or any non-light major beer

seems like if you are just drinking to get drunk, go with the bud light so you dont go fatty with your alcoholism

and if you are just drinking to have a beer, drink something that tastes good

bud heavy just seems to be in the middle, makes you fat and tastes like ass

for people that can afford to drink better, the only reason i can think of to drink bud heavy is if you are a redneck and think that drinking light makes you less manly

i mean bud has slightly more alcohol than bud light, takes 6 lights to make 5 heavys, but those 6 lights still have over 100 fewer calories.

please explain...

[Edited on June 1, 2010 at 10:09 PM. Reason : oh, and no homo]

6/1/2010 10:09:43 PM

MAKES YOU MORE OF A MAN RAWR RAWR RAWR

6/1/2010 10:10:43 PM

it looks like you've already explained it to yourself

6/1/2010 10:10:48 PM

light beer makes you queer? well hot damn.

6/1/2010 10:11:34 PM

Budweiser is $13 a case at food lion on the weekend

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

6/1/2010 10:12:45 PM

i don't like pbr light

and i actually kinda like regular coors more than coors light

i don't ever buy budwiser or bud light. if someone offers me one i'm not going to say no though. i don't think it tastes like ass, either. busch ice? ass. natty light? ass. beast ice? ass. there are a lot worse tasting beers. a lot better tasting, too. but i think you can do a lot worse. i also don't buy it so i really have no stake in the argument.

[Edited on June 1, 2010 at 10:14 PM. Reason : .]

6/1/2010 10:13:03 PM

bud light makes a shitty chaser for Jack Daniels Heavy.

6/1/2010 10:13:22 PM

i agree with this thread 100%

the calories don't justify the extra 0.00001% alcohol

6/1/2010 10:14:14 PM

fat in a can

6/1/2010 10:14:50 PM

^ Spam?

6/1/2010 10:18:01 PM

Quote :

"it looks like you've already explained it to yourself"

6/1/2010 10:21:03 PM

WHY ASK WHY

DRINK BUD DRY

6/1/2010 10:22:32 PM

tastes good man

6/1/2010 10:23:43 PM

Not everybody is worried about being a fatty like you.

It won't make a difference whether I binge on Bud Light or Budweiser, I'm not gonna get fat. Budweiser has a little more bang for the buck, so I'll take it.

6/1/2010 10:24:32 PM

^ Truth man, not everyone can gain weight easily...You're damn right I want more alcohol in each beer I drink.

However, I avoid Budweiser when possible.

[Edited on June 1, 2010 at 10:29 PM. Reason : re...]

6/1/2010 10:28:25 PM

i agree with the op. they both taste terrible so I just go with the light if I'm drinking a crappy big-brew. Usually it starts out with 1-2 of something that I actually like the taste of, then I switch to whatever light beer is on special

6/1/2010 10:28:27 PM

I don't know about all light beers but MGD 64 has an alcohol content of less than 3% this means you'll have to drink 6 of them to start a good buzz so you're up to 384 calories vs. a good beer with twice alcohol content and twice the calories. Not to mention the frequency of pissing. Lower alcohol beers amounts to drinking more and thus pissing more.

6/1/2010 10:34:26 PM

because it works well when you are drinking beer and whipping ass

6/1/2010 10:36:03 PM

^^ people aren't comparing this to good beers with 2x the alcohol content. They are comparing regular big-brewery beers to the light counterparts. For example: Miller Genuine Draft is like 4.7%, 150 cal, 13g carbs vs Miller Lite is 4.2% 90 calories, 3 g carbs or something. Certainly not 1/2 the alcohol content.

6/1/2010 10:42:18 PM

Miller Genuine Draft is like 4.7%, 150 cal

MGD 64 is like 2.8%, 64 cal


What was your point again?

[Edited on June 1, 2010 at 10:46 PM. Reason : Yeah, I'd rather drink Miller Genuine Draft "heavy"]

6/1/2010 10:45:34 PM

when do we get to talk about Guinness?

6/1/2010 10:46:02 PM

^^,^ I see your point, actually I see where I was off the mark.

6/1/2010 10:47:32 PM

Quote :

"seems like if you are just drinking to get drunk, go with the bud light so you dont go fatty with your alcoholism"

WAHWAHWAH i might get fat if i drink.

6/1/2010 10:48:19 PM

^^I was agreeing with you and responding to CalledToArms, but alright

[Edited on June 1, 2010 at 10:49 PM. Reason : 2]

6/1/2010 10:48:55 PM

Quote :

"Miller Genuine Draft is like 4.7%, 150 cal MGD 64 is like 2.8%, 64 cal What was your point again? "

hm? I wasn't comparing to 64. I was comparing Lite, like the OP was.

