You guys have to try...

[Banshee7]

Beyond being a fairly juvenile response,  I am going to have to say that Stella Artois is probably one of the worst beers to consume for the purposes of "Getting Drunk".

At 5% ABV, I'm going to need to consume, at minimum, 6 beers/hour just to break the legal limit of .08 for being too intoxicated to drive, let alone actually being drunk...


That is a beer every 10 minutes which leads to a lot of pissing.  Not exactly what I am aiming to spend my money on...

It was out of humor, dude.    

[ALFAMEGA51]

lol Stella I bet nothing will be able to replace your vagina either.

ohhh... sheesh lol 

[ALFAMEGA51]

sorry but i laughed a good one on this.


Black Boss (Polish dunkel, 10.5% alcohol)

Wow i sure would like to try some of that Deb 

[JOACH1M]

Stella or your vagina?

Could you please describe to me what you like best about the beer in question using the following parameters:

1) Aroma
2) Appearance
3) Flavor
4) Mouthfeel
5) Overall Impression

Flavor and mouth feel. Everything else is pointless.

If the beer is cold and is smooth to drink in my opinion it is a better beer. Beers that do not taste good in my opinion are Busch, natty lite, and key stone.

[VonMessa]

Flavor and mouth feel. Everything else is pointless.

If the beer is cold and is smooth to drink in my opinion it is a better beer. Beers that do not taste good in my opinion are Busch, natty lite, and key stone.

Besides not answering the question properly (you chose 2 of the parameters but did not expand upon what you liked about the flavor or the mouthfeel)

What is pointless about the others.

It is OK if is has an aroma of catfish and arse?

Eating and drinking, other than for basic survival,  is a sensual experience.  All senses should be involved in the process.

How does it smell, look, taste?  What kind of texture does it have on the tongue.

Otherwise you are just drinking it for the swill that it is for it's intoxicating effects and are impressed by a fancy name...

[Melvin]

Flavor and mouth feel. Everything else is pointless.

If the beer is cold and is smooth to drink in my opinion it is a better beer. Beers that do not taste good in my opinion are Busch, natty lite, and key stone.

I remember my first six pack.

 

[JOACH1M]

Besides not answering the question properly (you chose 2 of the parameters but did not expand upon what you liked about the flavor or the mouthfeel)

What is pointless about the others.

It is OK if is has an aroma of catfish and arse?

Eating and drinking, other than for basic survival,  is a sensual experience.  All senses should be involved in the process.

How does it smell, look, taste?Smell isnt a big factor in my opnion.  Looks...has to be a golden brown, maybe darker...What kind of texture does it have on the tongue.i dont really know how to answer this...fizzy?

Otherwise you are just drinking it for the swill that it is for it's intoxicating effects and are impressed by a fancy name...Not really i prefer the taste over pop, except Dr.Pepper  

I remember my first six pack.

 

"first time i heard that i laughed so hard i fell off my dinosaur."

[Shuffler]

Keep supporting my family.... drink Bud products.

[SilverZ06]

If you guys want a good "mass produced" American beer try some Yuengling I enjoy the lager, porter, and black and tan. 

[Seanaldinho]

Anyone here like Killians or RedStripe?

I particularly like RedStripe.

[Reaper90]

If you have ever been curious how on earth Bud could have ever been awarded anything for a beer, do a bit of research.  It turns out that during WWII, with rationing, they had to change the recipe to deal with reduced amounts of grains.  This new recipe was well received by women, who were at the time a large portion of the beer drinking population.  After the war, they never went back.  If you drink Bud, you drink a womans beer. 

Reasons why I brew my own   

The rice in the mash is also why "American Lager" is best served ice cold, instead of the proper cool "cellar temperature" - the freezing cold shocks your taste buds..... making the taste more palateable, "refreshing" even... heck, if I was just after cold and get drunk, I'd drink whiskey and chase it with ice water.

Wanna try out that theory, drink a any good beer "chilled" (40-45 degrees), then try a Budweiser (or any other mass produced horse urine swill bill) chilled instead of ice cold... tastes like crap. What's lacking is something called flavor, as well as aroma and texture.

All this beer talk is making me want to take up homebrewing again, which is gonna be hard with all my time already going to AH and dreaming about motorcycles.... 

[ALFAMEGA51]

If you guys want a good "mass produced" American beer try some Yuengling I enjoy the lager, porter, and black and tan. 

I had some of that this past weekend, i enjoyed it, it went down nice and smooth  

[Melvin]

I had some of that this past weekend, i enjoyed it, it went down nice and smooth  

... that's what she said.

[ALFAMEGA51]

... that's what she said.

Oh she did? Damn, didn't hear her that time 

[BoilerDown]

Local and regional micro brews are great, and usually have a little greater alcohol content.   Being from Northern Illinois I can get some really good ones here like Capitol,  Sand Creek, New Glarus, Sprecher  ( Highly recommend this one )  and Point all from Wisconsin.   Bell's, Founder's, Grand Rapids, Keweenaw, and Dark Horse from Michigan.

2 Brothers, Carlyle, Goose Island, and Rock Bottom from Illinois and from Ohio I like Thirsty Dog and Great Lakes.   My daughter plays volleyball for Indiana University, so when in B-Town it is usually something from Upland for me.   Get out there and try some new ones, and never be afraid of the dark ones........ Mmmmmmm    

Oh and don't forget the imports....... Nothing like a good German brew

I probably saw your daughter play then, I went to a number of Purdue volleyball matches the past two years.

If you're in West Lafayette, be sure to go to the People's Brewing Company and Lafayette Brewing Company.  People's is newer and has the LBC's old brewer, and probably is a little better now.  But both are pretty damn good IMO.  Also if you're going to this year's Great Taste of the Midwest, give me a PM, I intend to go and we can meet up in Madtown before or during.

I like Upland, Bell's and Founders, I've had Rock Bottom and Great Lakes but must have had too many to form an opinion by that point.  Don't like Goose Island unless its on discount.  I have to give a shout out to Back Road and Three Floyds as two from Indiana to try.


For my Strategic Management course my group was assigned Breckenridge Brewery for a case study (this is really common in college courses now).  One of my roles was to analyze the overall craft brewing market.  There is a huge amount of growth in the market, the selection of "non-crap" beers you can get in the USA now is at an all-time-high.

That said, IMO there's a lot of micro-brewed stuff out there that I just don't like.  At the previously mentioned Great Taste of the Midwest last year, I had a lot of stuff that I thought tasted way too much like barley wine or just plain alcohol and not nearly enough like beer.  I'm not impressed by high alcohol contents, I want to enjoy the flavors and the alcohol be a pleasant side effect.  Personally, if I don't like it more than Sam Adams, I'm more than happy to spend my time and money on more Sam Adams, which is IMO the best nationally-sold beer around.

As for imports, most of them I think spend too long in shipping and don't taste right.  If there's one beer that's probably another nation's Budweiser that I like quite a bit, it would be Warsteiner, which a great little place less than a 10 minute stumble from my house called Nine Irish Brothers carries.