[Apple Pro Underwear]

http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/05/news...ex.htm?cnn=yes

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brewer Anheuser-Busch says it will introduce a caffeinated, sweet-flavored beer for twentysomething club goers to compete with the flavored rums and vodkas gaining ground on the dance floor.


Can the plague™ and 4 Horsemen©® be far behind?!?!?!?!?!

[ManOfSteal]

Whodathunkit.®

[MilkmanDan]

I'm down with that.

[voyageur]

ewww.
..and a stimulant and a depressant in the same drink? Sounds like a speedball to me.

[ManOfSteal]

Originally posted by voyageur:
...and a stimulant and a depressant in the same drink? Sounds like a speedball to me.

Haha, no kidding...do you need a prescription from the Dr. in order to buy this?

[Apple Pro Underwear]

i just can't believe the "20-something" world has come down to this

seriously, are we former gen-Xers going for this shyt? I'm 24 — I grew up in the grungy 90s and you expect me to go for this hippie froo-froo crappola now that i'm an adult? wigga please.

[DeathToWindows]

Blech.

[Axo1ot1]

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
i just can't believe the "20-something" world has come down to this

seriously, are we former gen-Xers going for this shyt? I'm 24 — I grew up in the grungy 90s and you expect me to go for this hippie froo-froo crappola now that i'm an adult? wigga please.

I'll try them if you'll try them

[SeSawaya]

although I like Red Bull and Jaeger!

[turtle777]

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
Can the plague™ and 4 Horsemen©® be far behind?!?!?!?!?!

I seriously doubt it's going to be any worse than American beer already is.



-t

[dav]

instead of designing a product for a market, why not just make a good product?

[Fiend]

Jack Daniel reduced their alcohol level (again), for this same 20somethingcrowd. Guess these retards can't handel real Jack. Piss off then and go drink some other crap and leave real Jack to the rest of us!

[ryju]

No thanks!

[turtle777]

Originally posted by Fiend:
...go drink some other crap...

I agree, American Whiskey is crap !

You might wanna try some real whisky, Scotch !
It's like day and night !

-t

[Powaqqatsi]

Originally posted by turtle777:
I seriously doubt it's going to be any worse than American beer already is.



-t

Agreed

I don't understand all these alcopops (or whatever they are called). They're all disgusting.

[mydog8mymac]

What happened to suffering through case after case as a high schooler—developing a taste for beer? Where is the work ethic? *sigh*

[waxcrash]

Originally posted by turtle777:
I agree, American Whiskey is crap !

You might wanna try some real whisky, Scotch !
It's like day and night !

-t

Have you tried Japanese whisky? Try some single malt Hibiki Suntory, Yamazaki, or Yoichi and you feelings towards scotch may change. The Japanese make whisky that is just as good or better than scotch.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by waxcrash:
Have you tried Japanese whisky? Try some single malt Hibiki Suntory, Yamazaki, or Yoichi and you feelings towards scotch may change. The Japanese make whisky that is just as good or better than scotch.

Can I get it for a reasonable price outside of Japan ?
Where ?

Didn't I ask you this before ?
Or am I having a deja-vu ?

-t

[scaught]

sounds like that "sparks" stuff. its a caffeinated malt beverage.

it does strange things.

[olePigeon]

It's a drink to appeal to college students. Now you can get drunk without pranks of whether or not what you drank really was piss water.

[brapper]

Originally posted by mydog8mymac:
What happened to suffering through case after case as a high schooler—developing a taste for beer? Where is the work ethic? *sigh*

i know! kids these days....

[Sven G]

If there's an Anti-Christ beer, well... then it must be this one:



... Plaisir diabolique!

[An Alias]

Originally posted by Sven G:
If there's an Anti-Christ beer, well... then it must be this one:

more like anti-freeze.

[effgee]

Originally posted by Sven G:
If there's an Anti-Christ beer, well... then it must be this one:
*snip*
... Plaisir diabolique!

