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Why does cheap beer taste better than expensive beer?

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I like cheap and expensive beers, not picky. So I'll drink what the people with me are drinking if I ever have any people with me.

But it won't be perfect for them because I rarely have more than 2 drinks in a day and even after 1 drink I don't drive, I'd call for a taxi. I'd probably tell them that before we started drinking beer or other alcohol and that prolly would spoil the mood a bit.
 
Most I've spent on beer was ~$140 for a bottle of Sam Adams Utopia. Not exactly the same though :^D

I miss the triple bock they used to sell. That was a little spendy, but really good.
 
I tend to think of beer like wine. Hoppy or not hoppy is like red vs. white. If you don't have a pallete for hoppy beer, it is like drinking red wine. It all sort of tastes the same. If you palette leans that way, you can taste the difference between a Lil sumpin sumpin and an Anti-hero. They both taste the same to me. I am not a fan but I have freiends who like it. They can tell the differences in beers that tend to all taste the same to me.

Back on topic, cheap beers are not tasty and are full of preservatives that make it taste bad and give me a headache. I have a local brewty/winery/restaurant in the far NW burbs of Chicago. All beers taste different as do the wines. Top notch.

Lake in the Hills has a great showing at the end of June called pub in the Park. Short drive from Wauconda or Palatine. Get your tickets. Small suburb so easy to get to.
 
I generally skip cheap beer and anything light. If I want to hydrate I'll just drink water or Gatorade. If I want to enjoy a beer I'll take something stouter in a frosty glass and let the weenies drink their bitter IPA's that I wouldn't boil a good brat in 😛
 
This thread has potential, though. Perhaps Mayne should do an illustrated cheap beer review thread... if he does a good job, there might be Coolcoin in it for him.
 
ultimatebob said:
This thread has potential, though. Perhaps Mayne should do an illustrated cheap beer review thread... if he does a good job, there might be Coolcoin in it for him.
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Well I got my hands on buck a beer finally here in Ontario. Surprisingly, it was really good lager. ONe problem though. They come in 4 packs of bottles..pain in the ass to carry.
 
From the perspective of brewing beer, there is just more beer in your beer. I can make a bud style pilsner pretty easy. It require very little in the way of grain, and no specialty ingredients. IE its cheap to make. Craft beers are generally more complex. Sometime that means more grain in general. That usually results in your high ABV beers, but that's not always the case. They also use specialty grains and hops that have different flavor profiles and those are just more expensive to buy even on lighter beers. Purchased cost isn't always a direct relationship, but I can tell you macro brew styles are about the cheapest thing to make ingredient wise.
 
It depends on the beer. I hate some of the craft IPAs that dial the hops to 11 and all you taste is bitterness and alcohol. I had an IPA called Hop Knife and it was really good - little to no bitterness but full of hops.

Try a hefeweizen if you want a lighter beer with good flavor that won't leave you gagging, and go from there.
 
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Do 'they' even make Schmidt beer anymore? When I was younger (like 18 or so) a buddy of mine had a HUGE cardboard box full of beer. Rolling Rock, Schmidt, Genessee (sp), Schlitz (ugh), that's all I can remember. Oh, wait, maybe Koehler.....it's been so long ago, and I was wasted for almost 2 days straight lol

Edit: forgot to mention....I'm cheap, so I get Busch Ice and mix it with Lime-o-rita. That's 20 oz of effectiveness right there! I like it, it works, so *shrugs*
 
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If you're pissing in a bar with urinals like that, then you're probably just drinking shit beer anyway. Like Canadian Beer.

Like Mayne beer: water that only vaguely tastes like sweaty socks.
 
The only beers I tried are Budweiser, Natural ICE, Steel Reserve 211, and Busch.

I like the latter 3. Haven't tried Bud in a long time, don't quite remember how it tastes.
 
Some cheap beer is okay ... most isn't unless flavor is something you don't really care about.

Having said that a lot of expensive imported and/or craft beer is nothing special either.
 
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