Epcot Freestanding Snack Carts Selling Miller Lite and Coors Lite Instead of Bud Light.

[Bender123]

Except you're completely missing the point of what folks are saying which belies a lack of understanding of the product you are ridiculing.

They are American Light Lagers. A recognized style of beer with it's own flavor and appearance profile recognized around the world by professionals in the brewing industry.

It's a style of beer you don't like. Which is perfectly fine. That doesn't make them bad beers though. They are brewed in accordance with the characteristics of that style.

A Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is not an objectively better beer than Bud Light. It's a completely different beer.

So many beer snobs in my groups that are this way...They only drink the whales and ridicule you for drinking something "beneath" them. We are friends on Untappd already, but a few weeks ago, I tried a beer called "Easy Teazy" from Lakefront. Its a 99 calorie light lager made with green tea. Its not trying to be a BB Stout. Its just trying to be a flavorful low calorie beer. At that, it succeeds. I posted this on a facebook group and a guy busted out that my taste in beer is awful for liking such a terrible beer and for saying that I could crush 12 of these, when there are fantastic NEIPA out there that are better deserving of my time. Well...Im not judging it against a CryoCitra Hop NEIPA. Im judging it against Miller Lite, Bud Lite, Coors Light and other similar beer. In that range its a big win. He just couldn't fathom that I taste beer based on style, not based on price and "artisanal qualities".

I now just post a picture of Simpsons Comic Book guy on every one of his comments in the beer group. He looks like CBG and sounds like him too.

 

[Rogue21]

Hey, that's dihydrogen monoxide to you, buddy.
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Buddy? Have I met you at Dark Lord day? Otherwise, that's Ms Buddy to you.

 

[cinderellafan6]

Finally!!!!!!

 

[jakeman]

So many beer snobs in my groups that are this way...They only drink the whales and ridicule you for drinking something "beneath" them. We are friends on Untappd already, but a few weeks ago, I tried a beer called "Easy Teazy" from Lakefront. Its a 99 calorie light lager made with green tea. Its not trying to be a BB Stout. Its just trying to be a flavorful low calorie beer. At that, it succeeds. I posted this on a facebook group and a guy busted out that my taste in beer is awful for liking such a terrible beer and for saying that I could crush 12 of these, when there are fantastic NEIPA out there that are better deserving of my time. Well...Im not judging it against a CryoCitra Hop NEIPA. Im judging it against Miller Lite, Bud Lite, Coors Light and other similar beer. In that range its a big win. He just couldn't fathom that I taste beer based on style, not based on price and "artisanal qualities".

I now just post a picture of Simpsons Comic Book guy on every one of his comments in the beer group. He looks like CBG and sounds like him too.

I've had many a beer that I don't care for, but that's because I don't like the style and can say that while I don't care for them they are a good representation of the style (IPAs are usually when I have to use that rhetoric).

I'm not going to seek out a macrobrewed light lager, but I don't believe (anymore) that it's a source of ridicule for those who do drink it and more importantly, enjoy it.

Sometimes I want a Founder's Canadian Breakfast Stout. Sometimes I want whatever is in the most recent Sam Adams variety pack. Drinking beer is about enjoying your beer not another beer or consumer.

EDIT: Dog as a verb is verboten? That's weird.

 

[BoarderPhreak]

Except you're completely missing the point of what folks are saying which belies a lack of understanding of the product you are ridiculing.

They are American Light Lagers...

I get what you're saying... Fine - then I don't like "American Light Lagers." LOL. Mouse p*ss.

 

[Bender123]

I've had many a beer that I don't care for, but that's because I don't like the style and can say that while I don't care for them they are a good representation of the style (IPAs are usually when I have to use that rhetoric).

I'm not going to seek out a macrobrewed light lager, but I don't believe (anymore) that it's a source of ridicule for those who do drink it and more importantly, enjoy it.

Sometimes I want a Founder's Canadian Breakfast Stout. Sometimes I want whatever is in the most recent Sam Adams variety pack. Drinking beer is about enjoying your beer not ******* another beer or consumer.

EDIT: Dog as a verb is verboten? That's weird.

Its a British slang for public "baby making"...Welcome to the world of weird British slang...they are weird over there.

 

[larryz]

I'd be curious to know your other food and bev intake habits. Will you only eat Organic Wagyu Ground Beef? Or can you stomach a regular cheeseburger? How far do your high end tastes stretch? Do you randomly poke your head into Wendy's and berate the customers for their low brow tastes?

