If you go out with friends and someone orders a Narragansett or something do you get really mad at them and whine for an hour about how they should've had a Prima Pils.
Sorry, I was responding to the idiocy that the only reason to drink beer is to get drunk and so therefore you should drink the cheapest beer, which is what that first person said and I was arguing against.
You agree with him?
FWIW, no, I don't argue against anybody for drinking whatever they want, and I don't judge anybody for drinking whatever they want. But if they tell me that I only drink to get drunk and that there's no other reason to drink beer, I'll think they're idiots and mock them online with a McDonalds analogy.
(I'm not a beer snob, I like Narragansett, but I'd probably choose Victory Prima Pils over it regardless, and I'd choose Notch Session Pils over both... Don't care if somebody else wants to drink something else, though)
I was exaggerating with the 80%, there's thousands of official craft breweries but I'm speaking dollars and retailer floor space. I work for Wirtz Bev based out of Illinois (mostly wine and spirits but we do distribute Ballast Point, DeScheutes, a few others) not sure how it is elsewhere but in my state easily over half the craft beers (and yes that's a loose definition) come off an AB truck or Miller truck...and these dominate sales from the pull through I personally see. Distribution laws very greatly by state but for me this merger would basically take over the entire beer industry in IL, including crafts because the influence/power of such an all incompasing distributor would be ridiculous...which is why I think it won't happen anyway.
I live in Massachusetts, which has liquor and package stores, largely as a response to the old fashioned BLue Laws that banned beer/wine/liquor sales in Super Markets. While it's inconvenient to not be able to buy beer in a supermarket, the benefit is that our liquor stores have a hug variety of beer. The two I largely go to have their main sections for the major American light lagers, but the shelf space is split pretty evenly with crafts.
Where it definitely does lack is in cold beer storage at liquor stores.
But even with shelf space being dominated by Miller or inBev, I don't see it as that much of a problem because the craft beer industry has exploded in the last 10 years,
inspite of everything that Miller/InBev/Etc have done in the light lager market.
