These comments are still a great read, even after all this time.
 
C’mon, guys, nobody drinks Pabst because they legitimately think it’s good. They drink it because they’re dirt broke and it’s cheap.

I don’t care what label is on it, I’m with Tavi. All beer is just not something that belongs in a mouth.  
I did have this one super-dry, quite strong cider once that tasted very close to beer apart from the one little difference that it was vaguely palatable. Lotta nice craft ciders where I am.

i came here just to read the booze snob comments

@Background Pony #FD59  
Folks who Make Their Own tend not to bother with mass market swill.

Also, if the pony equivalent of PBR is featured here…where’s Applejack? (Yeah, old redneck joke.)
 
If prices in Ponyville are at all similar to my hometown, I would guess Vinyl couldn’t scrape up the bits for a sixer of Tiller Genuine Drafthorse, Budwithers, Hind-end-erkin, Coltrona, or Canterdanian, and had to settle on PBR - Pabsture-ised Belly Rotter.

@TexasUberAlles  
The Chelada sounds like some insane Canadian bartender (yes, I suspect my own people were behind this hot mess of a beverage) decided, “People enjoy the Bloody Caesar (born in Calgary, my birthplace - a surprisingly pleasant liquid appetizer of vodka, spicy Clamato, a seasoned glass rimmer, lime wedge, and celery spear; a bit like a thin seafood sauce, sans the pasta)…some older folks like red-eye (beer and plain tomato juice together)…let’s ram the two together and call it a Spanish or Mediterranean delicacy! Nobody’ll ever suspect, eh?”
 
I would not drink Chelada even if it would save my immortal soul. Ugh.

@Brony103  
You would not survive in Germany or the UK.

I find beer disgusting, I prefer vodka and wine and sometimes whiskey.

@Ginger_Fig  
Uh, excuse me Fig. When will you come back to Fluffybooru?

@someguy111  
It started out as a Mexican thing, sort of like a Bloody Mary with beer instead of vodka. Budweiser… budweisered it.

@TexasUberAlles  
…why? how? That makes no sense!

@someguy111  
Tomato juice, clam juice, hot sauce, worcestershire sauce, maybe garlic powder and celery salt… it’s less of a “beverage” and more “hobo beard squeezin’s”.

@TexasUberAlles  
Isn’t that “beer” mixed with tomato juice?

@someguy111  
One of the most horrifying things about American canoe-sex lager is just how much hard work actually goes into making it so awful; Bud, Coors, and A-B all go through a huge and complicated brewing process to get that nasty, watery swill just so. It’s utterly baffling.
 
I literally would not drink it if you paid me, but I have a hard time believing that anything could be worse than Bud Light Clamato Chelada, which I absolutely refused to believe was anything other than a cruel The Onion-class joke until I actually saw it in the grocery stores. Somebody left one of those things open on a picnic bench at a family gathering a while back, and good lord, it stank upwind. I mean, seriously, it smelled like a gynecological catastrophe.

@TexasUberAlles  
Steel Reserve, as awful as it is, isn’t the worst beer ever. As far as bum beer goes it’s actually quite good. The worst beer ever, that I have has at least, would be Earthquake. It’s 10% and made by the same company that makes Four Loko. It is so bad that you need to already be drunk just to swallow it and not gag.
 
 
@Ginger_Fig  
I find it ironic that someone who brews beer thinks of it as a “low class” drink. That could be why everything from that company pretty much is low class. As someone with Germanic heritage I can tell you beer is not some low class drink meant to be chugged down by idiots at a party; real beer is actually incredibly complex and brewing it right is even harder than brewing the finest French champagne. Brewing beer and truly appreciating it is really more of an art form than just something to get drunk from. However, thanks to companies like this, beer’s reputation has been ruined; it has gone from a very complex work of art to something a bum drinks in a back alley.

@someguy111  
@TexasUberAlles  
Useless Trivia: Adolphus Busch (who used pasteurization to turn his father in law Eberhard Anheuser’s small brewery into the behemoth it is today) did not actually like beer, he considered it lowbrow. Busch only drank French wine.

@someguy111  
I’ve never had the stuff, but I hear it should be called Steel Resolve, ‘cuz that’s what you need to keep it down.
 
@Ginger_Fig  
Ah, yes, one more reason along with “the rise of organized crime” and “the modern blight known as the War On Drugs” to pillory Prohibition in the stocks of History. Walgreen’s was about the only good thing to happen because of that benighted era.

@TexasUberAlles
 
@Ginger_Fig  
Thank you for reminding me there there are some knowledgeable people out there. Now, raise a 40 of Steel Reserve in a brown bag and let’s drink to our knowledge of fine booze.

@TexasUberAlles  
I blame the hangover after prohibition.  
We had a robust beer industry before alcohol was outlawed but then post-1933 the laws made it very difficult to do small scale brewing. Those laws did not change until the 1970’s but by then the big US breweries had convinced Americans that cheap & watery was how beer was supposed to taste. It’s taken another 30 years for small regional breweries to regain a palpable toe-hold in the market.  
Americans are slowly re-learning what we’ve forgotten about quality brewing.

@Matt Aguirre  
No no no, I’m angry at terrible beer, amigo, not you. The big American Lager monoliths like Budweiser and Anheuser-Busch have completely ruined the concept of beer in this country; they’ve tricked everyone into expecting terrible, and that’s what they deliver.

@TexasUberAlles  
Hey, I’m sorry, okay? I had no idea. Please don’t hate me.

@Matt Aguirre  
Sure, beer is good for you. What in the hay has that got to do with PBR?

Oh come now,Tavi. Don’t you know that beer is good for you?

“I REALLY need to introduce you to wine.”

This discussion makes me glad I live in central Europe.