5 Beers No Man Should Drink After 25

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5 Beers No Man Should Drink After 25

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posted01/24/12
HOULIHAN MACACO



You had your fun in college. Now it’s time to stop drinking crappy beers. Pour yourself a good micro brew from Vermont or Colorado and take a few lessons here. If you’re 25 or older and drink any of the following beers, you’re simply stuck in the past. You’re one of those hangers-on. All your friends are talking behind your back and speculating about when you’ll get a job and get on with your life. Some are even placing bets. It may also help if you stop crashing on the couch of the fraternity house and get a real apartment, you deadbeat.

[HopeHoops]

1. E-GADS! I could add to the list, but Schlitz sums it up nicely.

Okay, I'll add anyway - PBR tall boys!

[KamaAina]

19. The 'l' in Schlitz is silent.

[HopeHoops]

29. Not when you buy it, just after you drink it.

[rocktivity]

41. DUzy candidate!

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[quakerboy]

54. I still won't be drinking it

However, the last time I was out, I noticed that PBR has a little text on the label that says "union made".

[HopeHoops]

66. So are my socks, but they can still be kind of skunky.

[geardaddy]

69. Damn straight.

Unless you're a hipster doofus drinking it ironically.

[rocktivity]

2. And is it REALLY necessary to add that this goes DOUBLE

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for any LIGHT beer?

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[Initech]

26. I always have to laugh at those Miller Lite commercials.

Because they always make fun of people drinking a "less manly" light beer, but it's such a stupid ad campaign because it's such a redundancy. When drinking Lite beer EVER considered many to begin with?

[rocktivity]

56. Well, for your information

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Bud Light is the official beer of the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE! You can't get more manly than that!

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[rppper]

80. The Keith Stone commercials...

....are pretty funny....always.....

Keystone was great when it was 5.99 a case back in the day....I wouldn't poison sluggs in my garden with it now....poor sluggs!

[hlthe2b]

3. Two to surely add: Coors and PBR (Pabst Blue Ribbon).

Yuck

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. I was REALLY disappointed to not see Coors on the list...it's my first pick.

When I moved to California (age 16), the "beer of choice" among most of the people I ran into was Coors. I immediately classified it as shit...weak, flavorless, waste of time. I really, really hated it. I think I've had Coors Light ONCE...I mean, Coors is bad enough, but...

About three years after I moved here I fell into my high school / college "posse"...this group introduced me to Guinness and fresh-ground coffee beans (I'd been drinking black coffee at Denny's, Howard Johnson's, etc...when you learn how to drink the worst of ANYTHING it's easy to appreciate the best).

I've never gone full-bore into the "craft brews," but my beer of choice these days is from Holland, Grolsch Lager. And I never lost my taste for Guinness. There is a local pub / fish & chips place that has it on tap. 6 bucks for a pint but it's the smoothest pint you'll ever quaff. When you order one with the fish & chips and work that tartar sauce and malt vinegar, it's a little slice of Heaven:

http://www.theduke.com/

[hughee99]

4. I used to keep a case of Schlitz in a fridge in the basement.

At the end of the night, when out of all other beer, serve the Schlitz. Do your friends enjoy your company enough to endure this swill? Lets find out.


I thought it would be a good advertising slogan "Find out who your friends really are, serve Schlitz".

[mackattack]

11. If you like that junk

come to Cincinnati. We have tons of locally brewed abominations you would love.

[BiggJawn]

35. Do they still make Top Hat and Little Kings?

Actually didn't think Top Hat was all that bad. Not at $1.69 a six back in '80...

[mackattack]

42. Havent seen

top hat. Little Kings is readily available in any supermarket from northern Kentucky to Lima, Ohio.

[Xipe Totec]

5. I have friends in their 20's who brew their own beers

They take their beer seriously.

[Initech]

21. I just bottled a nice-looking red ale yesterday (self-brewed), can't wait!

The ingredient kit I got is based off a recipe from Pizza Port in San Diego (best small brew pub in 2011 according to AHA).

[Xipe Totec]

22. Congratulations!

I'm not a brew meister myself, but I do enjoy being surrounded by them. Last week they popped open some Russian Imperial Stouts, and Scotch ales. Can't wait to see what they'll open for the Super Bowl...

[Initech]

27. If I had bottled it a week before it'd be ready for the Super Bowl.

Unfortunately I couldn't because it's such a time-consuming process. Oh well at least I still have some beer left over from my last batch that will do.

[deucemagnet]

37. I just bottled my first batch today.

Nothing fancy. I bought a Mr. Beer off woot.com for $19.99 + $5 S&H. I figured for $25 I couldn't go wrong. The ingredient kit was "West Coast Pale Ale". My friends have been trying to get me into home brewing for years. If this turns out OK, maybe I'll buy some more serious equipment.

