Wait, so you’re saying that RC cola tastes more like Coke than Coke does? The concept of “cola” comes from the name “Coca-Cola”. They invented the genre.
It’s like saying “lamb tastes like beef. Cow tastes like fat.”
Dog crap has a distintive taste, which is NOT inherently in and of itself a good thing.
um, you must mean that RC draft “premium cola” stuff, because normal RC cola uses high fructose corn syrup too.
I don’t know how literally you were speaking here, but most large urban areas will have at least a few good microbrews anywhere beer is available. My tiny corner store has at least a dozen, and every, and I mean every real bar (i.e. not Chevys or a wine bar) here will have at least Anchor Steam and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. I saw plenty of Goose Island in Chicago and Brooklyn Brewing in NYC.
Microbrews are available much farther and wider than their brewpubs.
-Troy McClure SF, who lives about 2,000 feet from Toronado.
Heh… when I get rich and open a bar in the Mission, I’m gonna charge $5 for PBR to subsidize the $3 RRBC and Speakeasy stuff. 
I find gonzomax’s statement even more curious, as I live in Michigan as well and always found the local bars to be well stocked with non-major label beers.
Because they’re mass produced; that’s why they suck. No matter what they claim, they simply cannot procure quality ingredients in such massive quantities on a regular basis to produce premium beer. Not to mention, the cost of doing so would force them to charge more.
There’s a line there though. Obviously Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada are mass produced too, but they aren’t awful.
Personally had a couple of good evenings with the Boston Lager.
Yes. There’s a fine line between “mass produced” and “ass produced.” 
Yeah
You just put some “mmmm” in it
The big boys all taste almost identical. CoorsMillerBudOldStyle What’s the diff? I know lot’s of people who swear by one or another and treat the competition like bottled urine, but I really bet they couldn’t differentiate in a blind taste test no matter how forcefully they protest otherwise.
I like Summit myself which tastes nothing like like the pop beers. I’m sure there are other micros that I would find practically identical to Summit, but that’s fine. I won’t swear by one brand and curse the others.
Whereas when I run across somewhere that sells it, I always buy a bottle. Of course, I drink it hunched over like Gollum protecting the ring, smelling, sipping and admiring, while looking over my shoulder for someone who might steal my treasure.
To me, the bitterness and hop nose is the ultimate expression of God’s love for us, a gift of knowledge given to the brewer, and bottled and shared with me alone.
If only I had the sack to try to make a homebrew that big and bold. Hopefully my “hop soup” recipe in the fermenter will help with this addiction.
To each their own, and for the record, when camping with the guys, I’m a Bud-light man… supplemented by good bourbon, of course. 
I can generally tolerate the hopped up brews, although they are far from my favorite. ABA got the pour for the dead homies down the drain.
Like you said though butler, to each their own.
Now speaking of homebrews… looks like I need to start a new thread asking for equipment recommendations, ha.
According to Joel Achenbach in his Why Things Are books, it’s using rice (he doesn’t mention corn). He also notes that a guzzle-able beer makes better inroads to teenagers and college kids, setting them up better for brand loyalty. Most people don’t have the inclination, time, or money to become aficionados of things like beer. Hershey’s sells a lot of chocolate, but the chocolate lovers of the world think it’s completely forgettable.
If you want to really see some stupid beer commentary, walk into a Canadian bar and ask them about how Canadian beer is better than American, and they’ll go on about it for half an hour… and yet they’re more than likely to be drinking Molson Canadian of Labatt’s Blue, which are pop beers completely indistinguishable from Bud, Miller, etc.
The myth that Canadian beer is stronger, better or both than American beer is a remarkably well-ingrained concept in Canada, despite its being one hundred percent bullshit. The most popular beers here are just pop beers. Availability of actual quality beer is no greater here than in the States.
Taste is subjective and changes over the years.
I started off drinking pints of mixed bottled brown ale and mild ale as a nipper but its much too sickly for me now.
Also Newcastle Brown ale which has a distinctive taste .
Spent many years drinking real ale(because it was usually a lot stronger then keg fizz) but the taste of it now seems pretty gruesome to me .
Have also drank cider and Scrumpy over the years and still do so on occassion.
Used to love Guinness and have had it in Ireland aswell but made myself sick of it in the end.
Have drank all sorts of beers all over the world,many of them totally forgetable.
Have never drank any American Micro Brewery beer so cant comment on it but mainstream,mass produced U.S. beer for me at least is weak and fizzy and I would only drink it out of politeness.
I drink Stella Artois now bnecause its strong and tastes quite nice.
In the U.K. because we are surrounded by foreign countries drinking imported beer is not a big thing on the snob/elitism front so that doesn’t enter into the equation normally(And you’d be laughed at if it did)but ironically amongst the younger drinkers drinking Bud from the bottle became trendy for a while and Mexican beers with something or other stuffed in the neck of the bottle are still considered the “In” drink by upwardly mobile wannabes.
Looks like distance may be a factor.
Otherwise in my local supermarket you can buy beers from almost literally anywhere in the world.
So sorry but most American beer isn’t very good.
Around these parts, Sam Adams is brewed in Cincinnati. 
I don’t care for most of the beers made by Sam Adams, but the regular Lager is very good. But I have to tell you, Samual Adams Summer Ale is awesome. I heard vendors had a difficult time keeping it in stock.
Come to think of it, are there any notable Canadian microbrews? I’m not a beer drinker, so I don’t pay too much attention to the topic, but it seems that all of the well-regarded microbrews I’ve heard of are American. Do the Canadian ones just not get mentioned as much, are there fewer of them, or are they just not as good? (Or am I just not paying attention?)
It’s that Canadian Beer in Canada was often fresher than Canadian beer in America or American beer in Canada, thus the myth that the beer was better. Coors (which
isn’t terrible) got it’s cache also based upon freshness.
Especially with the lagers, freshness is more important than many dudes think.