What are you drinking right now?

[Nitro Express]

I actually do add some salt to some beers.. Shitty Budweiser being one of them.

I know a guy who brews beer and he says some of the lighter American beers are harder to make consistently than the higher hopped beers. He said Budweiser is not an easy beer to make and they even age it with beechwood. Anheuser Bush even grows their own beechwood trees for that process.

He said those types of beers were popular when most people worked blue collar jobs and spent a lot of time out in the sun and heat. You wanted a lighter beer for those conditions. Now people have developed a taste for heavier higher hopped beers. So maybe the beer isn't shit but it was made for a different customer base in a different time. We live much differently now than our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents did.

[DONNIEP]

This not based on fact... just research .. Heinken and amstel have to be drunk in holland to appreciate them .
And not necessarily with with smoke and hookers .
Thats optional .....seemingly

Optional and highly recommended!!

[Nitro Express]

I like Heineken but the only Amstel beer I had was Amstel Light. It sucked so bad I had to pour it out. It was nasty.

[vandeleur]

Drink it in the dam... amstel gets its name from waking up and going amstel pissed

[Nickdfresh]

I like Heineken but the only Amstel beer I had was Amstel Light. It sucked so bad I had to pour it out. It was nasty.

It's awful, and one of the few light beers dying here because it tastes like someone dipped burnt cork into soda water.

More Guinness!

[VAiN]

So maybe the beer isn't shit but it was made for a different customer base in a different time. We live much differently now than our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents did.

No, I'm pretty sure it's just shitty.
I feel the same about Heineken.. It's shitty unless served at 33 degrees. Terrible once it warms up.

[VAiN]

Black & Tan

[VAiN]

[vandeleur]

That looks horrible

[envy_me]

Is it just food colouring?

[VAiN]

Is it just food colouring?

Yeah, just food colouring and a green spot light hitting it at just the right moment.

[Nitro Express]

No, I'm pretty sure it's just shitty.
I feel the same about Heineken.. It's shitty unless served at 33 degrees. Terrible once it warms up.

The strange thing is they buy the best raw ingredients. They grow some of the best barley in Idaho and there are several malting plants that supply the beer industry. They also grow hops on the other side of the state. AB has their own malting plant that supplies all their brands including Budweiser. Next to it is a malting plant that supplies some of the malt for Mexican beers like Cornona.

So they aren't cutting costs on the ingredients it's just that they are making a lighter bodied beer which anyone who brews will tell you are very hard to make consistently. It's just that people's taste in beer has changed over the years.

[envy_me]

What about the day after anxiety? Sometimes when I drink I get huge anxiety the day after without any reason at all.
Lately I can wake up in the middle of the night with anxiety, but it passes by the morning.

Just curious about the phenomenon. That won't be a problem for me since I won't drink for a very, VERY long time. Like never again. But it's interesting.

[vandeleur]

When I go on a session in the morning I suffer from

None specific guilt syndrome

A condition I have invented for when you can't remember what happened during the blurry bits .
It's like shit what have I got up to

[envy_me]

When I go on a session in the morning I suffer from

None specific guilt syndrome

A condition I have invented for when you can't remember what happened during the blurry bits .
It's like shit what have I got up to

But I can remember everything and I haven't done anything wrong. But still I can feel guilty and have anxiety.