[progressoid]

43. So, how did it go?

I got one of those Mr Beer things for Xmas. I haven't tried it out yet. Was it difficult?

[deucemagnet]

46. I found it pretty easy.

Easy to sterilize the fermenter, the wort cooks up quickly and didn't stink up the kitchen like I thought it would. I let it ferment for 3 weeks. The hardest part was getting the granulated sugar in the bottles to carbonate the beer, but I found a small funnel in the kitchen for that. The no-rinse sterilizer is easy to use, but I'm still a little paranoid about infection. I've worked in microbiology labs for years, so anything but a lab with positive air pressure, every surface wiped down with a 10% bleach solution and autoclaved equipment seems contaminated to me. Still, I tasted the beer prior to bottling and it wasn't infected, so my desire for laboratory-grade aseptic technique is probably excessive. It has to carbonate for two weeks, then condition in the fridge for two more, so I'll let you know what it's like around March.

[Initech]

45. Mr. Beer is kind of the paint-by-numbers kit of beer brewing.

I've done two batches from it and the beer it produces is only decent at best. It doesn't top a real home brew.

[deucemagnet]

47. Yeah, so I've heard.

I just figured that it's worth a shot for $25. There's a home brew store not far from here, so maybe I'll buy a decent set-up if all goes well and I like it.

[Initech]

52. For $25 it's worth it (about the cost of a couple of good six packs)

But for the real deal you want a good homebrewing kit. If you can boil water you can brew beer, it's not that difficult. Perfecting a recipe is a whole different deal altogether. I found a great home brewing supply place not too far from where I live and they're really helpful in telling you what you need and getting all the supplies you need.

http://morebeer.com/

[deucemagnet]

76. Cool!

I clicked your link and the first thing I see is "Hop Rhizome Sale!". That's some serious shit, right there! I can only aspire to having an awesome home brewery and growing my own hops. (I think my Mr. Beer fermenter will be retired by then, though.)

[Initech]

79. Yup they take their brewing seriously there.

The only bad thing is that the best hops only grow in really wet climates so it wouldn't work to have a hop farm in say, Southern California.

[deucemagnet]

88. Just for the information of anybody following this sub-thread,

sellout.woot has the same Mr. Beer kit on sale today (Tuesday the 31st) for $19.99 + $5 S&H.

http://deals.woot.com/sellout

[RZM]

6. Not so sure about the Budweiser

When filming the HBO show 'Treme,' David Simon wanted to make everything as realistic as possible. One character owns a bar and real people from New Orleans informed him that Bud is the beer of choice in African-American bars in New Orleans, regardless of age.

http://treme-jazz.com/david-simon-spills-on-all-that-budweiser

Other than that I agree. And you forgot Natural Light

[mackattack]

9. Exactly

Natty is horrid. however That was the beer of choice in college. Across town, UD drank beast. We went to UD for parties a couple of times and couldnt stomach that stuff. We felt superior because our skunk beer was more palatable. Wittenberg drinks keystone. Yuck to that as well.

[RZM]

14. So you went to Wright State, huh?

[mackattack]

15. sure did

you?

[RZM]

16. Can't reveal that because of this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1163266

It's the last answer left

[mackattack]

18. ahhh so your shit doesnt stink, then.....

JK.

I love the campus. Greaaaaaaat study abroad program.


Seriously though, that place is like the national headquarters for the college republicans, how did you survive it?!?!

[RZM]

33. It's got that reputation, but I think that it's somewhat exaggerated

It's probably more Republican than your average state school, but not as much as people think. Just my own observations having gone there. Most of my friends were more or less apolitical. Some turned out to be Republicans, but probably a lot less than half.

[deucemagnet]

38. LOL! I know the school well.

I worked there until September of 2011. My apartment was across the street from Johnny's Deli. On the Friday before homecoming, the Natty Light in Johnny's was stacked floor to ceiling so that you could barely walk through the store, and it would be sold out by Sunday morning. Any place that sells Natty Light in that town is a gold mine.

[RZM]

59. Went to Johnny's frequently for beer

I also remember ordering calzones from there.

I remember running out of money and asking my dad (who was also dead broke) to wire me $200. He actually did it and the first thing I bought was a 12 pack and calzone from Johnny's (even though I wasn't 21. That didn't seem to matter at Johnny's).

I also remember that there was a pregnant woman who worked there. She was always smoking even though she was pregnant. I never said anything, but it kind of bothered me.

