# I pitt Sam Adams commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 14, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349 "2004-09-14T01:57:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/41 "2004-09-15T05:49:17Z")
> [@Johnny Bravo](#): > > I once had a girlfriend who made me brownies… but now that seems pale and tiny in comparison. Sounds like she was maybe missing the “secret ingredient”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/42 "2004-09-15T16:14:26Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > That was my thought. Why bother going there to have the same thing you drink at home? It’s like going to Italy and eating at McDonald’s. Obviously you missed thread about the overwhelming number of McDonalds in Milan. ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/43 "2004-09-15T18:23:41Z")
> [@KCSuze](#): > > **PussyCow** , why don’t you try some Samuel Jackson beer? > > “Mmm mmm, bitch!” Samuel Jackson Beer It’s the one that says “Bad Motherfucker” on it 😃 [hijack] The beer **Ferret Herder** was refering to, the Maudite, is produced by Unibroue, out of Quebec. I would heartlily recommend some of their other brews, especially the Eau Benite, or the Blackcurrent. It’s suprisingly good. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/44 "2004-09-15T18:45:08Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > That was my thought. Why bother going there to have the same thing you drink at home? It’s like going to Italy and eating at McDonald’s. Did actually eat at a McD’s in the Mestre railway station. Only other option was a little shop with candy, chips, some funky sushi things in a small fridge and stale-looking bread. Had a Chicken Sandwich, but think they forgot the sauce. Used a lot of ketchup instead. Had a chicken-parm-ish taste. Hit the spot, regardless. No real point to this comment. Hit reply and didn’t feel like wasting the time it took to load. What? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/45 "2004-09-15T19:35:54Z")
> [@Emperor Penguin](#): > > Samuel Jackson Beer > > It’s the one that says “Bad Motherfucker” on it 😃 There was a stink here a year or two ago because a local microbrewery was trying to sell beer with “good beer - no shit” on the label. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/46 "2004-09-15T21:17:57Z")
The biggest problem I have with Sam Adams beers is that, although they are decent brews, they consistently miss the style they claim for their beers. Their Scotch Ale is too thin without the amount of maltiness it needs. The American Pale Ale seems Hop-phobic, the antithesis of what an APA should be. And the HefeWeisen has no discernable yeastiness. They aren’t bad beers, but they are not true to style. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/47 "2004-09-15T21:54:52Z")
The thing to do in that commercials situation is _ask for a made up beer_. “Ah, yes, may we have a round of Gekookte Luiers Stout? What? You don’t have it? Sigh…I guess I’ll just have a Guinness then.” ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/48 "2004-09-16T01:55:34Z")
> [@Ferret Herder](#): > > I’m a woman, and I notice favorably if a guy orders a decent beer. Then again, I also happen to be a homebrewer. It wouldn’t make me drool openly over a guy who doesn’t seem all that interesting, but it does score a few points at least. (I’m also of Dutch descent 😃 but almost assuredly not on that level of hottie.) How do you feel about us men who wouldn’t touch the bacteria piss known as beer? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/49 "2004-09-16T02:24:35Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > How do you feel about us men who wouldn’t touch the bacteria piss known as beer? I’d say that **proper** beer does not in any way, shape, or form resemble piss, and that beer - like most alcohol types, coffee, etc. - is an acquired taste. I’d note that alcohol is a byproduct of yeast, not bacteria. And, I’d mention that I wouldn’t appreciate my brewing (or cooking, etc.) being compared to bodily waste. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/50 "2004-09-16T02:46:06Z")
Pawtuket Patriot If you drink it, Beatiful naked women will have sex on your lawn. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/51 "2004-09-16T02:48:34Z")
> [@Ferret Herder](#): > > I’d say that **proper** beer does not in any way, shape, or form resemble piss, and that beer - like most alcohol types, coffee, etc. - is an acquired taste. I’d note that alcohol is a byproduct of yeast, not bacteria. And, I’d mention that I wouldn’t appreciate my brewing (or cooking, etc.) being compared to bodily waste. Of course alcohol is a product of yeast flatulence. 😉 BTW…my Pumpkin Ale is smelling quite nice in the secondary…trade a pint for some of your witbier 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/52 "2004-09-16T02:58:11Z")
> [@beagledave](#): > > BTW…my Pumpkin Ale is smelling quite nice in the secondary…trade a pint for some of your witbier 🙂 The carbonation failed. ☹ I forgot to add the carbonating sugar initially, and an attempt to recarbonate didn’t work. What has worked is force-carbonating it in a Tap-A-Draft minikeg, but of course that’s not as handy as a bottle. (And no, you can’t have the minikeg. 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/53 "2004-09-16T03:09:12Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > The thing to do in that commercials situation is _ask for a made up beer_. I’ll have a pint of Badezimmerbrau. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/54 "2004-09-16T03:29:24Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Pawtuket Patriot > > If you drink it, Beatiful naked women will have sex on your lawn. With me, or with each other? On second thought, doesn’t really matter, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/55 "2004-09-16T04:19:34Z")
**Homebrew** , I love you. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/56 "2004-09-16T06:35:18Z")
Why does everyone think the girl is Dutch? She sounded v. Russian to me… ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/57 "2004-09-16T23:51:25Z")
> [@andros](#): > > **Homebrew** , I love you. _blush_ Or do you mean homebrew as in the beer? Or both? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/58 "2004-09-17T00:45:44Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Well, those people at the Sam Adams Brewing Company are no fun at all. I tried to go to their site to see if they had pictures of said lady on it, and the welcome page required me to enter my birthdate to make sure I was over 21, or under 21 and able to do basic math. Exactly how they’re covering their asses there, I’m not sure. > > Anyway, to make really sure I was old enough to enter the site, I put in a birth year of 1827. That didn’t pass. I can’t imagine why. 177 year old people can’t drink? I then tried 1467. That didn’t go over, either. Now they’ve blocked my IP and I can’t get into the site even if I put in my correct birthdate. > > And yet… somehow… life goes on. I did something similar: put in a date 100 years before my real date. I don’t understand: (1) Why teenagers are not allowed to learn about beer. Not drink it – just learn about it. (2) Why they think that a teenager won’t put in a fake date anyway. Oh, and in some parts of the civilised world you are allowed to have a beer before you are 21 years old. The borders of the US are not the borders of the known universe (well, not for all of us). ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/59 "2004-09-16T21:59:38Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Oh, and in some parts of the civilised world you are allowed to have a beer before you are 21 years old. The borders of the US are not the borders of the known universe (well, not for all of us). The Newcastle Brown Ale site does the same thing- and Scottish and Newcastle is hardly an American brewery. I think the rationale here is that only Americans go to _beer websites_. The rest of the world knows enough to just drink the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349/60 "2004-09-16T22:59:52Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > I did something similar: put in a date 100 years before my real date. I don’t understand: > (1) Why teenagers are not allowed to learn about beer. Not drink it – just learn about it. > (2) Why they think that a teenager won’t put in a fake date anyway. My wild-ass guess is that there is some kind of regulation on avoiding advertising alcohol to teenagers. You know, how the cigarette companies get flak for using “cartoon characters” (Joe Camel) or other methods (like Kool’s promotion of cigarettes using hip-hop songs/giveaways/merchandise/etc.) that appeal to teens. Now we know there’s no foolproof way of keeping teens off websites, but at least this way the company can say they are definitely not using any kind of enticements on their homepage to intentionally lure in underage drinkers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pitt-sam-adams-commercials/264349.md?page=4)