September 05, 2006

Miller Beer Is For Traitors... And Other Myths

I tell you, it's nigh on impossible for a man to get a decent beverage in America these days. You can't drink first-rate wine, good brandy, acceptable rum or even half-decent bourbon. Now, evidently, beer is right out. As far as I know, only a certain gin is safe.

I'm as patriotic as the next fellow, but these boycotts are proving difficult on the liver. I'm not about to brew my own beer, or ferment my own wine, or even distill my own whiskey. So I guess I'm going to have to betray my country -- at least, in the eyes of some -- and drink whatever the hell I like. (Except for the beer. It gives me horrific gas nowadays.)

Forgive me. It's... a weakness.

Posted by H.L. Monkey at September 5, 2006 11:01 PM
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Mmmmm.... horrific gaaaas.

Posted by: Monkey Brad at September 5, 2006 11:28 PM

That jingoist harpie needs to sit down with a cold brew and chill out.

Posted by: Monkey RobbL at September 6, 2006 09:42 AM

If I were inclined to such nonsense, I think I could successfully avoid Miller products most of the time, but I like Red Hook's beers far too much to stop drinking them on account of Anheuser-Busch.

Posted by: Monkey RobbL at September 6, 2006 09:43 AM

I confess, I deliberately stopped drinking Sam Adams after the St. Pats thing. A few things are sacred, you know.

Posted by: H.L. Monkey at September 6, 2006 08:56 PM

I hadn't heard about that incident, but I pretty much stopped drinking Sam (except occasionally at the Sky Harbor airport lounges) several years ago when it seemed to start tasting like cheap mass-produced beer.

Speaking of which, one of my previous favorites, New Belgium's "Fat Tire" ale, seems to have suffered the same fate. I still love the other New Belgium brews, and I'll drink Fat Tire when there aren't other options, but it's started to have that "American pilsner" taste. Bummer.

Posted by: Monkey RobbL at September 7, 2006 09:54 AM

Nice to see people remember the St. Pat's incident "sponsored" by Sam Adams. (Jim Koch sucks!) I haven't had a Sam since. Bastards.

But who says you have to boycott first rate wine? Dude, it's French. By definition, it is not first rate. Honestly.

Posted by: JamesPh. at September 7, 2006 07:37 PM
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