Personally, I'm ok with just about any burger that doesn't raise my estrogen levels. I will search for the burger I like with dogged determination.

ETA: apparently, the verb using "dog" is OK in that context.

 

[blaaamo]

Aw...500 check ins...you guys are cute.

Disney Springs is a good place. The bar below Planet Hollywood has a great (albeit not rotated) selection of local beer.

I hope the bar is good because they have partnered with Guy Fieri for their food.

 

[Me 'Earties]

Try Oxygen Dihydride

The IUPAC naming for water includes some variants, including dihydrogen monoxide (so @BoarderPhreak was correct, even though that whole thing was part of a hoax/prank), but oxygen dihydride is not one of them, so you’re incorrect.

 

[matt9112]

lets not forget about yeungling who's not far behind with a limited distribution....

but that's a real beer....to be proud of and stand perched on a rock with a bald eagle and machine gun fire. MURICA.

 

[larryz]

but that's a real beer....to be proud of and stand perched on a rock with a bald eagle and machine gun fire. MURICA.

And they're just down I-4 a bit... they have a brewery in Tampa.

 

[Bender123]

but that's a real beer....to be proud of and stand perched on a rock with a bald eagle and machine gun fire. MURICA.

Ill keep my New Glarus, thank you. 16th largest brewery in the US and they only sell in Wisconsin.

 

[jakeman]

I hope the bar is good because they have partnered with Guy Fieri for their food.

Wouldn't know.

Out of all the places to eat at Disney Springs, anything associated with Planet Hollywood is pretty far down my list.

 

[lostpro9het]

Ill keep my New Glarus, thank you. 16th largest brewery in the US and they only sell in Wisconsin.

I had a coworker bring back a case of Spotted Cow for after he visited family up there. I gave it a 3/5 and commented that it was “surprisingly flavorful “

But like you, ill keep my Cherry Street Brewery. Even smaller but so damn good.

 

[matt9112]

And they're just down I-4 a bit... they have a brewery in Tampa.

yeah I heard that need to visit sometime.

 

[Bender123]

I had a coworker bring back a case of Spotted Cow for after he visited family up there. I gave it a 3/5 and commented that it was “surprisingly flavorful “

But like you, ill keep my Cherry Street Brewery. Even smaller but so damn good.

Spotted Cow is, by far, their worst beer. It also sells better than anything else, because its a flavorful lager style.

 

[spock8113]

Actually, I'm surprised this has been going on for as long as it has but now I have read why:

"In September 2015 Anheuser-Busch Inbev announced that it had reached agreement to acquire competitor SABMiller for $107 billion. During the merger discussions between the two companies in 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had agreed to proposed deal only on the basis that SABMiller "spins off all its MillerCoors holdings in the U.S. — which include both Miller- and Coors-held brands — along with its Miller brands outside the U.S." The entire ownership situation was complicated. In the United States, Coors is majority owned by MillerCoors (a subsidiary of SABMiller) and minority owned by Molson Coors, though internationally it is entirely owned by Molson Coors, and Miller is owned by SABMiller.
SABMiller agreed to divest itself of the Miller brands by selling its stake in MillerCoors to Molson Coors. The merger between the two companies closed on October 10, 2016. The spinoff deal was completed on October 11, 2016) As per the agreement with the regulators, SABMiller sold to Molson Coors full ownership of the Miller brand portfolio outside of the U.S. and Puerto Rico for US$12 billion. Molson Coors also retained "the rights to all of the brands currently in the MillerCoors portfolio for the U.S. and Puerto Rico, including Redd’s and import brands such as Peroni, Grolsch and Pilsner Urquell." The agreement made Molson Coors the world's third-largest brewer."

And a few people have commented on Disney's right leanings:
“According to Russ Bellant Coors family members have played a prominent role in American politics and public policy, supporting many conservative causes. Such causes included providing a $250,000 grant in 1973 to found The Heritage Foundation, an influential conservative think tank, and, via its parent company, the right-leaning think tank American Enterprise Institute.
Chairman Pete Coors ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate from Colorado in 2004 on the Republican ticket."

Personally, I love strolling around Golden's Streets as it smells like sweet beer alot of the time!

Not a big beer drinker anyway and I prefer Blue Moon or Sam Adams.

