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OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/14/2008 3:05:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Anhuser-Busch will no longer be American owned............... ..................Miller and Coors had already sold their souls to the Devil ! I guess its time to start drinking Samuel Adams, Shiner Bock or go south of the border and go with Tecate!!!!



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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/14/2008 3:17:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		1) InBev brews Bass Ale, so they are not all bad.
2) Time to support your local micro brew. I prefer Schell's (Local Minnesota) and Fat Tire.

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/14/2008 4:34:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Dudweiser isn't beer anyway, so it doesn't really count...

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/14/2008 5:14:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		I've never really been a fan of Bud anyway. Maybe In-Bev will improve it.
Being a German-American I've always loved the darker beers and ALE's anyway so the pee water that we Americans are used to could use some improvement.

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/14/2008 5:33:22 PM   
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Dudweiser isn't beer anyway, so it doesn't really count...


Keep in mind that Bud is brewed in the American Midwest for people who have to survive summers there. I enjoy ales and stouts as well (in the Winter).., but when the temperature is still 90 degrees at midnight, the heavier brews are like drinking molassas. Ice cold Lager is just what the Doctor ordered.

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/14/2008 5:43:34 PM   
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I guess its time to start drinking Samuel Adams, Shiner Bock or go south of the border and go with Tecate...


Why don't you drink beer instead?

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/14/2008 7:13:36 PM   
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Keep in mind that Bud is brewed in the American Midwest for people who have to survive summers there. I enjoy ales and stouts as well (in the Winter).., but when the temperature is still 90 degrees at midnight, the heavier brews are like drinking molassas. Ice cold Lager is just what the Doctor ordered.



Against thirst, you might as well drink straight spring water instead of that watered-down swill "tasting just like real beer", and add a side order of straight vodka if you need the alcoholic kick. The beer alternative to U.S. lager wouldn't be ale/stout but a competently brewed Pilsener. Maybe now that the Belgians finally invaded the USA, you may get some of the real stuff.

BTW, that change of ownership should finally put an end to Anheuser-Busch claiming a world-exclusive right to the name of Budweiser; they even made a law suit trying to keep the brewery in Budvar, Czech republic (known as Budweis in Austrian times) from calling its product Budweiser.

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/14/2008 7:44:51 PM   
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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/14/2008 8:22:54 PM   
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Keep in mind that Bud is brewed in the American Midwest for people who have to survive summers there. I enjoy ales and stouts as well (in the Winter).., but when the temperature is still 90 degrees at midnight, the heavier brews are like drinking molassas. Ice cold Lager is just what the Doctor ordered.



I prefer Blue Moon for that sort of drink. Aside from the usual Arrogant Bastard, Bass Ale, Guinness etc.

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/14/2008 8:26:33 PM   
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1)  Swedish Bikini Team
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5)  Rubber Floor (with dog bouncing out door)
6)  Mud-wrestling babes
7)  Guys who "pretend" there's an elevator or stairs behind the couch.

Countless others.

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/14/2008 8:55:19 PM   
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Dudweiser isn't beer anyway, so it doesn't really count...


Keep in mind that Bud is brewed in the American Midwest for people who have to survive summers there. I enjoy ales and stouts as well (in the Winter).., but when the temperature is still 90 degrees at midnight, the heavier brews are like drinking molassas. Ice cold Lager is just what the Doctor ordered.



That's when you go for an India Pale Ale - those were developed by the Brits for the hotter climes...

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/14/2008 9:22:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		IPA's are fine but for me a good Hefeweizen with a citrus slice is perfect on a summers day.

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/14/2008 9:30:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		InBev has some good german beer brands like Becks and Franziskaner. So why not switch sides completely and go with these? ;)

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/14/2008 10:28:40 PM   
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.... go south of the border and go with Tecate!!!!

Well, at least Tecate, or Corona or Pacifico tastes like something; window cleaner, donkey urine, transmission fluid, but at least something. Modello Negro ain’t bad if you’re in Mexico and only have a dollar.

