sweet jesus, heineken sucks

[fizzgig]

the husband wanted green bottle beer, no stella. shoulda gotten the carlsbad.

[progressoid]

1. gives me acid indigestion

[fizzgig]

3. it is not playing with the pbr i had earlier

blech

[Populist_Prole]

2. Skunky

In my partying young adult days it was definitely the poseur type beer around my parts. Tastes OK...meh...but smells skunky.

[fizzgig]

5. very skunky

it is just hitting me in all the wrong ways tonight

[HarveyDarkey]

4. Why does anyone want green bottle beer?

Especially considering it's an import. The term "Heineken skunk" is not made up, it's real. Clear bottle beers, always imports, are worse.
Carlsbad pretty much sucks too.

[fizzgig]

6. i have a strange love of green bottle beers

stella was one of the first beers i drank after turning 21 (i didn't drink underage) and it was while on my first trip to europe, so there's a special nostalgia in them.

and as far as clear bottle beers, i will drink high life until the sun comes up.

yeah, i live a microbrew capital and i have shit taste in beer.

[hrmjustin]

7. Try Spaten or HB.

[HarveyDarkey]

9. Their Optimator is an excellent Doppelbock

Spaten makes some good brews, surprisingly so for being in green bottles.

[hrmjustin]

10. Agreed!

[mrmpa]

8. I flew to Ireland about 10 years ago on Aer Lingus.............

the flight attendant came by & asked if we wanted a beer. All 5 of us said yes expecting a bottle of Guinness, she brought us 5 cans of Heineken-WTF. When in Dublin we learned that Heineken's international headquarters were in Dublin.

[HarveyDarkey]

11. Heineken has become the ABInBev of Europe

Most people would be surprised how many European beers are actually produced by them.

[MiddleFingerMom]

12. In our barracks in Nurnberg, we had beer machines (like soda machines)...

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... that weren't to be used 'til 4 PM (except on weekends).
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They had 6 choices of (canned) beer -- 3 German,which kinda sucked because
regulations required them to be "export" biers (i.e, pasteurized), 2 American
beers (Bud and Miller, if I amember correctly) and Heineken (also export, which
is what we get here).
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The German beers would all disappear first, followed by the American cans. The
Heineken was saved for our last desperate swallows on the weekends (when the
machines would empty out far too quickly (though they were usually serviced on
Saturday and Sunday).
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On the German economy, however... they were highly evolved and civilized --
delivering cases of beer and soda (or a mixture thereof) right to your doorstep
much like our milkmen of old.
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Though they did have to be regularly scheduled deliveries -- it wasn't like
take-out food with delivery in 30 mins or less.
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So, even in Europe, Heineken lost out to even our mass-produced mainstream
beers. YUCKO!!!
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