rockforever: American beers typically don't matter because they are more carbonated and less hoppy than other beers. The pasteurization doesn't destroy the taste when there is no taste to be had.

If you're writing about American macro lagers, then say that. Otherwise you end up sounding like you're ignorant of the microbrewing trends of the past 20+ years.

Theres something quintessentially American about the IBU arms race, as every small brewer tries to see who can rape your palate with the hoppiest IPAs scientifically possible.

American craft brewing, especially the west coast, seems to think the only good way to make a beer is with a shiatton of hops. Thank god for beers like Church Key. More brewers need to make pilsners and lagers for those of us who'd like an alternative to MillerCoors etc that isn't a Hefe or the like.

rcantley

that is what I came to post...just had a couple of those camping on Saturday night.

Also had a Iniquity black ale that was 9% and it was ridiculously delicious.

/prefers bottles

shoegaze99: But I don't think there is anything wrong with recognizing that pouring your beer is almost always preferable to drinking from the bottle or can.

Well that's because it is. Also, I was ranting about these people not realizing that beer tastes different out of a can. It farkING DOES taste different out of a can...if you drink it directly from the can...the way the vast majority of people who drink beer are likely to drink it.

Plastic Trash Vortex: No, the cans do not make beer taste 'metallic', you are imagining it and still wrong.

The fark they dont. Drink a beer right from the can and say that. The difference is so shockingly obvious its not funny, you pompus prick.

bel4sucks: Madbassist1: The fark they dont. Drink a beer right from the can and say that. The difference is so shockingly obvious its not funny, you pompus prick.

LOL you can't come in calling someone a pompus prick if you're gonna act like one yourself. Take the blind taste test and realize it probably is your brain and discrimination making you think that. Otherwise, you'd biatch that a coke tastes different in a can too.

I'm not talking about 'the taste test'. I'm talking about (as I said plainly above) drinking beer right from the can. Why do I quantify it that way? BECAUSE THATS HOW MOST PEOPLE WHO DRINK CANNED BEER DRINK IT!! I drink bottled beer because it tastes better drank directly from its shipping container. Many people do not have the opportunity to poor their beer into a glass. Truth be told, drinking beer from a glass is the way to go, which means draught beer is the best (as long as the damn piping is clean and the keg isnt soured). But to say that beer drank directly from a can tastes the same as a bottole and that people who dont think so are delusional...well...yeah, you're being a prick.

bel4sucks: Madbassist1: I'm not talking about 'the taste test'. I'm talking about (as I said plainly above) drinking beer right from the can. Why do I quantify it that way? BECAUSE THATS HOW MOST PEOPLE WHO DRINK CANNED BEER DRINK IT!! I drink bottled beer because it tastes better drank directly from its shipping container. Many people do not have the opportunity to poor their beer into a glass. Truth be told, drinking beer from a glass is the way to go, which means draught beer is the best (as long as the damn piping is clean and the keg isnt soured). But to say that beer drank directly from a can tastes the same as a bottole and that people who dont think so are delusional...well...yeah, you're being a prick.

Uh huh so pouring a beer from a can into a glass magically takes the metallic taste away? You know how dumb that sounds? If you don't like drinking beer out of a can then don't do it, but don't claim you know more than the brewer themselves. And you know that drinking beer from a keg or a can is still drinking the beer from it's shipping container right? They don't ship it in something else and then bottle or can it in the store genius level.

LOL duuude. You are saying that EVEN IF YOU DRINK BEER FROM THE CAN that you still can't tell that its from a can?

That's it. You seriously dont know what the fark you're talking about, because that just isnt farking true.

I know they coat cans now, and I'm sure it helps a lot, I would think, so my metallic quip may not even apply these days, but before then (I think Keystone was the first to advertise the 'coated can' thing) drinking beer from a can absolutely DID impart it a metallic taste. This is fact, not supposition.

The 'shipping container' quip was my exact point, kegs and bottles do taste different. Why a keg doesnt taste metallic I dont really know, I'm not an expert, and now I'm positive that neither are you.

However, I am willing to get a couple of tall boys after work tonight to give this hypothesis a thorough workout. I'll let you know tomorrow ;)

letrole: Anyone who drinks craft beer keeps posting this copypasta trollerific crap list also tends to:

1. Spend 40 hours a week or more watching TV
2. Wouldn't ride a bike or walk if life itself depended on it
3. Prefer the Xbox because the PC is too complicated to use
4. Doesn't enjoy concerts because the song doesn't sound the same as the MP3 version
5. Would rather watch the movie than read the book because reading takes work
6. Think all breasts are wrong if they're not basketball-sized
7. Love Wal-Mart for their low, low prices and variety of merchandise
8. Walk past a Target and make pretentious farting noises
9. Buy viagra from spam emails
10. Feign disgust at the idea of eating a homemade burger