mud. $0.99 / 6 pk.
My father drinks Utica Crud, when he can't find that his second choice is St. Pauli Girl.
Dad! 
Oh god, Genesse. Where's the nearest toilet.
I was at a friends place one night, him and another guy grabbed a bunch of Genny from the liquor store. After about three they told my cousin and I that our choice of Strohs was the smart one.
That E36 M3 is vile.
Went grocery shopping today at wally world. I picked up a 12 pack of Warsteiner. I have no idea what it is. All it says is "imported from germany" and "beer" and some stuff in German. There were 2 different boxes, and one box appeared to have darker beer in the picture than the other. I got the box with the lighter color.
We used to drinks Strohs in college.
[college kid-1969]She'll take off her clothes after a couple of Strohs! [/college kid-1969] 
I still go past the big Strohs brewery building on a regular basis (near Fogelville, PA.)
914Driver wrote: My father drinks Utica Crud, when he can't find that his second choice is St. Pauli Girl.
My friends and I have a soft spot in our hearts for Utica Club. We went to college a stone's throw from Utica and its wonderful F.X. Matt Brewery. Being cheap college students, UC was a necessity. Hell, one of the campus vending machines dispensed it, if you knew which button to push.
My favorite unofficial slogan: A different flavor in every can. And some of the cans were shipped half-full.
For sentimental reasons, I still have an unopened can of UC that has followed me through four apartments in three states.
Ahhh, Utica Club...
I've had Strohs before. I thought it was good, at the time. I drove through Kentucky on the way to the Swamp Land in a Europa TCS, and stopped and picked up some Strohs and some Fall City for a friend from KY who really missed not having that in the Swamp Land. The Fall City was surprisingly good, but I think they've gone out of business now. That was about 30 years go.
Unofficial slogan of MD, "O's, Strohs and Natty Bos"
I dunno bout dem Os for the most part, but I have no problem with strohs or natty bos. 
Dr. Hess wrote: Went grocery shopping today at wally world. I picked up a 12 pack of Warsteiner. I have no idea what it is. All it says is "imported from germany" and "beer" and some stuff in German. There were 2 different boxes, and one box appeared to have darker beer in the picture than the other. I got the box with the lighter color.
Warsteiner is a big-name German brewing company. They are the largest privately owned brewing company in Germany.
I find their beer to be fairly mediocre, but I'm a snob with high standards. Definitely better than Beck's, not quite as good as Krombacher or König (in my not-so-humble opinion).
You probably got their pilsener style lager, which is their main brand. They also have a dunkel (dark lager), whish is probably what you saw on the other box. I think their pils is better than their dunkel.
Pretty certain the dunkel is made by taking the pils as a base and adding "color beer" (adding a portion of dark, concentrated beer syrup in the fermentor rather than brewing a separate batch with specialty grains), which is a practice I'm not a fan of.
I'm trying to think of why people might have health issues with good British or American beers as opposed to German ones. I've got a couple of theories:
Most likely: The difference in the source of malt. Remember, beer is a product made from plants. The quality of raw ingredients changes from year to year (although we expect the beer to taste the same). It is possible there have been bad crops grown in one region or another that has had a higher level of mold on the barley. Molds can produce all kinds of nasty chemicals that can cause serious problems. If this is the case, you'll probably have no problems drinking these beers in another year or so, once there is a new barley crop.
Less likely: Natural clarifying aids. Some non-German breweries will use Irish moss (a seaweed) or isinglas finings (a powder made from the swim bladders from some fish) to help clarify beer. I like these methods because they can get a beer fairly clear without removing much, if any flavor (unlike filtration). Although these are natural ingredients that work in very simple ways, I suppose it is possible to have an allergic reaction to them though.
Very unlikely: Yeast strains. Could be a reaction to higher concentrations of certain fermentation bi-products from the ale yeast strains as opposed to the German lager yeasts.
I am now thirsty. (reaches for a Sam's light)
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