The Create your own "Pub Experience": Draft Interest Thread

[StartOrien]

GC & Lucky:

Don't forget to send in your picks for tomorrow. Be super-awkward if the first two picks were missed.

[fairweatherfan]

So some rules as I understand them - the commishes can verify or correct them as needed.

- Either (not both) of the bouncer/bartender can be dead/fictional, but has to be an ordinary human.  As much as I want Cerberus simultaneously checking IDs, singing karaoke and shaking a hobo to death, it's not happening.

- Entertainers have to be alive and you get them in 2011.  Can't pick the Beatles and if you want the Rolling Stones you're getting the geriatric version.

- We're picking specific beers but just categories of liquor.

- If you pick a liquor as a specialty, drinks that include that liquor are still eligible to be picked. 

- Everyone should promote their bar in the form of fake Yelp reviews (optional but I like it)


- This one's a question: What is and isn't a "mainstream" beer? 

[StartOrien]

So some rules as I understand them - the commishes can verify or correct them as needed.

- Either (not both) of the bouncer/bartender can be dead/fictional, but has to be an ordinary human.  As much as I want Cerberus simultaneously checking IDs, singing karaoke and shaking a hobo to death, it's not happening.

- Entertainers have to be alive and you get them in 2011.  Can't pick the Beatles and if you want the Rolling Stones you're getting the geriatric version.

- We're picking specific beers but just categories of liquor.

- If you pick a liquor as a specialty, drinks that include that liquor are still eligible to be picked.  

- Everyone should promote their bar in the form of fake Yelp reviews (optional but I like it)

NAILED IT, EVERYBODY READ THIS LIKE A HUNDRED TIMES.

This one's a question: What is and isn't a "mainstream" beer?

Actually a good question I was wondering myself but forgot to ask

EDIT:

Suggestion: Mainstream = anything manufactured by Budweiser, Cold, Miller?

[Rondo2287]

When I was thinking about mainstream beer this is the classifcation I used.  I know its vague, but this isnt really competitive so use your best judgement.


My definition of mainstream beer.


I live in Massachusetts.  I went on vacation to Florida.  The beers I would expect to be in a liquour store in both Massachusetts and Florida are mainstream.  

Basically my thought process was you expect them to be in every liquor store.  Wheras I don't expect to find "Ithaca Brewing Company's Apricot Wheat" beer in a liquor store out in massachusetts.


(although i did, and it was awesome)

[indeedproceed]

Well, Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, Yuengling are all very available beers that I can get at most convenience stores. I'd consider them pretty 'mainstream' too. Guiness, Smithwicks, Killian's, Harp, Bass, Stella, Heineken, etc, as well.

[Rondo2287]

Well, Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, Yuengling are all very available beers that I can get at most convenience stores. I'd consider them pretty 'mainstream' too. Guiness, Smithwicks, Killian's, Harp, Bass, Stella, Heineken, etc, as well.

Exactly, I would consider those all mainstream. 

[Redz]

I've said this to my buddies:

You know you're really kind of a nerd when you can very accurately mock nerdy things

(we had been taking turns doing fictional yelp reviews)

There is a lot of nerd runnin round here.

[fairweatherfan]

My impression of mainstream was the Bud/Coors/Miller class and lower.  So stuff like National Bohemian (Natty Bo), Genesee Light, and Golden Anniversary fits, as well as all the megabrew stuff. 

If we're including the nicer stuff like Sam Adams and Heineken, what about their specialty lines?  Could something like Sam Adams Millenium or Sierra Nevada Torpedo count, or are we just restricted to their main staple varieties?

[StartOrien]

Non-Mainstream beers are for the birds!

#capitalism #ilikecheapbeers

[Rondo2287]

My impression of mainstream was the Bud/Coors/Miller class and lower.  So stuff like National Bohemian (Natty Bo) and Golden Anniversary fits too.  

If we're including the nicer stuff like Sam Adams and Heineken, what about their specialty lines?  Could something like Sam Adams Millenium or Sierra Nevada Torpedo count, or are we just restricted to their main staple varieties?

I think Sam Adams and any of its offspring would be mainstream.


My only thought is, should Sam Seasonal be one pick?  since otherwise one of your taps would be empty 3/4 of the year?

Or would that be acceptable punishment for having such a tasty brew the for that quarter of a year?

[indeedproceed]

My impression of mainstream was the Bud/Coors/Miller class and lower.  So stuff like National Bohemian (Natty Bo), Genesee Light, and Golden Anniversary fits, as well as all the megabrew stuff. 

If we're including the nicer stuff like Sam Adams and Heineken, what about their specialty lines?  Could something like Sam Adams Millenium or Sierra Nevada Torpedo count, or are we just restricted to their main staple varieties?

This is just me, but here goes:

'Mainstream Beers':

1) Entire Coors/Miller family
-Coors, Miller, Molson, Milwaukee's best
2) Entire Bud family
-Buds, Labatts, Busch, -Pabst
3) Guinness Stout, Smithwicks, Harp, Bass
4) Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
5) Yuengling Amber Ale
6) Sam Adams Boston Lager, Sam Adams Cherry Wheat (literally, this is freakin everywhere)
-I would cut it off after just Boston Lager, or maybe Cherry Wheat too, because being from NY, more than the above isn't at the local gas stations.
7) 'fruity but prevelent beers' (Blue Moon, Shocktop, etc)
8) Dos Equis, Corona
9) Heineken

I don't know..there are probably lots others.

[chicagoceltic]

I think we do need to clarify the two beer categories.  In my mind I saw the two categories as:

1) Domestic (U.S.) mainstream (ie, Bud, Lite, Sam Adams...stuff you find everywhere.

and

2) Imports & micro-brews.

[indeedproceed]

I think we do need to clarify the two beer categories.  In my mind I saw the two categories as:

1) Domestic (U.S.) mainstream (ie, Bud, Lite, Sam Adams...stuff you find everywhere.

and

2) Imports & micro-brews.

ha, that seems easier to manage (although still up for debate is 'what is a micro-brew'), my system was a little more complex: 'What's in the medium gas stations'. 

[Rondo2287]

To add to IP's List

Red Stripe, Smithwicks and thats all i can think of now

[indeedproceed]

To add to IP's List

Red Stripe, Smithwicks and thats all i can think of now

Yup, although I said Smithwicks, but whateves.