There's only one thing better than free cold beer!
 

And that is free cold Miller Lite!!!! I can live with Lone Star (I'm originally from San Antonio) and even PBR...just not my preference. After you've had 6 or 7 it really doesn't matter does it?

6 or 7, and I might have a slight buzz.

Talk to me when you hit double digits. :D



College (University of Wisconsin) trained me well.

Not for me. I have tried some of that swill when it was free. I just can't do it!

x2!!

Crap beer gives me a headache.

1) with PBR, Natural Lite, some others I have a headache
2) Wisconson??? Point Beer?

No. Sprecher and Leinenkugel's.

I've also had a taste of Spotted Cow from New Glarus, and I've also had some tasty beverages from Ale Asylum.

Craft breweries are on the rise!

The best thing you have ever said!!! :D

Yeah, not sure if that's a compliment... ;)

I don't know. "Most obvious" maybe, but remember, the term "craft brewery" developed out of those which produced and distributed too much product to be a microbrewery.

And just because it is from a craft brewer doesn't make it good.

True, but it's certainly better than the toilet water that Miller, Anheuser Busch, Coors and Pabst sell.

Yup, though I do get Mike's point. I mean, you have Coors and AB brewing "craft" beers today. However, better beer, even from the massive swill producers, is a trend I like to see.

Not always.... I've had some pretty crappy craft beer; I've had some really, really bad stuff that had an almost petroleum aftertaste - awful and nearly undrinkable (by me, anyway). Maybe it was skunked, (I dunno, I'm not sure what "skunked" beer tastes like), but it was awful.

The popular mass-market beers are bland, but they don't taste BAD; they just don't have much taste at all. JMO.

For example, I once had a smoked beer from the Purple Onion (Outter Banks, NC). Tasted like what I assume would be licking an ashtray.

I want a beer that tastes like BEER. Not strawberry, not cherry, not lime, not coffee, not lemon, not....well, you get the point.

I blame it on today's generation which has to have some type of gum flavor in everything, from their coffee to their beer, water to vodka.

Yeah. There's a craft brewer here in the Twin Cities that has an almost cult-like fanbase. I tried a 6-pack of their best known brew --- Surly Furious --- supposedly an ale in the American IPA style. I swear it should instead be called Omar's Hard Limonade. The citrus flavor dominated. I won't be buying any more of that stuff.

They (Surly) do, however, put out a seasonal called Bitter Brewer, an ale in the English Bitter style. Now, THAT stuff is good! Too bad it is seasonal.