Originally Posted by Not Bob (Post 480144)

Topsiders instead of Birkenstocks (and no socks) and a t-shirt from my land grant football factory undergrad alma mater instead of a golf shirt, but your point is noted, commie.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 480145)

Side bet? Five bucks says the waitress at the diner is going to get her keister pinched pretty darn soon.

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 480142)

Adder is correct. To argue that Budweiser is a "beer that tastes like beer" is like saying that you like the McRib because it is a barbeque that tastes like barbeque and you can enjoy it without having to get into pretentious debates about which Carolina or Texas makes barbeque the right way. Budweiser is a uniquely American bastardization of a beverage that has existed many many centuries in a form that has has almost nothing to do with what is consumed in America as Budweiser. And if I were a brewer of Czech pilsners, I would slap Taxwonk across the face and challenge him to a duel. I don't care if you want to drink Bud by the case (I will judge you, but I don't care), but to argue that in doing so you are somehow superior to others who have perverted real beer (Bud, Miller) into some pretentious craft snobbery shows an unbelievably short and distorted view of the history of brewing. And for fuck's sake, NotBob, putting aside whether fun. is pretentious or not, that song is like the anti-viagra. I am changing my earlier "Live and Let Listen" viewpoint in light of your affront to beer and now demand that you either stop listening to fun. or, at a minimum, never speak of it in public again. I have this horrible vision of you sitting around in a lawn chair on your front lawn in cargo shorts and a golf shirt with black socks under your Birkenstocks, drinking Bud out of the can and listening to fun. on your iWhatever and bobbing your head perkily to the beat, and it is filling me with an unspeakable rage. Stop this fucking nonsense right now.

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 480148)

Just because I am in favor of state control over the means of production does not excuse your lapse in judgment. There are plenty of nice pilsners out there that are not too bitter, not too hoppy, but actually taste like beer. If you think you can try one that has some hoppiness without your testicles shrinking into your body, try Victory Prima Pils. I'm more of a Victory Golden Monkey fan, but at least I would sleep better at night knowing you aren't drinking some yellow piss that has been specially brewed to make it as generic as possible. And there are plenty of frothy pop groups out there that play fun, low-calorie music that won't make your penis fall off when listening to it. But let us be clear on one point -- if I hear of you lounging around in your Dockers khakis and white t-shirt with your can of Rice Beer Lite, washing down your McBarbeque sandwich, and bopping around to that Fun. song, I will track you down and mace you into submission.

Originally Posted by taxwonk (Post 480152)

Fuck you, hipster doofus.

Oh. Wait. Is it Friday, yet?

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 480154)

Gentlemen, gentlemen, do not fight. Our God is a loving God who has blessed us with a beautiful rainbow of beers of every imaginable color and flavor, brewed all over His bountiful Creation, from Spaten all the way to Stella Artois.

Originally Posted by taxwonk (Post 480132)

Bud, for the most part, is a good Czech pilsner.

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 480142)

Adder is correct. To argue that Budweiser is a "beer that tastes like beer" is like saying that you like the McRib because it is a barbeque that tastes like barbeque and you can enjoy it without having to get into pretentious debates about which Carolina or Texas makes barbeque the right way. Budweiser is a uniquely American bastardization of a beverage that has existed many many centuries in a form that has has almost nothing to do with what is consumed in America as Budweiser. And if I were a brewer of Czech pilsners, I would slap Taxwonk across the face and challenge him to a duel. I don't care if you want to drink Bud by the case (I will judge you, but I don't care), but to argue that in doing so you are somehow superior to others who have perverted real beer (Bud, Miller) into some pretentious craft snobbery shows an unbelievably short and distorted view of the history of brewing. And for fuck's sake, NotBob, putting aside whether fun. is pretentious or not, that song is like the anti-viagra. I am changing my earlier "Live and Let Listen" viewpoint in light of your affront to beer and now demand that you either stop listening to fun. or, at a minimum, never speak of it in public again. I have this horrible vision of you sitting around in a lawn chair on your front lawn in cargo shorts and a golf shirt with black socks under your Birkenstocks, drinking Bud out of the can and listening to fun. on your iWhatever and bobbing your head perkily to the beat, and it is filling me with an unspeakable rage. Stop this fucking nonsense right now.

Originally Posted by Adder (Post 480155)

It's Friday somewhere! Ya know what I mean?

I wonder if the liquor store in the skyway carries Schlitz. I could go for a cold one.

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 480160)

The Germans are as good at beer as they are at winning world wars. The perfected form of the beverage is the IPA. Behind that is the Russian imperial stout, the Belgians, then porter.

The sharpest Pilsner has flavor complexities on par with Sunkist. Dogfishead makes an imperial pilsner, which I would have to assume is as good as pilsner gets, given it's packing twice the ingredients in a usual one, and thus twice the flavor.

And it still sucks. Would I prefer it to American Bud? Sure. In the same sense I might prefer a dry hand job to none.

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 480160)

The Germans are as good at beer as they are at winning world wars. The perfected form of the beverage is the IPA. Behind that is the Russian imperial stout, the Belgians, then porter.

The sharpest Pilsner has flavor complexities on par with Sunkist. Dogfishead makes an imperial pilsner, which I would have to assume is as good as pilsner gets, given it's packing twice the ingredients in a usual one, and thus twice the flavor.

And it still sucks. Would I prefer it to American Bud? Sure. In the same sense I might prefer a dry hand job to none.

Originally Posted by Adder (Post 480156)

It's like less than 800 kilometers between Munich and Leuven.

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 480160)

The perfected form of the beverage is the IPA.

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 480170)

This may be the wrongest you have ever been.

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 480172)

You folks do realize that the reason they make different beers is because sometimes one thing is better than another, and sometimes not -- right? This is like an argument about whether red wine is better than white.