becks, why?

[YoungZaphod]

this will be my first post here. And I had to go and buy Becks and start off like this.
It certainly isn't my favorite beer. The grocery store where I buy beer often, the close one, has moved all the best beer from its special cooler. It now sits on a wire rack near the cooler, its old spot taken over by gallon jugs of store brand orange juice.
Back to the Becks. I don't believe I've ever tried it, maybe once when it was a $2 special somewhere. It doesn't really have any thing that makes it stand out. It sort of tastes brown. It doesn't have the skunkiness I've come to expect from this type of beer either, so I'm not unhappy.
I do have a Cottonwood Brewing Endo IPA waiting for me, so again, I'm not unhappy.

[skahtboi]

I am not sure what "brown" tastes like. Quite often, though, you will find the "skunkiness" that you talk about not actually being a characteristic of the beer, but a result of its exposure to light. Anytime you buy beer in clear or green glass bottles, try to get it from a case that is in the cooler, rather than buying it off of the shelf. You will find a lot of the beers you once thought "skunky" taste nothing like that at all.

As for Beck's itself, it is a very smooth, rather tasty, and adequate German offering. It certainly isn't a great beer, but it will do in a pinch! Beck's Dark is even better, though again, by no means great.

[the4th]

New slogan.

Becks.... because it's better than Heineken.

I'll drink Becks when I go out with friends and there's no other "good" beer on the menu. I've sent my share of skunks back to the bartender though. One told me once, "All German beers taste that way." Ummm... yeah.