Bud gives me an instant hangover, it’s undrinkable rice pee. And it’s been getting worse, ever few years it gets lighter in color and flavor. The American beer flagships rose up at a time when the American food palette was terrible, we ate and drank some seriously nasty junk from around WWII through the 90s. The era of instant coffee, weak beer, and franchise restaurants. We still do to an extent but we’re getting better. Which is where the micro-brew revolution (and its equivalents in many other food groups) came from. Not sure what happened to finally make us realize our food was terrible, but I’m glad.
Everyone has their opinion.
Not any unusual take on rice finishing, although purely subjective.
When it comes to comparisons to piss, that is a common estimation concerning the skunkiness of many of the ‘premium’ German and Czech beers. I’m not in the business of telling other people that they don’t know what tastes good to them.
When it comes to refined pallets, the beer drinkers of the late 19th century would greatly disagree with you, as they were moving away from what had been the common heavy beers, which they considered unrefined.
I’m also not sure what the value of judging other peoples tastes is. If they like it, they like it. Some people love Twinkies and are no less satisfied than a person eating a $12 piece of cake with a nice sour cream frosting, why should I care?
Like scotch, I like most beer recipes and dislike a few. Its more an issue of time and place for me than trying to determine an all around best. On a 95 degree afternoon, I’ll take a light beer over a stout, in fact, I would pass on my favorite stout altogether.
It is a bottom yeast, and bottom yeasts have that effect on some people. I used to get a nearly instant headache from drinking Bud myself. After not drinking any Bud for about 10 years, I discovered that it no longer has the same effect. I'm presuming it was me, not the beer, that changed.
I've had a few beers that are just gawd awful (to me) and tasted like they were spiked with formaldehyde (some places they were) or tasted metallic. I avoid those now like the plague.
I've also had some egregiously bad, amateur brewing, microbrewed beers. Many people fawn over any and all micros, which I suspect is more psychological than pallet related.