Bud Light Lime Evil?

The Evil Suds!

I was out at local Chinese Restaurant my girlfriend loves to go to because of friends and karaoke. Unfortunately beer selection is slim if your a craft beer fan. At first I ordered a Yuengling. Lately I had just been drinking the classic Sam Adams Boston Lager while there so I felt for something a little different. The Yeungling, although not terrible, wasn't doing it for me this evening. 

For the fun of it I ordered a Bud Light Lime. I've had this many times before here. Of course being a bit craft beer savvy I post a picture of this for the fun of in on craft beer Facebook page on  Beer Drinkers United and of course check in at Untappd. It didn't take long for the comments to come in at BDU. Mostly funny and the worst that came about it was a humorous exchange about "squirters" that someone seemed a bit naive about.

Even the next morning it seemed somewhat active. In the midst of posting something I couldn't find the post. After a few minutes I realized the post had been removed. At first I was a bit annoyed at this. I even post on the page about it too. From what I gathered though I never got an official explanation the page admins have a policy of removing "macro" beer picture because it's a Bud product. 

I can understand if a post goes abusive or hateful it's time to pull the plug but this posting had not. I wasn't liking this "zero-tolerance" policy about pictures of macro-brews such as I did. I guess it just went against my own more open beer policy of including macrobews. The craft beer geeks adamant exclusion of anything remotely "big beer"is one of the things I've grown not not to like about the craft beer scene. I can't understand not wanting to drink macro pale lagers. So don't drink them and leave people be. Everyone has a different tastes. I think some beer geeks live a such a small world that they don't realize 9 out of 10 beer drinkers still down the golden suds of the big brews.

I'm secure in my beer cred that I can have a macro beer occasionally and still not fall far from the tree. 

I think the main part of what bothered me was that I look at beer culture as including big beer along with the smallest microbrewery or home brewer. It's fun to debate beer at times but not when it it becomes mean or exclusionary. Even the biggest Brewers started off small somewhere. Perhaps some have lost some of their original luster but they are a part of the beer culture like it or not. I still enjoy beer history and breweries a. Enjoy beer for beers sake.