Alton Brown + Miller Lite?

There is no excuse for cooking with crappy beer. If the beer tastes bad before it's cooked, it's only going to taste worse when some of the water is cooked out and becomes more concentrated. Like any other ingredient, you should use quality booze for your cooking needs. Be kind to your brats.

Well according to Alton you can use crappy wine for cooking because you only expect it to bring a fruity flavor. I would guess the same goes for beer with a different flavor of coarse.

Exactly. I don't care that he's advertising a beer. I would have just expected him not to represent a processed, low-quality, poor tasting food product -- all things he's nominally against. Miller Lite is not "good eats".

is this real? it's like if jello biafra started shilling for exxon.

My husband drinks PBR. I still married him.

What's wrong with drinking cheap beer? How many people eat or drink store brand anything?


I don't even like what you jerks would call good beer.


Maybe you can say it's like water, that there's nothin' to it, but if you say it actually, actively tastes bad then you're full of shit.

I disagree; although Miller isn't that bad Budweiser DOES actively taste bad...also, it gives me the shits. Most of the beer I drink is from local breweries; I'm not a huge fan of most of the European imports because I can get beer of equal quality here in Wisconsin for half the price. I drink Leinenkugel's [link]www.leinies.com[/img] or Point Brewery most of the time; also New Glarus. They are some damn fine beers and for good prices too.

Am I a bit of a beer snob? My Dad accused me of being one a few days ago, and I suppose he's right. But if I'm going to drink beer, I want GOOD beer. Miller ain't that; at best its.....OK beer. Certainly NOT Good Eats.

I don't mind PBR on occasion, at least its a Wisconsin beer. I'll drink it if the only other choice is, say, Bud or some other crap like that.

No, it's not actively bad. But it's not actively good either. And there is a difference between drinking crap beer, and endorsing it.

there's nothing wrong with cheap! cheap is great. I also like light. it's that vomit flavor that doesn't sit so well with me.

You're probably kidding, but I have much love for the High Life.

That's probably just all your shit you're tasting.

The only compliment I'll give AB and the like is that they brew a very difficult style perfectly in massive quantities. That in itself is extremely difficult.

As for the Bud squirts, the reason behind that is the amount of corn they and other brewers use. It's cheaper than barley, nearly one hundred percent fermentable, and aids in making a much lighter beer. Even Leinenkugels is starting to notch up their additions of adjuncts to cut costs. It just doesn't taste the same.

Actually I was being 100% serious! I have nothing but the utmost love and respect for the Champagne of Beers!

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^^^ Respect = shotgunning. Clearly.

Good Eats is on right now. Alton Brown can do no wrong.

_DictionaryGirl_ said:

thaddeusmutton said:

_DictionaryGirl_ said:
If it was Miller High Life, I would have been impressed. 'Tis the Champagne of Beers, doncha know.

You're probably kidding, but I have much love for the High Life.

Actually I was being 100% serious! I have nothing but the utmost love and respect for the Champagne of Beers!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

^^^ Respect = shotgunning. Clearly.

It was the first beer I ever filled a fridge with.

Well, a mini-fridge. But still.

I learned about okra tonight!