Always thought there should be a qualitat mark on beer. Beer’s gotta have some hops & some malt & some barley & whatever. Top rising yeast, or bottom yeast.

Qualitatsbier Pilsen, oder Qualitatsbier Lager. If it ain’t either, it ain’t beer. It’s a cold, relatively tasteless, alcoholic, get your gf drunk kind of beverage.

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/14/2008 11:58:24 PM   
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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/15/2008 12:55:34 AM   
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Anhuser-Busch will no longer be American owned............... ..................Miller and Coors had already sold their souls to the Devil ! I guess its time to start drinking Samuel Adams, Shiner Bock or go south of the border and go with Tecate!!!!



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But the jobs will stay here...and probably under better management.

Sam Adams is ok in a pinch. Personally, I tend to prefer microbrews like New Belgium and Breckenridge Brewery.

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/15/2008 1:00:33 AM   
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I guess its time to start drinking Samuel Adams, Shiner Bock or go south of the border and go with Tecate...


Why don't you drink beer instead?


Yah. Nothin' like a nice Brazilian garota comin' at you with a great pair of jugs...





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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/15/2008 1:43:39 AM   
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Always thought there should be a qualitat mark on beer. Beer’s gotta have some hops & some malt & some barley & whatever. Top rising yeast, or bottom yeast.

Something like...this?

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/15/2008 3:10:48 AM   
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Maybe now that the Belgians finally invaded the USA, you may get some of the real stuff.


I have no problem getting good Belgian ales here.


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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/15/2008 5:41:29 AM   
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Maybe now that the Belgians finally invaded the USA, you may get some of the real stuff.


I have no problem getting good Belgian ales here.


I don't know. I'm not saying Bud is a great beer, however, I've had some "top notch" Belgian ales that monumentally underwhelmed. Besides, InBev has no plans to actually change the Bud recipe.

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/15/2008 6:49:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		One problem with getting the Belgian Trappist Ales over here in the US is that microbrews don't really travel all that well. They're still better than the mass produced horsep*ss, but they're substantially off their prime. My preference is generally to drink the local microbrews wherever I am. this strategy has rarely failed me.

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/15/2008 7:01:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		...and what's so wrong with a light, refreshing lager that quenches the thirst when iced down on a hot summer day?

People badmouth Spudweiser all the time, and I don't understand it. I guess maybe everybody always likes to throw cowdung at the big guy, but, come on. What do you want? Egg in your beer?

Shoot, I even used to drink copious quantities of Bud Light before I had to give up hittin' the schwiel altogether. I liked it.

I remember my son trying to get used to the idea that his old man, a white hoser descended from Dutch stock, liked women of African descent. Once, I got involved with a Chinese woman, and sonny boy was a little confused. He asked me about it.

I told him, "Son, even the greatest of wine tasters has to cleanse his palate once in awhile."

Yeah, the heavier tasting beers were a big part of my out-of-control habit, but I always subscribed to the Archie Bunker philosophy that, "You can't buy beer, you can only rent it."

And, brother, I rented my share. It couldn't all be designer brew.

[although this post shows as being in response to yours, Brad, it is just intended as general commentary - and maybe amusement at my expense. I'm not accusing you of being a hop-headed dilettante.]

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/15/2008 7:08:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Past... it's not just mass produced american beer that I deplore. It's the mass produced stuff from all over (there was a particularly bad one in France - not Export 33, but it was in green bottles).

Believe me, I've drunk my share of american lagers (I've even drunk at least a couple of cases of Billy Beer!) - but since I decided to cut waaayyy back on drinking, I've decided that I'd rather drink the local stuff. Catch a little local flavor, so to speak...

i didn't take offense at your post, but did feel it best to explain better my recent foray into beer snobbery

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/15/2008 7:20:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		IBev drove the stock price of Budweiser up about 40% in its take-over effort. That amounts to many billions of dollars more for a company that only makes lousy beer. It is even more difficult to understand when they say they won't change anything.

