# Bud v. Miller **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 7, 2001, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-v-miller/80308 "2001-09-07T22:34:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-v-miller/80308/21 "2001-09-09T15:57:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tequila Mockingbird \* > \*\*and home brew also. I make a stout that makes Guninness taste like Miller. … \*\* I see your home brew stout and raise you a homebrew Belgian Strong Ale mmmmmmm, guaranteed to grow hair even on TM’s chest 😃 ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-v-miller/80308/22 "2001-09-09T16:00:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WEW \* > \*\*Who say’s ya can’t like both? > > To me, a beer snob looking down his nose at an American Pilsner is like a wine snob looking down his nose at Bartles and James. > \*\* Except that Miller and Bud are not very good examples of American Pislners. If an American Pilsner (or lawn mowing beer, as we sometimes call it) is what you have a taste for (and sometimes I do)…there are better representatives of that style…that actually \ use barley instead of rice or corn. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-v-miller/80308/23 "2001-09-09T16:15:59Z")
If you want a Pilsner, why not go for the real thing. Pilsner Urquel or a Budweiser (spelling is probably wrong, but the original bud from the Czech Republic). When I was back in the US in July, my step mother had another Czech beer from Trader Joes that was on sale for about $4 a sixer, and it was real tasty. If you want bud or mgd, why not just go for Schmidt, Shaeffer, Milwakee’s Best or something of that ilk. Tastes the same and is cheaper. Nothing wrong with a lighter type lager, but there’s gotta be some taste there. Anchor Steam is pretty awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Sasquatch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Sasquatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sasquatch)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-v-miller/80308/24 "2001-09-09T17:18:06Z")
It’s funny - I’ve tried to find “my” beer, and I’ve tried almost every import / fancy-pants beer that exists, but I recently came back to drinking plain ol’ Bud. IT IS THE CIRCLE OF LIFE…or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![thermalribbon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@thermalribbon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thermalribbon)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-v-miller/80308/25 "2001-09-09T21:18:17Z")
There are alot of great hand-crafted beers that have tons of flavor - my favorite: **Great Lakes Brewing Co.'s Dortmunder Gold**. This is what you drink when you are on your deck or in a bar and have a thirst for a nice tasty brew. But if I am just getting of the golf course and am hot & sweaty, nothing beats a cold Budweiser. At these times, you need a watery, mild beer. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-v-miller/80308/26 "2001-09-09T21:44:01Z")
Choosing between Bud and Miller is like choosing between garbage and trash. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-v-miller/80308/27 "2001-09-10T04:39:21Z")
Between Miller and Bud, I prefer Miller Light. I’m not a big beer drinker, but if it’s alcoholic and in within reach, I’ll suck it down. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-v-miller/80308/28 "2001-09-10T04:44:27Z")
…so I usually don’t end up with either bud or Miller. If I’m trying to be cheap, I get Black Label/PBR/Milwaukee’s Best, or anything else that’s rock-bottom cheap, because I can’t taste the difference between Bud or Miller and those, but it’s more than a buck difference in price for a six. If I’m trying to get good beer, I get a microbrew. Sometimes I get Busch, because that’s the cheapest thing in a particular fridge. So I guess that counts for Bud. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-v-miller/80308/29 "2001-09-10T20:37:01Z")
MMM…PBR tall boys. I go in cycles. Sometimes I am in the mood for some highbrow something or other and I’ll go with one of the Rogues, or Samuel Smiths. But, Pabst is important too. You gotta have Pabst sometimes. I recently learned that you can get PBR in a bottle! A bottle?!? That’s a sacrilege. If you’re drinking PBR it needs to be in a can. There’s something inherently wrong with PBR in glass…’ And to answer the OP, given only those two, I’ll take Miller. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-v-miller/80308/30 "2001-09-10T20:50:17Z")
Miller High Life is the champagne of beers, Butwiper merely adds pagne to it. To be honest, I’d prefer my Bud in a joint (no, not a beer joint 😉 lieu I’m avoiding thunder like the clap. ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-v-miller/80308/31 "2001-09-10T21:16:51Z")
I love all beer. No beer is too mighty or too lowly for my consumption. Hardly anything I’ve ever tasted beats a Sierra Nevada porter. However… I outdrink ALL other beers by at least a 10-1 margin by my all-time favorite all-purpose beer: **Miller Lite**. So, Miller gets my vote. Further, as a display of shameless self-thread promotion, here’s the first MPSIMS thread I ever started, on the topic of Beer Non-Snobbery (and the only one I’ve ever started to go to two pages!): [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=18558](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=18558) ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-v-miller/80308/32 "2001-09-10T22:40:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by beagledave \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Tequila Mockingbird \* > > \*\*and home brew also. I make a stout that makes Guninness taste like Miller. … \*\* > > I see your home brew stout and raise you a homebrew Belgian Strong Ale mmmmmmm, guaranteed to grow hair even on TM’s chest 😃 \*\* **BD** , you do anything that could negatively impact the aesthetic of **TM’s** chest, and I think you might have more of an uprising around here than could be warded off with any amount of beer. Back to the topic at hand, Bud and Miller are interchangeable. I’m a big fan of Dos Equis Amber and Sapphoro, though. ---
**Author:** ![GENE\_STONER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@GENE\_STONER](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GENE_STONER)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-v-miller/80308/33 "2001-09-11T02:00:20Z")
Bud always seemed to me to have a weird aftertaste. Miller on the other hand, gives me a nice warm feeling in my stomach if I slam several in a row. But all in all, I’ll drink any kind of beer. I’ve even been known to drink Coors! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-v-miller/80308.md?page=1)