what about yuengling?

Yuengling is the fastest kid with no legs - more of a stepping stone onto bigger and brighter things.

All the same, I stuck with those for a while - and at least they're independent from the Big Two. That's a hell of an accomplishment in the American beer market. :)

Tastes like crackers

Who loves corn soda?

America loves corn soda

Is it true?

Its true, its true, its true-oooooo!

Actually it should be "Mhmm, I do I do I do-ooooo" if you're going for Kel from Keenan and Kel.

It tastes like corn because it's mixed, not brewed.

Milwaukee's filthy secret.

My town is blessed enough to have a regional brewery as well as a handful of microbreweries attached to restaurants... and yet the corn soda is still the most popular thing around here. Sad... really.

I have a grocery store within a mile of my house that stocks nothing but independent and craft brews. They seem to be doing well :)

But there's so many restaurants and bars I can't order beer in.

That's how I hear it in my ears :\

HEY. What's wrong with cornhole? >8C

\< I'm watchin' you...

Really, just the name is funny to me in a sophomoric way.

It is to most people outside of Cincinnati...

I'm drinking it ironically.

Pabst man, I see

It's all sort of funny, the cheap stuff I like is Labatt, which is Canadian, but everything better is American, though I've never had Miller, though I recently tried Coors, just to see, and the adage about canoes is quite true, there.

I have not heard an adage about canoes relating to Coors?

Like making love in a canoe... Fucking close to water.

Ah, gracias.

Craft beer is growing in this country thank god. Always good to see another made the leap. Then you get like me and start experimenting and making it. You gotta at least go once to the Great American Beer Festival in Denver~

Both batches I've tried to make failed. I blame bad yeast and having to move out of an apartment mid-session :C

Yeah yeast can be finicky when disturbed or temp change. Sucks it didn't work out considering the time it takes to make the stuff. Right now my room mate and I regularly do a Belgian strong, imperial oatmeal coffee stout, various farm ales, a seasonal pumpkin, and an imperial oatmeal fennel stout. We're going the extra mile here too. He's building a 150 gallon system...so hopefully one day you'll see our brand of Belgian on the market~

That would be awesome :D

If you guys don't have a designer for the packaging by then, I'd love to help.

Will definitely keep that in mind. Hopefully will have steady batches going by next year so we can enter GABF as a brewery.

Ugh. You just aren't serious if you're ordering beer, especially American beer. If you aren't ordering 3 fingers or more of vodka then you probably just don't need to be drunk that badly!

American mass-market beers are, based on my admittedly limited exposure, even worse crap than European mass-market beers. American craft beers, though, I've found very interesting.

American craft beers are amazing, and have produced most of my favorites. I love authentic Belgian Tripels though.

So, you like to chew your brew, do ya?

Trippels make me chunda. Belgian white is where it's at.

Oh man, do I! I love a cloudy beer.

I'll stick to hard cider, m'self, thanks. :9

PS: Thought that said "Queer Bears" at first. This is what comes from web surfing first thing in the morning with no glasses on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0AbrbD00pg

That's a great, ridiculous movie :D

Indeed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snhiofL2Rh4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbJv5kikjdE

Miller Light tastes like something?

Water tastes like something :D

i just learned what cornhole was last year when i moved to this university town
and it wasn't nearly as awesome as i thought it was going to be

The first time I heard "cornhole" was from Office Space. I still don't associate it with a game.

Even people who don't drink beer drink corn soda since all sodas except the fancy-pants organic ones are sweetened with corn derivatives.

Ugh. Corn syrup needs to go away.

Except for pecan pies... pecan pies are worth it, but I'm sure there's an alternative method of making those that might actually be better than corn syrup :C

I'm Belgian! We got beer that'll hit you like a semi-truck with an afterburner if you drink it like you drink beer in the states.

Lucky you - getting it straight from the source! What's your favorite over there?

The dark or fruit beers. Depends somewhat on my taste preference at the time. But if you want good Belgian beer try finding small independent breweries because InBev is basically watering down the brew. The dry stuff content of one beer now is but a fraction of what it used to be. Primus Haacht is the only large brewery still independent from InBev. But should you ever happen to end up in Belgium I can show you a few small breweries around Mechelen and Leuven if you like. In Leuven you got the tavern Domus with its own brewery and one of its beers is called Con-Domus. And in Mechelen we have the brewery Het Anker, they have a tavern too so you get the stuff straight from the kettle so to say. But be warned neither make light beers. I only once drunk a Bud which to me was just a fizzy drink that lacked seriously in taste.

If it comes to foreign beers I quite like Gordon. Though I've been told that in Scotland it is much better tasting that the bottled or canned stuff.

The dark beers and the fruit beers, I mean.

Yeah, you can't much trust a beer you can see through.

Then Guinness must be highly suspect to you!

You have that backwards.

Or perhaps I got to the bottom of it?!

Ba-bum-tshh.

That's a shame! Thankfully, the craft brew movement is alive and well in the states - I can't believe how many amazing beers we have considering you never hear about them until the beer cherry has been popped.

One day, I do hope to make a beer pilgrimage throughout Europe.

Oooh! You are going to get sooo drunk!

I am quite fascinated by the beer talk.

Beer is awesome and worthy of discussion :D

Hahaha awesome. XD

Corn soda -- corn soda and barley pop. That's what Americans drink.

I'm not the world's biggest beer aficionado, but when I do it's Guinness, Mackeson's, Smithwick's, or Newcastle.

Some friends of mine are into home brewing, and through them I got a recipe for root beer that is absolutely fantastic (I used sassafrass, which can no longer be marketed as a food product, but which is still attainable at any decent coop or herbal store).

Smithwicks is a good standby of mine... pretty good from tap too!

I've tried to get into home brewing, but the yeast from the kits were DOA both times. Kinda put me off and there's no supply chains nearby.