Diabolic, indeed. What's the 12% stand for - "12% alcohol" or "may contain 12% actual beer"?



(edit: found a very nice translation describing the product):

Under "taste data", they state: "It is blond, dense, tasty and long in the mouth."

hmmm ...

[davidflas]

This beer is fairly diabolic too!!

[turtle777]

Originally posted by effgee:
Diabolic, indeed. What's the 12% stand for - "12% alcohol" or "may contain 12% actual beer"?

The 12%, sometimes also refered as 12°, is the Stammwürze in the wort.

Basic ingredients / Stammwürze
Stammwürze is the mass of basic elements in unfermented wort malt sugar, proteins, vitamins, flavoring elements which through the addition and interaction with water are dissolved out of the malt. From this basic mass of fermentable material about a third becomes alcohol, a third carbon dioxide and a third residual extract after fermentation. Stammwürze content and alcohol content are closely related, where as the Stammwürze is three times greater than the amount of alcohol. A quantitative measure, Stammwürze is expressed in percentage where by the varous types of beer are divided into four categories: Simple- or Einfach beer up to 7%, Schank or Draft beer more than 7% and less than 11%, full beer from 11% - 16%, and strong beer over 16%, of which Bock beer is at least 16% and Double Bock at least 18%.

http://www.andechs.de/englisch/brauerei/glossar/

-t

[ambush]

Originally posted by voyageur:
ewww.
..and a stimulant and a depressant in the same drink? Sounds like a speedball to me.

Well we already have that here. And I thought the same thing.

[ambush]

11% beer from Québec
http://www.unibroue.com/produits/11.cfm

[Secret__Police]

Drunk a$$es who dont pass out.
Great idea budwiper

[turtle777]

Originally posted by ambush:
11% beer from Québec
http://www.unibroue.com/produits/11.cfm

Yuck.

What do French-Canadians know about beer ?
On a second thought, it can't be worse than American beer

-t

[Skip Breakfast]

Turtle, have you tried every American beer?

[turtle777]

Originally posted by Skip Breakfast:
Turtle, have you tried every American beer?

Many. Actually, to be fair, I found some decent microbrews.
The smaller and less known, the better.
Does stil not compare to the excellent Bavarian beers !

Just forget everything that comes from A-Busch !

-t

[effgee]

Originally posted by turtle777:
The 12%, sometimes also refered as 12°, is the Stammwürze in the wort.

... heh - sieht aus als hättest Du in meinem obigen Post das (implizierte) Sarkasmus Tag überlesen.
... heh - methinks you might have overlooked the (implied) sarcasm tag in my post above.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by effgee:
... heh - sieht aus als hättest Du in meinem obigen Post das (implizierte) Sarkasmus Tag überlesen.
... heh - methinks you might have overlooked the (implied) sarcasm tag in my post above.

I wasn't sure about you, but I know that most people here in the thread don't know the difference between % alcohol and % Stammwuerze...

-t

[ambush]

Originally posted by turtle777:
Yuck.

What do French-Canadians know about beer ?
On a second thought, it can't be worse than American beer

-t

Hehe. Actually the usual insult is that French-Canadians are only good at drinking beer.

But I'll accept that too.

[effgee]

Originally posted by turtle777:
I wasn't sure about you, but I know that most people here in the thread don't know the difference between % alcohol and % Stammwuerze...-t

You're absolutely right, of course. And while I'm no beer expert, I was aware of the reference on the bottle - here, everything revolves around Bier, Sauerkraut and Würstchen, after all. Just didn't feel like getting out the big "Umlaut-Words" that early in the thread.

[Apple Pro Underwear]

hold up hold up

america is so large that you cannot dismiss all american beers are shite


some breweries in NY here are pretty decent (i would say "micro-brewery" but since they cater in NY and are popular locally [9 mil population], they are much larger than a normal "micro-brewery")

I have had some great beers from seattle, boston and chicago as well. but admittedly, the best mainstream beers are from europe and japan.


so there