Who gets to drink the "good beer?"...

[monmouth]

A fight over who gets to drink the "good beer" led to the arrest of a former Ku Klux Klan leader and his son in rural east Osceola County, the Sheriff's Office said.

Troy Hixon, 45, his girlfriend, another woman and his father, George Hixon, 73, were drinking Wednesday night when Troy Hixon threw his girlfriend down and began shooting into the ground near her, a sheriff's report states.

George Hixon served time in federal prison in the late 1980s for possessing an unregistered machine gun. When drug agents searched his home at the time, they found evidence that he was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Osceola County, they said at the time.

Troy Hixon's girlfriend, whose name was not released, told deputies that an argument began after she complained that she was forced to drink cheap beer while the men drank "good beer" — Budweiser, according to the report. She also said someone poured beer on her while she was on the ground, and she heard a can crumple.

Rest of the article at: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/fight-over-who-gets-to-drink-good-beer-1144327.html

[DeSwiss]

1. Don't you just hate drinking.....

...the cheap beers at Christmas time???

- WWJD?

[Angry Dragon]

3. WWJD??

He would have turned it into wine so they could share

[WhiteTara]

6. WWJD? I don't know

but I do now know what the KKK does.

[phleshdef]

55. He would turn that Shitweiser into Guinness on tap.

[eridani]

58. NO! He'd turn it into a nice hoppy IPA

That's what DH says, anyway.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. What in the world could be worse than Bud?

[JackintheGreen]

10. Oly.

and quite possibly PBR.

[madokie]

42. yup on both

[Marr]

14. Wait-- Bud was the "good" beer?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

21. Sounds like it. I had to read it a couple times myself.

[eridani]

59. If you send it to an analysis and testing lab, the report will probably say

--we're very sorry to inform you that your horse is diabetic.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

67. Ha!

:spray: :spray: :spray: :spray:

[Iggo]

16. Lucky Lager.

Absolutely horrid stuff.

Like a buck fifty a twelver back in the day.

[uppityperson]

19. Beer beer?

[Maru Kitteh]

32. Meister Brau, Old Milwaukee, Olympia,Keystone, Colt 45, Coors Light,

Red, White & Blue, Miller, Miller Light, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Mickey's, Old Style.

I'm sure there's more. Those were just the ones that jumped out at me.

[Dulcinea]

36. Anything with "Milwaukee" in the name.

Otherwise known as "The Beast" and "Old Mule Pucky." I'm told they come in Light versions too. Yikes.

[PAMod]

43. Ortlieb's "Try Joe's Beer!"

I think it was brewed in Reading, PA Horrible stuff.

[AngryAmish]

45. Natty Ice

[cherokeeprogressive]

50. I have a six pack of Billy Beer in the garage. I'm letting it age. I've had it since 1979.

It's still in the original plastic six pack holder and everything.

One of my prized possessions, a gift.

[arcane1]

4. Good lord, Bud is the good beer??

I shudder to think what the cheap beer was!

[postulater]

5. Shuddering with you.

[Warpy]

27. No kidding, where did they find something cheaper?

Some people are just clueless, classless wastes of protoplasm.

[Dulcinea]

37. Same here.

Life is too short for cheap, crappy beer.

[rucky]

7. It's self-defense. Totally justified.

It's something any reasonable person would do in that situation.

[JVS]

8. Yup. If she didn't like it, she should have left and gotten her own beer.

[DefenseLawyer]

9. I knew this post would bring out the beer snobs.

Pretension about beer is sad.

[arcane1]

15. All beer sucks IMHO :)

[DefenseLawyer]

17. I like beer

I like "good" beer. But beer snobs are to be mocked as the pretentious dorks they are.

[arcane1]

18. Word :)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

22. I'm hardly a beer connoisseur, certainly not a snob. But Bud is vile shit.

[DefenseLawyer]

25. No, no, you're really cool.

Really!

[Webster Green]

29. Snobs?

Bud sucks. Deal with it. :wtf:

[DefenseLawyer]

33. Perhaps it does, perhaps it doesn't

That's debatable. Thinking that expressing a sophisticated and discriminating taste in beer somehow makes one remotely more interesting? Not debatable. Just sad.

[Webster Green]

38. You're weird.

Really weird.

[tabasco]

39. Not debatable at all.

Mass-produced American beer is lousy fucking piss water.

You're the one being pretentious - "Oh, I'm so much better than the beer snobs."

You just sound fucking stupid.

[DefenseLawyer]

40. I don't mind sounding stupid to you

At least I don't sound like a tool.

[tabasco]

46. Scintillating retort.

:dunce:

[DefenseLawyer]

60. I could learn a lot from you.

I particularly liked "I'm not pretentious.. uh uh uh, YOU'RE pretentious!" Classic. Listen kid, some day you're going to wake up and figure out that while it's perfectly fine to appreciate and enjoy "good" beer or "good" wine or "good" coffee, blathering on about it like some 80's yuppie (as if anyone in the world cares how much you know about coffee) doesn't make you seem cooler, it makes you seem clueless. Budweiser sucks! Gee, really? Fascinating. Tell us more!

[tabasco]

61. You're the first one to start blathering on this thread.

People have opinions about beer.

Deal with it in your own special way or STFU.

[DefenseLawyer]

64. Yes, and this is why the mocking term "latte liberals" sticks.

Best of luck.

[spin]

47. It doesn't take much sophistication or discrimination to know that Bud is not a "good" beer ..

It just takes taste buds that have been exposed to better quality beer. Most American made beers could only compete in the Special Olympics of beer because their taste is so handicapped. Fortunately Americans are beginning to realize that beer can taste better than horse piss. Microbreweries are becoming quite popular in our nation.

