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To tell you the truth, OP, I just can't TASTE the difference because either one taste like a liquid ice.
To get real taste of a beer - it should warm up for a bit after pulling them from the fridge or cooler in order to get the full flavor profile from the beer.
If you have a beer you want to taste, it should be above at least 43F not 35-38F as is served in the US.
To me, each one that I taste gets better as the beer warms up a bit...the flavors just get more distinct.
BUT: American lagers are only good ice cold since they have very little taste to begin with, so their suggested serving temperature is ice cold.
They are derided and disparaged as boring, bland, frat beer, barley soda, fizzy water and swill. The craft beer movement was born in part out of protest against them.
There is nothing really to taste or enjoy . Sorry.
I usually refer to all BMC (Bud/Miller/Coors) beers as either yellow fizzy water or horse urine in a bottle.
It is true that good flavorful craft beers like Irish Red, Anchor Steam, Octoberfest, etc., tend to taste better just a little warmer. Some darker beers, like porters and stouts, may be even better at ~50 degrees.
In my parts, the best beer available is a lite. By lite I mean low carb, zero sugar. Alcohol is 4% (. It's becoming more and more popular.
P.S. elnina, I'm sorry to have to tell you this but we are going to have to shoot you - at dawn - on an empty stomach.
But you are right, warm beer usually taste - well, not so great.
There came a time when cold beers was not an option - like after a long hike in the bush in the hot sun. I did find one beer that was great warm. The lites I mention are not bad warm although I am used to them cold.
A cold, yellow, fizzy, beer after a long, hot, day in the sun is wonderful. You can only drink so much water.
All beer tastes about the same or similar to me, maybe I'm just drinking it wrong...
You're not drinking it wrong, you're probably just sampling a narrow portion of the bandwidth. Most "generic" beer is all based on the same style, namely pilsner lager -- Budweiser, Miller, Coors, Heineken, Corona, Labatt, Modelo Especial, Carlsberg, Dos Equis (green), Foster's, Hamm's, Schlitz, Tecate, Beck's -- all the same style. Some are done better than others, but they're all (slight) variations on the same style.
But drink one of those, then drink a Young's Double Chocolate Stout, then drink a Rodenbach Grand Cru, and tell us if you still think they all taste the same.
You're not drinking it wrong, you're probably just sampling a narrow portion of the bandwidth. Most "generic" beer is all based on the same style, namely pilsner lager -- Budweiser, Miller, Coors, Heineken, Corona, Labatt, Modelo Especial, Carlsberg, Dos Equis (green), Foster's, Hamm's, Schlitz, Tecate, Beck's -- all the same style. Some are done better than others, but they're all (slight) variations on the same style.
But drink one of those, then drink a Young's Double Chocolate Stout, then drink a Rodenbach Grand Cru, and tell us if you still think they all taste the same.
This is a good point. The styles I mentioned are also in sharp contrast to mass produced pilsner lagers.
lol, Sam Adams is *not* a craft beer. They're the 9th biggest beer brewer in the US.
That said, it's hard to define "craft beer" as some are owned by InBev (single biggest beer brewer in the US, own Budweiser) but allowed to operate independently and actually ARE craft in quality and size. There's no clear definition, and it's pointless to argue over the semantics of it.
That's why you should only drink what you like and forget everyone else. We all don't like the same things, and should even begin to try. I encourage you to learn beer though and Try other things. Drinking Bud is like only eating one burger from McDonalds. Maybe you've tried some of their other offerings in-house, but there is a whole world of other things to eat out there. Maybe the cost/benefit doesn't fit (hard for me to go out and buy beer anymore, it's all so freaking expensive, which is why I brew my own at about $0.70/pint), but maybe you find something that grabs your attention in a way nothing else ever has.
InBev isn't just the single biggest beer brewer in the US, they're the biggest in the world, by far. And that was true even before they acquired Anheiser-Busch.
lol, Sam Adams is *not* a craft beer. They're the 9th biggest beer brewer in the US.
That said, it's hard to define "craft beer" as some are owned by InBev (single biggest beer brewer in the US, own Budweiser) but allowed to operate independently and actually ARE craft in quality and size. There's no clear definition, and it's pointless to argue over the semantics of it.
That's why you should only drink what you like and forget everyone else. We all don't like the same things, and should even begin to try. I encourage you to learn beer though and Try other things. Drinking Bud is like only eating one burger from McDonalds. Maybe you've tried some of their other offerings in-house, but there is a whole world of other things to eat out there. Maybe the cost/benefit doesn't fit (hard for me to go out and buy beer anymore, it's all so freaking expensive, which is why I brew my own at about $0.70/pint), but maybe you find something that grabs your attention in a way nothing else ever has.
That's about what it usually costs me to make beer, too. I buy ingredients when they are on sale.
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