Fckn marketing bullsh*t
How about the snooty "cute" girls... "more taste, or less taste?" to either the guy in the too short bathing suit, the too tight jeans, etc... when the truth is... "less taste or less taste"? How about a real beer? "oh, we don't serve it here."
Definitely more a case of innovations in beer marketing technology than beer technology.
Listen up all you snobs, with your high class tasty beer. If the beer you're drinking is so good, why doesn't it come with this????????
You bozos are probably going to the store, buying your beer, and not even knowing if it's as cold as the rockies! What dorks.
I know but everytime I look at it I start laughing. I can't help it. I'm not sure if the people buying this stuff notice or care, but some one at Coors is actually sitting there, spending company time and money coming up with this, and then they're building ad campaigns around it. It's hysterical because it's absolutely useless and yet consumed so much energy. Hey....wait a minute.... that sounds like chess!
(Another one that you should read with Andy Rooney's voice in your head)
Did you ever wonder why it's such a pain filling beer glasses up from the top? Why can't we fill them from the bottom?...
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Well ladies and gents - Some one actually worried about this and turns out the practical application is RAPID beer dispensing with no mess. I realize this is not useful for beer that you or I are drinking at this moment, but I'm fascinated by beer, technology, marketing, and things that are a total waste of time. This one doesn't fall in to that last category if your goal is to make money. Here's the link-
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread655357/pg1
I know how we all feel about cheap beer, but this is amazing.
Mr. Mercs, let there be no mistake. I hate this stuff. I'm posting it because I thinks it's funny and I'm hoping that some of you do too, I'm bored and this is how I have fun. So don't be afraid of hurting my feelings. I just find this topic to be an endless supply of good humor.
These are stupid products invented because they wouldn't dare try to make good beer - that would be too expensive. And sadly, probably not as effective. You're correct when you mention their attempts to attract new drinkers, the people who don't know better are their bread and butter and wouldn't know a Belgian Trappist beer if it was pored over their head. Probably wouldn't like it!
Anyway - if you find B.S. gadgets to help us enjoy mass market beer, which needs gadgets because it has no flavor (at least no good flavor), in the name of laughter please post them here.
I don't know about your country, but I've seen 8th grade exams from the 1890s here and can promise you most of today's students in the U.S. wouldn't pass. And to your point, Hollywood and mass marketers do pander to the lowest common denominator and even sort of "celebrate" stupidity. This bothers me too. I have my own way of dealing with it (personal development and change, self analysis, etc) but I don't know how to begin fixing my society.
Wheezer. Now I'm all depressed and it's 8:30 in the morning on a Monday. thanks Pal...
What about the Widget?
http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/question446.htm
In fact, Guinness has done a bit of innovation, including advances in statistical analysis using small sample sizes.
Now, I thought that was a gimmick. Who woulda thunk?
No, that one's actually practical.
Those gimmicks crack me up.
..... Still quite fond of these ales, although canned beer quality can be pretty variable.
And, clever as the widget is, it's still canned beer. I'll never forget visiting "Nine-Fine-Irishmen" in (of all places) Las Vegas, where they served the best Guiness I've ever had in the U.S. It was smooth but carbonated, tangy but malty, and absurdly drinkable. I mean you (well me at any rate) could go through 5 or 6 of those in a night with no problem. They were just - delicious.
By the way, no problem means you weren't hurting badly the next day. And that makes me think of something that's maybe a different topic - why does cheap beer make you feed cheap the next day. Good beer doesn't seem to hurt me as much.
Unfiltered beer, which is often of the very good variety, kills me the next day.
Draft also seems to be consistently worse than bottled.
I find a related problem with IPAs (especially double, or extra IPAs which I particularly enjoy). I often forget that they're typically 6%+, sometimes 8-9%+ for the doubles.
Interesting insight into the other alcohols.
I've recently read that N-Acetyl Cysteine (an amino-acid supplement) is great for helping to clean up a lot of the byproducts that are believed to cause hangovers, and has a proven effect on hangover severity. I picked up a bottle last week, but have yet to test this out myself.
I've tried many things. B vitamins, milk-thistle extract, prickly pear (which I also read has a proven effect), but have found that little helps as much as extra sleep and greasy eggs does.
No matter what your "cure" of choice, though, there's always a sizable dose of "sucking it up" required.
Hey Gents - sorry, I'm just catching up. It's been a busy week.
@manymercs - I really believe byproducts are hugely responsible so your post was interesting. I don't know enough to pin names but all I can tell you is that beer to beer, at same quantities and alcohol content, they feel different.
AND - nothing beats my bacon, potatoes, English muffins, and sunny side up eggs (you have to cook them smothered in olive oil, a trick we learned in Greece). You take a shower, eat that, and you're fit as a new born babe. And painful as it is, water helps. :)
Is looked like you got some posts missing because of manymercsmike's disappearance, right ?
That's wierd...what happened to him?
Damn won't be getting anymore info on brewing from him.
Did you ever wonder why (please read this using your best Andy Rooney voice) why your beer's flavor gets stuck in the bottle? Why did it take this long to create the bottle throat turbulator? I'm mean, the flavor's been stuck in the bottle for years, and finally, thanks to Miller or bud or lite or extra lite or ice lite or one of them who created the "turbulator", we can finally taste our beer. Beautiful.
And also,
did you ever run to your fridge, pull out a beer, and wonder if it's cold? thank yeast that Coors thought up the cold sensitive can. When it's blue, it's as cold as the rockies. Finally, I can look at the can, and know that my beer is cold! Because, after the accident, I can't feel cold anymore and I need blue F'in mountains to tell me.