Well, It’s time for my yearly challenge on the subject. Anybody who has a problem with American beer should fly, ride, or HitchHike to Denver on Sept 25-27 For the Great American Beer fest. 1400 Beers, Yes you heard me right 1400 beers, every single one made in America. Although I must warm you you will find an ambrosia that will cause you to fall to your knees an praise the gods with tears in your eyes., and then you will never be able to find it again. 
In UK you can get decent beer for about 4 pounds a 4 pack, which is probably about $6. So for a 6 pack I think $9 is fine. However I suspect we have higher tax than you people on alcohol. But still, you yanks get most things cheaper than us so you really shouldnt be complaining about spending $9 for a 6 pack of beer.
European ones I’d recommend to the original poster are Becks and Amstel. I totally agree with him about Miller, it’s quite a sad tasting beer and no mistake. I dont like Bud much either.
Your favorite beer sucks.
Hey Griffin, back when I visited Edinbourgh in the 80’s, there was a popular, not very expensive beer called No. 3 Ale. “Serious” beer connisuers, like Michael Jackson, likely dismiss it (much like Shiner Bock), but is was a smooth, dark beer that went down better than Guiness, or most of the English beers. It seemed to have a cult following over there.
Is it still popular down there? What’s your take on it?
Please. UK beer was good, but nothing to write home about. The best American beers compare quite favorably to the best European beers.
Although, I don’t know what’s up with that beer and orange thing. Bizarre.
I’ll complain about whatever I want to, thankyouverymuch!
Besides, the beer your getting over there should cost more…it’s better than the average slop we’ve got here. The mainstream stuff, I mean.
And for those who recommend home brewing, I’ve been home brewing beer/wine since before some of you were even born!
Homebrewing takes time, it doesn’t always work out,, and it’s not as inexpensive as some make it out to be.
I cannot believe some are bucking me on this issue. I should be able to walk into a Kwicky Mart, buy a 12 pack of brew for a resonable price, and not have it taste like watered down corn juice & aluminum. .
What’s so hard to agree with on this?
Bah. I’m going back out riding. I’ll check back later.
After reading what you have just said, I now realize that you are completely fucked.
Deal with it!
Their mainstream stuff might be better, but they pay more for it. See? You can have good beer, too. You just have to pay more for it. This isn’t rocket science.
Well, you can. Your definition of a reasonable price is just different. I think $7 for a six of Sammy or Pete’s is completely reasonable. You seem to feel like you should be able to get quality for $4-$5 a six. Sorry.
It’s like walking into a White Castle and complaining about the quality of the burgers. You get what you pay for. If you want something good, you can’t pay slop prices. That’s just the way it goes.
Then your problem is that you’re drinking beer AT ALL.
Listen, my brothers, ditch this “beer” shit. It’s ALL shit. Every. Single. Beer. Ever. Brewed.
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.
So ixnay on the eerbay. 'Tain’t worth it. 'Specially if you’re complaining that a six-pack won’t even give you a buzz.
Instead, invest your cash into some hard liquor. Get some rum. Or vodka. Or tequila. Let’s face it, if you’re drinking beer - ANY beer - you’re not gonna need a $30-per-bottle booze. Go pick up a 1.75 liter jug of Bacardi for sixteen or seventeen bucks, and it can last you a week. Take it straight, or mix it with coke. Or anything else of your choosing. Rum is god, ladies and gentlemen. Redrum, Ciclon, Captain Morgan… beer shouldn’t even be a consideration next to these.
Fer chrissakes, people, why on Earth would you want to subject yourselves to such petty bickering about a product that is ALL worthless, when the inebriation utopia is so close at hand with a much better taste for a much lower price?!?
Damn Spoofe, I thought this was about beer, not California’s governor.
(Ahem) Ah, spogga… What about the hallowed old English drink known as a shandy? A mixture of beer and lemonade – served, if I rcall correctly, at room temperature?
Pot 1, kettle 0 in the bottom of the fifth.
Cellar temperature, not room temperature.
Fighter of ignorance 1, stereotype user 0.
I don’t know if it’s an old saw, but it’s the first I’ve heard of it, and it gave me my first laugh of the week. Thanks! 
Different tasting batches of Heineken? I find that hard to believe, seeing as how Heineken’s the second largest brewing conglomerate in the world (after Anheuser Busch), has breweries all over the globe (including several in the United States), and has been cramming out mass volumes of consistantly mediocre crap for decades now.
I’m no huge fan of mass-market American beers. Then again, I’m no huge fan of my country’s main “prides” Heineken and Amstel, either. I’d much rather drink a Grolsch or a Dommelsch. The problem with all Dutch beers is that the export versions are catered to the US market, so they taste like US beer. Heineken export is absolutely inferior to the domestic product, which isn’t anything over “average pilsner” at best to begin with. Grolsch export is horrible crap compared to the fantastic domestic product. Nametag has it right when he says Budweiser caters to what the American market wants: watered down, easy to drink beers. That’s not a bad thing per se, and as we can see, there clearly ARE some great American beers out there. But grosso modo, the average American likes his beer plain and easy to drink.
So does the average European, though. Some people wax lyrical about the superiority of European beers: while the variety of good quality beers is certainly larger over here than in the US, the relative quantity of quality beers consumed should be about the same: the average Dutchman will buy a case of Heineken, while the average American picks up a case of Bud. Same thing, as far as I’m concerned.
I’m just glad I live so close to Belgium, the absolute beer Walhalla. 
Stop insulting horse piss like that!
I’d rather stop drinking COMPLETELY than even walk past an open bottle or can of Buttwiper. Lite, or otherwise. Bleccchh.
My husband calls it “Twelve Headaches Per Can”. This is a man who thinks beer is synonymous with Godly Nectar. If Bud is all there is to drink, well, he ends up drinking water. Or vodka.
I am not a huge beer fan, but when I do partake, I like Rolling Rock or Rolling Rock Lite. I like the green bottles!
Considering that a true Pilsener beer hails from the Czech town of Pilsen, I’d wager that it’s pretty easy to ascertain which country has the world’s best beer actually. Certainly, I have exceedingly FOND memories of my visits to Pilsen - and a gorgeous beauty by the name of Snjezsana - but that’s another story for another thread.
Obviously, you enjoyed the town of Pilzen so much, you forgot how to spell it.
Awww, crap. Me and my big mouth. It’s Plzen in Czech, and Pilsen in English.
Anyways, I’ll just be the wiseass another way: Boo Boo Foo, you drooling idiot. Pilsen is special to pilsener/lager beers only. Surely, even a barbarian Fosters fan such as yourself realises there’s more to good beer than pilsener alone? 
Fosters? Shit man… beats me how they get that team of cats to piss in all those cans! Give me a Crown Lager any day.
Belgian white beers often benefit from a slice of orange. There’s a US-brewed Belgian-style white beer called Blue Moon that is tasty by itself and pure ambrosia once you add a wedge of orange.