Bud is not a bad beer. There are probably a hundred million people who love it. People who would spit out that flat, warm, bitter piss water that some other folks call beer-but I digress. Sure, Bud will go flat if you let it stand for an hour. If you can't drink it in a few minutes, you were not thirsty anyway.

One thing will change for sure, the cost of a beer. InBev spent $50,000,000,000 to take over Budweiser. They will certainly want to recover that as quickly as possible. With any major competition out of the way, they can now charge what they want-or closer to it. So, before anyone starts celebrating the demise of Bud, (which is not going away anyway), they need to take another look at their recreational drinking budget, and plan on spending more.


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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/15/2008 7:39:17 AM   
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Hey Past... it's not just mass produced american beer that I deplore. It's the mass produced stuff from all over (there was a particularly bad one in France - not Export 33, but it was in green bottles).

Believe me, I've drunk my share of american lagers (I've even drunk at least a couple of cases of Billy Beer!) - but since I decided to cut waaayyy back on drinking, I've decided that I'd rather drink the local stuff. Catch a little local flavor, so to speak...

i didn't take offense at your post, but did feel it best to explain better my recent foray into beer snobbery

Aaaahh, pal, the worst I ever ran across was some stuff called Buckhorn. A friend of mine and I "liberated" a few gallons of herbicide from a roadside ditch spraying crew one time, and "sold" it to a farmer for a couple of cases of beer to be left out back of the local tavern.

When we went to pick it up, it was "Buckhorn." You talk about green beer? This stuff was so raw, it probably still had live weevils from the hop field swimming around in it. Ugh.

Yeah, if you can cut back, you probably want to enjoy the good stuff. Me, I could never do it. It was either be an unconscionable sauce hitter or give it up completely, for me.

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/15/2008 7:41:38 AM   
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IBev drove the stock price of Budweiser up about 40% in its take-over effort. That amounts to many billions of dollars more for a company that only makes lousy beer. It is even more difficult to understand when they say they won't change anything.

Bud is not a bad beer. There are probably a hundred million people who love it. People who would spit out that flat, warm, bitter piss water that some other folks call beer-but I digress. Sure, Bud will go flat if you let it stand for an hour. If you can't drink it in a few minutes, you were not thirsty anyway.

One thing will change for sure, the cost of a beer. InBev spent $50,000,000,000 to take over Budweiser. They will certainly want to recover that as quickly as possible. With any major competition out of the way, they can now charge what they want-or closer to it. So, before anyone starts celebrating the demise of Bud, (which is not going away anyway), they need to take another look at their recreational drinking budget, and plan on spending more.



Well, if I was still tippin' it, I'd tell 'em this. For 25 bucks a 30-pack, it's horse water. For 17 bucks, it's nectar of the gods...






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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/15/2008 12:06:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have gone from 4.99 a case DIXIE/Falstaff in my college days to Heavy ales and everything in between.........its all about taste and as Pasternaski put it so well to me on a hot summer day on the lake nothings better than an ice cold Bud. Now as far as Micro brews Shiner Bock or Fat Tire gets me.............now if you just want a buzz then Micro brew whiskey (otherwise known as Harrison County Texas corn squeezins') is top on the list !!!!

PS.....Term.....you would know a good beer if it ran over you in a truck you young whipper snapper!!!!!

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/15/2008 12:44:23 PM   
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1) InBev brews Bass Ale, so they are not all bad.
2) Time to support your local micro brew. I prefer Schell's (Local Minnesota) and Fat Tire.


I've been in Schell's brewery. Very old civil war era brick bldg in Mankato (IIRC?)Maybe New Ulm??..I thought they had sold out back in the early eighties..

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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/15/2008 12:48:01 PM   
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RE: OT: A sure sign of the end of times...... - 7/15/2008 6:03:48 PM   
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