Beer snob sues MillerCoors for making Blue Moon

I do think some beer snobs might decide not to like it when they find out who makes it, but I don't think the majority of people would. The macros do a fine job of it. But the problem is, they're charging for exclusivity when there is no reason to, and advertising in a way that makes it seem like there is.

 

I'd trust my palate. Especially with the same varietal or blend.

 

Now I am wondering how well. If we are talking March 14th well, then high five, Dick!

 

I live in the capital state of craft beer-snobbery and now there are some who won't drink 10 Barrel (a good beer, I'm told) because the founders sold out to whomever owns Budweiser for a better distribution system. The beer doesn't taste any different, of course, but now that it's at least partially owned by the man, it's bad.

To each his own. I grew up drinking Genny and Utica Club, drank National Boh in college, and drink Coors, PBR and Leinie's now, even though every "craft" beer under the sun is available at the local stores, at about $3 more per six-pack. I just don't want to pay that much for beer I don't really like and if we go to a brewpub that doesn't have a domestic option I'll just get a soda or water. No big deal.

As a previous poster said, "artfully crafted" is an advertising slogan, like "cold-filtered, "fire-brewed," "from the land of pleasant living" or "it's the water." The guy needs to get over himself. If I'm driving a Chevy or a Buick, I know it's a GM car, even if it doesn't say so on the chassis.

 

Here's a link to what beers Anheuser-Busch, or AnBev or whatever its parent company is called, owns. Notable are Goose Island and Rolling Rock:
Our Beers | Anheuser-Busch.com

 

From my youth, a couple others were "Tum Water" (Olympia) and "Kreusened" (Old Style). I don't know what the land of pleasant living was, but I do remember "The land of sky-blue waters."

 

The worst ever was Keystone, a Coors product that had a specially lined can that was supposed to make it taste like bottled beer.

I can only tell you what it tasted like coming back up.

 

Yeah. Keystone is god awful. That's one beer I won't be happy to drink if that's the only thing available.

 

National Bohemian had the slogan "The Land of Pleasant Living" on its bottles and cans. Along with the race track oval. Olympia's (brewed in Tumwater, Wash., just south of Olympia) slogan was, "It's the water." Oly used to be a very drinkable beer, as did Henry's (from Portland) before the brands were bought out.

 

Oh, man. Olympia. Forgot about that beer. My buddy used to keep that in his garage fridge and, for some stupid reason, we used to actually drink it.

 

Benjamin Braddock is drinking an Oly in the opening scene of "The Graduate."

 

Olympia was one of the treasured cans in my beer can collection in the mid 1970s. Wasn't really easy to find in the midwest. I would assume I'm not the only one who was a teen in the 70s who collected beer cans.