Miller Lite "a true swillsner" part2

[hopjack13]

damn i screwed up the poll! anywayz.

okay im still pissed at this, and the last time i brought this up i had a lot of people tell me that miller lite *can* call themselves a pilsner because in some book someone wrote about beer styles and categorys way back who knows when, defined a pilsner as a light bodied lager or something of the sort blah blah blah. i said it wasn't a pilsner because it wasn't brewed in the same fashion as a real pilsner like urquell, not even the same ingredients, well they both use hops (at least urquell does) and barley, but not the same style. they are vastly different! by a huge margin!
and I still don't beleive miller lite can call themselves a pislner, let alone a "true" pilsner.
well i was mistakin , i guess......
but i found a deffintion of a pilnser that i really really like and went right along with what i was saying. actually found it on the urquell web site and i think they said it best!

" In its purest sense, the term Pilsner discibes an especially hoppy , golden beer brewed in the town of pilsen."
miller lite is not golden....a weak yellow maybe and is by no means hoppy! so i don't care what any one says IT'S NOT A PILSNER! at least not one it it's purest sense :p

[fretlessman71]

See that screen you're looking at right now? I call that a rutabaga. That's right, it's a rutabaga! That's my name for it, and that's what I'm going to call it.

Does it make it a rutabaga? No.

Does it make it a rutabaga TO ME? Hell, yes!

THIS is the only reason Miller Lite can be referred to as a Pilsner. You'll notice that those who defend the title are almost exclusively Miller Lite drinkers, and let's face it - they have a dog in the hunt. They're as biased TOWARDS it as we are AGAINST it. Therefore, IMHO, neither group can be trusted to make the final judgement on the matter. I will say, however, that I think we've got a pretty good shot at using logic to convince anyone sitting on the fence!

[Summer]

I don't care what they call it. It just doesn't taste like pilsner... it tastes like ***s= really, really lame and BAD!!

And this is no offence to some of my ingnorant friends who drink that ****!! But they don't know anything about good beer anyways:p

J.

[barley ben]

Yeah, what she said. Without the *'s!!!!:D

[Herb Ninja]

Ignorance is Bliss
Truth Is Miller...
Fu**ing tastes nasty!
Don't feel bad Summer I have some ignorant friends too. Peace, HN-

[steveh]

Originally posted by hopjack13
" In its purest sense, the term Pilsner discibes an especially hoppy , golden beer brewed in the town of pilsen."
miller lite is not golden....a weak yellow maybe and is by no means hoppy! so i don't care what any one says IT'S NOT A PILSNER! at least not one it it's purest sense

'Nuff said right there.

S.

[threecb]

Preachin' to the choir, hopjack!

I've seen defense of Rolling Rock, Bud, Corona and a couple of others here, but I don't think I've seen defense of ML. To me it's vile, to my BIL, it's all there is when it comes to "beer". (He's also the first person I took to a brewfest that found only ONE beer that he liked/tolerated!)

But fret, is it a TRUE rutabaga?!?:p

[davesarman]

Speaking of loyalty to the macro brewers, I noticed a funny thing the last time I was in my local Old Chicago...

I was sitting at the bar when a guy comes up and asks for a Michelob Amber Bock. The barkeep said they didn't have that, but as a good bartender should do, he offered up a couple of good substitutes for a macro drinker. Barkeep suggested a Shiner Bock, a Leinies Bock and a couple of other transition beers, but the guy would not bite. Customer then asked for MGD on draft, they didn't have that either. The guy finally settled begrudgingly for a Coors Light. I about fell off my stool. I found it remarkable that a guy that would be willing enough to try a beer with at least some color from a macro, would be unwilling to try anything else that might have color or taste. It HAD to be a macro swill beer. He seemed depressed to have to settle and made a remark about a bar with so many taps not having the beer he wanted. I wanted to make a remark or make a suggestion, but could tell he would have none of that, so I let him be. I then went back to my Summit Winter Ale...

[wortchillergoal]

What where we talking about? Oh yeah, someone was going to tell me who peed in my glass.

[unkle bik]

I put it one scratch ahead of the true anti-Christ of beer: Bud Lite.
(the beer for those who have no beer drinking imagination)

[hops99]

I think this is about the third thread in the last week that I've seen at realbeer that has something to do with Miller Lite. I loathe Lite like anyone else here, but I find it interesting that there's this much interest in Lite on the board. I believe Miller has accomplished what it set out to do with the new triage of commercials: it's created buzz, something I hate to admit.

[Brownbeard]

I was watching the Food Network, and they did a show on beer. I think it was an episode of Unwrapped. But, they were in the Miller Brewery, one thing I found interesting is that Miller still uses the same yeast strain brought over from Germany in the beginning.

[Tweek]

Its all I drink

[wortchillergoal]

Originally posted by hops99
I think this is about the third thread in the last week that I've seen at realbeer that has something to do with Miller Lite. I loathe Lite like anyone else here, but I find it interesting that there's this much interest in Lite on the board. I believe Miller has accomplished what it set out to do with the new triage of commercials: it's created buzz, something I hate to admit.

I will say, for what it is worth, that I can't recall seeing any of those commercials. So either I have not seen them or they are not that good.