[petronius]

31. Actually, the OP is about beer snobs - clearly the Hixons were too elite

to drink whatever noxious brew they foisted off on the girlfriend...

[Earth_First]

44. I figured this would appear...

I'm a beer snob. Absolutely!

I'm SUCH a beer snob in fact, I handcraft my own at home! :GASP:

[cherokeeprogressive]

51. How many beer snobs can tell you WHY they think a certain beer is bad?

Not too many.

They can all repeat the "drinking American beer is like having sex in a canoe" cliche, but can't tell you what makes a beer good or bad.

Silly rabbits.

[Statistical]

11. I feel sorry for any deprived individual who thinks Budweiser is the "good beer". n/t

[sylveste]

48. meh, beer is like sex

even when it's bad, it's still pretty friggin good.

[left coaster]

12. The "good beer" being Budweiser? I did a spit take on that one!

Thanks for posting the first belly laugh of my day! :)

[monmouth]

13. Florida just gets better 'n better....LOL. n/t

[alex cross]

20. And as a reward they gain 2 house seats just in time for the 2012

elections.

Just what we need, more electoral votes for that state.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

23. I say we just don't tell them.

[MineralMan]

24. Here's what they gave the woman to drink:

[dembotoz]

26. still better than bud

[MineralMan]

28. Budweiser - The Reason for All Those Clydesdales.

[FrancisTreptoe]

30. Stay Classy KKK

Anything mass produced like Budweiser should be considered Cheap.

[ZombieHorde]

34. The KKK is stupid and vile. nt

[alterfurz]

35. local bumpersticker: "Life's too short to drink cheap beer"

[spin]

41. Budweiser is not "good beer" ...

THIS is good beer.





That KKK leader is a wus.

[Initech]

49. If Budweiser was the "good beer" what was the bad?

:rofl:

[bengalherder]

52. Bud is one of the few beers I know

that you can get a hangover while still drinking that.

Lucky Lager is the other one.

Blech.

[Lucian]

53. If Budweiser is their "good beer," I'd hate to see their version of "bad beer."

Holy shit.

[cherokeeprogressive]

54. Okay beer snobs... check in here. What makes a beer good or bad?

Is it the water?

Is it the grain, how the grain is steeped, or how long it's steeped?

Is it the hops? Do you like hoppy beer or sweet beer?

Is it the yeast? Liquid or dry?

Is it something done during primary fermentation, during secondary?

Why don't you tell us beer hicks what separates a "good" beer from a "bad" one?

I'd bet money that no one here who claims to know "good beer" from "bad beer" could tell me what separates one from the other, and where the separation occurs.

It's a taste thing for some, a name thing for others, and a where it's made thing for the rest. I brew beer as a hobby, probably 6 times a year. I like it hoppy and bitter. I've cloned Budweiser yeast for a couple of batches, and have been told that my 8.2 beer tastes almost exactly the same, before being asked if I had a six pack I could spare.

Totally subjective. That doesn't stop people from expecting others to agree with their taste in beer though.

Fucking snobs.

[phleshdef]

56. Budweiser tastes horrible. It gives me hiccups. It gives me heartburn and it gives me hangovers.

But it has nothing to do with it being a domestic. Michelob doesn't do any of that to me and I like it. But I do tend to drink "snobby" beers like Guinness and a variety of German imports. I like my beer bitter or skunky and I like it not to give me digestive issues and not to have me waking up with a hangover. I think those are all good enough reasons to decided whether a particular beer is bad or not.

[cherokeeprogressive]

57. We've had our differences, and they've been displayed here for all to see.

For your answer to my question; I truly appreciate your response. Your reasons for not liking Budweiser are completely valid because they are your own. I respect that.

I like hoppy skunky beers as well. That doesn't preclude my appreciation of other beers though. I guess I have a cast iron stomach because I've yet to find a beer that messes with my digestive system. Hell, if it's yellow, bubbly, has a high enough alcohol content, is cold enough, and you're buying it, I'll drink it and like it. I've found that if I drink enough, which doesn't happen very often (!LOL!) every beer gives me a hangover.

My favorite beer used to be Lowenbrau. Good skunk. If you're old enough, you might remember the foil on the bottle. Strange, but when I was young, I thought that was a sign of extra workmanship or something.

Hey, I don't know whether you celebrate the holiday or not, and if you do... Merry Christmas to You and I mean that. If you don't; Happy Holidays. I mean that as well. I read all of your posts and respect your opinion, even if it doesn't dovetail with my own.

Have a Wonderful Day tomorrow.

[phleshdef]

62. I'll submit that once you are drunk enough, any beer starts to taste good.

...but that kind of thinking has set me up for some pretty bad mornings the next day!

And yea I celebrate Christmas. Its not strictly a religious holiday. The end of December has been celebrated for some reason or another since way before Christianity. Its an American consumer holiday at this point. It provides me with a reason to get time off work and fry my liver a little more.

[Dulcinea]

66. Anheuser-Busch's products give me headaches.

And I'm not crazy about the taste. I used to drink Rolling Rock before AB bought it & turned it into Bud Light in a green bottle. YMMV.

[SmileyRose]

63. Oh I just knew they were going to look like that.

Bless their hearts.


You gotta feel for the poor woman who has so few options in life but to stay round these 2 idiots.

[Iggo]

65. Yikes! It's the Master Race!

:rofl: