Okay, I'll confess too
Yeah, I used to sneer at it as little more than cold horse piss and wouldn't have dreamed of being caught dead in a bar holding a glass of anything remotely that sickly yellow but times change and since everyone else is confessing, I'll come out too. I drink Budweiser -- by choice. It's light, it's cheap and I can drink a couple more than I should and not get an evil hangover the next day.
I started drinking it for political reasons. I was bartending in a VFW and after the shift, the guys want to buy you a beer, so I drank what they did. It seemed snotty to ask for imported beer and besides it cost a buck and half more which is lot to an 70 year old vet living on a fixed income. Not to mention, I was trying to fit into a group of war loving, blue collar types as an old, peace loving hippie whose day job was in a law firm. After a while, I found I actually developed a taste for the stuff.
That's not to say that I don't still love Guinness and Newcastle, a few other American ales and even the occassional German skunk brew but Bud is my regular beer. I now drink one or two every day for cardiovascular health and on the rare occassions I find myself in a some strange dive bar, that's what I ask for -- it helps diffuse the suspicion of the regs in a way ordering a fancy beer wouldn't and they'll talk to you. I love talking to strangers.
So yeah, Budweiser. Once you past the snobbery, it really is the King of Beers.
I started drinking it for political reasons. I was bartending in a VFW and after the shift, the guys want to buy you a beer, so I drank what they did. It seemed snotty to ask for imported beer and besides it cost a buck and half more which is lot to an 70 year old vet living on a fixed income. Not to mention, I was trying to fit into a group of war loving, blue collar types as an old, peace loving hippie whose day job was in a law firm. After a while, I found I actually developed a taste for the stuff.
That's not to say that I don't still love Guinness and Newcastle, a few other American ales and even the occassional German skunk brew but Bud is my regular beer. I now drink one or two every day for cardiovascular health and on the rare occassions I find myself in a some strange dive bar, that's what I ask for -- it helps diffuse the suspicion of the regs in a way ordering a fancy beer wouldn't and they'll talk to you. I love talking to strangers.
So yeah, Budweiser. Once you past the snobbery, it really is the King of Beers.
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posted by Libby Spencer at 10:40 AM
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Yuengling Lager is first rate as is their Black and Tan.
A good working man's brew.
My first beer was a Pabst, it was the only brewer at that time that made a 3.2 beer. It was great to be 18 and to be able to buy beer.
Those were the days.
Oh yeah, I drink two every day for my health, too. I then double the dose, just to be sure.
It just seems logical that if two is good for you, four has to be twice as good.
"I now drink one or two every day for cardiovascular health..."
Heh.
I guess that makes me about, oh, say, three times as healthy as you are, cardiovascularly speaking, at least.
Bud gives me a headache, though, so I drink Miller Lite mainly.
If you're ever in STL, allow me to recommend to you Grant's Farm, owned now by the Auggie Busch family, which also does a LOT of excellent charity work in the STL area.
I can't drink Yuengling for some reason. Even only a couple will give me a hangover in the morning but I have noticed that seems to be the serious drinker working man's beer down here.
And I used to operate on the twice as much must be twice as healthy theory but since I've been here I don't go out much and lost my drinking chops.
I've turned into the proverbial cheap date. Doesn't take much to get me pleasantly buzzed.
And I went through a stage of drinking Miller down here MW, it's really cheap here for some reason but I found it was giving me a headache. I also don't drink lite anything if I can help it. I find the hangover is worse for me.
Of course that's now. There was time in my life when I could put down 8 or 10 ales in a night and not feel bad at all in the morning.
I drink malt liqour . It is of simliar hue
Jebus Lester. Which one? Do they still make Haffenreffer? We used to call it the green death.
Here in Singapore Bud is around $US11.50 a six pack as are all american beers. Here most people drink Tiger or Carlsberg. The cheapest beer buy is about $US1.30 a can for Thai beers like Singh or Changi and both are very good.
When I travel I generally drink the local beers Brian. Every country has its version of Bud. I drank Red Stripe in Jamaica, Belkin in Belize and Modela Negro in Mexico when I could get it. I drank a fair amount of Sol down there as well. Not that's a pretty bad beer.
libby- haffenreffer is like the rolls royce of 40's. it's smooth but not much fire power. I weigh like 200 pounds so I like you know 8.0 or so alc content.
The worst one is steel reserve, which i admit I drink all the time because it's so cheap. man, it's just carbonated battery acid.
I also enjoy the occasional belgian ale. the ones from belgium not the american.
Yikes. You're a stronger man than me Lester.
because I stand in painful I-chuan stances for an hour at a time. it's like tai chi that's so slow you don't move at all, basically.
Yikes. That doesn't sound like fun to me.
it gives you crazy energy.
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