Technology Gone Wrong: The Budweiser Buddy Cup

Speaking of good beer Brasherman, Just got back from Dark Lord Day...
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building the keezer this week...
 
It may not be great, but it's good beer. Snobs just like to pick and complain about other people's choices.

LOL! Well, my motto is "To Each His Own" and it's hard to break a habit when the marketing machine is telling you that you absolutely should be buying their beer. It's why I don't watch TV much; too many stupid things to be sensible and it makes people insipid.

True confession? I keep Miller Light around for the times I am not drinking homebrew or some good beer; I can somewhat stand that company, most people are agreeable to it if they don't want real beer, and they don't seem as insidious to me. "Good beer" is merely a personal qualifier; I disagree about their (My View:) bland rice syrup horse piss, but I also digress to your own tastes (Perfectly acceptible). I was saddened to learn that I will never again have true Rolling Rock, but it was admittedly piss too. I just feel bad for that town; talk about a kick in the nads.
 
Speaking of good beer Brasherman, Just got back from Dark Lord Day...

building the keezer this week...

Epic haul! :eek: I was unable to get tix this year, but we went last year, and golden tixed to boot in the tragically shitty 5pm - 7pm line. I am interested to know how the new venue change made the day, but that's OT and better off in PM or EM; at least the weather was also epic for you!

I am happy that I got in on KBS this year though, even ended up with a couple Eccentric Ale's too!
 
I rather drink Bud than 90% of microbrews. I atleast know what to expect than dealing with those trendy beers than taste like they used cigaret ashes rather than hops.
 
I rather drink Bud than 90% of microbrews. I atleast know what to expect than dealing with those trendy beers than taste like they used cigaret ashes rather than hops.

trendy beers? people have been making their own beer for centuries...
 
trendy beers? people have been making their own beer for centuries...

Quite true. Beer was made because no one trusted the water; no one knew what microbes were before the invention of the microscope. Every town had a brewery and many people at home brewed their own beer for something safe to drink. It was considered nourishment. In fact, back then barley was VERY important: You had to have enough for a years worth of beer. If you had something left over? Throw it in! It's where Pumpkin ales came from, and other localities would have had their specials. Furthermore, grain was used three times in steeping:

Once for the strongest beer for the man of the house and his esteemed visitors. Akin to current microbrews.
Second steep was boiled for the women and hired laborers (and slaves when in the south). This might be like an all grain version of Bud red label or down to bud light.
Third was for the kids. The estimation is that the third runnings were somewhere between bud light and NA beers; just enough for a subtle ferment and coloring.

Maybe you would like a comic? The Oatmeal did a spectacular one I love (this reminds me to buy it and frame it for my man cave).

20 Things Worth Knowing About Beer

Anyway, before prohibition, to drink Budweiser you would have had to actually LIVE IN or VISIT St. Louis. Otherwise you would have been drinking your local stuff or what you made. Even then, Budweiser was at least still made of all grain way back when, making it more akin to a macrobrew pilsen (I dunno, pilsner urquell? Never done one myself). So what we drink know is short term comparatively, basically since they have been able to cheapen the product and buy out or bankrupt the competition. To know what the beer was like way back when, try one of Dogfish Head's resurrected beers; they examined vessels and pottery shards to reconstruct beers as they were brewed thousands of years ago. Midas Touch is one:
Midas Touch, 2700 years old!
 
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