Why would anyone drink Corona beer?

[its gilligan]

Why would anyone drink Corona Beer? I mean Mexico is not exactly known for producing quality beer in the first place. Yet this is like the dregs of Mexican brews. Its the Old Milwaukee of Mexican Beers. A poor Mexcian farm worker would probably just as soon drink his own urine as drink this concoction. The fact that you need to put a piece of fruit in the bottle to get it down should tell you something. Yet people here pay $7 a six pack for this stuff.

Well, I think I know who drinks it. It's the freepers! You see, at the end of the month when the workmen's comp check comes in, the freeper wants to impress the other freepers in the trailer park. So instead of the usual case of Busch, he goes out and buys some "imported beer." He then walks around the trailer park in his best stained undershirt with his Corona in hand and the other freepers think, "WOW WHAT CLASS!"

This has got to be it. Nobody who posts at DU would drink this stuff.

[AnAmericanMother]

It's an import, a Scottish ale, from Belhaven brewery, an old brewery in Dunbar Scotland - been around since at least the 18th century. We started drinking it when it had to be specially imported by a local "beer pub" . . . now you can buy it in the Publix supermarket, for heaven's sake.

[Grampa Dave]

Aye, thank you lassie. I will try to get our local liquor warehouse to stock it, if they don't.

I want to try it. Then I can send a little money back over to Scotland where a lot of my ancestors came from.

[AnAmericanMother]

Your ancestors too!

There are a LOT more of us Scots over here than back over there. They left when there wasn't any way to make a living (like most of my Scottish ancestors, who were honest tradesmen - shoemakers, carriage makers, and the like, seeking to better themselves) . . . on the other hand, one of my ancestors (the one in the direct male line to my maiden name) was a MacGregor, the Sopranos of Scotland. He left Scotland under a cloud and one jump ahead of the sheriff and changed his name when he got here.

It must be from him I get my taste for Scottish ale -- but hopefully not his cattle-stealing propensities. The MacGregors were a bad lot.

[Grampa Dave]

Most of mine were hard working souls who came here for jobs and to get away from the Crown.

One however, was apparently a Green Back, he probably sneaked across the Canadian border in the late 1800's. He avoided a paper trail until he died. Even that provided no clues to where he came from.

[AnAmericanMother]

You may yet get a clue.

I had an elusive ancestor that I knew had come from somewhere in England and was living in South Carolina when his first wife (not my ancestor) died.

I eventually tracked him down -- he is buried in Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Rome GA - less than 50 yards from our family plot . . . the thought that he had been there all along, just quietly resting, while I was hunting all over SC, Alabama, and London for him, makes me laugh. His will was still in the vault at the Probate Court too -- and as wills go it is highly amusing to read. He was a freethinker which probably scandalized his good Baptist second wife.

I hope he thinks the whole thing's funny too.

[Grampa Dave]

Genealogy is one of my past times. I have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to locate this ancestor, who was my father's dad. My dad refused to talk about him and apparently disliked him. My Dad died in 1976, and I started my genealogy quest after he died. He was the last of the relatives. Many if not most of the lines, I have tracked back to the 1700's and some even further.

[Dan from Michigan]

Bwahahahahhaha. At least you're funny this time.

And I don't drink Corona or Old Mill(unless it's free). I prefer Guinness, Bass, Killians, or Mackinac Pale Ale.

[AnAmericanMother]

Oh, I'm a genealogist too. Gosh, it's hard when you have a "black sheep" and the family won't talk about him.

We had a similar situation with my grandfather-in-law's daddy. But he really WAS a horrid guy. My g-i-l's mother died giving birth to him, and his daddy blamed HIM for her death (like he could help it). Abused him and threw him out of the house at age 11 - he walked all the way to some cousins who took him in. He fortunately didn't turn to a life of crime, but became a Methodist minister instead. He told my husband that it took him many, many years to forgive his dad -

We were still able to get the info, though it took us awhile.

[Michael Barnes]

Corona my a$$!, PABST! BLUE! RIBBON!

Damn...what movie was that from?

[Dead Dog]

Blue Velvet

[4mycountry]

I don't drink beer at all.

But...
I do...

ZOT!!

[an amused spectator]

Yeah, you have to be 21 to buy it.

That's going to leave a mark.

Actually, there's a couple of brews made from the distilled brains and spines of liberals.

Both are extremely expensive, because it takes so many liberals just to make a pint or two. ;-)

[an amused spectator]

Warsteiner lager (special treat)

"Because life is too short to drink cheap beer" Actually, I've been scoring on it for about $6 a 6 pack - beats the price of Sam by a buck and half, and is better too.

[Dan from Michigan]

Warsteiner's alright.

Lately, I've been drinking cheaper beer. Upper Canada Lager.(Might only be in Michigan) $7.99 a 12 pack, with a $2.50 rebate. Can't complain there, and it's not that bad. Somewhat similar to Labatt's.

[bluefish]

Nobody who posts at DU would drink this stuff.

  - Yeah, you have to be 21 to buy it.

Plus, even if one or two of them were 21, I don't believe you are allowed to buy beer with food stamps.

[bluefish]

I thought I heard, and correct me if I'm wrong, that the whole "lime" thing with corona actually had its origins in the fact that Mexicans used cut limes to clean rat crap form the bottle tops. Unclean conditions. Some Lib visiting Mexico, wanting to be all multi-cultural and all, decided to imitate. It caught on.

Plus, doesn't Corona specifically have the skunk taste as a result of the fact that it is bottled in clear glass, which is a big no no?

[softengine]

As I recall, when you're that age, Red White and Blue will do. Of course, at DU, they fear anything that might be construed as patriotism, so Milw.'s Beast is likely the drink of the day.

[softengine]

St Pauli's is/was good. Don't see it around much anymore. What are some good German beers that get imported here?