 

[jakeman]

Actually, I'm surprised this has been going on for as long as it has but now I have read why:

"In September 2015 Anheuser-Busch Inbev announced that it had reached agreement to acquire competitor SABMiller for $107 billion. During the merger discussions between the two companies in 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had agreed to proposed deal only on the basis that SABMiller "spins off all its MillerCoors holdings in the U.S. — which include both Miller- and Coors-held brands — along with its Miller brands outside the U.S." The entire ownership situation was complicated. In the United States, Coors is majority owned by MillerCoors (a subsidiary of SABMiller) and minority owned by Molson Coors, though internationally it is entirely owned by Molson Coors, and Miller is owned by SABMiller.
SABMiller agreed to divest itself of the Miller brands by selling its stake in MillerCoors to Molson Coors. The merger between the two companies closed on October 10, 2016. The spinoff deal was completed on October 11, 2016) As per the agreement with the regulators, SABMiller sold to Molson Coors full ownership of the Miller brand portfolio outside of the U.S. and Puerto Rico for US$12 billion. Molson Coors also retained "the rights to all of the brands currently in the MillerCoors portfolio for the U.S. and Puerto Rico, including Redd’s and import brands such as Peroni, Grolsch and Pilsner Urquell." The agreement made Molson Coors the world's third-largest brewer."

And a few people have commented on Disney's right leanings:
“According to Russ Bellant Coors family members have played a prominent role in American politics and public policy, supporting many conservative causes. Such causes included providing a $250,000 grant in 1973 to found The Heritage Foundation, an influential conservative think tank, and, via its parent company, the right-leaning think tank American Enterprise Institute.
Chairman Pete Coors ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate from Colorado in 2004 on the Republican ticket."

Personally, I love strolling around Golden's Streets as it smells like sweet beer alot of the time!

Not a big beer drinker anyway and I prefer Blue Moon or Sam Adams.

So, this was interesting and all, but politics and the mergers and spin offs probably have very little to do with what beer is served in Epcot. I would wager (even though I'm unfamiliar with Florida beer laws) that the macrobreweries like everyone else after a certain volume are not allowed to self distribute. So what we are seeing in the parks is probably more of a machination of the distributor contract/supply than any direct dealings with Disney and MillerCoors. Political backscratching or even affinity would be highly unlikely.

 

[Bender123]

Actually, I'm surprised this has been going on for as long as it has but now I have read why:

"In September 2015 Anheuser-Busch Inbev announced that it had reached agreement to acquire competitor SABMiller for $107 billion. During the merger discussions between the two companies in 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had agreed to proposed deal only on the basis that SABMiller "spins off all its MillerCoors holdings in the U.S. — which include both Miller- and Coors-held brands — along with its Miller brands outside the U.S." The entire ownership situation was complicated. In the United States, Coors is majority owned by MillerCoors (a subsidiary of SABMiller) and minority owned by Molson Coors, though internationally it is entirely owned by Molson Coors, and Miller is owned by SABMiller.
SABMiller agreed to divest itself of the Miller brands by selling its stake in MillerCoors to Molson Coors. The merger between the two companies closed on October 10, 2016. The spinoff deal was completed on October 11, 2016) As per the agreement with the regulators, SABMiller sold to Molson Coors full ownership of the Miller brand portfolio outside of the U.S. and Puerto Rico for US$12 billion. Molson Coors also retained "the rights to all of the brands currently in the MillerCoors portfolio for the U.S. and Puerto Rico, including Redd’s and import brands such as Peroni, Grolsch and Pilsner Urquell." The agreement made Molson Coors the world's third-largest brewer."

And a few people have commented on Disney's right leanings:
“According to Russ Bellant Coors family members have played a prominent role in American politics and public policy, supporting many conservative causes. Such causes included providing a $250,000 grant in 1973 to found The Heritage Foundation, an influential conservative think tank, and, via its parent company, the right-leaning think tank American Enterprise Institute.
Chairman Pete Coors ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate from Colorado in 2004 on the Republican ticket."

Personally, I love strolling around Golden's Streets as it smells like sweet beer alot of the time!

Not a big beer drinker anyway and I prefer Blue Moon or Sam Adams.

Blue Moon is a Miller Brand...They make it in Milwaukee.

 

[spock8113]

That just shows how little I know about beer. Thanks, Bender123 (That's not your Magic Kingdom locker combo I hope?)