/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14881780
Ok boomer

for me its stella artois

Just drink Sam Adams normie

>>14881780
every store I have access to still had all of that macrobrew garbage, I think you're just too stupid to find it. The fact that you prefer that shit over craft beer confirms your level of intelligence

>>14881780
>What ever happened to a simple cold beer for the men that want to grill and watch the game on Sunday?
This demographic is dying. People who drink now drink spirits or canned cocktails (including hard selzers in this category). People who drink beer are usually nutcases with too much money who hop from microbrew to microbrew, never landing on a mild favorite.
Consider also the restrictions and warnings against drinking that exist now that never existed when the codger spirit was alive and well in the USA.

>>14881780
>>14881849
You are forgetting the key demographic. Alcoholics

>>14881898
white people will be extinct soon, thank god

Some craft breweries do make regular lagers. They tend to have that annoying malty stickiness that lingers in the throat that a lot of cheap European lagers have.

If you find a good lager then cherish it and buy it often.

Coors Banquet is pretty solid. High Life is OK. PBR is a little bit of an acquired taste.

I like Narragansett too

>>14881898
No I'm not retard. Alcoholics are drinking bottom-dollar bourbon or vodka.

>>14881947

I realized I was drinking too much the day I figured out that Jim Beam nips were cheaper by volume than the usual sized bottles

>>14881947
Not so. I drink a 750ml bottle of Stoli a day. If I'm going to kill myself with alcohol you bet your ass its going to be the good stuff.

>>14881780
>"What ever happened to a simple cold beer for the men"
>light beers are introduced the 80's
>now women can drink like men
>you can drink more of your favorite beer
>it even works for alcoholics to have less
>good starter beer
>it's what your parents drank when they turned 21
>now it sponsors major sporting events
>frats never go a party without it
don't shit on craft beer. Shit on fads all you want, but crafts are good. It's shit like light beer and light cigarettes that need to fucking go. And yes, liquor store Anon here, we carry banquet and High Life for a VERY specific type of customer. We even sell a ratio of 1:30 Budweiser as opposed to Bud Light any given week or month.

If you drink light beer or smoke light cigarettes you are a fucking child. Fuck you.

>>14881780
Even in Portland and Seattle the gas stations and grocery stores have all the usual bud light, coors light tier shit so I think you’re lying

>>14881780
Canadian here, all I can ever find it light piss like Coors and Bud, it sucks. Luckily Mill Street is sort of popular

>>14882036
Fellow liquor store anon here, middle-aged men are my absolute most annoying demographic, because they're the source of both light beer faggotrons AND bourbon hunters.

>>14881903
Post nose

>>14881813
Ok chav

>>14882036
I swear you people get fanny floundered over the dumbest inane shit

I'm sick of all the craft beer clogging up the beer aisles too. Give me a regular beer like Coors, Pabst, or Hamm's over this craft crap any day.

>>14881780
How stupid are you that you can't find piss water beer at grocery stores, liquor stores or convenience stores?

>>14881780
Dude coors is fucking nasty.

>>14882072
t. The guy that sees microbrews on a shelf and has a psychotic break right there in the store.

>>14882049
>middle-class working man or rich asshole asks if you've got anything hidden away in the back
>tfw I've got two cases of Pappy sitting in our office, and just about every rare bottle these guys ask for lying somewhere else
>tfw I tell them no, I'd buy it first if we did
>tfw can't even buy it myself
>tfw their face
"Oh well... ALRIGHT See yah"

>>14882165
Fucking hate bourbon hunters.

just get a fucking pack of Yuengling, the fuck is wrong with YOU going out of your dumb way to pick up fucking Coors lmao

>>14882195

What the fuck is a bourbon hunter

>>14881780
complains about beer, but post pics of one of the crappiest beers made.

>>14882272
Layabout good for nothing men, aged 30-50, typically from some breed of the tech industry, that don't actually do any work and just spend their whole day out of the office hopping between liquor stores with their pals, trying to find "rare" bourbons (Blanton's, Pappy's, Eagle Rare, etc.)

Noteworthy for being extremely up their own ass despite having done nothing to warrant such behaviors, making a loud nuisance of themselves trying to interrogate every worker in the store on what juicy goods they might be hiding, and also generally not knowing a damn thing about bourbon despite spending all their time chasing it.

