Beers you at some point thought were "classy"...

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 2:02 am

A_B wrote:Ok. Fuck it. Clearly dc 47 is Scottie. Right?

Definitely

rass · Post by **rass** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 8:00 am

govmentchedda wrote:
A_B wrote:Ok. Fuck it. Clearly dc 47 is Scottie. Right?
Definitely

Then this is his real personality. No way the Scottie we know doesn't break kayfabe last week when everyone (including perennial target of wrath TB) was going after him during the WWC final and its aftermath.

rass · Post by **rass** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 8:24 am

DC47 wrote:...My buddy was an Italian with a brand new red Fiat that he worshiped. This was the early 70s, just before Fiat started shipping nothing but garbage to America. Appearances mattered to Mike, as he had ambitions to be a model and certainly was interested in the attractive women who might notice that he had such a fine machine. I saw him once comp a couple of guys from the car wash next door on a meal. What was up with that? He parked his Fiat in the back of their place, where it wouldn't get dinged, and they washed it for him every day, with waxing as needed.

Here's a bit of a tangential side story. Mike was a working-class second-generation Italian guy who was interested in classing up his act (probably his exact words), at least partially due his interests in pursuing women. In addition to lying about attending NYU (he had taken a few classes in marketing at a community college), he decided that he needed to learn how to do two classy kind of sports -- tennis and skiing. I was good at both, so he told me to teach him. He was a great athlete, and took to them quickly...

Lupica?

duff · Post by **duff** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 10:28 am

govmentchedda wrote:
A_B wrote:Ok. Fuck it. Clearly dc 47 is Scottie. Right?
Definitely

I was thinking that just last week.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 1:48 pm

duff wrote:
govmentchedda wrote:
A_B wrote:Ok. Fuck it. Clearly dc 47 is Scottie. Right?
Definitely
I was thinking that just last week.

I thought this was super obvious like a year ago but someone convincingly argued against it. I forget who. Maybe DC47.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 2:52 pm

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

rass · Post by **rass** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 5:14 pm

Now that's trolling.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 8:33 pm

A_B wrote:I love Guinness. Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's piss.

I didn't see anyone call it piss. In college, I thought it was the pinnacle of beer. It is miles above any of the American adjuncts like Bud, Miller, Michelob etc... My world opened up when I turned 21 and could buy at the Topps International (supermarket). They had an aisle single bottle beers from all over the world. Me and two housemates would go every Sunday and each choose a bottle or two and share. All the empty bottles went on the ledge across the span of the family room. I hope I have a picture, I'd love to see what beers enthralled me back then. I remember Redhook ESB and Salvatore Dopplebock being favorites. Finally bought a Salvatore a few months ago, and it isn't very good. Redhook ESB is worse.

Are Becks and St. Pauli Girl need to be added. And Fosters, though the Oil Can was a crowd pleaser. A Google image search turned up this gem:

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 8:33 pm

You geniuses were the same ones who thought BSF was Bill Simmons, too, right?

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 9:43 pm

If this does turn out to be Scottie, it's probably the best thing that's ever happened here. Maybe second behind the Hood story.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 10:57 pm

sancarlos wrote:You geniuses were the same ones who thought BSF was Bill Simmons, too, right?

Who are you to talk? I passed on continuing my education at Berkeley -- your homeland -- because of all the pissant, puerile Marxists and flower-power peaceniks who thought sliding stones down the ice was a form of class violence. Now circumstances require that I must live in this patchouli palace, which reeks even more of tasteless entitlement. At least you can get authentic Asian culinary ingredients.

But who here can really understand what I'm saying? My words in your mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

Try listening to some of this and maybe it will begin to help. Most likely, you won't even bother.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2x9DYnlgNQ

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 6:00 am

http://lapetitenia.blogspot.ca/2011/02/ ... rated.html

Okay, so famous Irish author James Joyce is on every Great Books list ever published. Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man...they're all praised and renowned, and on college reading lists for the educated student, and all this other shit.

Here's the thing though: James Joyce SUCKS.

Trap baited...

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 7:42 am

A_B wrote:I love Guinness. Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's piss.

Yes, it does. You need to open up an Old Slapfish Double-Brown Stout and put on some Moby Grape.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 7:44 am

St Pauli Girl and Heineken are good ones.

I used to think Gennessee Cream Ale was good around age 20.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 7:45 am

Gunpowder wrote:... Paul... and ...

I used to ... Cream ... good around age 20.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 7:46 am

Yes, we both had functional vas deferens. Vas deferenses?

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 9:29 am

Gunpowder wrote:St Pauli Girl and Heineken are good ones.

I used to think Gennessee Cream Ale was good around age 20.

Oh no...

We'd guzzle that in the parking lot of Rich Stadium. Called it "Lemme Scream."