[deucemagnet]

75. I used to buy beer there as well.

They actually had a decent selection of six packs. Their pizza was good, but it always gave me acid reflux. I think it was owned by a couple of Indian guys. I never asked, but they were always there, and they liked to smoke outside, too. When I was playing online poker tournaments in my apartment I could walk across the street to Johnny's and get a six pack of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and sit down at my computer with a cold one before the five-minute break ended. I kinda miss that.

[tjwash]

8. Add olde-english 800 and Mickeys big-mouths to that list

[HopeHoops]

30. Well at least OE800 is a malt liquor. I haven't had either in 30 years.

[pintobean]

10. If you’re 25 or older

and worry about what anybody thinks about your choice of beer, you've got issues.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

13. Thank you! You took the words right out my mouth!

My guy loves Budweiser and will keep drinking it no matter what he is "supposed to do" according to his age. I will not be showing this thread or even speak to him about it due to the fact that he is a Marine (ex. but never say that in his company or you will get to hear how "once a Marine, Always a Marine) and will just go out get a 6-pack log on to the site and fill this thread up with how dumb this is. But I love him anyway.

[Initech]

28. But my biggest pet peeve is people who go to brew pubs and order Budweiser.

Where I live there's a great restaurant/brewery called Taps and they have HUGE signs hanging from the ceiling talking about the numerous awards the beer has won, but people still order Bud. Try the beers, expand your horizons!!!

[pintobean]

36. Why concern yourself about their choice?

They're their taste buds, not yours.

[Initech]

48. It's not their taste I'm concerned about.

The micro brewing industry is a bit of an oddity in that no one brewery is in direct competition with each other. It's all a big community and I want the industry to thrive and grow and encourage new breweries to form, and they're not going to if people keep drinking that mass produced, watered down shit.

[pintobean]

50. I see

Seems a bit selfish. I'm more of a live and let live kind of person.

[Initech]

53. How is that selfish?

I like the beer brewing industry - I go to the Great American Beer Festival in Denver every year and it gets better and better, and all the micro breweries encourage each other, try everyone's products and actually work with each other to produce new, interesting ales, rather than compete over each other. There's a couple of mom-and-pop breweries where I live that produce some really killer stuff. I just think, why go to a fine restaurant that brews their own award winning beer and get the mass produced crap? Try the good stuff, it won't hurt you!

[UnrepentantLiberal]

62. When I lived in the Northwest I loved sitting outside and drinking a pitcher

of micro brew. Good times, great beer.

[T_i_B]

84. Yep

Nothing like watching people in The Sheffield Tap (One of the UK's finest pubs, with an insane choice of quality beer from all over the world) go up to the bar and ask if they have Foster's or John Smiths Extra Smooth.

[edhopper]

12. There is no reason for anyone

to ever drink the piss water they call Bud.

[sakabatou]

17. I have yet to find a beer that doesn't make me cough

or make my stomach churn.

So far, I'm a wine guy that loves this bottle: Bartenura moscato.

[backscatter712]

68. Drinking PBR or Schlitz or Bud Lite is like drinking el-cheapo box wine.

Nasty!

[Capn Sunshine]

20. My college beer: 6 for 99c in Mission Beach CA liquor in '73

[Amerigo Vespucci]

23. You KNOW it's good because it says "Premium" right on the can!

[Renew Deal]

39. That's a whole lot of fun for under $1.

[hunter]

55. Ooooo..... I wish I could remember exactly, or maybe I don't, but that never ended well.

If you ever woke up to nasty strong cheap coffee and powdered egg government cheese "omelettes" maybe you were there.

And sand. Sand everywhere.

[Burma Jones]

65. Old Style was my cheap College Beer.......

If I was really broke, I would go with:

[geardaddy]

71. My college beers were these

[mysuzuki2]

24. Life is way too short to drink shitty beer!

[GoneOffShore]

25. There's one good use for those "canoe beers"

Shampoo.

And they are called "canoe beers" because drinking them is like making love in a canoe.

They're effing near water.

[HopeHoops]

31. Okay, EVERYONE knows that a bunch of beer-gut idiots in the woods popping open a shitty beer...

...somehow results in a bunch of barely 18 chicks with fake tits to come prancing out of the woods in bikinis. That's just the way it is. Now the commercials never explain whether they got laid or not, but I'm thinking - NOT.

[ZombieHorde]

32. I love Newcastle Brown Ale.

It's liquid bread that can get you drunk if you take the proper dosage.

[backscatter712]

70. Newcastle's good stuff.

Or as their advertising tagline puts it...

"Making British food palatable since 1927."

[T_i_B]

85. I used to like Newcastle Brown when I was 17.

From there I went onto stuff like Tetley's and John Smith's (Often in horrible "smoothflow" form, thick texture but with the flavour of dishwater) and from there onto proper real ale.