6/1/2010 10:51:00 PM

Budweiser = Red n White Dynamite
A 12 pack of Bud = Thanksgiving dinner
Also, Stone Cold Steve Austin drinks it, you should too.

But seriously, I don't get it either. Although Coors Original (The Banquet Beer) is good.

6/1/2010 11:02:04 PM

Anything less than 5% = too much pissing, not enough drunk and that result is fuckin unacceptable, I got shit to do other than piss all night.

6/1/2010 11:12:56 PM

I only drink real beer (Guinness, Sierra Nevada, Sam Adams, Harpoon, etc.)

6/1/2010 11:19:32 PM

please dont use the term "heavy" when describing a normal beer... it makes you sound really retarded to everyone else, especially the 99.99999999% of the world that has never heard that term applied to beer

6/1/2010 11:20:10 PM

i prefer the word "diesel" to "heavy"

6/2/2010 12:04:30 AM

some people drink so much damn beer that it doesn't matter whether it's bud heavy or bud lite...whatever's cheapest at the time works

6/2/2010 12:40:36 AM

I love me some coors original

6/2/2010 12:48:17 AM

Quote :

"I only drink real beer (Guinness..."

So "real" beer is 4% ABV? I don't simply judge a beer as "real" because it is dark. Give me something with a punch AND flavor.

I suggest New Holland's Dragon's Milk Ale. It has a cool name, is delicious, and will get you buzzed quick.

6/2/2010 12:57:12 AM

If I'm drinking to get drunk:

6/2/2010 1:03:45 AM

Bud heavy taste better than bud light, but both are pretty shitty

^Steel reserve is actually quite tasty

6/2/2010 1:24:32 AM

^ I agree, it's better than most cheap beers like bud, gets you drunk at 8.1%, and costs like $1.20 for a 24 oz.

6/2/2010 1:28:57 AM

Quote :

"WHY ASK WHY DRINK TRY BUD DRY"

6/2/2010 1:29:26 AM

molson xxx is pretty good too for getting hammered

6/2/2010 1:33:24 AM

i just met a thin/fit german girl for drinks and she had two bud fats (and was very insistent on the budweiser when the waitress asked her if she wanted another bud light) -- maybe she confused budweiser with the czech version? she apparently enjoyed it enough to order a second one

i had a stone ipa

6/2/2010 2:56:16 AM

Cheap high-alcohol beers taste like crap to me -- way too sweet.

I prefer either:
- a good 6-pack of 8%-12% for around $10
or
- a cold 12-pack of 5%? PBR for around $7

...mid-grades are for weed.

6/2/2010 3:28:04 AM

Quote :

"- a good 6-pack of 8%-12% for around $10"

where can you get a good 6-pack of 8%-12% for only $10???

most good beer in general costs around $8-10, then the high alc stuff is more like $12 for a 4-pack or $7 for a 22 or 32 oz bottle. i'm curious where you are shopping to get prices like that.

6/5/2010 10:14:44 AM

sweet, another beer thread

6/5/2010 10:51:16 AM

I hardly ever pay more than $10 for a six-pack and I hardly ever buy beer under 7%

I know I got Breckenridge 471 IPA at the Teeter for less than $10
and I know I got Flying Dog's IPA at Target for under $10

The 471 might have been on sale, but I doubt it

6/5/2010 11:24:48 AM

how about just don't drink if you seriously have thought that hard about which Budweiser to drink.
when i buy beer i don't even look at the domestic section - you see I actually like beer.

[Edited on June 5, 2010 at 11:36 AM. Reason : bday party today - drinking newcastle, dos eques lager, misc. microbrews.]

6/5/2010 11:34:54 AM

great taste!!! less filling!!!!

wait..

6/5/2010 11:37:34 AM

Budweiser has 145 calories per 12 oz and is 5% ABV, while Bud Light is 110 calories per 12oz and 4.2% ABV...you aren't really saving any calories in the long run since you're just going to end up drinking a larger volume of bud light to get the same level of drunk.

