Originally Posted by Nia_Nia

Whats the beef with trainers? I used to wear them all the time to go down my local why on earth would you get dressed up to have a pint with a couple of mates?

Originally Posted by RoadWarriorFromLP

In my part of the world, drinking from the trough of the bland triumvirate (Bud, Miller and Coors) will generally merit snickers and a few laughs. We fancy ourselves as little sophisticates, which calls for us consuming a premium domestic or, at the very least, one of the lesser imports, such as Heineken. Not sure if we'd brand the Bud drinkers as white trash, but you would be quickly dismissed as having pretty poor taste.

On the other hand, one drinks a lite beer to reduce calorie intake, something we can embrace in the Land of the Perpetual (Failed) Diet. The import and premium domestic brewers have avoided the low-calorie beer market, so the only choices left in this category are the major domestics. So drinking a diet beer gets fewer nasty looks.

Then again, a 20-something guy might get a bit of abuse if he drank a low-cal beer. Seems that the light beers are primarily aimed at women and middle-aged men, many of whom are carting around fairly large sheds for their tools..

Originally Posted by Schnorbitz

You wear trainers?? That's positively upper class. It's flip flops for me

Originally Posted by BritGuyTN

i'm actually quite fascinated - what is a premium domestic brew?

Originally Posted by RoadWarriorFromLP

Off the cuff, I'd say choices such as Samuel Adams, Pyramid, Sierra Nevada, Pete's Wicked Ale, etc., etc. In other words, anything that is vaguely in the microbrew category and not among the big-name watery lagers or those excruciatingly bad blue collar beers (Busch, Pabst, Schlitz, Old Milwaukee, etc.)

I guess that I should have pointed out that I'm in California. I think that the cheap domestics don't have the stigma in the Southeast that they do out here, and we do aspire to snob appeal.

Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas

I do laugh when I see our local bars proudly displaying Heineken as a premium and expensive alternative.

Originally Posted by Nia_Nia

Believe me the people I heard this from weren't twelve yr olds! and the comments were made about americans in general, what I originally posted seems to be a general rule around here - glad to see that not Americans are barking!

Originally Posted by RoadWarriorFromLP

Off the cuff, I'd say choices such as Samuel Adams, Pyramid, Sierra Nevada, Pete's Wicked Ale, etc., etc. In other words, anything that is vaguely in the microbrew category and not among the big-name watery lagers or those excruciatingly bad blue collar beers (Busch, Pabst, Schlitz, Old Milwaukee, etc.)

I guess that I should have pointed out that I'm in California. I think that the cheap domestics don't have the stigma in the Southeast that they do out here, and we do aspire to snob appeal.

Originally Posted by Sarah

They do the same up here with Harp.
Makes Heiniken taste like Dom Perrignon in comparison.

Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas

Jesus Harp! Not drunk that p1ss in years. Does it still stay sharp to the bottom of the glass?

Originally Posted by BritGuyTN

although some people who think they are far cooler than they really are in my area have started drinking PBR (not bubba 'types') very bizarre

Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas

Jesus Harp! Not drunk that p1ss in years. Does it still stay sharp to the bottom of the glass?

Originally Posted by RoadWarriorFromLP

Funny, but we seem to think that Harp is a premium beer that is worth paying for. I've always thought it was pretty bland, but drinkable enough. Mixes reasonably well when put into a black-and-tan, I suppose.

Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas

I wouldnt worry about it...Bud and Coors are sold as premium foreign beers in the UK. Some lager louts think its cool to be seen with a Budweiser.

Originally Posted by RoadWarriorFromLP

Funny, but we seem to think that Harp is a premium beer that is worth paying for. I've always thought it was pretty bland, but drinkable enough. Mixes reasonably well when put into a black-and-tan, I suppose.