[BiggJawn]

34. I didn't drink any of that dog piss BEFORE I was 25.

Anything with "Lite" in the name ain't beer, anyway.

When I can get it, I drink Warsteiner, because like their motto says: "Life's too Short to Drink Cheap Beer"

[AsahinaKimi]

40. BRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sylveste]

44. meh,

beer is like sex even when it's bad it's still pretty good. i've had plenty of times when where the beer has run out and i would have glady thrown back a 6 of natty light or schlitz

[UnrepentantLiberal]

49. They lift this out.

[DiverDave]

51. what? no BEER beer?

White can with, well beer written on it.

and black label, god that stuff was bad!

[gratuitous]

57. Shaddap ya beer snobs

I'm trying to enjoy my Zima.

[XemaSab]

58. Icehouse can go on the list too

[tjwash]

60. I've graduated to the good stuff...

a little MD---

Available in various nauseating tropical flavors that coat your whole system like bathtub scum, but only the full "Red Grape Wine" flavor packs the 18% whallop.
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Some "liquid crack," this bad boy wreaks more mental havoc than the cheapest tequila does

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And of course the all time best...WOOO--WOOOOOOO

Sober to stupid with no stops in between

[blueamy66]

61. Mickey's Big Mouth

nuff said

[kaitcat]

63. Hamm's

Definitely fits on that list.

[geardaddy]

72. Agreed.

But as a kid I loved the Hamm's Bear.

[Burma Jones]

64. OK, so it's 100 degrees, and I've just finished mowing the lawn, I want an ice cold Bud

I'll hit the Belgian Doppels and Trippels and the Dogfish Head later.........

[Doc Holliday]

67. Whenever the kids come to visit

they always bring some new and interesting beer. Last time it was something called One Below, brewed in Colorado, if memory serves, from a Danish recipe. Light years beyond the famous prairie dog pee that is brewed "from Rocky Mountain spring water." Smooth, baby.

I loved living in Germany, because pretty much every little town had its own brewery. Endless variety....

[Throd]

73. I'm 44 and still love a big can of Olde English 800.

At least when you spend $6.99 on a twelver of Blatz you know exactly what you are getting.

I have had my share of disappointment with some seriously shitty microbrews as well. Cramming in as many hops as possible is to beer what 26" spinning rims are to an '85 Monte Carlo.

[Beer Snob-50]

74. I was at my neighborhood brewpub Saturday night

and a couple of guys came in serjiously asking for bud lights.....the bartender kind of laughed at them and they left.

[WCGreen]

77. Any kind of lite beer....

it you are drinking enough lite beer to make you think the equivalent amount of real beer would be fattening, then you probably have a drinking problem..

[nomorenomore08]

86. Not sure about the "drinking problem" part but I always think that if you're that worried

about calories, you probably shouldn't be drinking beer. Vodka and diet soda (or club soda) would be a more sensible choice for the weight-conscious. IIRC a shot of vodka has about half as many calories as a regular Bud.

[DinahMoeHum]

78. There's an appropriate country song for this. . .

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[47of74]

81. Instead of Budweiser I'd put Old Milwaukee on that list

Budweiser is better than Old Milwaukee. Hell, you could go to the restroom in a can and it would taste better than Old Milwaukee.

[Throd]

82. Anyone remember Schmidt "Sport Packs"?

12 cans of fermented grain water for $2.99 that fueled many a rampage in Sacramento.

To this day I'm not sure where the "Sport" part came into play.

[OriginalGeek]

83. My wife's friend wanted to get me a christmas present

and asked her what she should get and my wife said "oh just get him beer - he'll love that"
and she was right and I would have been happy with a 6-pack of Yuengling

BUT

she showed up with this:


and immediately became my favorite wife's friend.


Bud isn't the worst thing out there but there are just so many things so much better that there is no point in drinking it. And yeah, lite beers should just be called dirty water.

[nomorenomore08]

87. Well, at least High Life and PBR - my go-to cheap beers - didn't make the list.

Those two are generally somewhat cheaper than Bud or MGD, while at the same time I find the taste far more tolerable than Natty or Keystone (or most malt liquors). High Life, for some reason, lacks the unpleasant edge of most so-called "American light lagers" - including Miller's other products. And a 6-pack of 16-ouncers is only $6 at most corner liquor stores. As for PBR, hipster appropriation aside, its history and "union made" label make it seem almost classy for a cheap beer. Not to mention Dennis Hopper/Frank Booth's immortal endorsement in "Blue Velvet."

And lest you think I can't appreciate the good stuff, tonight at the bar I did have an Anchor Porter with a shot of coffee-and-vanilla-infused vodka on the side. Went great together, I must say.