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2005-03-15 Home Front: Culture Wars
Malt Liquor Drink of Homeless and Unemployed -Study
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Posted by tu3031 2005-03-15 10:21:13 AM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 I don't worry about beer or liquor commercials. I make my own.
Posted by Deacon Blues  2005-03-15 10:29:14 AM||   2005-03-15 10:29:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Next week: "Night Train: Better than MD20-20?"
Posted by mojo  2005-03-15 10:47:56 AM||   2005-03-15 10:47:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Totally based on the idea that advertising *alone* sells products. They are poor, so they must be stupid and sheep-like enough to do what they're told. This also explains the preference for menthol cigarettes among African Americans; and rap, tex-mex, and C&W music among the poor. Plus eating a lot of junk food and not wearing a whole lot of designer clothing: all is advertising. If you just don't *advertise* NASCAR and professional wrestling, the poor won't want to watch it.
Posted by Anonymoose 2005-03-15 10:55:03 AM||   2005-03-15 10:55:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 80% more alcohol? Reporter math...

"First, for comparison, your average American beer has between 3.6 - 3.8 percent alcohol by weight. "Light" beers have much less, and heavier European beers contain about 5% alcohol.

Camo 5X Malt Liquor (it comes in a camouflage bottle, so don't put it down on the ground -- it's hard enough to find your beer after you've had a few) contains 8% alcohol by weight. St. Ides Malt Liquor (as promoted by Ice Cube, the rap star: this is from his rap tune on a St. Ides commercial -- I am not making this up -- "It'll make your jimmy thicker and get your woman in the mood quicker") is 7.3% alcohol. Some of the others, like Colt 45 and Mickeys (my house brand) have less than 5.6% alcohol."
Posted by Frank G  2005-03-15 11:06:29 AM||   2005-03-15 11:06:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey DB, making your own commercials.....nothing as thirst quenching as ad revenue.
Posted by john  2005-03-15 11:13:28 AM||   2005-03-15 11:13:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Malt Liquor Drink of Homeless and Unemployed
And cheap generic beer from the 7-11 is (or was in my day) the drink of choice for broke airmen just before payday. Yeah, it tasted like shit, but you could get a case for $5.
Posted by Steve  2005-03-15 11:17:54 AM||   2005-03-15 11:17:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 "No beer was spilled during the research for this study - hic-...."
Posted by CrazyFool 2005-03-15 11:53:43 AM||   2005-03-15 11:53:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Dopey me, I ment I make my own beer. It is stronger than store-bought.
Posted by Deacon Blues  2005-03-15 12:03:57 PM||   2005-03-15 12:03:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Homebrew's not THAT much stronger. I'm pretty sure you can't get more than 6% out of straight malt. I've heard rumors that dropping a Bean-o tablet in the fermenter will boost that, but the yeast itself can't stand more than 12% before it dies out.

As for "larger containers" -- homebrewers tend to think in 5 gallon batches...
Posted by Robert Crawford  2005-03-15 12:21:44 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-03-15 12:21:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Too true, Robert. I can boost to about 6 1/2 to 7% depending on how cool the wort is during fermentation (ideal between 50 and 60 degrees F) and I do make 5 gallons at a time. The alchohol content is still more than Miller or Budweiser and about the same or a little higher than ice-brewed beer. However, I'm not going for the alchohol content but a much richer flavor. I once made a honey porter that knocked my pecker in the dirt.
Posted by Deacon Blues  2005-03-15 12:42:50 PM||   2005-03-15 12:42:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Rap lyrics and movie scripts encourage ’chugging’ the bottles before they get warm

Have you ever tried to drink a warm bumper of King Cobra? Vomit city; cold is the only way to drink malt liquer. This is one case where I believe that Rap lyrics are giving young people very solid advice.
Posted by Secret Master 2005-03-15 1:44:18 PM||   2005-03-15 1:44:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Exactly how much did this "study" cost?

Because I could have given them the same information for half the price. (Why be greedy? ;-p)

And in much less time, too. Like maybe 2 minutes. 10 if they wanted it typed.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2005-03-15 3:24:57 PM||   2005-03-15 3:24:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 However, I'm not going for the alchohol content but a much richer flavor.

No kidding. The first time I tried saki, I sat there for a few minutes wondering "Now, just WHERE have I tasted that before?"

American beer. Made with RICE. Bleah.

I've got a brown ale in some minikegs in my basement. Yeah, it's got brown sugar in it, but everything else came from barley.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2005-03-15 3:37:26 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-03-15 3:37:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 DB - You make your own beer and liquor commercials? Wow!
Posted by Fred  2005-03-15 3:45:12 PM||   2005-03-15 3:45:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 "At the Deacon Blues Pork Palace and Potables Parlour you can enjoy a cool Nutbrown Ale, Honey Porter, or Cream Stout along with our delicious Tequila-Lime marrinated Hickory Grilled Pork Loin served with pickled jalepno-cranberry relish, a just done baked potato, and roasted corn on the cob with chile-lime butter. If you preffer, you can have a glass or 3 of Connie the Short Bus Lady's wild raspberry wine, all made on the premises." Come Visit.
Posted by Deacon Blues  2005-03-15 3:59:15 PM||   2005-03-15 3:59:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 *ahem* Does Mr. Mucky "Meat Is Murder" 4Doo know about your Hickory Grilled Pork Loin?
Posted by Frank G  2005-03-15 4:28:07 PM||   2005-03-15 4:28:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Yes, and he chides me every now and then about it.
Posted by Deacon Blues  2005-03-15 4:41:15 PM||   2005-03-15 4:41:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 LOL - but he's a forgiving Muck....
Posted by Frank G  2005-03-15 5:09:30 PM||   2005-03-15 5:09:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 RC - FWIW, A-B uses rice. Miller uses corn. Can't comment about Coors, et al.
Posted by eLarson 2005-03-15 5:55:35 PM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2005-03-15 5:55:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 They all use rice. I can taste it.

Corn sugar ferments out more completely, but it's almost tasteless. The only use I have for it is carbonation.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2005-03-15 9:06:48 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-03-15 9:06:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Barbara- with working in the medical field- what do you think about the theory...suffering from depression = alcohol consumption. It is said by clinician's, doctor's that this gives them a "lift" from the depression when they drink, but then come crashing down back into a depression.

There is plenty of research to support this finding.

ANdrea Jackson
Posted by Andrea Jackson  2005-03-15 9:44:20 PM||   2005-03-15 9:44:20 PM|| Front Page Top

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