SuperSlinky wrote:
> Yer shittin' me, aren't you? England, home of better beer than anything American, serves
> Spudweiser on tap? And your government allows this to go on? Heck, it was English beers that
> caused the micro-brewery revolution to happen over here. People over here are moving away from
> that **** to better quality, lower volume beers.
It's quite simple when you think about it. Firstly, the English have a different drinking culture.
We don't drink beer to appreciate the fine tastes brought about through the brewing process and the
careful selection of ingredients (we have wine for that), we drink it because our entire social
environment revolves around it. Whole communities and lives are shaped round drinking down the local
pub, people go to the pub for lunch and go for drinks after work with their colleagues.
So, for the most part, we drink lager. Why? Because you can drink gallons of the stuff. Now, the
English don't produce many lagers (Carling is about the only one that readily springs to mind) and
certainly none that are really any good. It's not easy to make a good, flavoursome lager and have
everybody like it. As such, the less offensive the better, so from that point of view, Bud is a
winner. It has very little taste, won't give you a minging hangover and importantly for the English,
has a high alcohol content. Couple this with the 'overseas import' tag, the 'all-things-American'
kudos, and a clever marketing campaign and it begins to make sense.
At the end of the day, Bud isn't a /bad/ beer (I've certainly had much worse), it's just not a
particularly great beer. It is, however, totally inoffensive and that's why the English like it.
> Now I know why the French burn down American fast food restaurants
Because they're protesting against the neo-imperialist foreign policy of your government?
>>It is a thing of the whole world. I suppose we should thank the **** merchants, for without them,
>>we would struggle to know the quality of truly excellent things for lack of a good comparison.
>>What is day without night?
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> Well, I guess that is true, but the real reason for the existence of the really nasty stuff is so
> that hardcore alcoholics can maintain their drunk longer for a given amount of money.
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