>>14881780

dont mind me; just the most refreshing, aesthetically pleasing, ergonomic bottle of beer coming through

>>14881829
>Craft beers

>>14882272
bourbon hunters are weird old men who hop from liquor store to liquor store, country to country badgering the clerks at each store for a bottle of 'rare' bourbon.

the problem is that it's all allocated, and distributors will only allocate a single liquor store proprietor if their sales are good enough on the lower-end stock the distributor sells. like, if we buy 10 cases of Wild Turkey 101 and sell those cases completely (and yes, I sell literal 6 packs of 1.75mL's to those stereotypical old guys who are trying to die soon) then we can have a certain number of allocated items - namely, bourbon.

they're only allocated because they're either in short supply, or in too high demand to keep up - and with bourbon and liquor stores, we can't meet the demand that the hype generates only enough for every single person in town to find a tasting bar or restaurant that serves these same bottles and can sell it a %200 markup per shot/glass. so we can't even compete with them to begin with. NOW, after the Indians have dominated the beer game with popular domestics and tobacco as a stranglehold on oil prices with their gas station monopoly, they've taken to opening up liquor stores to meet demand on all item fronts. this means they're also competing for allocated bourbons, and they mark their shit up like %200 as well.
I'm not even kidding.

So you get any number of older men with any number of stories about 'the final piece to their collection', 'a gift for their ___', military personnel, etc., they'll even send in their wives. Reality? Liquor store owners know the value of these products better than you, and they don't just sell it for nothing, they usually save a bottle or two for themselves and family first. So, then there's that. In the end? Bourbon hunters are just another annoying customer to deal with, like trying to sell an off-brand Hennessy or Ciroc to a black guy, or the large group of kids who think if only 1 of them has no ID on them, then no biggie.

>>14882310

so modern day wine snob equivalents? lame but harmless

>>14882336
>like trying to sell an off-brand Hennessy or Ciroc to a black guy,
I once destroyed a black regular's entire perception of reality by giving him a sample of a tequila that was ten times as good as Patron at half the price. Poor bastard literally couldn't process it
>But Patron's the shit in all the songs
>Why's it so expensive if all this other shit's better?

>>14882310
>>14882336

its neat that theres a whole subgroup of people i didnt even know i hated that i will now proceed to hate

>>14882336
they aren't even cream of the crop by the slightest. in almost every major town you can find a Facebook of that city's 'bourbon society' and you can see the members. but here's the interesting part: those are actual members, and those are guys and girls who have ACTUAL collections, within which, is an item that they typically are required to open and allow the higher ups of the society to taste - which is how these societies have tried bourbons as old as America itself - like, 1795's, etc..

Idk if other liquor store Anon has met "that" one guy yet, but I have, and the guy is a friggin' legend. run of the mill factory worker with an ID card using his same picture from decades ago, bourbon hunter, the works. owns guns, chilled at my store for like 4 hours one night just shootin the shit with me about the end times. and oh yeah, he refused the bourbon society's INVITE on condition that he pop open one of his rarities. he told em to fuck off. shows me collection, right? pictures of bourbons he's been storing in a special addition of his house, wall to wall, at least 3 feet in depth, filled with bourbons from decades ago no longer made. multiple bottles of the rarest shit on the market today. all fucking decorated by every piece of bourbon related accessories and decor he can literally get his hands on - like master distiller pins and bourbon barrels, signs..

has a collection appraised at about $300k primary market price. secondary price? pfft. you can see right through these bourbon hunters after you meet 'this' kind of guy. so some are cool. less than some... a smaaaall number.

>>14881780
You can get Bud, and Miller at any grocery store, anon. Coors is a regional thing, as is Yuengling. I'm partial to shiner, which is technically a microbrew since they only have the one brewery, but it's as common in Texas as the megabreweries.

>>14882391

wtf now i love bourbon guys

>>14882359
lol was it something like Camarena?
dude, i have a testicular cancer survivor who's a regular since i started 2.5 years ago. buys a half pint to a pint of patron every single fucking week. he's a surgeon to boot lol.

we ran out of patron one time and i'd put it on my low-no stock report for my boss and when he came by on our shortage i recommended him camarena at more than half the cost.
it's been a year and he hasn't bought patron since. don't tell your boss if you do something similar to this...

