> It always tasted the same to me in my drinking days.
> I couldn't taste any difference in any of the brands.
> One thing I didn't like was lite beer.  I didn't want to pay for a
> watered down beer.
> When asked if I wanted a lite beer I always said no, I wanted hi-test,
> the real thing.  :)

I began my drinking, as a kid, with what we called Hi-Test (5.65% ABV vs 5.0  for most beers; now we have a few 8% dark ales I prefer the flavour of.

I was on a tobacco run with a neighbour across the border, into the USA, & we  would hit a pub for a couple  hours, to enjoy a jug or two & conversation, &  maybe a few pull-tabs.

He ordered the first jug & it went quickly enough (August); while he was in the washroom, I ordered the next jug (Bud, I think); he came back, took one sip, &  noted I hadn't bought Lite -- I asked why he'd want Lite when regular was the  same price -- he directed me to look through each jug & note the floating crap  all throughout the full strength one, & the clarity of the Lite.

I now prefer a clear beer in the summer hot days (Corona will do,. but no  darned piece of fruit, please) and, as my Brit ancestors do, a dark beer(stout) in the winter; I buy a 6 of each a year & I'm happy -- I buy a couple 6s of De- alcoholized beer -- my fave is Budweiser's Prohibition Beer. (It's Bud, but  brewed up here to our strength standards (5%, vs I think the max of yours is  3.5% federally set?); our Lite is3.5% on average.

Its so funny wen 19-20 year olds come up here to drink early, & set to out- drinking a Canadian sot, & 2 beers in, they're out! He finishes the 6, & orders another bucket of 6! :D

>> I rarely drink beer any more
> I had two when in NYC in May 2019, at a neighbourhood bar.

I like popping in to a new pub; I order a pint of draft(whjateverschjeasperst,  I ay, as it;s all the same taste to me) & a side of fries, to check out their  beer, service, prices, & cooking. . . (& how much attitude I get for ordering 
'the cheapest"

> In the mid-90s I worked as a front gate cashier for a local amusement
>park three days a week.  (At the time I was working like four or five differen
> jobs at the same time, part time.  Some where a half days with the morning
> at one place and another that af
> Anyway, it was a hot, humid August day.  There was no breeze, the air
> was stagnant and just miserable out.
> I thought a cold beer would be nice after work so got a six pack of Sam
> Adams.  That was really good stuff.  Rich, strong, thick.
> I had a bottle and a half and the rest was in the fridge for months.

I've had Sam Adams, & read the story, too. . . Not bad 00 your basic lager (5%  up here)

When the kids want the high test, just to get drunk, I point out that you don't drink beer to get drunk; you drink beer because you like/want/need to pee; to  get drunk you drink whiskey (rye, scotch, bourbon, vodka, tequila, etc--I call  the 40% ones all whiskeys, by for their associated country (Mexican, Russian,  etc.

For the ladies, when I was single, I kept a bottle of Southern Comfort on hand, for a little Apres Amour drink or two.

Thanks for the offer on the links to the car vids, but I'm not a big fan or  understander of cars. . . So I'll pass for myself. . . :) I bet others would  like them in here, though! & I know people I could pass such a list on to, who  would appreciate the pop down memory lane. . .

I have a couple preferred vehicles, I'd love to have all of: Ford F-350 pickup truck
'69 Cougar (w/ the wrap-around tail lights)
'67 Mustang (w/original leather buckets)
new Bugatti (just for the pure luxury & smooth ride) Mercedes 45-SL (soft top convertible) One of the new electric Porsche SUVs (they've won races against other stock  gas-powered cars; normally placing 1st or 2nd only on the oval tracks.)
& a Bluebird yellow school bus, with all the seats ripped out & turned into a 
touring party bus (jacuzzi, a soundproofed music area with high wattage sound,  a bar, of course, & a bouncer or two.); plus an area set up like an RV for  comfortable living (the guests can pass out anywhere in the front area, while I rest & eat with all the comforts and ease due an older(on the younger side of  senior) human being. (this may not be as such, as I've aged & matured since  this dream was first an idea); I could still rent it out, to those who wouldn't mind using it to party in somewhere along a route I've already chosen for  myself. (ride sharing of a different nature)

Those are the only ones that have struck my interest in my life -- Oh, & maybe  a wacky VW Bug or two (like one tricked out like a Cessna plane, & another as a convertible, covered in seashells)

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