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Phillip Van Munching was on the Today Show some time back promoting
his new book "Beer Blast". He stated that cigarette companies were
promoting "sophistication" in their ads, but that beer companies were
promoting stupidity to teenagers.

My beer-making friend at work tells me that most cheap beer in the
U.S. is made from cheap, spoiled rice, instead of quality ingredients,
like wheat, barley, etc.

When I was 18 and living in DC, we could drink beer and wine. But the
promotions by beer companies back then got lots of kids drunk on cheap
beer with cheap ads about being stupid. Well MADD and other orgs put
an end to drinking that young because of the high death toll by drunk
teens.

Seems the beer companies promoted themselves out of the market when
governments raised the drinking age in response. And teens lost their
drinking privileges because they proved to the world how stupid they
could be.

In the "old country" beer drinking is for socializing and the
mentality is that of drinking to relax a bit and chat about favorite
subjects. Here its just about getting drunk, which serves no purpose
but to promote one's total absence of I.Q., and alcohol is still the
number one cause of highway deaths.

I personally would rather sit down and sip a high quality beer for an
hour, than to guzzle a sixpack in 20 minutes. While some are
alcoholics and do this, many more are not and do it to get smashed.
Then they try to take to the roads. Then we learn if they were
drinking high quality beer, or guzzling a sixpack of cheap rice beer.

Interestingly, the fact that such persons would ignore this post, if
they read it, is proof of what I am saying.

The quality of driving is often no better than the quality of the beer
one drinks.