The 2nd Annual Christmas & New Years Drunk Thread 2010! NSFW

I would say El Sol, Dos Equis Amber, Tecate bottles, Pacifico, Nega Modelo and Negra Especial are all at least decent. El Sol tastes like nothing, and thus is infinitely drinkable (however, as the person above me remarked, it's like high life, and I LOVE highlife). Negra Modelo is actually very, very good. Any incarnation of Corona, Tecate cans... actually, scratch that -- ANY mexican beer in a can -- and regular green Dos Equis is, to me, the epitome of absolute shit beer.

I think island-style beers are pretty similar. There's one or two (I'm looking at you, Maui Brewing Company), that are fucking delicious. A lot are in the "ehhhh, it doesn't piss me off" middle area, and the shit island beers, are truly shit.

 

That sounds pretty good, actually.

I'll take some with a side of Saltines, please; and a Dos XX with lime squished in to wash that down with.

 

As much as I scorn the addition of fresh fruit to beer (fuck that orange slice in Belgian whites) the lime makes all the difference with Corona. It necessarily cuts the sweat/weed flavor and turns an otherwise sub-par beer into a decent summer refreshment. That said, given my choice of mass-produced Mexican beers, I'd take a Negra Modelo over most anything else.

 

Cuba has only one name beer: Cristal, and it's actually pretty good and refreshing (it tasted like MGD to me) but it only comes in cans. However, you don't go to Cuba to drink beer. I wolf down the tropicals when I go there: Mojitos (none better than in Cuba) and Rum Punch.

Rum punch is possibly the most evil mix in history. A drink balls deep in booze and tastes like cotton candy and honey.

 

Maybe it should be the next site slogan for TiB.

 

Can someone please explain to me the fascination with blue moon? And related, the fascination with adding an orange slice to their beer?

Blue moon pale ale, belgian white, and full moon = good; blue moon abbey and regular = what the fuck? That shit tastes like my dog took a piss which I then filtered through composting produce.

And if I want a fucking orange, I'm eating a fucking orange. Not a slice, I mean the whole damn fruit. And if I want a beer, I'm getting a goddamn beer. Not a "refreshment" with "in-season fruity nourishment" crap in it, I mean a real man's fucking hoppy unhealthy high-abv beer.

 

See, at least with Tecate and Dos Equis, the issue is the lack of flavor and not the very apparent skunkiness of a raw Corona. They're more seltzery than anything. Not good, but definitely better than Corona.

 

Mexican beer tastes significantly better in Mexico. I hate to fulfill that stereotype, but it really is true. Corona actually tastes like a decent well-made lager down there. Up here, piss.

 

These American beers I keep hearing about on here, particularly the ones you chowderheads keep boasting about the one called Fat Tire. Dudes on here go on about it like it was brought forth to us by a stabbing from the Spear Of Destiny.

It's much stronger down there, too. A full 2 points, I think.

 

I think Eating Tex-Mex is like going to see a cover band. It isn't necessarily that bad, but you just can't stop thinking about how much better it could be.

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Finally got home to the Middle-of-Nowhere, TX. Haven't been home in about a year. Hooray for my dog still being alive, and a new puppy is here too!!

 

I still don't get the love for Corona. One of my buddies and his brother drink it like it's their job in the summer months. They even make a wall of the finished cardboard boxes in their garage. I see Corona, and I think of that logo on flip flop sandals and visor hats. Douche status. I don't know....maybe I'm missing something.

 

Does "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" apply to the there's semen everywhere in hotel rooms thing? That lampshade is looking damn fine...

 

They have an above-average marketing department and solid distribution. The commercials are clever and sexy, and there isn't a profitable bar in the U.S. that isn't packed to the gills with Corona bottles from May to September. Also, when you shove a lime into it, it's a very poundable brew, which is the lone criterion that needs to be met to satisfy many American beer drinkers. More and more major breweries are releasing lighter summer beers that at least try to expand consumer horizons (Honey Moon comes to mind), so the trend may start to shift. But when you look at how most people drink in this country, Corona makes sense, even if it doesn't.

 

How fucking awesome is this? I admire stars that are not only willing to lampoon their own work, but kick ass at it too.

 

We got Fat Tire in my area last summer. I had been reading about this glorious nectar of the gods for years on the RMMB. Fat Tire was one I recognized as many a poster's go-to "last dying wish" drink. As soon as I recognized what it was, I grabbed up a couple of 22's (it was all the store carried at the time). I probably would have paid $10 a piece for those fucking beers. I rushed home with what I expected to be the best beer on earth. All my friends would envy me for making this discovery, no?

I immediately opened the first 22 and took a swig, and...well, it's a decent beer. I expected some sort of alcoholic revelation, but the fact of the matter is that it's just a beer. Don't get me wrong-it's a good beer, but it's just a beer. No better than Terrapin if you like your hops with a little beer added, which I do.

 

Chuck Norris doesn't endorse freeweights.

 

Ten bucks says they're also blowing each other.

 

Maybe they should use these?