So this is a thing that is happening.
"Running dry: Belgium's looming beer crisis"
Anheuser-Busch InBev is trying to fire 10% of it's European workforce for a couple of reasons. Mainly what it boils down to is they're going for a high volume, low quality business, and business is bad.
I think we can all agree that Bud itself is no better than cold, boozy dog pee, BUT...
This
is a great thing.
So are these
Here is a list of all the beers they make. It is many.
Yet the biggest problem AB InBev faces is the downward trend in beer consumption in Europe. The company says that European drinkers have been gradually switching to wine and spirits in recent years, causing sales of beer to decline sharply. In beer-loving Belgium, the problem has been particularly acute: beer sales plummeted by 20% between 2000 and 2008.
Now is when I blame the Europeans for getting us into this mess by not being the raging alcoholics we need them to be.
Beer is probably older than Young Earth Creationists think the Earth is. It is the third most popular beverage behind tea and
water, as in H two O. Hammurabi wrote laws about it.
It is an Important Thing.
So: thoughts on beer and it's boozy competitors, wine and liquor. Do you hate InBev like I do, and go for local microbrews? Or are you a Real Man(TM) who only drinks whiskey? Do you just put on your tight, rolled up hipster jeans and guzzle PBR without caring who makes it? (Pabst Brewing Company is awesome, incidentally. They make Schlitz, OE800 and Old Milwaukee to name a few. They make the best terrible beers in the world). Alternatively, why do corporations ruin everything and who wants to go into the woods and make booze in a rusty pot with me?
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Also those protesters sound like massive cockbags.
i do like red stripe. finally found one that i like!
basically the worst beers
You're the worst beer.
I can see how Stella and st pauli are an acquired taste though.
it's never with beer
Here's one of my personal favorites:
http://www.northcoastbrewing.com/beer-rasputin.htm
That's good, I don't often get drunk with beer, since beer is for delighting the taste buds.
i've yet to have a beer that delighted my taste buds
maybe i should try one of these fancy ones and not the awful crap my friends try to push on me
certainly not the worst, but calling them the best is just confusing the hell out of me
I like Stella Artois, but the best? Really?
guess what
Chicken Butt
The Sweetwater brewery is awesome if incredibly tiny. If you are ever in Atlanta the tour is mandatory. You can hang out with your dog on the patio and listen to live music while you drink and be happy.
fucking went and got a whole fridge just for his beers and it literally has no room in it now.
like, you can't even fit one more glass anywhere.
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Allagash is excellent
Labatt is the beer that even Canadians laugh at us for drinking.
That could work, or your taste buds have not yet shaped up. It was like a switch for me, one day I just started enjoying beer. The same has not happened for wine though.
BEER REVIEWS
shouldnt you be writing decision points or something, gumshoe?
I need to drag all your asses out behind the barn and shot gun you in the mouth to euthanise your taste buds.
They also feature nifty artwork.
no, budweiser is blatantly the wife beater of beers.
http://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/brewpub-exclusives/goser-the-gosarian.htm
This in particular is delicious:
I used to live in Michigan. The day they start selling Oberon again is pretty much a holiday.
so good they had to give it two A's
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best when mixed with lindemann's framboise