Rolling Rock is like flavored water

JHendrix · Jun 10, 2005

So we go to Hooters for lunch.

No Guiness, figures; didn't expect it there. No Killeans though! No Yuengling? We're in NJ, they brew that stuff in PA! Not even Sam Adams! And that's bottom of the barrel stuff as far as I'm concered for something dark enough to drink.

So on comes the Rolling Rock. Flavored water. I mean when I can easily gulp the stuff down like it's Diet Coke, there's a problem. A good beer should have enough to it that you want to drink it slowly to enjoy it.

This was not beer, it looked like Panda Piss and tasted like flavored water.

Tacitus · Jun 10, 2005

I really hate rolling rock. You're absolutely right, it tastes like beer flavored water.

"From the glass lined tanks of old latrobe, we filter our morning after whizz"

Yuengling is the only PA beer worth a shit.. unfortunately, since it went national, the quality dropped a bit.

Ely13 · Jun 10, 2005

JHendrix said:
So on comes the Rolling Rock. Flavored water. I mean when I can easily gulp the stuff down like it's Diet Coke, there's a problem. A good beer should have enough to it that you want to drink it slowly to enjoy it.

Huzzah, American beer. Went to restaurant a few weeks ago, wanted a beer badly, and they only had bud. It was like mildly bitter carbonated water. Hope you didn't pay too much for your panda piss.

Lets Gekiga In · Jun 10, 2005

Anchor Steam and Sam Adams are the only American beers worth a shit IMO, and maybe Red Hook.

Ely13 · Jun 10, 2005

Anchor Steam and Sam Adams are okay if they're cold, but Red Hook is way too bitter for me.

shir0 · Jun 10, 2005

Isn't the point to get fucked up?

I don't care if it's Natty Lite or Guiness Stout, I will down that shit like it's
water. The only beer I don't like is non-alcoholic beer. The way I see it is
why spend the money for red stripe, corona or something pricey when you
can get a case for 10 bucks of natty and get even more fucked up than that
six pack you bought for the same price.

I once had one of my best friends spend 30 minutes arguing with me about
quality over quanitity and how I was messing up the drinking experience by
"polluting it with cheap beer and liquor." I bought a handle of barnett's gin
and he bought a small bottle of bombay saphire. By the end of the night, I
had gotten myself and four other people drunk as fuck and still had some
left over. He ran out really early on with only one person drinking. After a
pissy rant, he started drinking my stuff. What a dummy.

Magnaflux · Jun 10, 2005

Some of us like beer to drink, not to get drunk. Knucklehead. :angry:

JHendrix · Jun 10, 2005

Lets Gekiga In said:
Anchor Steam and Sam Adams are the only American beers worth a shit IMO, and maybe Red Hook.

I hate Sam Adams. It's dark enough to drink but that's about it IMO, it tastes like crap, IMO IMO IMO. I know there are alot of Sam Adams lovers out there.

Killeans Irish Red is actually an American beer believe it or not and it's actually one of my favorite "cheap drinking beers" when it comes down to it. Semi-Dark and good taste, but light enough to have a few.

"Aruba Red" is the house beer at the Bahama Breeze restaurant chain that's semi-national I think, reguardless it's the only place you can get it if the waiter was to be believed. Anyway it's brewed by Bud of all places and it's actually really nice to drink, I was really surprized that it was a Bud product.

Not all American beers are bad, there are a ton of micro-breweries out there in the USA that make a FINE product. Flying Fish is a tiny brewery that was litterally down the street from the house I lived in most of my time in NJ and they have a very nice line of beers from the panda-piss US Bud clone all the way to a porter, stout and a very nice lager.

Ely13 · Jun 10, 2005

Magnaflux said:
Some of us like beer to drink, not to get drunk. Knucklehead.

And if you read JHendrix's original post, coming back to work after lunch while tanked isn't very good decision making.

JHendrix · Jun 10, 2005

Magnaflux said:
Some of us like beer to drink, not to get drunk. Knucklehead.

I dub thee Magnaflux, my Beer Brother at Arms.

Go forth and spread the good word, burn the heretics.

Magnaflux · Jun 10, 2005

Ely13 said:
And if you read JHendrix's original post, coming back to work after lunch while tanked isn't very good decision making.

It's not uncommon for engineers/architects/lawyers/professionals ect to go out and have a couple of beers with lunch. If you get tanked, you indeed have poor decision making capabilities and probably won't be working there much longer.

That Aruba Red is pretty good.

Domino-chan · Jun 10, 2005

I definitely have the same feelings about most American beers. Microbrews are the way to go.

I dunno if it's out in the east, but I do recommend trying anything from the New Belgium Brewing Co. Fat Tire = almost godly amber ale.

Ely13 · Jun 10, 2005

Oh, of course not. When we go out to have a 'professional lunch', usually a few people opt for a beer or white wine. My comment was there in that you get the alcohol to accompany the lunch, so you'd want something that tastes good, not something that'll get you staggering back into the office.

