Why do you drink light beer?

[Traianvs]

Is the difference in calories that great? What I gather from the site Space quoted earlier is that the difference is limited. It's better to drink one or two beers less instead of drinking light beer then I would think. You get to drink beer that's watered down, and you have to piss a lot more for less inebriety

[-Jrabbit]

I want to contribute to this thread, but I've only had a few light beers in my life, and always under duress.

They sucked.

[LotC]

I only drink it when someone offers it to me and it's the only beer around. Like the OP, I can't think of any good reason to drink it.

[Perfection]

Because it doesn't taste like real beer (horrible), you can drink a lot of it and look macho, and it's cheap.

[Ninot]

I only drink light beer if it is being provided free or extremely cheaply. Even then, i take pause.

[-Jrabbit]

What is this "cheap" thing? Doesn't light beer generally cost exactly the same as other versions of the same brand?

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
I want to contribute to this thread, but I've only had a few light beers in my life, and always under duress.

They sucked.

JM

[Jon Miller]

BTW, at least for wine and liquor, generally if it is cheap it doesn't taste very good and it gives you a bad hangover.

JM

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Traianvs
Is the difference in calories that great? What I gather from the site Space quoted earlier is that the difference is limited. It's better to drink one or two beers less instead of drinking light beer then I would think. You get to drink beer that's watered down, and you have to piss a lot more for less inebriety

If you're drinking to get drunk, it's not gonna matter much. If you have one or two beers after you get home, that's where it makes the difference.

[flipside]

For some reason I find people who drink light beer slightly creepy. Like ordering whiskey and diet coke, it strikes me as just.....wrong.

[DirtyMartini]

Originally posted by Arrian
Sam Light is nothing like, say, Coors Light in the same way that Sam's other offerings are nothing like Coors' other offerings. One is made by people who know how to make beer. The other is made by people who know how to sell people piss in a can.

-Arrian

Sure, wasn't trying to equate Sam Light and Coors light. I just think Sam Light tastes funky -- I'm judging it compared to Sam normal or other micro/craft brews.

[Fake Boris]

If you're going to be drinking all night, say from 10 to 4 or 5, light beer is an excellent choice.

[Cort Haus]

Light beer fills me with a unstoppable urge to quickly go somewhere where they serve real beer.

[Supr49er]

Originally posted by flipside
For some reason I find people who drink light beer slightly creepy. Like ordering whiskey and diet coke, it strikes me as just.....wrong.

Mixing whisky with anything is an outrage.

[Traianvs]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
If you're going to be drinking all night, say from 10 to 4 or 5, light beer is an excellent choice.

Down at my football café people who want to be drinking all day mix their beer with coke, calling it mazout (heating oil) after its characteristic hue

It's absolute blasphemy for any self-respecting beer-belching student, but the working class seem to like it