6/5/2010 11:52:59 AM

those who whine about domestics are pussies

i like good beer, but there is nothing wrong with knocking back anything domestic, light, and cold with the sole purpose of getting cant walk drunk

6/5/2010 12:32:35 PM

6/5/2010 12:36:48 PM

Quote :

"No Bottoms Up: Light Beer Sales Are Sagging Do low-cal beers taste bad, or have men just discovered girdles? By ERIC FELTEN Light beer is in a slump. Advertising Age reported this week that U.S. sales of the biggest brands are in an alarming slide, with Bud Light down 5.3% this year and Miller Lite off 7.5%. Is this but a recessionary blip or are we finally witnessing a great consumer revolt against shamefully bad beer, shamelessly promoted? There are many possible explanations for the decline in light-beer sales. Advertising Age speculates that the dawdling of the economy has left 21-to-35-year-old men with pockets too empty to afford "premium" (which is to say, heavily advertised) beers. Old Milwaukee Light, here we come. Or could it be the fault of the insultingly stupid ads themselves (campaigns on which the industry spends hundreds of millions). Miller Lite has been relying on skits yukking it up about how guys can't commit to relationships with women, but sure do love their beer. Bud Light has used the genius tag-line "drinkablility." No doubt high praise for a beverage. The marketers don't really know what the problem is. Maybe it's just that the marginal caloric savings promised by these diet beers no longer seems worth putting up with lousy beer. After all, the elastic-undergarment maker Spanx is doing brisk business selling "compression undershirts" for men. Why should guys worry about calories and carbs when they can just wear girdles? Am I being unfair to light beer? Until this week, my experience with these ubiquitous products was nearly nonexistent. Maybe I had a Bud Light or Miller Lite once or twice over the last decade at some barbecue where it was the only refreshment in the cooler. But I have to admit I never gave these brews a chance. I would hate to think my disdain reflected mere prejudice, a snobby refusal to be seen with the everyman quaff. But prejudice it is, in that I judged these beers to be inferior without giving them a proper tasting. And if there's one thing I learned in my tenure as the Journal's drinks columnist, it is that you can't be swayed by your expectations of a product's quality. There is no substitute for empiricism.. So, at my local supermarket Wednesday evening, I grabbed up every domestic light beer I could find. They didn't have every brand, but the big boys were well represented. P.T. Barnum would have admired the bunkum that goes into the packaging. Miller Lite is now presented in "vortex bottles." That is, the glass on the inside of the neck is rifled and this, they promise, improves the flavor of the beer. Coors Light brags of its "cold activated" bottles and cans: The mountains on the labels turn blue when the product has been chilled. Who knew that Americans needed temperature-sensitive packaging to tell them when a beer is cold enough to drink? (It's always a bad sign when a company seems to think that its customers are morons.) Taking notes in my blind tasting I quickly found myself running out of ways to describe vapid nothingness. Natural Light was "flavorless"; Michelob Ultra was simply "bland"; Coors Light was "blah"—though it did have the slightest hint of sweetness, as if an ounce of (bad) ginger ale had been diluted with pint of club soda. Miller Lite had a slightly foamier consistency (the Vortex bottle at work?) but no particular taste that could be discerned through the suds; Bud Light earned the honorific "least awful, but just barely." No wonder these beers are so heavily advertised. No one would think to drink them otherwise. And even if there are those who actually like the stuff, the different brews are virtually indistinguishable. Nothing begs for vigorous marketing like products that are otherwise undifferentiated. All of which suggests that the great purveyors of industrial beer are likely to double down on the ad buys. For more than 30 years, they've pushed insipid suds with cartoonish spots celebrating the stupidity of men. Why change now? I'd like to imagine that the reason sales of these brews are in decline is that drinkers are finally fed up with just how bad they are. If that's the case, no number of advertisements with amiable doofuses proclaiming their love of light beer is going to stop the slide. But there is a radical solution open to the beer giants: the Domino's strategy. That company took a risky—some thought foolhardy—leap this year with ads admitting that the pizza they had been selling was terrible. They apologized for it, promised their new pies would be better, and asked long-suffering customers to give them another chance. Domino's U.S. same-store sales were up 14.3% for the first quarter. Imagine if Anheuser-Busch (now conglomerated with the Belgian beer multinational InBev), or MillerCoors (the other player in the great American beer duopoly) were to announce they regretted making bad light lagers and that, from now on, they would do better. Imagine if the beers actually reflected that commitment. Instead, we're more likely to see them flood the zone with more ads like those for Miller Lite, which ask us to laugh at a parade of losers for whom bland beer is more engaging than gorgeous women. I plan to turn off the TV and enjoy a Tom Collins with my lovely wife. Eric Felten is the author of "How's Your Drink: Cocktails, Culture and the Art of Drinking Well." Write him at EricFelten@wsjtaste.com."

6/5/2010 12:39:17 PM

I have heard that bud light has one of the most expensive brewing processes in the world.

And it is still shitty.

I only drink these light beers if they are on special, free, or I am tailgating.

6/5/2010 12:46:56 PM