[shove_it]

It's like most every thing else today, the swill that passes for beer these days isn't fit to drink. I'll have a Strohs, bartender.

[rbg81]

Mold Milwaukee and Schlitz. Can’t believe they have survived. Luv Sam Adams beers, especially the Cherry Wheat.

[C. Edmund Wright]

You should get our more. There is a lot of swill on the market today, but there’s more great beer than ever before as well. There’s just more beer choices period, now than ever. The big brewerys have lost a lot of the market to smaller brewerys.

[max americana]

I bought Michelob 3 weeks ago and Pabst 2 days ago.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

the swill that passes for beer these days isn't fit to drink

There's no need to drink swill, pard. There are more "craft" brews available today than in the last hundred years.

[SkyDancer]

Right. Those Bud Light and Coors Light. Ugh. Alaska Amber or any IPA beer - but domestic manufactured stuff, yuk. Small breweries brew, Bud and Coors et al, they manufacture beer.

[Yardstick]

Michelob messed up when they abandoned the distinctive curved bottle.

[central_va]

That is my indian name - “Nine Beers”

[Drill Thrawl]

I have the pleasure of living just three miles from Victory Brewing. Aside from Yeungling (known as vitamin Y in these parts) I can't remember the last time I bought "mainstream" beer.

All hail the micro brews!

[Cyman]

I miss POC

[Fiji Hill]

I'll take a dark Bud.

[Migraine]

Red Bridge doesn’t make me sick. That’s about all I’ll say for it.

[Terpfen]

I’ll drink Yuengling, Blue Moon, and some flavors of Sam Adams.

[yarddog]

I don’t imbibe but know one which is awful. I used to hunt with a guy in my office. He would never drink in the office but when we went out hunting he would buy a 24 pack of Schaefer Beer and by the time we got home it would all or nearly all be gone.

I normally would not hunt of shoot with someone drinking but I could never tell it affected him in the slightest. One day we had been out nearly all day and I was dying of thirst. I drank one of his beers just to get some moisture. That stuff was awful. I could barely get it down but I did need drink so I finished it.

[zwerni]

Try a HARP lager... my personal favorite

[AlexW]

Here in the Philippines, San Miguel is the king and about all I can get.
I buy a case every two days to quench the thirst of a group
of us expats that gather each afternoon in our seaside garden. The cost is 20 pesos (less then 50 US cents).
It is considered to be a good beer.

I remember 20+ years ago when craft, or strange beers, became the rage in the US, with many small bars specializing in them.
Their was a special on TV just this week (Natl. Geo? History?)
about the craft beer boom.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Have to admit I got spoiled living in the UK to good (cheap) French wine and Ale. As far as good canned beer can goes that’s imported....like Boddingtons when we can afford it.

[eyedigress]

World’s Fair beer a 50c a six-pack is hard to beat. (and also hard to push through the penis)

[llevrok]

Out here in the Pac Northworst, some great old local breweries are long gone: Rainier, Blitz, Olympia....

Thank God PBR is still around (for a mass brewed beer)

[Cicero]

It sounds to me as if there are two separate trends at work here.

One is a move away from crummy beers like Bud to better beers like Sam Adams, or local craft beers. I drink Sam Adams, Long Trail (Vermont), Shipyard (Maine), and a few others, or occasionally imported beer if the price is right.

But I wouldn’t touch lite beer with a ten foot pole. Bud Lite is the worst beer in the world, or close to it. The increasing popularity of lite beers probably comes from liberal idiots who can’t give up beer entirely but have been persuaded that it’s healthier for them.

Nah. If you can’t drink one beer a day, then split it with a friend. But don’t give me that lite stuff.

[lmsii]

Interesting flow chart

http://barbeerians.com/2010/09/let-the-beer-chart-flow/