UTMC

Not only has it been brewed by Miller for years now, but now the people who brought it back to life, and built it through grassroots marketing have gotten the shaft, and are seeing all of their work undone by new owners who are ripping the soul out of it.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ ... ory?page=1

Not that it was ever the BEST beer, but still...

"My job was to protect consumers from the stupid crap that old guys with gray hair come up with," said Clarke. "The brand is the people who drink it. And we treated it well. We were the stewards of it. We did a good job. We tried to keep from selling it out."

Great article. The new owners sound like a bunch of douchebags. Wonder how long it'll be until Duke is brought back....

Well sonavabitch, I can't even poor one out for them as a fallen homey.
Que sera sera.

I dunno how you guys drink that piss, anyway.

Metalredneck wrote:I dunno how you guys drink that piss, anyway.

Its only to look cool with the other hipsters. If I want to drink good beer I topple the Girl in The Moon.

Bigshankhank wrote:

Metalredneck wrote:I dunno how you guys drink that piss, anyway.

Its only to look cool with the other hipsters. If I want to drink good beer I topple the Girl in The Moon.

Word. I'm sponsored by the High LIfe and everything.

bndgkmf wrote: Word. I'm sponsored by the High LIfe and everything.

Well aren't you just King Shit of Turd Mountain, with your beer sponsorships and all. If I lived in Texas I'd be drinking Lone Star. Well, except that it is part of this whole kerfuffle.
Bring on the Pearl bitches...

Metalredneck wrote:I dunno how you guys drink that piss, anyway.

+1

More Guinness please.

/RM

roadmissile wrote:

Metalredneck wrote:I dunno how you guys drink that piss, anyway.

+1

More Guinness please.

/RM

Yeah, PBR's not exactly great.

I see that they also own Colt 45. Now, shitting all over Lando's legacy, that's an outrage.

rolly wrote:

roadmissile wrote:

Metalredneck wrote:I dunno how you guys drink that piss, anyway.

+1

More Guinness please.

/RM

Yeah, PBR's not exactly great.

I see that they also own Colt 45. Now, shitting all over Lando's legacy, that's an outrage.

PBR isn't great but for cheap shitty beer it's not terrible either.

+1,000,000,000,000 etc. on the MOOOOOOOOOOAR Guinness please.

I love cheap lager from a very cold can on a hot day, and drank many cans of PBR last night while working on bikes (TS185 is running much better now).

I haven't had any kind of brand loyalty since Rainier stopped making beer in 1999 (I still have 1 can of it, but it will never be opened).

I primarily drink IPAs lately. For lager, I usually keep St. Pauli Girl around, as it is about the same price as Bud, and very superior, despite its cheesy label.

I can drink PBR because I'm poor and I don't give a flying fuck. THAT's how I can drink it. I'm drinking one right now.

thrasherbill wrote: PBR isn't great but for cheap shitty beer it's not terrible either.

I'll have to disagree with that (ever had one flat/at room temp?)


Look up 'swill' in the dictionary


I'll wait....





PBR is the beer equivalent of McD's...... only worse


Life's too short for shitty beer or shitty 'food'....

This thread reminds me of one of my favorite Monty Python lines, "American beer is like making love in a canoe...

Mostly I brew my own.
Ain't been drinking much lately, anyway, since I'm working at packing on some muscle.
Working for Burning Man, I seriously overdid it on the PBR. It was the brew of choice out there for years amongst the crew. Now I drink it and it instantly makes me sick to my stomach.

Still, the point is that those in charge of it at least treated the brand with a sense of respect and pride in what they were trying to do. Then three rich fuckwits who truly don't give a shit come aboard, and toss it all on the rubbish heap. It's bullshit.

As a side note, PBR really did make attempts to give back to their consumers. One of the Burning Man crew wrote to them, and explained how much of their beer we drank during the work season (which is a metric fucking lot of their goddamned beer) and in response, they shipped the crew a few hundred cases for free as a way to say thanks.
Stand up way to do business, if you ask me.

This is the best beer.... well for me anyway.



Das seit 1731 in der eigenen Klosterbrauerei hergestellte und viel gerühmte Klosterbier wird zusammen mit gutem und preiswerten Gerichten den Pilgern und Besuchern angeboten.

I don't drink a lot of beer. Well, actually, I do drink a lot of beer, only not often. But when I do, well, it's usually a lot. The air gets into these bottles awfully fast, doesn't it?
When I do drink beer, I either
a) drink the stuff from the local, family owned and run brewery. They are an upstart newcomer to the German beer market, they have been around for only 275 years, or
b) whatever is available. For crying out loud, it's beer. If it's cold, any beer becomes a good beer after the fourth bottle.

So, from what I understand, their product was between bad and mediocre while their customer service and public relations were outstanding.
Which means that, as long as there's another beer maker with great customer service and PR, and their beer is no worse than "bad", you can just switch brands and go back to being happy.
Worst possible outcome would be that you'll be forced to drink an equally bad or maybe even better beer made, like almost anything in the world, by a greedy soulless company.

THIS stuff



is the dogs bollocks!

motorpsycho67 wrote: Life's too short for shitty beer

This.


Thank Dog that I live in a region with a healthy microbrew marketplace. American lagers have never done it for me, give me a good ale any day. My everyday is Kingpin from Bridgeport and we recently discovered a tiny brewhouse a half hour or so north of us, Skookum Brewery, that has some really tasty beers. I've brewed a couple batches over the years with mixed results. A buddy of mine just got a bunch of brewing gear in exchange for some work, and we're looking to see if we can make something drinkable this summer.

Hooray BEER!

Good beer is good. I dunno about all this corporate who controls who shit, but the cutie sales rep that came by and stocked my boh vending machine with beer for free last week, in addition to giving some free, and totally gross colt45 Blast fruity juice drank to get drunk as a skunk with was pretty cool.

See? Beer is for drinking. Doesn't matter what flavor.

Sisyphus wrote:See? Beer is for drinking. Doesn't matter what flavor.

+1

I'm not even reading this thread.

I'll take the low road and confess I drink almost nothing but dirt cheap Busch light tall boys.

Once I accepted that I prefer lots of watery brews over fewer richer ones, and that, "beer cred" is right up there with eyebrow grooming on my list of personal priorities, the give a fuck abruptly vanished!

Plus, at 75 cents a can, that leaves a healthy budget for my single malt scotch agenda.

Rock wrote:

Oh yes, quite...

While this turn of developments is shitty for those directly involved (and I feel for them on a professional level, having had somewhat similar types of things happen to me at various jobs), I can't really care that much about the beer. It's PBR.

If this was Yuengling being bought from the family that has made it for the last 100+ years and being turned into a shitty Bud-style pisswater, *then* I'd get mad, but it's not. It's PBR.

Sisyphus wrote: Doesn't matter what flavor.

Says you!


Wanna fight about it?







Does the flavor/quality of your food matter?

I used to drink a lot of Sailor Jerry's before I met the evil cunt that turned me onto whiskey.