News Flash: Large American beer companies have only sold beer because of effective advertisement, NOT because of flavor.
Bud and Miller have ALWAYS sucked in taste (along with Pabst, Coors, Schmidt, Old Milwaukee, "Shiner Bock", and all the other big company names)
Advice: Drink a microbrew and expand your horizons. Become a microbrew snob, or better yet, brew it yourself. Stop being a mind monkey for effective advertisement for a beer that tastes like crap.
The man speaketh wisely. I can help anyone that wishes to convert.
I can brew much better than I can fly.
Commercial breweries make your "lite" urine by omitting the very ingredients that make beer, namely barley (or wheat, rye, etc). They then proceed to substitute it with corn, rice, or beet sugars to "boost" the alcohol level back to what it would've been if they hadn't taken these grains out. Corn, rice, or other adjuncts add fermentability to the wort (yet un-fermented beer, before yeast has been pitched) without contributing any noticeable flavor or body to the beer.
Marketed to the unwary consumer as "lite" beer, it's just another way that the beer company can stretch a buck (adjuncts are usually cheaper than grains). Also some beer companies are now cheating by using hop oils <gasp> due to the hop shortage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081400093.html To put it simply, the average beer drinker is being robbed of the natural taste and goodness that beer was originally intended to contain.
Just water............
Grain.....................
Hops....................
Boil it ...................
add Yeast....................
and voila, 2-4 weeks (for a simple recipe)............ beer, the way it was meant to be.
