# Fucking shitty American beer. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 24, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-shitty-american-beer/197262 "2003-08-24T02:32:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-shitty-american-beer/197262/81 "2003-08-26T00:13:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Chinook [Alaskan Amber Beer](http://gear.alaskanbeer.com/years.html) is the finest brew I’ve ever had in the states although, sadly, unless something’s changed in the last few years it can only be found there. Please advise if anyone knows this to have changed. > > As distant seconds, I’ll agree with Fat Tire and Sierra Nevada. \*\* Alive and well! Along with **Alaskan Pale** and **Alaskan Summer Ale** , two other excellent brews. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-shitty-american-beer/197262/82 "2003-08-26T02:09:13Z")
So no fans of Abita’s fabulous beers? I remember going to a concert on the grounds of the Abita Brewery outside New Orleans and seeing an 18-wheeler with taps in its side serving all Abita’s brews for 25 cents a cup. I remember the beginning of the show, but I can’t say I recall the end very clearly. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-shitty-american-beer/197262/83 "2003-08-26T02:21:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ogre \* > **So no fans of Abita’s fabulous beers?** Please refer to my recent rating of this beer: pkbites (48), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Rated: 2 out of 5 Date: Aug 23, 2003 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall 10/10 5/5 3/10 1/5 1/20 _ **I had this on tap in New Orleans at the Bubba Gump Shrimp company. It has a nice aroma and color, and the flavor starts off smacking of caramel. But then…GLUP! A really bad taste in the finish assaults the palate. I don’t know what it is. Bad water? Rotten hops? There is a flavor in the background of this beer that I can’t describe. But it’s not good. In fact, it total ruins an otherwise good beer.** _ I actually had this a couple of times at a couple different places in the Big Easy. It starts good, but there something in it that don’t taste right. What do they use…Bayou swamp water? ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-shitty-american-beer/197262/84 "2003-08-26T02:42:55Z")
I would always take a Newcastle over a Budweiser any night but: 1. On days when there is 12 hours of continuous beer drinking, Bud Light fits the bill much better than the stronger dark ales and: 2. It’s called “Lawnmower Beer” for a reason. Fresh from Saturday physical activity, a Budweiser sounds delicious but a dark ale would be hard to stomach. 3. H.O. What do you folks do in these situations? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-shitty-american-beer/197262/85 "2003-08-26T03:05:16Z")
> [@](#): > > What do you folks do in these situations? Well I’ve actually gone to Fat Tire as my main/standby beer. It’s good, but not too much of anything. The smell, head, aroma, taste, aftertase are all good, but light and passing, as is the stomach effect. It’s a bit watery, but that’s good for a long drinking session. If I’m going for 5+ beers in a night, anything heavy really turns up the heartburn and gas. Fat Tire makes me happy to drink, and not unhappy for the next three hours. ---
**Author:** ![Hayduke\_Lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Hayduke\_Lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hayduke_Lives)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-shitty-american-beer/197262/86 "2003-08-26T03:07:05Z")
Cripes. I’ve been reading some of **PK’s** reviews on that beer page. Everyone get’s ripped on. About Schell(😕 never heard of it) he says:_“Jesse Venturas last act as Governor should have been to order the Minnesota Air-National Guard to bomb the factory where this shit is made… Blech!!!”_ About Kul (a beer I’ve heard of but never had) he says: _“When I am finally put in charge of things, people who make beer like this will be executed…”._ Then there’s this gem about Rhinelander: _“TRUE STORY: Once, while working as an EMT, I performed CPR on a guy… but right when he took that first new breath of life, he barfed up, spraying puke back into my mouth…That strangers vomit tasted better than this beer!..”_ It goes on and on. Very few beers get a passing grade. I don’t think he’s ever going to find one that meets his price/taste balance. Maybe he’ll get lucky and win a lifetime supply of a beer he likes and he won’t have to buy it anymore.😛 ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-shitty-american-beer/197262/87 "2003-08-26T03:12:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > > All of it. Shit. They got a big heaping mound of shit, and then they pissed onto the shit, caught the piss-shit runoff, vomited in the resultant fluid to give it some thickening, then had leperous dogs fuck wildly in the entire glurge, and then canned it. All beer comes from this source, a giant piss-shit-puke-dogfucking-juice manufacturing plant in Disgusting Muck, Wisconsin. > > \*\* Now that is FUNNY, you sir? are a genius, and Captain Morgans & coke is good!. unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-shitty-american-beer/197262/88 "2003-08-26T07:29:07Z")
I was introduced to the wonderful **Captain Morgan’s Rum** by a dude named **Weirddave** , and while I’m no huge rum fan per se, I’d have to say adding coke to such a fine product would be blasphemous. There’s plenty of BAD rum around to use as a mixer. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-shitty-american-beer/197262/89 "2003-08-26T07:44:15Z")
Now, now, Coldy, methinks you need to get your hands on some of Captain Morgan’s Private Stock. THAT is liquid orgasm on your tongue. Pricier, but man, is it ever worth the treat. Sorry for the hijack, though. ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-shitty-american-beer/197262/90 "2003-08-27T01:22:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pkbites \* > \*\*There is one beer made in Milwaukee that I consider world class: [SPRECHER.](http://www.sprecherbrewery.com/). > They’re sold in 4 packs and I’ve seen them range in price from $5.99 to as high as $7.99. 8 bucks for 4 beers?:eek: C’mon! > \*\* Sprecher is God’s Own Brewery. Yeah, it’s steep for a 4 pack. But DAMN. Worth every penny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-shitty-american-beer/197262.md?page=4)