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(15,359 posts)Bud and Miller products. I didn't know about real beer I realize now, I just knew what we thought. It was kind of understandable for guys that make their living selling half-racks of crap to alcoholics that are going to suck the whole 12 beers down in one night. I would only say that kind of American light beer is really ideal for hot days on the river when you're out to pound a bunch down fishing. A higher alcohol heavier beer is a Little harsh under those conditions.
It was 1994 in Seattle for the "Stones" Voodoo Lounge show that I really drank my first craft brews. I think the first I really liked may have been Coos Bay Amber Ale if I remember the name right. The guys I was with took me to a little bar they knew where we played shuffle board and drank mostly pounders of that. I had to admit it was really enjoyable.
At the beer distributor we hated anything that made things harder on us. The micro brews were cutting into our sales and then Anheuser Busch bought out the Red Hook brewery and forced that on us. We also really hated the high alcohol "ice" beers we had to start pushing. We were really right about that one I think. Good call corporate guys! Sell cheaper high alcohol beer to alcoholics, make them drunker faster, get them in more trouble and manage to lose more money! The same guy might have had to been satisfied with the lower alcohol stuff or would have had to buy more beer and spend more money. WTF were they thinking there?