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Its opinion and what you are brought up on, pure and simple. I've known people that will only drink one brand of beer and thats it. And inevitably its something bad like Old Style or Bud, but whatever. Abba already brought up this complaint earlier in the fall I think.

I'll take the opposite approach just to make it interesting since I'm sure no one here is going to defend any domestics. While I don't mind some domestics, I wouldn't dare say they set any standards in quality :) Popular good beers that I think are shit:

Sam Adams: I've tried this on numerous occasions and still can't figure out why people think its good. Its just an extremly bitter beer. I'd rather drink MGD.

Guinness: I'm a big fan of stouts and porters, in fact they are my favorite overall type of beer. But guiness has always seemed 'light' bodied with an aftertaste of meat. Unlike Sam Adams, I can drink it, but would rather drink a true dark beer.

Corona: Mexican piss in a clear bottle that tastes like sour water to me. I can see why people put a lemon or a lime in it, it does help some. But I really don't want to have a lemon masking the fact I'm drinking pee.

I'll agree with Sam Adams tasting like crap. After I'd tried some I was seriously wondering if mine was from a bad batch but from what I've heard it sounds like it really is just a bad beer.

Guinness I actually like and have no problems with how it tastes. Another good dark beer I've been introduced to recently is New Castle brown ale. Hard to say if I like it more than Guinness yet but it's a contender.

As for cheaper beers that don't quite have the liquid oatmeal characteristic, my "usual" is Yuengling lager. Tastes better to me than Bud or Miller plus it's from where I grew up as a kid which kind of warms my heart. ;)

Yuengling isn't the best beer out there, but it's perfectly drinkable, and that's impressive considering how cheap it is. It's not available in New England, though I like to pick some up when I'm in Maryland.