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 9:31 am

Genny Light was the first beer I ever had and it made me think beer was gross and dealing with taste a necessary evil. My dad has since become a craft snob with me.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 11:28 am

sancarlos wrote:You geniuses were the same ones who thought BSF was Bill Simmons, too, right?

NBAFiend or DisplacedPatsFan.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 11:31 am

This entire thread is the reason that people think we're elitists.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 11:54 am

Of the three buckets, beer snobs, anything drinkers and brand loyalists, the latter is easily the worst.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 12:02 pm

mister d wrote:Of the three buckets, beer snobs, anything drinkers and brand loyalists, the latter is easily the worst.

Seconded.

Many, many years ago when I was a bartender, I worked in a real dump. There was this hard core alchy who would only drink "Ex" (Molson Export - prime Canadian piss), insisted that he could taste the difference. We gave him a taste test, Ex, Blue, Bud and canadian (similarly awful macro brewed swill) and he had no idea.

Yet he still only drank Ex and refused to admit that there wasn't a difference.

I always equate guys who only drink their favourite big brewery beer with that loser. And that guy was bombed by 2 pm every day.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 12:06 pm

That last part is what I really don't get. If I think Heady Topper is great (I do) and then someone gave me one to try blind and I was like "eh, this is mediocre" ... I would now think I think Heady is mediocre and I bought into the hype the other times.

(Or I'd ask if it was fresh. I bet that's what I'd really do first. Or I'd be a fucking pedant and say "well, you're really supposed to drink it out of the can" and blah blah blah. One or the other.)

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 12:14 pm

I did use "classy" and not "good" in the thread title.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 1:17 pm

Ahhh... of course.

Put Becks up there as well for me.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 1:53 pm

I think Heineken is the king of this. Piss that costs more because it's imported.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 2:46 pm

I don't know anyone who ever drank Heineken.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 2:58 pm

mister d wrote:I don't know anyone who ever drank Heineken.

That means you have no black friends.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:12 pm

Google confirms that's a thing. Definitely not in the northeast.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:15 pm

Gunpowder wrote:
mister d wrote:I don't know anyone who ever drank Heineken.
That means you have no black friends.

It's also the choice of refined rednecks.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:17 pm

Good stats ...

People who choose Heineken as their favorite beer are 58% more likely to have American Express cards, 45% more likely to be early adopters of new mobile phones, and 29% more likely to drive sports cars.

Craft-beer lovers are 153% more likely to always buy organic, 52% more likely to be fans of the show "The Office" and 36% more likely to be the ones to choose the movie they are going to see at the theater.

Budweiser drinkers are 42% more likely to drive a truck than the average person, 68% more likely to choose a credit card with flexible payment terms and 42% more likely to use breath-freshening strips every day.

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DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:24 pm

The Sybian wrote:Finally bought a Salvatore a few months ago, and it isn't very good. Redhook ESB is worse.

Redhook has gone waaaaay downhill, mainly because they moved out of their original, small brewery here in the Fremont neighborhood and out to a big new facility in Woodinville. And then they signed a distribution deal with Anheuser-Busch, and that sealed their doom. Still see ESB on tap at some bars, but no one I know drinks it. I used to love their WinterHook beer.

Are Becks and St. Pauli Girl need to be added. And Fosters, though the Oil Can was a crowd pleaser.

Foster's is awful. And its not even a thing in Australia. I think I saw one Foster's in the year I was there...and that was dug out of the bottom of a cooler on a sailboat, and the owner said "How long has that been in there?".

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:39 pm

mister d wrote:Craft-beer lovers are 153% more likely to always buy organic, 52% more likely to be fans of the show "The Office" and 36% more likely to be the ones to choose the movie they are going to see at the theater.

I guess the movie bit confirms the obvious narcissism of this crowd, dominated as it is by a coastal demographic.

Midwestern craft-beer drinkers are far more empathetic and co-operative. We drop our companions off at the door of the carefully-restored theatre, with also has a smaller screening room for avant-garde films, so they won't have to walk in the cold, and they pick the movie while we go park the car.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:27 am

Blue Moon

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:29 am

It was the slice of orange, right?

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:46 am

Yep. Coors + Florida = Fancy

rass · Post by **rass** » Sun May 24, 2020 3:19 pm

Was looking for something else but bumping this because that was a fun topic and I forgot I posted this because I was probably drunk.

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Sun May 24, 2020 4:41 pm

Moosehead. It’s Canadian, it has to be good.

rass · Post by **rass** » Sun May 24, 2020 4:42 pm

Fucking imported, yeah

cerrano · Post by **cerrano** » Sun May 24, 2020 8:53 pm

bfj wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 4:41 pm Moosehead. It’s Canadian, it has to be good.

Moosehead reminds me of my 20th birthday at home when I I ran into a chick who I always had a thing for in high school, but I drank too much fucking moose head beer to realize that she was hitting on me. Fucking canadiens.