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Beer Calorie Wars: Now This Is Just Getting Ridiculous
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In an effort to steal some of the market share away from MGD64, Anheuser-Busch recently launched a new product called SELECT 55 (which is basically just a fancy way of saying “it’s a yucky beer that has less calories than an apple.”) According to a Bud executive, “SELECT 55 is ideal for adults who want to enjoy beer without feeling guilty about the calories.”
This “I Can Make That Beer In XXX Calories” game has got to stop. It’s stupid. Want me to let you all in on a little secret? Come close… closer… even closer… want to know what I drink when I’m feeling guilty about calories? WATER. I’m sure we cal all expect Anheuser-Busch to start putting it in a bottle and selling it as “Select Zero” any day now.
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I had some a few days ago and it was vile. No beer smell, no beer taste. It was like skuzzy tap water in a bottle. Avoid!
Company #1: I can make that beer in 64 calories!
Company #2: I can make that beer in 55 calories!
Company #1: GO AHEAD, MAKE THAT BEER!
Agreed. We’re talking about beer here. Not skim milk or hot tea but BEER. It has calories in it. Deal.
Not to mention the alcohol content in these “beers” is virtually nonexistent.
So you get no flavor, no wonderful hoppy aroma, just the cost of a sixer and the joy of peeing every fifteen minutes. Wow, what a deal…I’ll stick to wine, thanks. Although I heard somewhere they are now working on a “diet” wine. Fogedaboudit…
You know what I drink when I want a beer? A BEER!!!! Complete with all the calories, all the hops, all the malt and oh yes ALL THE ALCOHOL!!!! If you want to drink water it is free right out of the tap.
Isn’t there some law against calling that “beer”?
If not, there oughtta be.
*hears the Germans laughing at us*
Coors already puts water in a bottle and calls it beer. Sorry, A-B, you’re too late.
Beer is stupid – drink water. (and don’t be putting any of those little packets of fake sugar in it, either.)
My urine has more than 55 calories after a nice RIS or double IPA…
PS – Crazypants, for your blasphemy I hope you die from a horrible disease.
If you are watching your calories but want to get drunk… go for shots of straight liquor. If you are one of those assholes that needs something in your hands at parties at all times… drink a real beer you moron.
My urine has more flavor than that. *gag*
I’ll stick to wine, thanks. Although I heard somewhere they are now working on a “diet” wine.
There are “non-alcoholic” wines that could be considered “diet” because they have no alcohol that accounts for some of the caloric content. I’ve tried some, and it’s awful.
I haven’t met many wines that I don’t like, but I don’t think I could drink a beer to save my life ;) I’ve only had beer only a few times: a pub in London, a pub in Scotland, the British restaurant at WDW, a local micro-brewery. My earliest memories of beer came when my Canadian relatives drank the stuff out of large pitchers at weddings or funerals. The brew sat out on tables for hours, and stunk! Beer breath on drunken uncles wasn’t pleasant, either :))
@DI A german friend of mine was asked to leave Coors brewery after loudly complaining – In Germany diz would not be beer, diz iz schwill.
True story: A german sounding dude came in liquor store as I stood at the counter. He goes to beer cooler, then comes to counter. Asks clerk, “Var is the Warsteiner beer?” Clerk, “We don’t carry it anymore.”
German dude goes on a freaking tirade about how thees Bud, thees Miller, is all piss, and Warsteiner is “the best beer in the world.” It was actually a bit scary how worked up he got.
After he leaves, the clerk deadpans to me, “Guess it’s a good thing I didn’t tell him that I bought the last 2 6-packs.”
@Ferd: Nice! It’s funny because it’s true…
The people who seriously fret over the calorie count in a beer are those who think Budweiser, Miller and Coors are “beer.” Hand them an actual beer–a craft brew with flavor and body and complexity–like a Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA or Stone Arrogant Bastard and they’ll gag.
Love your site, but *PLEASE*: it’s “FEWER calories than an apple,” not “LESS calories than an apple.”
Kinda caught with your pants down on that grammatical snafu, when Aaron McCargo Jr. is one of your favorite punching bags for his mutilations of the English language.
…have to disagree with you there, Sherlock. Less/Fewer in that instance is a matter of writing style and personal preference. I don’t believe it’s a grammatical error.
(I hope this doesn’t turn into a 42-comment long discussion about grammar! It’s been a long day.)
I vote for just deleting silly questions/comments like the grammar one.
Jillian, alas that you disagree, but I must persevere to defend the truth. “Fewer” is always for countable nouns (1 calorie, 2 calories), and “less” is always for uncountables (less flour, less milk). It’s most definitely a rule, and not a matter of style, and this isn’t one of those rules that have special cases.
But yes, this is pretty silly to carp over, so I’ll take my anal-retentiveness offline now. Do love your site. :)
For all you Seirra Nevada or Imported beer drinkers that think you’re better than all the other beer drinkers because you drink heavier beers than the rest of us:
Just thinking, its no wonder your kids are “non-conformists” dressed in all black cutting themselves in high school bathrooms with their friends because they’re “more hardcore” than the rest of the other kids that dress in all black. They get it from their daddies who think enjoying certain brands makes them better than all the rest of the beer drinkers. Miller Lite is fine the way it is, which is why it out sells Sierra Nevada in the states by a long shot. I guess the rest of the US isn’t as hardcore as you, maybe you should go borrow your kids razor blade. Then again, you’ve probably already got one of your own from when you were in high school. Guess it took the edge off when the future Miller Lite drinkers were making fun of your dead mother while you cried in the bathroom like an 8 year old girl.