As a guy I'm sick and tired of being told what is manly.

[Initech]

And like every fucking commercial on TV is doing it! Like those Miller Lite commercials. I don't know who they're fooling but drinking a lite beer was never manly to begin with. Who's with me?

[JVS]

1. The true drink of manliness is Old Crow bourbon. Drink until you start smashing up the furniture.

[Initech]

4. I always like that scene in "The Other Guys"...

Where Will Ferrell is drinking bourbon straight from the bottle, spits it out, and then instead he substitutes a Mike's Hard Lemonade. :rofl:

[JVS]

10. LOL.

[Aristus]

2. I'm with you. Never drink mass-market beer.

That is for wusses. Local craft-brew artisinal beers are for real men. Men who appreciate a job well-done, especially a job like brewing... :toast::beer: :9

[Initech]

3. Yes, I'm drinking a nice black rye beer right now... good shit.

It's like music - there's better beer if you look for it instead of drinking mass produced swill. :toast:

[Aristus]

5. I've downed three pints of Irish Death so far this evening.

I'm feeling fiiiiiiiiine...

:beer:

[Initech]

8. Irish Death? Sounds intriguing...

[Aristus]

11. It's a very dark porter, like Guinness, only smoother, and a little sweeter.

Heavenly...

:-)

[zanana1]

16. Guiness is good for you! nt

[7wo7rees]

6. Just today I was telling someone to stop drinking Lite.

He didn't know the low calories means less alcohol, so he's having to drink too many.
He asked what he should buy. I told him Dos Equis (baby steps). He asked how much, and he balked at the answer.
He figures he can buy more "beers" if he sticks to mass-marketed domestic brands.
I cannot help this man.

Yours truly enjoys Dos Equis, Dogfish Head, and Chimay exclusively, tyvm.

As far as being told what's manly? Dude. You know they're advertisers, right?

Women who read Cosmo are overly weight-obsessed. Guys think, stop reading Cosmo, babe. You look great. Simple.

I used to hate that Old Spice guy on the horse. Then I remembered he's an actor reading a script.

Memo to Lite Beer drinkers: If you insist that your beer be 34 degrees to drink it, stop drinking shitty beer.

end of rant

[Initech]

7. I love the Coors for one reason:

They seem to think that the only property their "beer" (er, rice beverage) has is that it's cold. It's cold! It's cold! It's cold!! :eyes:

And yeah it's like the male equivalent of reading Cosmo - there's people obsessed with that shit. But if someone ever made fun of me for drinking a "less manly" lite beer... let's just say it would not end well. :toast:

[jmowreader]

14. Someone needs to explain the "cold sensitive" package to me

A beer can is tissue thin. If it feels cold, the beer IS cold. Why do they need a "this is cold" label on the shit?

Or...maybe it doesn't kick until the beer is 33 degrees F, because someone with a frostbitten tongue wouldn't really notice Coors has no flavor.

[kentauros]

13. Now the Old Spice guy IS a horse!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtN9CW01QDM :P


And I've known plenty of guys that buy their beer according to how much it costs, as in more beer for less money. They have no clue about the idea of drinking beer for the flavor, and wouldn't be caught dead having a nice pint of ale. Those guys were also either full alcoholics, or quickly on the way to being so.

It can take me a month to drink a six-pack of Real Ale or Shiner. Cheap-beer advertisers hate me because I demand good flavor and don't give a damn about alcohol content. The few times I've had Chimay I liked it, but it doesn't appeal to me enough to buy my own bottles. If someone is offering some of theirs, then I'll have a glass :)

[pacalo]

9. I don't think Lester would agree with you...

His coveralls, or cover-nots, have "manly" written all over them...


He's got the manly 'tude going on...in his fantasy world.

[Initech]

12. Ew...

[MiddleFingerMom]

15. Ah... nothing brings out the snobbery like beer brings it out. -- not even wine.

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I spent 4 years of my young adulthood in Germany and had
some very fine and some very crappy beer there -- but it
didn't spoil any and all American mass-produced beers for me.
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The two beers I've enjoyed most in my life were these:
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1. A blueberry pilsner (I believe -- I know they had a
blueberry stout that didn't taste as good) from a very
cool microbrewery in Moab, UT. It didn't taste like
blueberries, so if we hadn't been TOLD blueberries were
one of the ingredients, we would've never known.
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2. Miller High Life Light (not Lite) in bottles.
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Both were extraordinarily fresh and RE-freshing. DEE-licious.
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In other words, I'm a little beer-snobberish about those two
choices as they hint to me that I've neither let the marketing
folks NOR the sometimes pompous and bombastic proclamations
of the "beerophiles" dictate what I like -- it was simply the
taste of the beers themselves.
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Hops-heathen here -- though that's not the first uber-beaten
path I've avoided taking.
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I may not know art (or beer), but I know what I like.
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And NEITHER of my favorites were "manly" or "un-manly" --
they were just "beers".
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[oneshooter]

17. I don't drink. Alcohol does not play well with diabetes. n/t

[Initech]

22. Probably the manliest reply in this thread so far.

[Recovered Repug]

18. Oh, man up and deal with it.

:D

[rug]

19. Every time my wife asks me to fix something I tell her I'm resisting sexist sterotypes.

[Lucinda]

20. I like cheap wine and expensive dark beer.

That's probably not very womanly either.

And IMO, "lite" beer is only good for giving your hair some extra body as a post shampoo rinse.
Or, as a rare occurrence as a beverage, on a hot, Hot, HOt, HOT!!! day when the beer is bottled, ICE COLD, and there is nothing else to drink.

[undeterred]

21. You should become a woman.

We've got it real easy.

[Initech]

23. Hmmmmm....

[Skittles]

24. YOU WANT I SHOULD KICK SOME POSSIBLY-MANLY INITECH ASS???

I WILL YOU KNOW