>>14882410
Olmeca Altos in my case, but Camarena is fantastic too. Corralejo, Milagro, you can basically nab any tequila off the middle shelf and guarantee you have a better product than Patron.

>>14882403
yeah, he's aight. i discounted a bottle of Kentucky Owl the first time I met him and he brought me back 3 bottles of discontinued pints of whisky and bourbon the same night.
i gave two away - one to my boss and one to a bourbon collector i work with who's impossible to hate. i still have his 1975 pint of Old Calvert that I can't even find a damn picture of online. still has a tax strip on it too - a little paper strip along the cap.

>>14882410

>half pint to a pint per week
>implying thats a lot

>>14882440

why are tax strips so comfy??

>>14881780
Thank goodness that these are almost always available around here.
Slightly nicer than average, but nowhere near fancy. Just comfortable.

>>14882451
STUUUUUUBBIES

>>14882472

PERFECT for chucking against a wall or moving train when youre finished

>>14882485
STUBBYSTUBBYSTUBBY

>>14882491

Real talk, and i dont just admit this to anybody, but red stripe feels better in the hand than even high life. Too bad the beer is gross :(

>>14882503
you just can't recreate the taste and smell like that Corona bullshit

>>14882518

Heineken is just flat corona, change my mind

>>14882528
First beer, with my dad too :/ can't hate on it as much as I'd like to. recently had a 5L keg of it though, and the foam was better than the beer

>>14882528
Both taste like old cabbage.

You posted my favorite beer. Lots of people still drink the generic shit like what you posted. In fact, the other day was in store to buy a case of coors and it was all sold out. Had to get a 6'er of tall boys. Ive had that micro shit and have a bunch of it in my fridge but I drink a lot and just prefer my coors.

>>14881780
What are you talking about? All of the 20 best selling beers in the US are lagers

Just because there a lot of Reddit breweries now doesn't mean you can't get simple cheap lager

>>14881998
>stoli
>good vodka
Pick one.

>>14881780
It always gives me a giggle when people equate flavorful craft brews to faggotry and argue that only macros like budweiser are real beer.
This is the same logic as saving mass produced burgers from McDonald's are superior to a much higher quality burger from a local place made with better quality meat and other ingredients.

>>14883214
>good
>vodka
Pick one

>>14882336
>the large group of kids who think if only 1 of them has no ID on them, then no biggie
But this is no biggie. It's not illegal. It's just a stupid store policy and I just go to the stores that don't care after being hassled for it.
When a 40 year old man and his 10 year old son buy beer at Walmart, do they get stopped? No? Again, it's just a store policy for discriminating on the fear of some ghost of a chance at liability that never happens.

>>14883602
>giggle
>superior
>mass produced
>real beer
You're a supremely pretentious faggot.

>>14882401
>Coors is a regional thing

Dude, Coors is not a regional beer. Regular Coors and Coors Light are available almost everywhere.

>>14882165
I dont get it so your just a fag who wont sell the bottles theyve asked for out of some sense of superiority?

Beer doesn't have to be rare or expensive to be good.
Pic related is common seasonally and cheap and is the best Marzen ever made

>>14883934
Nah. I just like things made with quality ingredients that taste good. Also you're a regular faggot.

>>14881780
Coors has the biggest brewery in the world and is the second biggest beer brand in north America
If you can't find it you're a retard, don't worry, your swill has not been pushed out of the market by actual variety.
Also drinking mass-market beer does not make you a hard workin' blue collar man.
>>14883934
Cope
>>14882083
>I hate choices
Does having more than 3 types of beer available on the shelf give you a seizure or something? Just grab the one you want, Coors Pabst and Hamm's are all selling more than ever. They're still there.

>>14883915
>Bruh, just put yourself and your business at risk for the sake of my $8 for shitty beer because I was too lazy to bring my ID
Fuck you fag not how it works.

>>14881780
Coors Banquette and Pacific Pilsner (canada only) are the two best beers on the market

Also helps they are one of the cheapest

>>14881813
fuck, I drank one yesterday for my first time and it was life-changing.

>>14883602

Shits for fags.

>not drinking sessions
they gimp you out by one beer per complete volume, but it's a good sip easy beer...if your local grocery stores doesn't carry that then you need to move

>>14881813
If stella was a bit more dry, it would be the perfect cheap beer