Anyway, if you want to get wasted cheaply and can suppress your gag reflex, nothing beats Albertson's Vodka :oh_no:

shir0 · Jun 10, 2005

I don't understand that at all.

But then again, I don't drink beer or anything else alcoholic unless my goal
is to get fucked up. Anyway the only beer I've tried just to "drink" as you
crazy kids put it is Blue Moon. That stuff tastes like oranges and fizz.

I'll have to "try" the Aruba Red stuff the next time I go to Bahama Breeze.

pixeljunkie · Jun 10, 2005

Magnaflux said:
Some of us like beer to drink, not to get drunk. Knucklehead.

totally! I hardly get drunk ever anymore. I LOVE beer though. Still can't kick Newcastle as my fave.

Lets Gekiga In · Jun 10, 2005

JHendrix said:
I hate Sam Adams. It's dark enough to drink but that's about it IMO, it tastes like crap, IMO IMO IMO. I know there are alot of Sam Adams lovers out there.

Killeans Irish Red is actually an American beer believe it or not and it's actually one of my favorite "cheap drinking beers" when it comes down to it. Semi-Dark and good taste, but light enough to have a few.

"Aruba Red" is the house beer at the Bahama Breeze restaurant chain that's semi-national I think, reguardless it's the only place you can get it if the waiter was to be believed. Anyway it's brewed by Bud of all places and it's actually really nice to drink, I was really surprized that it was a Bud product.

Not all American beers are bad, there are a ton of micro-breweries out there in the USA that make a FINE product. Flying Fish is a tiny brewery that was litterally down the street from the house I lived in most of my time in NJ and they have a very nice line of beers from the panda-piss US Bud clone all the way to a porter, stout and a very nice lager.

It's always a good idea to stick to imports. Heineken and Guinness for me.

Opinions on Newcastle? Is it any good?

pixeljunkie · Jun 10, 2005

Lets Gekiga In said:
It's always a good idea to stick to imports. Heineken and Guinness for me.

Opinions on Newcastle? Is it any good?

Newcastle = Mother's milk

Lets Gekiga In · Jun 10, 2005

pixeljunkie said:
Newcastle = Mother's milk

It's really funny that you say Newcastle is great just a minute before I asked about it. :loco:

Ely13 · Jun 10, 2005

Meh. Newcastle is like drinking liquefied barley.

Great for black and tans, though.

shirt · Jun 10, 2005

shir0 said:
Isn't the point to get fucked up?

I don't care if it's Natty Lite or Guiness Stout, I will down that shit like it's
water. The only beer I don't like is non-alcoholic beer. The way I see it is
why spend the money for red stripe, corona or something pricey when you
can get a case for 10 bucks of natty and get even more fucked up than that
six pack you bought for the same price.

I once had one of my best friends spend 30 minutes arguing with me about
quality over quanitity and how I was messing up the drinking experience by
"polluting it with cheap beer and liquor." I bought a handle of barnett's gin
and he bought a small bottle of bombay saphire. By the end of the night, I
had gotten myself and four other people drunk as fuck and still had some
left over. He ran out really early on with only one person drinking. After a
pissy rant, he started drinking my stuff. What a dummy.

Aw, tell me it ain't so. I always thought you appreciated good beer.

Last time I drank a Bud I had one and had to wash the taste of chalky chemicals out of my mouth with Johnny Walker.

By the time I'm good and buzzed I'm damn glad I've been drinking something quality. Fucking Natty, you gotta be kidding me.

As for the liquor, the reason (other than the obvious inferiority in taste) people prefer not to drink the cheapass rotgut is that the cheap shit is much less refined, contains shitloads more sulfites and results in your nauseous, sweaty uncomfortable hangovers. Fuck, I have little to no money and I still refuse to buy store brands over say Wild Turkey or Captain Morgan.

Anyway, yeah Rolling Rock is garbage. Other than Sam Adams and Red Hook, a good domestic is anything by New Belgium, who are growing as we speak. I still need to try Anchor Steam.

pixeljunkie · Jun 10, 2005

Ely13 said:
Meh. Newcastle is like drinking liquefied barley.

Great for black and tans, though.

bleh. Black and tans

I will admit, Newcastle is like drinking a sandwich...but a tasty sandwich!

neo_X7 · Jun 10, 2005

t3h Mike's is were it is at!

soulthug · Jun 10, 2005

I t3h fuxx0rs Fosters, and Carlsberg is the football beer.

shir0 · Jun 10, 2005

My parents go to wine tasting things all the time, but do they have beer tasting
events? That would be sort of cool I guess.

Magnaflux · Jun 10, 2005

I remember liking Rolling Rock and Budweiser several years ago. I can't stand them today.

I don't know if my tastes have changed or if they suck today.

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