Now we know why American Beer tastes like Water

[regexcellent]

I don't like bitter stuff. I don't believe in "acquired tastes" and if I have to acquire a taste, then **** it, I'm drinking a coke.

[Sava]

obesity

[DinoDoc]

obesity

Alcoholism

[MRT144]

I don't like bitter stuff. I don't believe in "acquired tastes" and if I have to acquire a taste, then **** it, I'm drinking a coke.

Are you a supertaster

[Dinner]

I don't like bitter stuff. I don't believe in "acquired tastes" and if I have to acquire a taste, then **** it, I'm drinking a coke.

I'm sure we can find you a girlie drink full of fruit or something.

Seriously, it depends on the type of beer you buy as to wither it is bitter or not. Usually it's the type and quantity of hops used as well as if they hop once or in multiple stages (like make use of dry hopping or what Austrians call aromatic hops which are added in after you boil the wart). If you'd like I can recommend several beers which are not bitter at all.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Adding water to Bud would make it taste marginally more like beer.

Don't devalue the water.

[Dinner]

As long as the ABV is as advertised I don't see the problem. It's not like anyone buys a bud thinking it is high quality beer.

[notyoueither]

I had a nice l'ambree double malt and flammenkueche at Les Brasseurs yesterday. It made me again wonder why would anyone drink lager that is effectively sugar water? (not just Bud, but many lagers are flavourless).

I like the flavour?

[Dauphin]

I like the flavour?

You mean you like the subtleties that a lack of flavour gives Bud and similar lagers?

[Fake Boris]

Don't they have to have a particular level of alcohol, which is listed on the beer? I'd think that would be trivially verifiable. Just adding water to produced beer isn't necessarily a problem; if the beer happens to make a 8% alcohol level, you have to water it down to get to the 5% or whatever they list.

Probably not - beer is beer, if you add water to the mix post-fermentation you would have to mark it somewhere.

[Fake Boris]

Don't they have to have a particular level of alcohol, which is listed on the beer? I'd think that would be trivially verifiable. Just adding water to produced beer isn't necessarily a problem; if the beer happens to make a 8% alcohol level, you have to water it down to get to the 5% or whatever they list.

Probably not - beer is beer, if you added water to the mix post-fermentation you would have to mark it somewhere.

[snoopy369]

Probably not - beer is beer, if you add water to the mix post-fermentation you would have to mark it somewhere.

Eh? Beer has water in it all the time. Ingredient list on beer isn't "Beer". It's "Hops, Barley, Malt, ... " and water. Amounts aren't exactly reported.

[Fake Boris]

The plaintiffs' case is probably that a beverage can't (or shouldn't) be considered beer if the water is added after the fermentation, that's all I meant.

[pchang]

Stated alcohol levels in the US are mainly for tax purposes. The government won't care if the actual level is less as long as the company pays the tax based on the stated level.

[Nikolai]

Why would anyone drink American beer to start with?