Jim wrote:
...a tour of Ireland and was surprised to see most of the younger people in the
pubs drinking Budweiser and paying a lot of money for it...
Then me writes:
Did you actually try the Budweiser they were drinking? There is a big
difference in taste, depending where you buy it. I never understood why the
citizens of St. Louis, MO (the worst place I ever lived in my entire
life...)put up with the Budweiser sold in the stores there, which is crap.
When I came to US, I tried it and was going to aks for a refund, because
thought that the bartender watered it down to sell more...but was told that
"this is how American beer tastes".
Funny enough, when you go to Grants farm which is owned by the Comany and it is
in St. Louis, you can drink two free beers if you are an adult (needles to say,
no one counts and it is not unusual to see moms or dads with their little kids,
coz it is a kiddie place, having hard time defying gravity...). The beer
tastes pretty good and I liked it, but you cannot buy it at the store like
that. This is throughout entire Midwest. There are Southern states, that have
what it is called the 3/2 law and the beer there is even more watered down, you
can drink a whole case and never get drunk. Better by sparkling water, tastes
the sam and you save big. I was once at a party with some business types and
they were bragging about the clever way to maximize the profit in beer
making...duh, but it tastes like crap (that was in St. Louis...)I did not say
anything...I knew this conversation was not about taste, they admired something
else in it and that's why they liked it.
Move to CT or MA, the Budweiser tastes almost as the one I had on the Grant's
farm, cross the border to VT or NY, tastes like in store-bought in Saint Louis
(did I tell you how much I hate that city?). Lucky for me, I live in CT and
buy it on a regular basis. If I move, I know I would miss it. It has an
unique taste which I like very much (when the real thing is not watered down...)
I was told that in Czech republic it tastes completely different, so in Ireland
they might be paying big bucks for quality you and I are deprived of...my guess
is coz we drink the profit maximized beer...
Coke is kinda like that, it tastes different from country to country.
And how this went from Volvo to Lukas fridges then to British pubs and now beer
is beyond my imagination...
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